Just imagine: you’re on a late-night scroll, half asleep, and your feed explodes. Someone has unearthed nineteen seconds of genuine Grand Theft Auto VI animation, nestled somewhere within an old demo reel from a former Rockstar animator. Nineteen seconds. That’s all it took to wake up the entire internet. Benjamin Chue: he brought slow-Mo dives to life in Max Payne, made Arthur Morgan feel human in Red Dead 2, then he just dropped this seamless bike rental animation for a game with neither a trailer nor a release date.
Let me set it up. A regular-looking dude in a grey T-shirt walks up to a row of bright yellow city bikes. There are zero stiff robot movements. He reaches out, grabs the seat with one hand, swings a leg over like he’s been doing it a thousand times, and rides off. First try at the pedals. He leans during his turns, stops, hops off, and locks the bike. All in a single shot. So incredibly normal it hurts, because nothing in Grand Theft Auto V felt this alive.
Cut to a woman in a pink crop top standing in the bed of a speeding pickup truck. One second she’s there, the next she drops to the asphalt, knees bent, arms out, and perfectly balanced. You could imagine the screeching tires, even in a mute.
I’ve clocked in over two thousand hours on Grand Theft Auto V. I still play the game with my friends on weekends. But watching this raw-footage animation made me quit the game and stare blankly at my wall for literally a solid minute. That is how good the animation looks, and it is all grey-boxed, low-poly, placeholder city stuff. The final game is going to launch in approximately a year (November 19, 2026, mark it down), and it moves better than a lot of games do at launch.
The background details are pure Vice City candy as well. Pink and purple buildings. Palm trees. Ocean Drive is screaming out from that street sign. Those yellow bikes are the same ones from the very first trailer. Rockstar didn’t just include them to look pretty. You’ll actually rent them, ride them, and probably crash them into tourists while “Low Rider” plays from a stolen lowrider somewhere close by. I can already feel it.
Not gonna lie: when Rockstar pushed the date back again last month, I groaned, and so did everyone else. Another year? Really? But this leak brought me back to my senses. If they are taking this long to make some random NPC lock a rental bike, then I will wait for however long it takes.
Of course, the clip got blasted from every corner of the internet just hours later. Take Two’s lawyers move fast. Still, every other possible screengrab and re-upload is out there if you know where to look. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
Rockstar still hasn’t dropped trailer three, and we are all starving. But little crumbs like this? They taste better than all the other marketing could ever hope to achieve.
So yes. I’m back to agonizingly hyper for Grand Theft Auto VI. My controller is set. My buddies are set. Vice City is set.
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