It was bound to happen. Many were hoping to stumble across this kind of information, but the last thing we could have imagined was finding 90 leaked videos of a supposed alpha version of GTA 6. Well, that's exactly what happened, and obviously we have to talk about it.
Rockstar's biggest leak
It might be hard to believe, but the person who uploaded the videos to the gtaforums forums has been answering questions and showing evidence to convince users that the shared information was real. As they answered questions and demonstrated requested lines of code, the doubts among the most skeptical began to disappear.
The fact that 90 videos of internal game testing are available is hard to grasp. The videos show many technical tests, primarily checking things like physics and character interactions, but they never reveal important details such as the game map (something that keeps many players up at night) or the main characters. In other words, we're talking about very early test footage from the game's development phase , so it would be a long time before we saw anything resembling the final game. The question is, how did they manage to obtain this footage?
https://youtu.be/9GfPx1yAxQ0
Interesting details
Among the many published clips, you can see some interesting details such as the presence of the "fuel" field in the vehicle characteristics, something that would suggest a limited fuel system for the vehicles in the game, or the physics of the vehicles. vehicles, which in addition to suffering damage, are capable of showing mobile elements such as pedals or seat adjustment.
https://twitter.com/melzyfn/status/1571390149669306372
It has also been possible to see a sequence in which the character crawls on the ground to enter a covered area. This move was previously unavailable, so now it looks like we'll be able to crawl on the ground for better cover or just sneak past the cops.
https://twitter.com/melzyfn/status/1571414849283923970
Everything seems to indicate that the videos were extracted from the Rockstar Content Editor tool , and you can even see some programmers' names that match LinkedIn profiles, which would corroborate the videos' legitimacy. Because yes, someone has already taken it upon themselves to search LinkedIn for those names among people who work for Rockstar, and they've hit the jackpot.
This is not GTA 6 final
Before you start yelling about how the graphics in these videos look and how disliked the characters are, please understand that this is nothing more than a series of technical tests to test many aspects of the game. The characters used with random models that will have nothing to do with those who star in the story (although there was talk of a man and a woman).
The map should be partly the same, and it seems that there is some reference in the files where Vice City is mentioned. The resolution and graphic quality of the images is that of an alpha version for testing, where neither all the textures are loaded nor the full graphic potential of the game is shown. Also, one of the videos shows the main menu of a PS4, so we could understand that the tests are being done on a PS4 or PS4 Pro.
Waiting for Rockstar's response
As you can imagine, the company should not make any kind of communication in this regard, beyond knocking down all the hosting services in which the files are already hosted. Twitter is filling up with posts with snippets of the videos, so it's very likely that sooner or later all these posts will be deleted.