"Grand Theft Auto Double Pack" (Grand Theft Auto III & Grand Theft Auto: Vice City), Original Release Japanese CAPCOM / Xbox Promotional Poster 2003, Ultra Rare, B2 Size (c.51.5 × 72.8 cm) O860

Grand Theft Auto III is widely regarded as a landmark open-world title that helped define modern 3D “sandbox” game design.

This is an original Japanese B2 promotional poster produced to promote the Xbox release of “Grand Theft Auto Double Pack” in Japan—a two-game set containing Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. The poster’s Japanese copy highlights the domestic release timing (7月29日発売) and the original list price (7,600円＋税), and the bottom margin confirms it was published and distributed in Japan by CAPCOM—a notable detail for collectors, since CAPCOM handled Japanese distribution for this release.

Visually, it’s a striking early-2000s Xbox-era piece: the header reads “THE XBOX COLLECTION” beneath the Rockstar mark, while the center is dominated by the iconic Grand Theft Auto logo and the gold “double pack” tag. The artwork features a Vice City–style illustrated duo (one holding a cocktail) over a faint monochrome city/industrial backdrop—then finished on reflective metallic silver mylar/foil stock, which gives the entire poster a shifting chrome sheen under light (far more dramatic than standard paper posters).

Grand Theft Auto III is widely regarded as a landmark open-world title that helped define modern 3D “sandbox” game design. It was influential enough to be inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame (The Strong National Museum of Play) in 2016, underscoring its long-term impact on game design and culture.
In Japan as well, retrospective coverage frequently points to GTA III’s outsized impact—crediting it with helping establish the “open-world” style that later became a dominant genre template.

Vice City then expanded the GTA III formula with a bold new identity—set in 1986 in the neon-soaked fictional Vice City (inspired by Miami)—and became famous for its era-specific style, satire, and soundtrack-driven atmosphere.

This poster presents very well, but please note: because it is printed on reflective mylar/foil, any handling ripples and creases show more readily than on standard paper. The piece shows visible crinkling/creasing and surface rippling consistent with display/storage on metallic stock, with light edge wear (most noticeable around the upper-right area in the photos). Please review the close-up images provided for an accurate view of the surface and edges.

As with nearly all non-commercial retail/point-of-sale promotional posters, production quantities were tiny compared to mass-market prints, and survival rates are extremely low—especially for foil/mylar examples, which were often discarded after a campaign ended.

Provenance:
From a private collection. This is an original, non-commercial Japanese point-of-sale promotional poster for the CAPCOM-distributed Japanese Xbox release of Grand Theft Auto Double Pack (July 29, 2004).

It is not a reproduction or a reprint.

A Certificate of Authenticity is included.