Palm trees, a busy sidewalk and a convoy of bright sports cars, filmed as if from a passenger's phone, turned out not to be Miami at all but GTA 6. Rockstar itself spread the short first-person clip on Instagram on November 11, and plenty of viewers first took it for real footage or something made by AI.
The video was first posted by the Miami Instagram account Only in Dade. According to KeenGamer, Rockstar reshared it to the Story on its official account, and Kantan adds that the studio also liked the original post. There is no standalone post or statement from Rockstar, but that activity is what convinced most people they were looking at the game's engine.
The clip shows a street in the game's Vice City modeled on Ocean Drive, with buildings, pedestrians and exotic cars. KeenGamer spotted the Invetero Coquette, the Pegassi Tempesta and a green Albany Buccaneer lowrider among them.
The in-game scene mirrors a real promo convoy shot for shot
In October, Rockstar teamed up with California shop West Coast Customs to put real-life builds of the game's cars on Miami streets. Per KeenGamer, the shop recreated six models: the Grotti Cheetah, Pegassi Tempesta, Invetero Coquette, Albany Buccaneer, Albany Manana and Progen Emerus. Social media users quickly dug up an earlier video of that same convoy, and as Insider Gaming notes, the in-game clip copies its angles and car placement.
Some fans are already wondering whether Jason and Lucia are the ones holding the cameras. Nothing in the footage supports that.
Insider Gaming also points out that this is a staged marketing piece, not a regular gameplay capture, so it says little about how first-person view will actually look in GTA 6. A promo shot and the camera you will spend dozens of hours behind are two different things.
Source: Insider Gaming, KeenGamer, Kantan
