A video presented as leaked Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay has been circulating online, and it packs a full open-world incident into one take: a car crash, a road rage brawl, and the start of a police pursuit.
Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive haven’t authenticated the clip. It also looks like it comes from an unfinished build, with sparse menus, placeholder-looking icons, and some rough animations. The age of the build is unknown.
The playable character is the male protagonist widely identified as Jason. He gets into a car, including one animation where he climbs over from the passenger side, and drives through a suburban area.
He then cuts across traffic and clips another vehicle. The other driver gets angry, chases him, and rams him repeatedly. Jason’s body shakes with the impacts, he turns his head toward the attacker, and a health bar pops up, apparently taking damage from the collision.
The other driver steps out with a wrench. Jason gets out too, and before the fight starts, a contextual prompt shows two options: “Warn” and “Defuse.”
It escalates anyway. Jason takes the wrench off the man in a very smooth disarm animation, then beats him with it. Two visual flashes appear during the attack, which people read as the victim first going down and then dying.
A blue bar then appears in the top left, with a dazed screen effect, interpreted as stamina draining from repeated melee swings.
The interface is the real story
After Jason enters the car, viewers spotted a fuel pump icon plus a second symbol that could be engine or vehicle condition. Crash damage shows dents and scratches. Cars look heavier and more grounded than in GTA V, with several comparing the body roll to GTA IV.
Near the trunk of the car, contextual options reportedly include closing it, “Storage,” and “Loadout.” That lines up with earlier hints that players won’t carry every gun at once, similar to how Red Dead Redemption 2 keeps most weapons on your horse. A map marker with a “J” on it apparently tags Jason’s own vehicle.
The top right shows six hollow wanted stars. GTA V capped out at five. Older entries used six. Below them sit three red circular icons: a coat hanger, a person, and a car, read as police tracking your clothes, your appearance, and your vehicle separately.
The clip also seems to split police awareness into stages. A detection indicator appears while officers look toward Jason, the stars stay empty, and the minimap search zone glows light blue. Once he’s identified, the stars fill and the zone turns red. Instead of the usual police dots, the footage appears to use directional indicators around the screen.
A devil-like icon also pops up during the violence, next to Jason’s portrait, changing color. People compared it to RDR2‘s honor feedback, but it could just as easily be a debug readout. The HUD generally behaves dynamically: meters appear only when they matter, and the minimap vanishes when it isn’t needed. Some prompts don’t even have button icons.
Who dropped it
Most viewers believed the footage is real, pointing to the animation blending, the dense contextual UI, and the fact that the passenger-seat climb closely matches the confirmed 2022 development leak. In September 2022, dozens of early GTA VI videos leaked after an intruder accessed Rockstar’s systems, something the studio publicly confirmed at the time. That makes comparisons easier, and convincing fakes easier too.
The new upload has been attributed to an entity calling itself CYBERLEEK, alongside an unverified statement about targeting publishers over anti-consumer practices. Some of the associated pages also appeared to push a cryptocurrency token, which makes the stated motive questionable. There’s no evidence of a new breach at Rockstar.
Copies are reportedly being taken down and reuploaded. Rockstar hasn’t commented publicly on the video’s authenticity, and everything in it, features, visuals, frame rate, and UI included, can still change before release.
