GTA V Screenshots in Detail

Over the past few weeks, as you've surely heard, Rockstar surprised fans with a total of 10 new GTA V screenshots (transport, leisure, business).

Countless analyses of these pictures have appeared on the Hungarian Grand Theft Auto sites, 99% of which just list simple, plainly visible facts and would only give useful information to a visually impaired person, who happens to be browsing the site with a screen reader.

This analysis will be a little different from the rest. Hopefully we won't have to tell anyone that there's a car in the picture and it has a license plate. - Hooray, what a discovery!

Let's get started!

1. In the left corner of the license plate you can read OCT. What could that mean? Maybe the game comes out in October? Maybe..
2. The sticker in the top right corner is orange. Why is that interesting? In California, the 2013 license plate registration sticker is this colour too. California changes the colour of its registration stickers every year, and the last years with orange ones were 1992, 1998, 2003 and 2008. Could this be some kind of hint from Rockstar? We don't know yet, but if you add up the numbers on the plate and put the letters in the right order, you get the string ‘MAP OCT 19, 2013′.

If you look closely at the bike's handlebars and seat, you can see it isn't an ordinary bicycle but a racing bike. This might mean we'll be able to scare pedestrians with several kinds of bikes, and there will be bicycle races in GTA V too. Maybe something like what we had with motorbikes? Time will tell..

1. Many people didn't notice, but there aren't two riders in the picture, there are three.
2. The rider on the far right got a lot more of the motion blur effect, while his partner on the left is much sharper. That can only mean two things: the screenshot was taken from a cutscene, or GTA V has improved the selectable camera views and added effects to them.

Can you see the mountains and the end of the river in the distance? That can only mean that Grand Theft Auto V will have waterfalls. A well-loaded rafting boat, Yee!

1. The truck looks as if it's out of control and bouncing along the road, but its left wheels look fine, so maybe it's just a bug?
2. You can see that the new police cars have been fitted with spotlights; let's hope they actually do something and it isn't just a bit of visual tuning.

Did you notice that the vehicles in the screenshots have no lights at all? The missing lights really stand out in the chase scene and in the Cheetah's burnout.