Rockstar confirms GTA 6 side activities with biggest-ever map revealed

Rockstar has shared several activities which will be available in the upcoming GTA 6, as it is revealed that the new map will be the biggest yet.

There are few games which have as anticipated as much as the next instalment in the Grand Theft Auto series, though the prospect of a new Elder Scrolls game might also be pretty big, and hype around the new GTA game is only heightening as its release date approaches.

The buildup has so far had everything you might expect from the launch of a GTA game, including the US army making offers to soldiers that they can have days off to play it if they renew their contract, as well as moral panic about the game's content.

But in addition to who knows how many sick days being mysteriously called on its release day, one thing that GTA is known for is the amount of extra activities you can do, in addition to the missions, and of course seeing how many wanted stars you can get before 'WASTED' inevitably flashes up on the screen.

And now, Rockstar has revealed some of the things that players can explore, when they're not stealing cars, helicopters, tanks, and fighter jets, which has come from GameInformer.

You can switch between Jason and Lucia (Rockstar Games)

There are a fair few activities, including, in alphabetical order: Air boating, base jumping, billiards, going to the gym, jet skiing, kayaking, mini golf, scuba diving, street and off-road racing, and zoos.

This is also reportedly just some of the activities that players can explore in between gunfights and missions.

The news comes as Rockstar has already confirmed that the map for the new game will be the largest ever released for a game in the Grand Theft Auto franchise, saying that it was the largest by 'some degree'.

GTA 6's Leonida Map is purportedly around twice as big as the map in Grand Theft Auto 5, which was already a pretty hefty size and incredibly complicated.

Add to this that the map for another open world game, Red Dead Redemption 2, was itself just a little bigger than that of Grand Theft Auto 5.

Social media will play a big part in GTA 6 (Rockstar Games)

Rockstar North co-studio head Aaron Garbut has said that the map will be around twice the size, and added that the studio has also focussed on density of the map as well.

"This new world is different," he said. "We obsessed about every part – the rooftops, the alleys, the internals and everything in between to the point we hit a critical mass with the numbers of our interiors, and you start to feel the buildings are more real inside and out. This world is a cohesive whole with the density of content and a hand-crafted quality to every bit."

There hasn't been an exact figure confirmed yet, but the map for Grand Theft Auto 5 was approximately 75-80 square kilometres, of which about 50 were on land.

So that gives you some idea of just how much there will be to explore in the new map.

GTA 6 is scheduled to launch on 19 November.