Downtown Vice City

What Rockstar has shown

• Downtown is signposted on Vice City's highways. At 0:38 in Trailer 2, green signs point to "Ambrosia" and "Downtown", with a third reading "SW 9th Ave, Southside, Peacock Bay", as a jet comes in low overhead.
• Trailer 1 has signs for it too. IGN reads "Catalan Boulevard, Stockyard Downtown" beside signs for Kelly County and VCI Airport, so the Stockyard neighbourhood is likely close by.
• A raised train line runs above the streets at 0:46 in Trailer 2, and Dexerto reads it as Vice City's metro.

Sahara Arena

Rockstar's screenshots show Vice City's arena lit up on the waterfront at night, a Ferris wheel behind it: the photo at the top of this page. IGN identifies the arena as the Sahara Arena and works out from it that the city's basketball team is called the Narcos. Dexerto matches the building's shape to the Kaseya Center, home of the Miami Heat, and the Heat are playing their November 18 game, the night before launch, as "A Night in Vice City" (ESPN).

The real place behind it

Downtown Vice City is downtown Miami and Brickell, by the clues so far. Miami New Times picked out 500 Brickell's twin towers in Trailer 1's skyline and read Catalan Boulevard as Biscayne Boulevard. Miami New Times spotted Miami's Metromover, the free people mover that loops through downtown and Brickell, in Trailer 2. NINE 1 NINE, the club from Trailer 2, is a nod to E11EVEN, a real downtown Miami nightclub, by both Dexerto's and Miami New Times' reading; Rockstar has not said where the game's club is.

What the streets are like

IGN's hands-on preview began in "a downtown part of Leonida" with crowded streets, heavy traffic and "stores and bodegas and pawn shops all ripe for the robbing". IGN does not say which district it was.

Our take: downtown looks like the densest part of the map, so it is where we would learn the side streets first. IGN found that at three stars and up, narrow streets and dense traffic make it hard to escape the police by car in the city, and the raised train is the one thing above the traffic, though Rockstar has not said you can ride it.

Not announced yet

Downtown's borders, whether the Sahara Arena hosts games you can watch, and whether the metro can be ridden. Every spot named here is pinned on our GTA 6 map at an approximate position until the game is out.