Some Of GTA 6’s Map Has Been Brought Into GTA 5 By A Superfan

It’s been over a decade since the last main Grand Theft Auto installment, and fans have been keeping busy passing the time before GTA 6‘s release. Players have been modding previous games for years and putting out community challenges, but recently a YouTuber decided to put the little bit of what we know from GTA 6 into GTA 5.

A YouTuber that goes by the handle Dark Space has been working on a mod that adds some of GTA 6’s Vice Beach map area into the game. Dark Space is planning on releasing the mod in two weeks on the GTA mod community server FiveM but has been showing off their work on their channel and Twitter.

Even though Rockstar has only released a single trailer for GTA 6, fans have been able to map out the playable area they expect to see in the game. Talking to IGN, Dark Space spoke about their work and the constant fear of Take-Two taking it down.

“This is a bit different from what I’ve been told by people who also make content like this for FiveM servers. Vice City mod is a whole game remade in GTA 4. Not good for Rockstar. Also makes them look bad,” they said. “Liberty City Preservation project ripped a whole game map from 4 to 5 eliminating the need for Rockstar to ever do that. This is just me making my own fan-made map myself. All within GTA 5 itself. Any assets are from GTA 5 itself. A typical practice.”

Former Rockstar Games technical director Obbe Vermeij recently commented on the frequent takedowns by Take-Two, saying they are “entirely predictable.”

“They will take down mods that interfere with their business interests,” he tweeted. “The VC NextGen Edition mod for GTA4 directly competes with the Definitive Edition. The Liberty City preservation project (GTA4 in GTA5 engine) would interfere with a possible GTA4 remaster. (No idea whether they’re working on that. I think they should.) There’s no point getting angry about it. This is what companies are supposed to do.”

Grand Theft Auto 6 is scheduled to be released this fall on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. There has not been an announcement date for a PC release but that will likely be coming later.