Heavy Weapons
Rocket Launcher
First seen in GTA (1997)Latest GTA: Vice City Stories (2006)10 games
The 3D era’s answer to a helicopter. Renamed RPG from GTA IV onwards, which is why this database holds the two separately.
Classification
Heavy Weapons
Rocket and grenade launchers, miniguns, flamethrowers and the explosive ordnance the series has never been short of.
Franchise chronology
10 titles · 1997–2006
- 1997
Specification
- Fire mode
- Single shot
Acquisition
- How to get it
- Collected as a pickup from the streets — the 1997 game has no weapon shop
- 1999
Specification
- Fire mode
- Single shot
Acquisition
- How to get it
- Collected as a pickup from the streets
- 1999
Specification
- Fire mode
- Single shot
Acquisition
- How to get it
- Collected as a pickup from the streets
- 1999
Specification
- Fire mode
- Single shot
Acquisition
- How to get it
- Collected as a pickup from the streets of Anywhere City
- 2001
Specification
- Fire mode
- Single shot
- 2002
Specification
- Fire mode
- Single shot
Acquisition
- How to get it
- Sold at Phil Cassidy's army surplus, which opens partway through the story
- 2004
Specification
- Fire mode
- Single shot
- 2004
Specification
- Fire mode
- Single shot
- 2005
Specification
- Fire mode
- Single shot
- 2006
Specification
- Fire mode
- Single shot
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Provenance
Verified against research. Weapon rosters are established per game and reconciled across the franchise; where a weapon’s presence in a title is not established, it is held back rather than listed.
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