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Halloween in Los Santos: Muscle Cars, Death Metal, and the Return of Weaponized Nonsense

Writer: Niels Gys
Niels Gys
Oct 9, 2025
3 min read

Updated: Oct 16, 2025

TL;DR It’s Halloween in GTA Online — that sacred time when everyone dresses like a corpse, drives like a maniac, and sets fire to downtown Vinewood for pocket change.

A heavily armored muscle car with mounted guns speeds through a dark city street as explosions erupt behind it. Several costumed figures — a skeleton, a mummy, and a clown — chase after it under the eerie glow of streetlights, with the GTA+ logo displayed in the corner.

The Season of Unholy Overcompensation

It’s October in Los Santos, which means the streets are haunted by three things: bad costumes, worse driving, and the sound of someone’s roof-mounted minigun clearing traffic. The star of this year’s chaos is the Declasse Weaponized Tampa, a muscle car so loud it makes your subwoofer blush.


Rockstar describes it as “equipped with a top-mounted minigun and industrial-grade armor.”


Translation: a mobile midlife crisis with the firepower of a NATO exercise. And you can get it free with GTA+, wrapped in a Santo Capra Coins livery — basically the aesthetic equivalent of a casino carpet having a seizure.


You can claim it from the Vinewood Car Club, or as I like to call it, “the world’s most expensive scrapyard.”



Dress Like the Corpse You Are Inside

For those who believe subtlety died in 2013, Rockstar offers the LS Death Metal Hoodie and Shorts — perfect for the gym, funerals, or summoning demons behind the Ammu-Nation. They’re free for GTA+ members, as are the Mummy and Skeleton Bodysuits, for when you want to look like someone’s biology diagram gone rogue.


It’s fashion meets necromancy, and I, for one, fully approve.



Fraudulent but Fabulous

Meanwhile, the fine entrepreneurs of Los Santos’ underbelly are making double money on Document Forgery and Counterfeit Cash Sell Missions. Yes — Rockstar is literally paying you to commit financial crimes. It’s like the stock market, but more honest.


And to sweeten the deal, Biker Business Upgrades and Mods are 50% off, meaning you can finally upgrade your money-printing cave into a money-laundering palace.



50% Off Alien Disintegration Devices

If you’ve ever wanted to vaporize tourists with something that looks like it was stolen from Area 51, congratulations. Alien weapons — including the Unholy Hellbringer, Up-n-Atomizer, and Widowmaker — are half off at the Gun Van.


And if you’re a GTA+ member, you can track the van permanently on your map — because nothing says “exclusive club” like being able to find your arms dealer on GPS.



Four Times the Payout, Half the Sanity

This month’s Featured Halloween Series pays 4X GTA$ and RP for GTA+ members. Expect apocalyptic nonsense like Judgement Day, Condemned, and the new Slasher aboard a submarine, which is basically “Hide and Seek meets PTSD.”


You’ll die, respawn, scream, and probably earn more money than a dentist in Vinewood Hills.



Bronze Is the New Bloodstain

Feeling flashy? Slap on the new Anodized Bronze Pearl Chameleon Paint. It’s free and makes your car look like it was forged from the tears of bankrupt influencers.


The matching Chameleon Wheel Paint ensures that when your car inevitably explodes, it’ll do so in style.



Vice City on Mobile — What Could Go Wrong?

And because chaos never sleeps, GTA+ now includes Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition for iOS and Android.


So now, you can relive Tommy Vercetti’s neon-soaked rise to power while accidentally honking at pedestrians because your thumbs are too fat for touchscreen controls.



The Final Word

Halloween in Los Santos isn’t about candy — it’s about carnage.


It’s about firing miniguns at trick-or-treaters, driving bronze tanks through Vinewood Boulevard, and dressing like the undead while printing fake passports for extra profit.


So, grab your Tampa, light up the night, and remember: if you can’t outdrive the ghosts, outgun them.

 
 
 

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