GTA 6 Development Footage Leaks Online Before Being Scrubbed From the Internet — but It Didn’t Reveal Much at All and We’ve Even Seen Part of It Before in an Official Screenshot

Grand Theft Auto 6 work-in-progress development footage appeared online over the weekend before it was scrubbed from the internet. But while Rockstar’s hotly anticipated sequel has suffered substantial and damaging leaks in the past, this latest leak is anything but.

Eagle-eyed leak hunters uncovered an animation reel uploaded to Vimeo by a developer who has worked on a number of Rockstar games. In it were three snippets of development footage apparently showing GTA 6 (they were indeed labeled as such).

As you’d expect, the video was pulled from Vimeo, but the internet noticed and so the GTA 6 clips are doing the rounds. There are three separate clips, each brief and showing animations on what looks like a test map.

The first shows a male character removing and inserting a bike into a rental bicycle rack. We see the word ‘LomBike’ on the frame of the bike, which is probably a parody of real life LimeBike rental bicycles. No big surprise there for GTA 6! And we even saw this bike rental system in an official GTA 6 screenshot released by Rockstar earlier this year.

The other two, similarly brief clips, show a female character, presumably Lucia, getting out the back of a pickup truck in various stages. Again, nothing to write home about.

In truth, these very brief animation clips do hint at what we can expect from GTA 6 when it eventually comes out, but they tell us nothing we didn’t already know. Of course you’ll be able to rent bikes in GTA 6; it was right there in the screenshot, above. And of course you’ll be able to jump off a pick up truck. This is GTA 6 we’re talking about!

And let’s remember that when you’re actually playing GTA 6, you’ll see these animations in finished form — wonderfully detailed and high quality as you’d expect from Rockstar.

This real leak comes hot on the heels of a viral AI-generated GTA 6 gameplay leak whose creator claimed was all part of a social experiment. In lieu of Rockstar’s GTA 6 Trailer 3, fans are certainly on edge. We’ve got plenty more on GTA 6 in the meantime, including how the internet reacted to the GTA 6 delay, and why it’s no surprise it was delayed in the first place.

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