Rockstar Games refreshed the official Grand Theft Auto VI website and dropped a short new clip of the Vice City skyline at golden hour. The footage sweeps from the waterfront out toward neon-lit skyscrapers set against a violet-and-orange sky, giving the clearest look yet at the scale and density of the city.
Quick answer: Open the official Grand Theft Auto VI page and scroll down. The new Vice City flyover plays automatically, with the game’s story description appearing as you move past it.
What the new Vice City skyline clip shows
The clip starts at the port and zooms outward to the skyscrapers nearby, with the skyline lit up in neon during the early evening. Fans have already picked out landmarks across the shot, including a Ferris wheel seen earlier in Trailer 2, a shipyard, and what looks like an amusement park in the background. There is also a building under construction, which continues the long-running Mile High Club gag from past Grand Theft Auto games.
The smaller details matter just as much as the landmarks. Boats move along the water, helicopters pass overhead, and the streets look densely packed. It reinforces the busier, more crowded world Rockstar showed in the earlier trailers, this time at night.
As you scroll past the skyline, the official story blurb appears on screen. It reads: “When an easy score lands Jason and Lucia in a conspiracy stretching across the entire state of Leonida, the young criminal couple find themselves on the darkest side of the sunniest place in America — forced to rely on each other more than ever if they want to make it out alive.”
How the skyline compares to GTA 6 Trailer 1
The first Grand Theft Auto VI trailer arrived on December 5, 2023, and opened with an aerial shot of the Vice City skyline just before golden hour, set to Tom Petty’s “Love Is a Long Road.” Around the 30-second mark, that trailer showed a familiar wide view of the city at the same time of day that closely matches the new website clip.
Side by side, the new shot looks noticeably more refined. The colors in the sky read as more realistic, and the lights on the buildings now have texture and variation instead of looking like flat white dots on dark towers.
Where Vice City sits in the GTA 6 map
Vice City is the modern-day, Miami-inspired centerpiece of Grand Theft Auto VI, but the full game is set across the fictional state of Leonida, based on Florida. The new clip lets you spot recognizable map regions, including Port Gellhorn and the Leonida Keys.
| Location | Real-world inspiration |
|---|---|
| Vice City | Miami |
| Leonida | Florida (the wider state) |
| Leonida Keys | Florida Keys |
| Grassrivers | The Everglades |
| Port Gellhorn | Panama City, Florida |
| Mount Kalaga National Park | Georgia and northern Florida |
Release date and pre-order timing
Grand Theft Auto VI is scheduled to launch on November 19, 2026, for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. The website update arrived alongside the reveal of the official cover art and confirmation that pre-orders are opening soon, with marketing moving into full swing.
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has repeatedly stated the studio is holding to the November 19 date and that fans would see more of the game during the summer. The new skyline clip fits that pattern, and another trailer could follow as the campaign ramps up.
For now, the flyover stands as the freshest look at Vice City after dark, and it sets a high bar for how alive and detailed Leonida is shaping up to be ahead of launch.
