Rockstar Video games has formally revealed the quilt for Grand Theft Auto 6, and the very very first thing I did after I noticed it was examine to see if it had a helicopter within the high left nook of the art work. And yup, it does. It’s good to see Rockstar persevering with this custom that it has (principally) caught to for 25 years. On June 18, Rockstar introduced that GTA 6 pre-orders would go reside throughout console storefronts and retailers on June 25. The corporate didn’t launch a brand new trailer alongside this announcement, but it surely did reveal the sport’s official cowl, which you’ll be able to see beneath: ©Rockstar Video games And proper there within the high left is a helicopter, as I hoped. Rockstar is continuous just a little Easter egg or design quirk it has maintained on virtually each GTA cowl since 2001. As I’ve documented earlier than, because the launch of Grand Theft Auto III on the PS2, Rockstar has been together with a helicopter of some sort within the high left portion of all of its GTA covers, with a number of bizarre exceptions. ©Rockstar Video games / Kotaku Technically, the worldwide variations of GTA 3‘s cowl didn’t embrace a helicopter in that spot, however that cowl additionally didn’t use the now-iconic grid format with varied photos. So who cares about that ugly cowl! GTA Advance on the GBA additionally didn’t embrace the heli, however its cowl was simply the GTA brand on a boring gray background, so as soon as once more, who cares about that ugly cowl!
There may be one grid-based GTA recreation cowl that doesn’t embrace a helicopter within the high left nook. Are you able to guess it? Effectively, guess quick as a result of the reply is about to be revealed at the beginning of the subsequent sentence that follows this one. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. That’s the one time Rockstar didn’t embrace the heli. ©Rockstar Video games Some would possibly say it’s since you couldn’t pilot helicopters in GTA: Chinatown Wars, which launched on the Nintendo DS and PSP again in 2009, however that’s not rationalization. You couldn’t pilot helis in Grand Theft Auto 3, but it surely included one on the quilt. Possibly Rockstar forgot? Or possibly they only needed to see what a GTA cowl would seem like with no heli. I hate it.
I’m so comfortable that the helicopter is again for GTA 6‘s cowl artwork. It’s like just a little nod to the previous and a comforting fixed in these wild occasions. It doesn’t matter what, I can all the time depend on the heli within the high left of a brand new GTA recreation. And possibly a motorbike within the high proper nook, although that’s a extra obscure, lesser-known sample that Rockstar follows much less steadily. Be happy to interrupt out that data and impress…somebody. Presumably.
