Key Highlights:
- New GTA 5 screenshots offered another look at Los Santos and its surrounding environment ahead of the game’s planned 2013 release.
- One image showed a character climbing the Vinewood sign, reinforcing the scale and verticality Rockstar was building into the open world.
- GTA V was confirmed for PS3 and Xbox 360 at the time, before later releases expanded the game to PC and newer console generations.
Rockstar Games continued to reveal more of Grand Theft Auto V in December 2012, with new screenshots providing another look at Los Santos ahead of the game’s planned release the following year.
One of the images showed a character climbing the Vinewood sign overlooking the city. The landmark is GTA V’s fictional counterpart to the Hollywood sign and helped demonstrate how Rockstar was recreating elements of Los Angeles within its fictional version of Southern California.
Los Santos had previously appeared in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, but GTA V substantially reimagined the city and its surrounding countryside for a much larger open world.
At the time these screenshots appeared, Rockstar was targeting a spring 2013 release for GTA V on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The developer had not announced a PC version, although it said additional platforms were under consideration.
That original release window was not met. Rockstar subsequently delayed Grand Theft Auto V until 17 September 2013, when it launched worldwide for PS3 and Xbox 360.
The game eventually expanded well beyond those original platforms. PS4 and Xbox One versions followed in November 2014, with the PC release arriving in April 2015. GTA V later made another generational move to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S in March 2022.
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