GTA 6 cover continues Rockstar's 25-year helicopter tradition

Rockstar Games revealed the official cover for Grand Theft Auto 6 when it announced on June 18 that pre-orders would go live across console storefronts and retailers on June 25. The announcement did not include a new trailer, but the cover art did feature a helicopter in the top left corner.

That helicopter is a small recurring design element Rockstar has mostly kept for 25 years, stretching back to Grand Theft Auto III on the PS2. There have been a few exceptions: some international versions of GTA III didn’t use the grid layout that places images like a helicopter in the top left, and GTA Advance on the GBA used only the logo on a plain grey background.

One grid-based cover that broke the pattern was Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, which launched on the Nintendo DS and PSP in 2009. Some have suggested the absence was tied to the inability to pilot helicopters in that game, but GTA III also lacked helicopter piloting and still included one on its cover.

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