Vice, Vice, Baby
A mysterious leak has surfaced online, claiming to showcase development footage, screenshots, and plot details pertaining to Rockstar Games’ upcoming sequelGrand Theft Auto 6— the assets were uploaded to popularGTA 6community GTA Forums overnight.
The videos, all of which have since been removed from YouTube, included footage of unfinished player characters and NPCs traversing a strip club, using an intercity metro train, and robbing a fast food restaurant, Pumpkin and Honey Bunny style. This footage (assuming that it’s legitimate) would validateearlier reportsthat theGTA 6narrative will focus on “Bonnie and Clyde”-style dual protagonists.
In total, around 90 video clips (mostly only seconds long) were archived in the leak, with some builds dating back to 2019/2020, suggesting that this was very, very early footage, in no way close to being reflective of the eventual magnum opus.
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All of the clips seemingly take place in Vice City, the locale ofGTA‘s stellar 2002 iteration. Again, this has previously been reported as the setting forGrand Theft Auto 6. While none of the footage, screens, or details have been officially confirmed as legitimate (of course), it has to be said that if itisfake, then someone has gone to really ridiculous lengths in order to put it together… but then, they would, wouldn’t they?
Regardless of the leak’s authenticity, the fact remains thatGTA 6is still a long way from laying down skidmarks on your living room carpet. Frequent industry spoiler Tom Hendersonhas already statedpreviously that they do not expect Rockstar to release the sequel until late 2024 at the absolute earliest. Frankly, they have all the time in the world. Given thatGTA Vis not only the second-best-selling video game of all time, but isstillraking in mucho dollarydoos thanks to its multiplayer element,GTA Online.GTA 6is highly likely to see the same level of stupendous success whenever it shows its ski-masked face.
