GTA 6: Release date, map, characters & everything confirmed
Vice City is back on the board.
Redzone Ops keeps a working dossier on GTA 6 — what has actually been shown, what has only been claimed, and the open questions nobody has answered yet. No rumour inflation, sources on every line.
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19 November 2026 · treated as a target, not a promise
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Sourced entries
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Open questions
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Sectors mapped
2
Playable leads
Ocean Drive speed trap
- KEY 137 · Cheetah Classic — Overseas Hwy · MM 14105
- GLD 174 · Comet S2 — Downtown · 9th & Neon122
- PRT 211 · Ruiner — Ocean Drive · northbound139
Simulated traffic camera · flavour, not leaked data
A living coast
Surf, storm fronts and crowd density well past anything Los Santos runs today.
Two leads, one score
Lucia and Jason share the story — the first playable duo in the main line.
Neon on purpose
Art deco strips, wetlands and keys inside one state-sized map: Leonida.
Five places worth the drive.
Scroll the state. Each plate is a Redzone Ops reconstruction of a sector the reveal material has shown — the strip, the towers, the swamp, the docks and the road out to the keys.
Field recon · 5 plates
Redzone Ops artwork built from shown material
Ocean Drive · neon strip
Vice Beach
The postcard everyone remembers. Art deco frontage, wet asphalt throwing pink and cyan back at you, and traffic that never really stops.
Financial district · towers
Downtown Vice
Glass, money and weather. The storm systems shown over downtown change the light, the traffic and how far you can actually see.
Wetlands · the glades
Grassrivers
Off the grid by design. Airboat channels, cypress cover and routes no patrol car will ever follow you down.
Coastal town · cargo terminals
Port Gellhorn
Faded seaside town with a working freight edge. Containers, cranes and sodium light — the side of Leonida the brochures skip.
Islands · overseas highway
Leonida Keys
One long causeway, turquoise shallows and stilt houses. Beautiful, and a nightmare if someone is waiting at the far end.
The systems that change how you play.
Four things worth understanding before launch night: how the police actually hunt you, what you can carry, what the state is posting about it, and which box to buy.
Six stars · heat model
They chase a description, not a dot
Police only start hunting once somebody sees you or an alarm trips, and what they broadcast is whatever the witness gave them. Burn the evidence and the search falls apart. Pick a job, then flip what the cops hold.
Full profile
Solid stars, statewide. Face, clothes, car and the fact there are two of you. Nothing short of a total reset works.
Vice Beach · jewellery frontage · witnesses: Street crowd + shop camera
Cameras mean the description survives even if every witness runs.
Trunk armory
No more invisible arsenal
Long guns live in the car, not on your back, and the trunk also holds the spare clothes that wipe a description mid-chase. Tap an item to move it between your person, the trunk and left at home.
Attention drawn
Concealed. Civilians stay calm unless you draw.
Capacity
On you: 3 / 5
Trunk: 7 / 14
- Spare outfit stashed — clothing description is fixable.
- Mask on you — the face never makes the wire.
LiveLeonida Live
The state posts everything
Half of Leonida is filming the other half. This is our mock-up of that wire — citizen clips, police channel traffic and whatever the state is arguing about today. Flavour, not a feed of real events.
@keysnightshift·412K views
Gator walked into the 24/7 on Dixie and just stood by the drinks fridge. Nobody moved. Cashier kept scanning.
#LeonidaMan
@stripcams·88K views
Ocean Drive shut down again. Forty cars, donuts at the lights, and one helicopter circling since eleven.
#ViceStrip
VCPD dispatch·live
All units — description only. Male, light shirt, no vehicle attached. Hold the causeway, do not chase the radar.
CH 3
@keysrunners·trending
Speed trap is back on the overseas span at the second bridge. Third car pulled in ten minutes.
#KeysSpeedTrap
VCPD dispatch·live
Suspect changed clothing. Previous description void. Reset the perimeter to last confirmed sighting.
CH 3
@leonidawx·trending
Storm cell rolling over downtown inside the hour. Visibility drops, so does everyone's driving.
#StormFront
@divekeys·57K views
Found a wreck off the keys with something still strapped in the hold. Going back with proper tanks.
#Salvage
VCPD dispatch·live
Air unit has two on foot leaving the yard. Confirm pairing — repeat, confirm two suspects.
CH 3
Editions · hardware
What you actually get for the money
| Included | Standard $79.99 | Ultimate $99.99 |
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| Base game | Included | Included |
| Vintage Vice City pre-order pack | Pre-order only | Pre-order only |
| Premium vehicles | Exclusive collection | |
| Premium weapons | Exclusive collection | |
| Apparel | Exclusive collection | |
| Available to both leads | Jason and Lucia |
PlayStation 5
Launch day
The showcase footage was captured on PS5.
Xbox Series X|S
Launch day
Same 19 November window.
PC
Not dated
No PC date has been given. Treat any you see as a guess.
- Release target is 19 November 2026 after two delays — it is a target, not a promise.
- Pre-orders opened 25 June 2026 with the Vintage Vice City pack attached.
- Nothing here is an official Rockstar statement; we log what has been published and when we checked it.
Pricing and platform notes checked 2026-09-29
The two names on the file.
Subject file
Lucia Caminos
The one with the plan
Fresh out of a Leonida facility and unwilling to go back. Reads a room, picks the exit first and keeps the score tight.
- Series' first playable female lead in the main line.
- Introduced inside custody in the reveal trailer.
- Partnership with Jason drives the story frame shown so far.
Profile read from shown footage — not a published stat sheet.
One state, seven very different places.
State of Leonida
Vice Beach
Neon strip
Art deco hotels, boardwalk crowds, jet skis off the sand.
Show up with a crew, not a wishlist.
Build the roster now, copy it straight into your Discord, call the things nobody can answer yet, and tick off the boring launch-week jobs before they bite.
Syndicate roster
0/4 slots filledThe Wheelman
Routes, intercepts and the exit nobody planned for.
Getaway routing · Vehicle acquisition · Intercept avoidance
The Slicer
Cameras, alarms and the paper trail afterwards.
Security bypass · Camera jamming · Comms and scouting
The Enforcer
Holds the perimeter while everyone else works.
Weapons logistics · Perimeter defence · Extraction cover
The Smuggler
Water, air and everything that never touches a road.
Airboat waterways · Offshore drops · Flight planning
========================================== SYNDICATE: UNNAMED CREW BASE OF OPERATIONS: VICE BEACH STATUS: STANDING BY FOR LEONIDA ========================================== WHEELMAN : [ OPEN SLOT ] SLICER : [ OPEN SLOT ] ENFORCER : [ OPEN SLOT ] SMUGGLER : [ OPEN SLOT ] ------------------------------------------ ROSTER: 0/4 SLOTS FILLED PLANNING DESK: redzoneops.com/gta-6 ==========================================
Call it now
Three things nobody can answer yet. Make your call, then check back after launch and see how you did.
Will storms and surges actually disrupt jobs?
How will the two leads be controlled?
What pays first when the online side opens?
Your picks stay on this device — no scores, no leaderboard, no guessing dressed up as news.
Day-one readiness
0/6 readyConfirmed, shown, or still unknown.
Evidence board
13 entriesTwo playable leads
ConfirmedLucia Caminos and Jason Duval headline the first duo in the series' main line.
Source · Official trailer and press material
Lucia opens in custody
ShownThe reveal opens on Lucia inside a Leonida correctional facility before she is released.
Source · Trailer 1
How the pair is controlled
Open questionWhether you swap freely, or the story locks certain chapters to one lead, has not been detailed.
Source · No official statement
The whole state of Leonida
ConfirmedThe map covers Vice City plus surrounding counties, wetlands, beaches and keys.
Source · Official site
Vice Beach and Ocean Drive
ShownNeon strip, art deco hotels, boardwalk crowds and jet skis along the sand.
Source · Trailer 1
Everglades-style wetlands
ShownAirboats, swamp shacks, gators and a very different traffic pattern from the city.
Source · Trailer 1
Island chain to the south
Open questionShown in the air and from the water; interior detail is still unknown.
Source · Trailer footage
Dense crowd simulation
ShownBeach and street scenes carry far higher pedestrian counts than GTA 5 ever ran.
Source · Trailer 1
Rebuilt water and weather
ShownSurf, wake and storm fronts are simulated rather than baked into set pieces.
Source · Trailer 1
Online continues
Open questionGTA Online keeps running; how progress carries over has not been described.
Source · Publisher statements
Period-flavoured Vice fleet
ShownLowriders, convertibles, muscle, airboats, jet skis and helicopters appear in the reveal.
Source · Trailer 1
Customisation depth
Open questionNo workshop, tuning or performance system has been shown in any official material.
Source · No official statement
Licensed Vice soundtrack
ShownThe reveal is scored to a licensed track, signalling the usual wide radio licensing.
Source · Trailer 1
Until then, Los Santos still pays.
The war room, the weekly board and every planning desk keep running while we wait for Leonida.
Dossier reviewed 2026-09-29 · nothing here is an official release date