With just a week to go until Grand Theft Auto 6 launches, there’s little in Rockstar Games’ marketing that gamers haven’t seen before. That familiarity applies at least to GTA 6’s new features. In visual terms, the game’s developer has just proven that it still has a lot of Leonida to show. The new clip that has fans talking was shared via Rockstar’s Instagram Stories on Wednesday and is based on a video originally uploaded to the OnlyInDade account. The regional social media account chronicles some of the weirdest things happening in Florida County. A quick look at many of OnlyInDade’s posts will explain exactly why Rockstar made the Alligator State the setting for its new open-world game. Some Miami-Dade incidents sound like a parody of a Florida Man headline. The video is only 15 seconds long, but it has repeatedly left viewers open-mouthed. Many initially watched it and fully believed they were seeing real-world footage. They weren’t. Is GTA 6 gameplay AI? If it looks convincing, it’s because the GTA 6 clip is almost a replica of a video that originally captured a scene in Dade. When you compare the two, the GTA 6 mock becomes more obvious. In the “real” video there are many more humans walking around and the colors are not saturated to make a screenshot stand out. The video game clip also features a shaky camera, creating the illusion that there is a real person holding the phone. Of course, based on the NPC density of areas like the beach, GTA 6 seems capable of representing the number of people present in the original footage. Paradoxically, the paucity of the sidewalk in the video game makes it seem more convincing. “This isn’t gameplay footage, this is real life,” one viewer wrote on X. On Reddit, the top responses are dozens of people arguing over whether the clip was made by AI. While Rockstar has not openly said that the clip is real, it seems unlikely that the developer would share fake images that could confuse fans. The OnlyInDade account also claims that the clip is 100% playable. Many theorize that this is what GTA 6 would look like when the player records the world with their phone in-game. Previously, GTA 6 fans couldn’t believe how realistic the digital mud looked and had a lot to say about the game’s trailers. Rockstar has also made it seem like the game will be full of unexpected graphical flourishes, like Red Dead Redemption 2’s infamous horse balls. Maybe the 30 frames per second limitation that continues to cause people to crash online isn’t such a big deal after all. The official GTA 6 update is bad news for PC gamers. Rockstar talked about PS5 Pro and Xbox features in a way that has quiet implications for PC gamers.
