Grand Theft Auto VI's earliest footage has been widely leaked.
Rockstar's upcoming open-world game, Grand Theft Auto VI, appears to have online footage leaks. According to PC Gamer, a user on the GTA Forums shared a 3GB file including 90 videos of GTA VI gameplay. It's unclear exactly how the video was obtained, but the "teapotuberhacker" poster claims to have been responsible for the unrelated Uber hack late last week and claims to be about to "release additional material," which might include the source code, assets, and testing builds for Grand Theft Auto V and VI.
The extensive leak is consistent with earlier GTA VI reporting that featured clips of a female playable character. Bloomberg claimed earlier this year that Bonnie and Clyde-inspired GTA VI would have two female characters.
The leaked videos are currently being shared with numerous online gaming communities, on Reddit, YouTube, and Twitter. A playable female character by the name of Lucia is shown stealing a restaurant and holding hostages in one video. You can clearly see where the game engine is identifying items on the screen and there is a tonne of placeholder text.
Another video demonstrates a playable character riding the "Vice City Metro" train, supporting rumors that the game is situated in a made-up version of Miami similar to GTA: Vice City from 2002. A different clip features a talk by the pool that is reminiscent of the NPC conversations in Red Dead Redemption 2 from Rockstar.
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The footage's age is unclear, although some of it looks to be using RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3080 graphics cards, indicating that the development build can't be more than two years old. Other videos display enhanced UI and animations, new NPC interactions, and even Rockstar's own internal debugging tools for GTA VI on the PlayStation. Even if this might be a sophisticated fabrication, the volume of clips and other evidence suggests otherwise.
These leaked videos probably depict early development builds and testing of some game mechanics, even though GTA VI is apparently at least two years away. A Rockstar game has previously been heavily leaked. 2018 saw Trusted Reviews obliged to make a more-than-$1 million charitable donation and offer an apology after the website leaked information about Red Dead Redemption 2 prior to the game's release.