There's a dog fighting next to Jason in GTA 6's Launch Gallery, and its bandana has a name on it

One of the 39 shots in Rockstar's new Launch Gallery has a dog fighting right next to Jason, and it's wearing a stars-and-stripes bandana with a name printed on it. Only the first letters are readable through the sparks: R, O, C, then the edge of the next one.

Rockstar put the gallery up on its official site on 5 November, calling it "a collection of new screenshots" with launch "only two weeks away". We opened every one of them at full size and zoomed into the signs. Here's what's really there, grouped the way it naturally falls.

A dog called R-O-C-something

In the hero shot above, Jason's in a backwards cap and gloves, firing a rifle with a red-dot sight and a torch on the rail. He's standing under what looks like the belly of a plane, with landing gear at the top right. The dog behind him looks like a Malinois, in a harness, crouched low while rounds kick up the floor. Rockstar hasn't said a word about it, so whether it's a story dog or one you can keep is anyone's guess.

Dogs everywhere

Once you start looking, dogs keep turning up. In one Vice City shot a man with gold teeth and a big gold pendant holds a pit bull on a heavy chain. Its collar has gold spikes the size of bullets.

The gas station shot looks at first like a man setting his dog on someone. Up close it's less clear. A tan dog is mid-leap between a man and a woman, and there's an orange disc on the ground under it, so it could just as easily be a game of frisbee in a car park.

There's even a Yorkshire terrier with a pink bow lying under a chair in The Rusty Anchor. Put all that next to the Alsatian Edge saw pin Jason down in its issue 430 demo and the game has clearly put a lot of work into its dogs.

The bank job

Jason and Lucia rob a bank in bandanas, him with a compact SMG and a brick of cash, her with an MP5-style gun and a bag. A poster on the far wall reads FLEECA, the bank chain from GTA 5 and Online, and the walls are Fleeca green. A customer in a REEL fishing shirt is down on his knees.

A second shot has Lucia firing a rifle out of a convertible while Jason drives, past a green-and-white armoured truck. The lettering we can see ends in "pe 6", which looks a lot like GTA 5's Gruppe Sechs. Police cars are already blocking the road behind them.

The swamp

The best-lit shot in the set is the Grassrivers one. Three men stand on an airboat in fog under a crescent moon, one shirtless with a rifle on his shoulder, one with a torch. In the foreground an alligator sits low in the water with one eye glowing red.

The other swamp shot is a campfire party. A scarred man holds a knife with a snake around his neck, there's an alligator laid across the table next to him, and snakeskins hang drying off the shack. The beer on the table is Patriot.

Who's dancing at the back of the bar

The Rusty Anchor finally gets an inside. A band plays on a stage under the bar's name, there's a neon guitar for Patriot Beer, a CROWS NEST sign, a Barracho neon with a bull's skull and an American flag over the room. And look right, by the stage: a man in a grey tee and a backwards cap is slow-dancing with a dark-haired woman in hoops. Rockstar filed this shot under Jason and Lucia, and that pair looks a lot like them.

Cops, choppers and a police boat

There's a lot of police. The clearest new detail is a patrol boat lit up blue under a bridge with VICE-DALE POLICE on its side, during a raid on a waterfront mansion with officers on the bridge and a helicopter overhead.

Elsewhere Jason crouches by a sports bike badged Principe and Alvino V1 with a police SUV and a helicopter behind him. In another he's at a pump marked Gasoline in a bloodied Leonida tank top while an officer walks up behind a car with a smashed windscreen. Edge reported every vehicle has a fuel gauge, and here's somebody actually filling up.

Small print worth zooming into

• The dollar bills a woman's lying in say THE UNITED STATES OF PARANOIA. That joke's still going.
• Lucia wears a small boxing-glove pendant in two shots, the club one and the rainy-window one.
• A tattooed man getting his hair braided has ERIS on his waistband and a gold-plated SMG on his lap.
• Jason bench-presses with 20kg plates branded GAINZ, which fits the gym system.
• Two shots Rockstar filed under Jason show a long-haired man in his place, one in a Cerveza Barracho tee facing down bikers.

Vice City and the Keys

The scenery shots are lovely: a marina with a jet climbing over the skyline, a top-down resort pool with a flamingo flying over it, and a night view of a raised drawbridge with traffic waiting. There's a car meet too, with a woman taking a selfie on a wrapped pink muscle car.

The only Keys shot goes underwater. A diver with a torch swims past a boat hull while a lionfish sits in the coral up front. Florida divers know lionfish as an invasive species, which matches the native and non-native wildlife Rockstar told Game Informer about.

The whole set is up at rockstargames.com/VI/launch-gallery, and the game itself is out on 19 November.