These Grand Theft Auto screenshots are fake!
19 totally false GTA images spawned by the lovable internets
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A lot of GTA fakes look incredibly well conceived. In most cases that's simply because the image is from another game - like this one, which repurposes a shot from 2 Days 2 Vegas.
If all else fails there is a single simple way to make a fake GTA screenshot. Take a photo of a street, and put a man in the middle of it holding a gun. Wonderful.
Now this is what GTA London would look like - flatcaps, whippets, and charming victorian terraces sat awkwardly side-by-side with swank housing developments.
Fakers don't stop making fake screens when the real screens turn up. Instead, they just create fake versions of official images - likeadding a fake GTA IV HUD, for example.
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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.
