For a video that lasted 91 seconds, the official trailer of the upcoming GTA 6 sure took us on a wild road trip around Vice City.

We saw hotels, clubs, beaches, airports, and more landmarks than we can count. Everyone was excited, with good reason. Will Rockstar Games give us an authentic depiction of Miami?

If so, what other locations will the game include? That’s what we cover today. Let’s get right to it!

1. Vice Beach

It wouldn’t be Vice City without the iconic Vice Beach. It’s one of the game’s most distinguished landmarks, and Rockstar Games has put in the effort to glamorize it in the trailer.

It’s home to many of Vice City’s classic hotels and a haven for plenty of expensive cars you can steal whenever you want.

You probably remember it taking half the map in GTA: Vice City. Given that this rendition is more realistic, we doubt it’ll take that much space.

Here’s the thing: Vice Beach isn’t one location. It’s divided into South Beach, Mid Beach, and North Beach.

2. Ocean Drive Street

You don’t have to be a GTA veteran to identify Ocean Drive. Full of stylish hotels with flashy neon lights, it’s probably the most famous street in Miami.

The scene plays on nostalgia, as Ocean Drive is where you had to go to save your progress in the 2002 game. You’d be hard-pressed to find another street that perfectly encapsulates the wild, neon-soaked streets of Vice City like this one.

3. The Hotel Dixon

The luxurious Hotel Dixon makes one of the most prominent appearances in the trailer. You can see it in the Ocean Drive scene at 0:33, displaying its name in bright neon lights.

Hotel Dixon is inspired by Hotel Victor, located on Ocean Drive, South Beach. The building has a similar architectural style and uses a similar font to display its name.

Fun fact: Hotel Victor didn’t always adopt the Art Deco style you know today.

It underwent multiple renovations to reach its current look, which blends seamlessly with the Vice City style.

4. Boardwalk Hotel

Boardwalk Hotel is at the center of the Ocean Drive scene. It’s based on the famous Colony Hotel, which opened in 1935 and has remained one of Miami’s distinguished landmarks ever since.

Fans believe a location this influential will probably have a crucial role in the upcoming game.

5. Bayfront Heights

Bayfront Heights is one of the first locations we see in the trailer. The structure hasn’t appeared in the previous games, so the GTA community doesn’t know much about it.

Its architectural style is based on the Royal Palm South Beach Miami resort, and it appears to be on the north side of Vice Beach.

Whether players can rent/buy apartments in that complex is still a mystery.

6. The Honda Bridge

We see the Honda Bridge at a dynamic bird-eye angle, with boats cruising around it and a plane flying over it. That bridge connects the Bahia Honda Key and the Spanish Harbor Key.

It quickly shut down after the construction of the Bahia Honda Bridge, though. If you take a close look at the scene, you’ll notice a missing section from the bridge.

That’s not an error on the creators’ part. It’s a clever design choice to allow the boats to move freely.

7. Kelly County

It’s hard to notice the Kelly County road sign in the trailer. Do you remember the scene with the large man grabbing his crotch? It was right behind him.

We bet most viewers didn’t even know it was there. It’s hard to connect that county to a real-life location, as the name is too generic.

Some have theorized it might be a reimagining of Collier County because the pronunciation of their names is a bit similar. That theory doesn’t hold much ground, though.

8. Vice-Dale County

Unlike Kelly County, we can easily say that Vice-Dale County is based on the real-life Miami-Dade County.

That’s where the city and much of the Everglades lay, so fans believe most of the game’s story will take place there.

9. VCI Airport

Displayed on the same road sign as Kelly County, “VCI Airport” refers to Vice City International Airport.

Fun fact: The international airport in the 2002 Vice City game was called Escobar International. The new label makes more sense, though, since Vice City is inspired by Miami, which has an airport called Miami International Airport.

10. The Kaseya Center

The Kaseya Center is another landmark that makes a special appearance in the trailer. You can see it in one of the opening scenes, where a girl in a yellow dress is in the passenger seat of a convertible enjoying a wild ride.

Located in Biscayne Bay, the Kaseya Center is the biggest indoor stadium in Florida, famous for being home to the Miami Heat. Seeing the arena in the trailer was exciting but not surprising.

Sports have been part of the franchise since the good old San Andreas days. Of course, whether players will be able to access the building or not is still up for debate.

Either way, it shows how hard the Rockstar Games team has worked to bring an authentic Miami experience.

11. The MacArthur Causeway

The MacArthur Causeway is the highway we see at 0:25, the scene with the girl in the yellow dress. Connecting Downtown Miami and Miami Beach, it’s probably the most famous and crowded highway in the city.

So, we recommend steering away from it if you’re trying to escape the cops. That chase won’t last long.

12. Miami’s Art District

Although we only see it for a couple of seconds, Vice City’s mysterious Art District lights up the trailer with vibrant murals and flashy cars.

The fans believe this neighborhood is based on Miami’s Wynwood, an iconic district famous for its colorful murals. With stunning bars, trendy restaurants, and a thriving art culture, that district perfectly represents the Miami-inspired Vice City.

13. 500 Brickell Condominium

The 500 Brickell Condominium is one of Miami’s most famous landmarks. No one can miss that unique connecting roof with the giant hole in the middle.

Buying luxurious apartments has always been one of GTA’s most rewarding features. So, imagine how excited the fans were when they saw the giant complex in the trailer.

How exciting would it be if it’s the hideout of one of the game’s iconic villains? It’s the perfect spot for a dramatic confrontation, so we can’t wait to see what Rockstar has for us.

14. Catalan Boulevard

Blink, and you’ll miss the Catalan Boulevard road sign in the MacArthur Causeway scene. We’ve never seen that location in the original Vice City game, which is exciting because it proves the map is expanding in the new installment.

Fans are theorizing it might be based on Biscayne Boulevard in Miami. The word “Biscayne” refers to the inhabitants of Basque, while “Catalan” refers to the people of Catalonia.

15. Port Vice City

Port Vice City made a memorable appearance in the trailer, with several boats engaging in a high-speed chase in front of it. That kind of action made people think it might have a role in the story rather than being another location on the map.

Even if it doesn’t, who wouldn’t want to go on a thrilling boat ride away from all the guns and violence? Needless to say, everyone is thrilled to see its new rendition in the game.

16.  Little Haiti

You were probably distracted by the dirt bikers riding recklessly at 1:06 to notice the Haitian flag in the background.

That suggests the scene took place in Little Haiti, a real neighborhood in Miami. It made its first appearance in the original Vice City, and the architectural style of its buildings hasn’t changed much in the new installment.

17. Leonard County

Do you think Kelly County didn’t get enough space in the trailer? Well, Leonard County isn’t any different. You may have noticed the PlanetLeonidaMan social media clip at 0:50, where a cop is chasing a woman in front of a gas station.

If you take a close look at the cop’s car, you’ll notice Leonard County written on its side. The county consists of several small towns like Stockyard Downtown, Hamlet, Waning Sands, and more.

Wrapping Up

There you go. We’ve dissected every second of the GTA 6 trailer to identify as many locations as possible. Of course, we’ve barely scratched the surface. There are still more locations to cover. We just wanted to stick to the ones whose identity is almost confirmed.

After over a decade of waiting, Rockstar Games finally announced that GTA 6 is in the works. The company unveiled a trailer that gave us a look at what we can expect from the game.

From the playable characters to some locations, the trailer was chock-full of juicy details. This left the GTA fandom in a frenzy.

Plus, with the news of GTA 6’s upcoming release, fans all over the globe have started wondering how much the game will cost. If that sounds like you, we can help!

In this article, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know about the Grand Theft Auto 6 price tag.

GTA 6 Rumored Price

Fans have waited over 10 years for news about GTA 6. So, it’s no surprise that people have started speculating about the price tag of the highly anticipated game.

So here’s a quick look at the information circulating online.

There are a few rumors floating around suggesting the latest version of Grand Theft Auto will cost around $150 or more. This came as a major blow to many fans.

With the rising cost of games and consoles, many people were inclined to believe this figure. However, there’s more to the story!

As we all know, we can’t take any information online at face value. That’s especially true when we’re talking about one of the most highly anticipated games in recent history.

Niche Gamer originally shared the rumor in a single line on their X account. Although, we didn’t get any further explanation, and there was no source cited.

From that, we can assume that the rumors are no more than hearsay. 

Source of GTA VI Price Rumors

The rumors about the GTA price tag began circulating after Strauss Zelnick—Take-Two's CEO—sat down for an interview with Forbes in early November 2023.

During the meeting, Zelnick spoke about the potential value of the GTA franchise. However, his comments were taken out of context and twisted into a misguided narrative.

Some fans speculated that Strauss was referring to a switch-up in the pricing model of GTA. They even went as far as assuming the game would adopt a per-hour rate or be priced much higher than other similar games.

This prompted the Take-Two CEO to release another statement. He went on to clarify that GTA 6 will include hundreds of hours of content packed within the cost of a video game.

So his earlier comments merely allude to the fact that GTA 6 has a high earning potential, not that the game would be more expensive than average.

Average Price Predictions

Based on the pricing trend of previous AAA games, we can expect GTA 6 to cost around $69.99 for the standard release. This prediction should hold unless Rockstar Games changes its current pricing model.

Plus, if we examine the GTA 5 releases, we can gather more details about the upcoming GTA 6 launch.

For instance, GTA 5 came out with a total of three versions:

●      Grand Theft Auto 5

●      GTA 5 Special Edition

●      GTA 5 Collector's Edition

Each one of these came with a unique price tag with the most expensive being the Collectors version at $149.99.

So, while the standard version of GTA 6 likely won’t cost $150, we can’t rule out that a special version of the game won’t be that expensive.

Wrapping Up

Rockstar Games announced that the sixth installment of Grand Theft Auto will hit the markets sometime in 2025. It didn’t take long for fans to start speculating about the GTA 6 price tag.

While some rumors state that the game will cost around $150, we can assume this is hearsay. The most likely scenario is that Grand Theft Auto 6 will cost about $69.99 based on previous AAA game releases.

Despite having only 90 seconds of GTA 6 in the first trailer, fans have already gained so much knowledge about the game’s map.

After looking through all of it and watching the trailer countless times, we will dissect every bit of those 90 seconds to give you everything there’s to know about GTA 6’s map.

GTA 6’s Map Size

GTA 6’s map takes us back to the iconic Vice City, which is heavily based on the city of Miami in Florida. However, it extends to include the entire state of Leonida, which is essentially Rockstar’s version of Florida.

As such, we should expect to see in-game variations about iconic locations in Florida like Palm Beach, Fort Myers, Key West, Dodge Island, Lake Okeechobee, and Fort Lauderdale.

So, based on how the game is scaling its map to an almost 1:1 ratio and how Florida’s actual area is 65,757 square miles (170,311 square km), we expect GTA 6’s map to be at least 61,000 square miles (160,000 square km).

In comparison, GTA 4’s Liberty City was sized at around 6 square miles (15.54 square kilometers). GTA 5’s Los Santos was significantly larger than GTA 4 at 49 square miles (127 square kilometers).

So, while GTA 6’s map isn’t as much of a jump from GTA 5 (compared to GTA 5’s jump from GTA 4), it’s still larger than both maps combined, with 6 square miles (or another GTA 4 map) to spare!

All the Major Locations We Know So Far

GTA 5 was the first in the franchise to introduce fictional counties into the map, which includes Los Santos County and Blaine County.

As to be expected from the Rockstar Games’ progression scale, there will be a step forward. Based on the trailer, we concluded that we have three counties in GTA 6 and a giant lake in the middle of the map. Here’s our breakdown:

Vice Dale County

We can tell Vice Dale County is present because it’s written on the Sheriff's badge. It’s in a news report on a prisoner who seems to be heavily inspired by the Florida Joker.

You can check the badge at minute 1:04 of the trailer. It only appears for a brief moment before it’s covered by an overlay, so you might want to slow down the video to 0.25 to catch it.

This section will likely contain the city and outskirts of Miami Dale County.

Leonard County

Another difficult catch that needs 0.25 speed is the Leonard Country written on a police car at 0:49. It’s the shot where a fictional video clip by a user named PlanetLeonidaMan is taking a video of a police officer chasing a suspect in a gas station.

The blue and yellow coloring of the station is mostly a reference to the Sunoco Gas Station chain, which is present all over the United States. With some research, we found that there are no Sunoco gas stations in the southwestern area since it’s mostly swamps.

So, since Vice Dale County is likely to include the entirety of the east coast, we can assume that Leonard County is the northwest area of the map.

Kelly County

Kelly County’s clue appears immediately after Leonard County’s clue at 0:51.

In another fictional clip by GeneralCustardCannon, you can see the name “Kelly County” in the background on a reflective road sign (the right one). You can catch another much clearer glimpse at another Kelly County road sign at 0:25.

By the method of elimination, we can assume that Kelly County is the section of the map inspired by Florida’s Everglades area and will be in the southwestern swampy area of the map.

Lake Leonida (Unconfirmed Name)

According to the leaked map we got in 2022 (picture below), there’s a giant lake in the middle of the map, which mostly resembles Lake Okeechobee in real life. Leaks can be a hit or miss, but Lake Leonida is the name we got from the leak, so take it with a grain of salt for now.

To summarize, the entirety of the east coast will be coveted by Vice Dale County, the Everglades to the southwest will be Kelly County, and the Outskirts of Leonard County will be in the Northwest of the map. Finally, we have Lake Leonida in the center of the upper half of the map.

Additional Locations From the Trailer

Now that the large sections of the map are covered let’s take a look at individual buildings, streets, and locations that are either present or referenced in the trailer.

Buildings

The 500 Brickell

The 500 Brickell is one of Miami’s most iconic skyscrapers. Rockstar didn’t even try to hide the fact that it’s adapting a structure on it, as it created an identical model of the building in the trailer. You can identify the building at 0:18 by spotting that signature gaping hole in the connecting roof.

GTA is no stranger to providing players with apartments to stay in. With all the effort that went into modeling the building, we trust that players will have at least one purchasable apartment in the 500 Brickell.

The Atlantis Condominium

The Atlantis Condominium is another signature building in Miami that GTA 6 has taken some inspiration from. Unlike the 500 Brickell, the building looks slightly different.

The original Atlantis Condominium is wide and has a hole in the middle, but the building in the game is seemingly a skyscraper that’s fairly taller than the Atlantis but has that same defining hole in the middle. You can spot it at 0:26 on the right side of the screen.

E11EVEN (NINE1NINE)

The very beginning of the trailer at 0:14 shows Miami Beach, or Vice Beach, in a fantastic shot. But if you look at the top right corner of the screen, you’ll see a banner attached to a plane that reads “NINE1NINE.”

The only real-life variant of a similar club in Miami is the famous nightclub that goes by the name E11EVEN.

We still don’t know where exactly the NINE1NINE will be, but it’s safe to say that it’s the in-game variant of the real thing.

Kaseya Center

This is the second time we refer to 0:26, but this time, we’re looking at the famous Miami Basketball Arena: the Kaseya Center.

If you look right behind the girl waving her arms, you’ll see the circular appearance of the arena, along with some additional neon lights that aren’t present in the real building.

The King of Diamonds

It’s hard for GTA to be GTA without exotic clubs. GTA 6’s adaptation of its biggest exotic club seems to be inspired by Miami’s King of Diamonds.

However, we don’t think much romance will be available there since Jason and Lucia seem to be already committed to each other in the trailer.

Streets

Wynwood Street

The Wynwood is a famous street in Miami with gatherings of people, colorful cars, and lowriders.

It’s not confirmed yet, but we think that the shot at 0:28 is Leonida’s replica of Wynwood Street. It could very much be a location where you get to upgrade your cars.

Ocean Drive

Since the game is based in Miami, it’s essentially for GTA 6 to include Ocean Drive, arguably the city’s most famous street.

If you check the trailer at 0:32, you’ll see the high-end cars, gatherings, hotels, neon colors, and palm trees. It’s not a 1:1 replica, but it’s definitely Rockstar’s version of Ocean Drive Street.

You can even spot the Boardwalk Hotel, which we think is the game’s version of the Colony Hotel.

Locations

Biscayne Island (City Island)

In real life, Biscayne Island is the land area that connects Miami and the Beach. In the game’s map version, it’s named City Island, and it connects Vice City with Vice Beach.

The Island isn’t an exact replica, but it successfully delivered the overall appearance in a way that can legitimately make it look like a real-life photo. Take 0:32, for example. The staircase-shaped building on the right side of the screen is almost identical to its real-life counterpart.

Miami Beach (Vice Beach)

The famous Vice Beach from 2002’s Vice City has had a complete overhaul. Instead of taking half the map in Vice City, GTA 6’s Vice Beach will have its own section to the east of the city as it is in real life.

Port Miami (Port Vice City)

Boats are a staple in the GTA franchise, and Port Vice City will have tons of boats that you can…borrow. We’re almost sure it’ll be named Port Vice City because of the shot at 0:24. Take a look at that blue shipping container attached to the crane with PVC written on it.

Miami International Airport (Vice City International Airport)

We weren’t sure whether to include this one because it’s basically guaranteed for airports to be present in GTA games. They’ve always been a hub of all the crazy stuff players can do and the endless airport trolling in GTA Online.

GTA 6 will likely use Miani’s International Airport as its biggest one, with a few smaller ones scattered around for private jet lovers.

Final Words

It’s surprising how many details Rockstar managed to condense in 90 seconds, but we’re all there for it. It’ll mostly be a while before we get our hands on the second trailer, but once we do, we’ll break it down piece by piece.