The wanted level

If you arrived after reading that the wanted level runs to six stars rather than five, or that police in this game track you by evidence rather than by knowing where you are, here is this site’s position: no star count is recorded here at any grade — not as confirmed, and not as a rumour either.

That second refusal is the unusual one, so it is worth stating why. A rumour on this site is still a claim with a source attached to it, and “somebody watched footage nobody can verify” is not a source a reader can check. Printing the number and labelling it rumoured would put a specific, memorable figure into circulation with this site’s name under it, and that figure would be quoted back long after the label fell off. The honest form of this answer is that the field is empty.

The Rockstar-authored PlayStation.Blog post and Take-Two’s pre-order release both describe the game and its features at length. Neither mentions the wanted system, and no first-party material since has described any part of it.

The other way this gap gets filled is by assuming continuity: this studio’s last several games handled pursuit a particular way, so this one will too. Continuity is a reasonable prior and a poor citation. It is not evidence about this game, and it does not become evidence because a studio has a house style.

Exactly two things would move these rows. First-party text describing the system — a Rockstar Newswire post, a storefront feature list, an official mechanic page. Or a first-party showing in which the system is visible on screen while Rockstar presents it as its own material.

The Extended Look on 27 August 2026 is the first scheduled opportunity for the second of those, and Take-Two has described it as an extended gameplay reveal. Details of the showing are on the Extended Look page. If the system appears there, this page changes the same day — with a date, a source, and a grade that finally says something other than unknown.