These Grand Theft Auto screenshots are fake!

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19 totally false GTA images spawned by the lovable internets

One thing we noticed - stamping Rockstar/GTA branding onto a CGI image of a street, complete with traffic and pedestrians, produces an alarmingly convincing fake shot.

This one is really well done, and seeing exactlyhow it was pieced togetheronly makes us realise quite how much spare time some fans have to mess around with image software. They must never get any proper work done. Like us, in fact.

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GTA's iconic iconography - the yellow destination triangles, fat text font, top-right HUD, radar - makes almost anything look like a screenshot. Perhaps with GTA IV's 'real' look, with more subtle icons, will actually look like a fake itself. Or maybe not.

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Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.