Alleged GTA 6 Footage Has Surfaced Online: We Take A Closer Look At The Leak

A few days before the new official showcase of Grand Theft Auto 6, a series of clips and images allegedly captured in one of the game's test builds surfaced online. The footage shows Jason, a basketball mini-game, a drive around the city, a fight with a driver, and a wanted level being triggered. Separately, unknown individuals published a map of the open world.

The materials are being spread by a project called Cyberleek. The clips look noticeably more convincing than most short AI fakes, but that still doesn't prove this is actually GTA 6: a scene like this could have been built by hand on another engine, with the interface recreated from official materials and the 2022 leak.

In the first video, Jason steps into the yard of a house and plays with a basketball. The character can pick it up, aim, and throw it, and the interface changes depending on the action. The clip itself runs about a minute and maintains consistent scene geometry, physics, and animations, which makes it hard to dismiss as an ordinary video generated entirely by a generative model.

The second gameplay fragment contains far more detail. Jason drives around the city, gets into crashes, and comes into conflict with a driver, after which a police chase begins. If the recording is real, GTA 6 has indeed borrowed several systems from Red Dead Redemption 2 and made the series' familiar formula more realistic.

Reddit users have already spotted the following details in the footage:

The clip also suggests that ordinary police patrols drive around the city. They barely react to traffic violations, but after a crime is reported they first try to locate the suspect rather than receiving his coordinates automatically. In that case, it will be possible to escape the wanted level before the police identify the protagonist.

The same source published an image of the alleged full map of the state of Leonida. It marks five counties: Lummox County in the north, Kelly County in the west, Leonard County in the east, Mariana County in the south, and Vice-Dale County, which contains the main urban agglomeration.

Judging by the image, the densest development is concentrated in the southeast. There you can make out downtown Vice City, port districts, a large airport, a network of bridges, and elongated coastal islands. The western and northern parts of the state look significantly less urbanized: most of the territory is taken up by forests, swamps, rivers, and small settlements. To the south stretches a chain of islands resembling the Florida Keys, and on a separate island in the southwest sits another airfield.

The map, of course, should be treated with caution. Some of its outlines match the fan reconstruction that the community has been piecing together for several years from trailers and the 2022 leak. This could speak either in favor of genuine material or of the fact that the fakers used the community's ready-made project as a basis.

Cyberleek calls itself a defender of players' rights. The project's website publishes a manifesto with three demands: to abandon digital pre-orders, to stop selling separately the single-player content already present in the game files, and to preserve access to single-player modes after servers are shut down.

The authors claim they will keep publishing materials until the publishers involved issue public apologies and promise to change their policies. In the case of GTA 6, they cite digital pre-orders and the absence of a full physical edition as the reason. Rockstar has officially stated that the boxed version at launch will contain a download code rather than a disc.

It's worth noting that the Cyberleek page hosts details of a cryptocurrency with a total supply of 1 billion tokens, trading information, and a request to fund some "secret project." The alleged GTA 6 map also directly urges people to buy the token. In the discussion, users suggested that the loud clips are primarily meant to draw attention to the cryptocurrency.

Taken together, the signs make the clips look more like a recording of a real version of GTA 6 than an AI fake or a fan reconstruction. The consistent physics, the way the interface works, and the many interconnected systems look too convincing, while the rough edges in the animation can be explained by the fact that this is an old test build. However, the source uses the materials to promote a cryptocurrency, so its claims — and especially the published map — can't be taken at face value for now. Until Rockstar confirms it, it's more accurate to treat the video as a probable genuine leak, but not as final evidence of how the release version of GTA 6 will look.