GTA 6 Map Breakdown: 30 Places Rockstar Has Confirmed Before Launch — Transcript
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- 0:00Rockstar has now named 30 places on GTA
- 0:036's map, and almost nobody is put them
- 0:05all together. No leaks, no fan maps,
- 0:07only what Rockstar itself has put its
- 0:09name on in its own pages, its trailers,
- 0:12and the new screenshots.
- 0:13Vice City is back, but it isn't the city
- 0:16you remember. 30 [music] places, six
- 0:18regions one by one. And on launch day,
- 0:21Rockstar is handing out a free copy of
- 0:23that map. [music] And a few of them are
- 0:25back from the 2002 Vice City those can
- 0:27be the end.
- 0:29First, the size. In Rockstar's own
- 0:32words, [music] Aaron Garbut told Game
- 0:34Informer it's the biggest map Rockstar
- 0:36has ever made by some degree. [music]
- 0:39Roughly twice as large as GTA 5.
- 0:41And Rockstar told Edge the landmass is
- 0:44nearly as big as the maps of GTA 4, GTA
- 0:465, and Red [music] Dead 2 all combined.
- 0:50It also has an order of magnitude more
- 0:51interiors than any Rockstar [music] game
- 0:53before it. Every back alley is detailed.
- 0:56Six regions, Vice City, the Leonida
- 0:58Keys, Grass Rivers, Port Gellhorn,
- 1:01Ambrosia, [music]
- 1:02and Mount Caliga. And only one big city.
- 1:04And here's the newest part. Rockstar is
- 1:06giving everyone a free printable map of
- 1:08Leonida as a download on launch day. A
- 1:10physical poster comes to the Rockstar
- 1:12store after launch for 99 [music] cents,
- 1:14but it's not in the box. The roads are
- 1:16narrower than in GTA 5 and what Rockstar
- 1:17[music] calls a more believable size.
- 1:20The day lasts much longer and you can
- 1:22see a storm coming across the map and
- 1:23[music] drive straight into it. And more
- 1:25than 170 animal species live across it.
- 1:28From [music] the swamp to the coral
- 1:29reef, even the people change. Their
- 1:31fashion and tattoos depend on which part
- 1:33of Leonida you are in.
- 1:35So let's fill in that map ourselves. The
- 1:37in-game map looks like satellite [music]
- 1:38imagery and buses, trains, and a ride
- 1:40share app help you get around.
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- 1:55[music] Vice City gets the most names,
- 1:57so we start there. Rockstar calls
- 2:00glamour, hustle, and greed of America,
- 2:02captured in a single city.
- 2:05Number one, Ocean Beach. Pastel Art Deco
- 2:08hotels and bright white sand, straight
- 2:10from Rockstar's page. [music] It's
- 2:11clearly Rockstar's Miami Beach and Ocean
- 2:14Drive. Picture rolling down that strip
- 2:16at sunset with the top down.
- 2:18This is the real Ocean Drive. Same
- 2:20pastel deco [music] fronts, same neon at
- 2:22night. Game Informer says that for the
- 2:24first time, Vice City feels genuinely
- 2:27familiar.
- 2:28And there's a catch. Game Informer says
- 2:30those congested roads make police chases
- 2:32harder in the city. At three stars,
- 2:34Rockstar's advice is to get off the
- 2:36[music] streets.
- 2:37Two, Shore Drive. Rockstar calls the
- 2:40Ultimate Edition's Grotti Cheetah an ode
- 2:42to Shore Drive and tells you to cruise
- 2:44it.
- 2:45Three, the Shore Court Garage, a stone's
- 2:48throw from Ocean Beach. [music] It comes
- 2:50with a vintage Vice City pack for anyone
- 2:52who buys before November 20th, and it
- 2:54has a weapon locker and a place to drop
- 2:56stolen goods to be fenced. [music] Four,
- 2:58Little Cuba with its bustling
- 2:59panaderias, the Cuban bakeries. That's
- 3:02Rockstar's Little Havana, the real Cuban
- 3:04neighborhood around Calle Ocho in Miami.
- 3:06Picture parking up there for a morning
- 3:08coffee before a job.
- 3:10Five, the Little Havana flea market,
- 3:12home of the bootleg brands. [music]
- 3:13Expect knockoff everything, from the
- 3:15shoes to the watches. The name even
- 3:17sounds like Opalaka, a city in Miami
- 3:19Dade. [music] That's our guess, not
- 3:21Rockstar's. Six, the VC Port, which
- 3:24Rockstar [music] calls the cruise ship
- 3:26capital of the world. Picture a deal
- 3:28going down between the containers with a
- 3:29ship the size of a skyscraper behind
- 3:31you. Seven and eight come from
- 3:33Rockstar's own footage on highway signs,
- 3:35[music] downtown and the airport. Game
- 3:37Informer describes a glitzy downtown,
- 3:39and the extended look shows the airport
- 3:41apron at night.
- 3:42And this week's screenshots add downtown
- 3:44at night, towers lit up, a drawbridge
- 3:46raised over the water, and a helicopter
- 3:48overhead.
- 3:49Picture a getaway with that bridge going
- 3:50up in front of you. Another shows the
- 3:53marina, yachts lined up with the
- 3:55downtown skyline right behind, and a jet
- 3:58climbing out. Water, [music] money, and
- 4:00an airport all in one frame.
- 4:02Nine, Washington Beach. That's where the
- 4:05ultimate edition Squalo speedboat is
- 4:07docked. 10, the Versetti estate. [music]
- 4:10Rockstar says these two revolvers were
- 4:12sourced from it. If that name rings a
- 4:14bell, hold on to it. It comes back at
- 4:16the end.
- 4:1711, [music] South Side Vice City.
- 4:20Rockstar says you can raid the compound
- 4:21of one of its loudest gangs there and
- 4:23escape safely with contraband. 12, the
- 4:26Jack of Hearts, Boobie Ike's strip club.
- 4:29[music] 13, Only Raw Records, the label
- 4:32Boobie runs with Dre Quan. Dre Quan used
- 4:34to book Ike's into the club. Now he's
- 4:36signed Real Dimes, and he has his sights
- 4:38on the whole Vice City scene. And
- 4:40Rockstar [music] ties them together. The
- 4:41club money pays for the studio. 14,
- 4:44Afluvia, a rooftop bar sign you can read
- 4:46in the extended look. And 15, Peacock
- 4:49Bay, a name on a highway sign. Where it
- 4:52leads, Rockstar hasn't said.
- 4:55South of the mainland, the island's
- 4:57trail off. This is Rockstar's Florida
- 4:59Keys, and its tagline is Gateway to
- 5:02Paradise. Rockstar's line, the dress
- 5:04code is casual, the bars are loaded,
- 5:06life here isn't flashy, but it's easy.
- 5:0916, [music]
- 5:10Brian Hyder's boat yard. Rockstar says
- 5:12Brian is still moving product through it
- 5:14with [music] his third wife, Lori.
- 5:1717, Jason's place. Brian lets him live
- 5:20rent-free in one of his properties. The
- 5:22price? He helps with the local
- 5:24shakedowns. [music] His friend Cal lives
- 5:25nearby, too. Rockstar says Cal feels
- 5:28safest at home snooping on Coast Guard
- 5:30radio with a few beers. [music] In a
- 5:31smuggling town, that's a useful hobby.
- 5:34And it fits real history. In the '70s
- 5:36and '80s, the Florida Keys really were a
- 5:38smuggling highway with boats and planes
- 5:40running loads in from the Caribbean.
- 5:41[music] That's exactly where Rockstar
- 5:43puts Jason working for local drug
- 5:45runners.
- 5:4618, the Rusty Anchor, a bar with a live
- 5:48band in this week's new screenshots. It
- 5:50feels like a Keys bar, but that's our
- 5:52read. Rockstar didn't caption it.
- 5:5519, [music] The Reef.
- 5:56A diver over coral with lionfish all
- 5:59around and a boat above. [music] The
- 6:01extended look already showed a diver
- 6:02going down into a sinkhole, too. So
- 6:04swimming isn't just the beach this time.
- 6:06Scuba diving and jet skis are both
- 6:08confirmed activities. [music]
- 6:10Rockstar calls these some of the most
- 6:11beautiful and dangerous waters in
- 6:12America. Picture diving down here while
- 6:15someone else is waiting on the boat.
- 6:17Next, the wild middle of the state.
- 6:20Rockstar says the Gators may be the most
- 6:22famous attraction, but there are far
- 6:25deadlier predators. 20, the Grass
- 6:27River's wetland itself, Rockstar's
- 6:29Everglades. Rockstar's warning, you
- 6:31never know what lies beneath the
- 6:33surface. Game Informer sums it up as
- 6:35alligators, airboats, and armed
- 6:37outdoorsmen. And the new screenshots
- 6:39show both, an airboat in green fog and a
- 6:42party with a snake on the table.
- 6:44Rockstar's older screenshots show a
- 6:45police chase tearing through the swamp
- 6:47with gators in the water and an airboat
- 6:49behind. So yes, the police will follow
- 6:51you in there. [music] Game Informer
- 6:53points out the real Everglades had a
- 6:55drug running past too. Picture an
- 6:57airboat at night, no lights, and
- 6:59something big moving in the water beside
- 7:01you.
- 7:02Then west, there's a very different
- 7:04coast. Rockstar calls [music] Port St.
- 7:05Lucie Leonita's forgotten coast. Cheap
- 7:08motels, shut down attractions, and an
- 7:10economy of malt liquor, painkillers, and
- 7:13truck stop energy drinks. 21, Delights
- 7:16Cabaret, the neon sign in this week's
- 7:18only Port St. Lucie screenshot. And
- 7:19Rockstar's advice for this town, jump on
- 7:21a dirt bike and hold on to your wallet.
- 7:23And here's the detail. The forgotten
- 7:25coast is the real nickname of part of
- 7:27Florida's Panhandle. Rockstar told Game
- 7:29Informer it studied Panama City,
- 7:31Jacksonville, Ocala, and small rural
- 7:33towns to build the north of the map.
- 7:36In the heart of the state is Ambrosia.
- 7:38Rockstar says the battle for the health
- 7:40and wealth of Leonita begins here.
- 7:4322, the Allied Crystal Sugar Refinery.
- 7:47[music] It provides the jobs, Rockstar
- 7:48says, while the local biker gang
- 7:50provides almost everything else.
- 7:52Edge even heard about a patriotic town
- 7:54where the biker gang loves the police in
- 7:56the middle of a mayoral race.
- 7:59Real Florida has a sugar heartland too
- 8:01around Lake Okeechobee. One town there,
- 8:03Clewiston, calls itself America's
- 8:05sweetest town. That's almost certainly
- 8:07where Ambrosia comes from.
- 8:09And don' expect a quiet farm town.
- 8:11Rockstar screenshots show a full mud
- 8:13party, trucks and people covered head to
- 8:15toe. That's a weekend in Ambrosia.
- 8:19Further north, the land gets wilder.
- 8:21Rockstar calls it room to breathe on the
- 8:23state's northern fringes.
- 8:2523 [music] Mount Colaga National Park, a
- 8:27national landmark with hunting, fishing,
- 8:29and off-road trails.
- 8:31Fun fact, Florida doesn't have
- 8:32mountains. Its highest point, Britton
- 8:34Hill, is just 345 [music] ft. So Leonida
- 8:37gave itself its own mountain.
- 8:39Game Informer screenshots show hikers on
- 8:41a wooden footbridge [music] under a
- 8:42waterfall up here, though the exact spot
- 8:44isn't named.
- 8:45Rockstar also describes a lumber
- 8:47industry and deforesting zones in the
- 8:48north.
- 8:50And the coast up there takes after Black
- 8:51Rock and Boneyard Beaches, the Driftwood
- 8:53Beaches near Jacksonville.
- 8:55Bass fishing on lakes draped in Spanish
- 8:56moss is on the list, too. And in the
- 8:58backwoods around it, Rockstar promises
- 9:00hillbilly mystics and paranoid radicals.
- 9:0424 the top edge of the map, the Leonida
- 9:07Gloriana line. That's Rockstar's
- 9:09Florida-Georgia line.
- 9:11Game Informer adds mud parks,
- 9:12destruction derbies on floodlit ovals,
- 9:14golf, and gated communities with their
- 9:16own landing strips.
- 9:19These next ones are real names from
- 9:21Rockstar, but nobody knows exactly where
- 9:23they sit yet. Most come from the
- 9:25Ultimate Edition page, so they're places
- 9:26Rockstar clearly wants you to visit. 25
- 9:29Watson Bay, [music] home of the Paradise
- 9:31Garage. It's the Ultimate Edition's
- 9:34second garage with its own weapon locker
- 9:36and a drop for stolen [music] goods. 26
- 9:39Lake Leonida, where One-Eyed Willy's mod
- 9:41shop does off-road builds and
- 9:43hand-painted cars.
- 9:4527 Gambit Bay. Rockstar says the Squalo
- 9:48is perfect for fishing there.
- 9:5028 Stockyard, [music]
- 9:52home of Stock 305 Streetwear and the
- 9:54Electric Fang Tattoo Parlor. Electric
- 9:56Fang has over 50 tattoos, all designed
- 9:58by the art duo Fail.
- 10:00Two more Ultimate Edition businesses,
- 10:02Sarah's Unisex Salon and Rideout
- 10:04Customs, have no place name at all yet,
- 10:06so they're not on our list of 30.
- 10:08[music] 29 Ricardo Tires, a gas sign in
- 10:11this week's screenshots with a bike crew
- 10:13under green underglow.
- 10:15And 30, the Leonida Penitentiary, where
- 10:17Lucia's story starts. [music]
- 10:19Rockstar says fighting for her family
- 10:21landed her there and sheer luck got her
- 10:23out.
- 10:25Now, the payoff I promised. Look at
- 10:27those names again. Ocean Beach,
- 10:30Washington Beach, and Downtown were all
- 10:32districts of the original Vice City in
- 10:342002.
- 10:35The old Vice Port is now the VC Port,
- 10:37and the old Little Havana looks like it
- 10:39became Little Cuba.
- 10:41And the Vercetti estate was Tommy
- 10:43Vercetti's mansion. Rockstar even named
- 10:46a weapon pattern after his palm tree
- 10:48shirt. [music]
- 10:49Is it the same house, still standing?
- 10:51Not confirmed, but Rockstar chose that
- 10:53name on purpose. [music]
- 10:55Even the Cheetah and the Squalo were in
- 10:56that game. Over 20 years later, it's the
- 10:59same city, rebuilt. [music]
- 11:01What about the rest of the old map?
- 11:02Starfish Island, Vice Point, Little
- 11:04Haiti, [music] Rockstar hasn't named any
- 11:06of them for GTA 6 yet, so if they're
- 11:08back, we find out on November 19th.
- 11:12And here's what Rockstar hasn't told us.
- 11:14There's no official size in square
- 11:16miles.
- 11:17Liberty City is only part of Lucia's
- 11:19past, and Vice City up north isn't
- 11:22announced as playable. No Orlando-style
- 11:24theme parks or Space Coast have been
- 11:26shown either. Rockstar told Game
- 11:28Informer they may not have those exact
- 11:30places, but everything they have is
- 11:32geared to getting that full Florida
- 11:34experience.
- 11:35The county names you've seen in leaked
- 11:36maps and fan maps aren't Rockstar's, so
- 11:39we left them out. What is confirmed?
- 11:41Preload opens November 10th, and you can
- 11:43drive to every one of these places from
- 11:45November 19th.
- 11:47[music]
- 11:48So that's 30 places. Which one is your
- 11:50first stop? And which old Vice City
- 11:52place do you want back? Tell me in the
- 11:54comments. And for launch day, here are
- 11:5630 things you need to do when GTA 6
- 11:59releases. [music]
- 11:59It's on screen now. See you in Leonida.
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