Dismemberment, 170-plus animal species and drugs in your inventory: GTA 6's age rating spills game details, sites report

Forty-six days before its November 19 launch, GTA 6 had gameplay details exposed through an unglamorous channel: its age-rating paperwork. According to specialist sites echoing a GameRant report published on Saturday (Oct. 3), the game was rated PEGI 18 in Europe, and the content description previews mechanics Rockstar has not yet officially shown.

Among the points cited are illegal drugs that can reportedly be carried and used straight from the character's inventory, the ability to injure and kill wildlife, with more than 170 species spread across the fictional state of Leonida, and more graphic violence than GTA 5, including dismemberment and decapitation with certain weapons. Strip clubs, a series staple, also return.

Rockstar has not commented on the details, and one of the outlets covering the story stresses the need to separate confirmed information from recycled leak material, so the claims should be treated with caution until official confirmation. The overall takeaway is that GTA 6 leans less on one big revolution and more on many smaller, interconnected systems, such as inventory and environmental interaction, to make its open world feel more alive.