{"id":61914,"date":"2026-06-19T09:44:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T01:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=61914"},"modified":"2026-06-19T09:44:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T01:44:02","slug":"nearly-30-years-later-only-one-gta-cover-actually-shows-the-titular-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=61914","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 30 Years Later, Only One GTA Cover Actually Shows The Titular Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Grand Theft Auto series began in 1997, and every game in the series lets you commit the titular crime&#8211;sometimes stealing a parked vehicle, but often carjacking a driver in the middle of the street. But with the recent reveal of the Grand Theft Auto VI cover art, we realized something pretty remarkable: Only one game in the series actually features a grand theft auto on the cover. <\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-context=\"{ &quot;core&quot;: { &quot;image&quot;: { &quot;initialized&quot;: true } } }\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1796805\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"1024\" width=\"830\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GTA-2-1_1629fd.jpg?w=830\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1796805\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you can see, Grand Theft Auto 2 appears to show a carjacking in progress, with someone rushing into a taxi while people scatter nearby. It&#8217;s an excellent cover just from a vibes perspective, but it also gives a bird&#8217;s-eye view of the action, just like the original GTA and GTA 2 do in-game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In contrast, the GTA games released in the decades since this have been collages of characters you can meet (or play as) and activities you can do. GTA VI&#8217;s cover, for instance, includes a shot of a speedboat, a motorcycle, a helicopter, a supercar, and a crocodile, along with several characters. But it doesn&#8217;t feature a grand theft auto! GTA: San Andreas features a drive-by shooting&#8211;a crime committed <em>from <\/em>a car&#8211;but also doesn&#8217;t show the titular crime. Grand Theft Auto IV, meanwhile, features a cop car pulling a driver over, possibly for a grand theft auto, but it&#8217;s also possible he was just going 55 in a school zone. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judging by how long GTA 6 took to develop, it&#8217;s very likely we&#8217;re going to be waiting a decade or more for GTA 7. When that time comes, however, I would very much like Rockstar to put a grand theft auto on the cover. Hell, there could be seven of them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/nearly-30-years-later-only-one-gta-cover-actually-shows-the-titular-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Theft Auto series began in 1997, and every game in the series lets you commit the titular crime&#8211;sometimes stealing a parked vehicle, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7043,1372,3402,5679,25005,59],"class_list":["post-61914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-cover","tag-crime","tag-gta","tag-shows","tag-titular","tag-years","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}