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GTA 5 · 2013
GTA 6 · 2026
Provenance
Wanted ceiling
Five stars
Six stars, with the extra headroom visible on the star meter during the police-chase segment
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How police identify you
Stars only; break line of sight and leave the search area
Separate descriptors for face, clothes, crew, car, CCTV and gun; hollow stars mean police are searching without a full ID, and masks defeat cameras
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Crime reporting
Crimes register on sight of a nearby officer
A crime needs a witness, an alarm or CCTV before it is reported at all
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Vitals
Health and armour, plus a per-character special ability meter
Health, Stamina and Focus in the top-left, with consumables mapped to them and Focus driving the slow-motion weak-point mechanic
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HUD
Minimap and meters persistent on screen
Clean by default; Rob Nelson describes tapping D-pad down to surface cash, PSI bars and the minimap
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Fuel
Vehicles never need refuelling
Fuel is a thing, EVs included; a gas station opens a small menu with refuel and repair priced separately
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Money
Per-character cash plus a bank balance and the stock market
Three pots — Bank (clean), Cash (on hand, lost on death or arrest) and a Duffel Bag of dirty money that needs a fence; deposits happen at physical ATMs
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Morality tracking
None
Criminal Profile weighs circumstance and patterns rather than single acts, and affects how the world reacts and how parts of the story develop
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Protagonists
Three, freely switchable in free roam
Two, switched by a zoom out and back down across the map, with mid-mission switching in some sequences and none in others
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Map scale
Los Santos and Blaine County
Leonida, with six named regions; previewers put it at roughly twice GTA V, while Rockstar said only 'very big'
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Setting
Los Santos, San Andreas
Vice City, Leonida
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Protagonists
Three, switchable at will
Jason and Lucia
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Online at launch
Yes — two weeks after release
No
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PC at launch
No — arrived 18 months later
No — undated
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Launch price
$59.99
$79.99 / $99.99
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Consequence system
Wanted level only
Criminal Profile
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Wanted level
Five stars
Six stars, six descriptors
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Money
One balance
Bank, cash and duffel bag
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Map size
Los Santos + Blaine County
Six named regions, area unpublished
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Vehicle count
~500 across a decade of updates
No official figure
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