It’s still a solid year away, but we are steadily learning more information about the characters, storylines, and locations of Rockstar’s upcoming continuation of Grand Theft Auto, GTA 6.
It’s been a long and exhausting road, folks. Rockstar Games officially announced GTA 6 back in 2023 with a launch date of late 2025 – just in time for Christmas. Unfortunately, it was then pushed back to May 2026 in a move that infuriated the millions of players waiting to run over pedestrians and visit the strip club. News, trailers, and juicy crumbs of information have been picking up in recent weeks, from the location list to the easter eggs from GTAs since passed.
With the release of the second trailer, we were FINALLY clued into some of the plot details. GTA 6 will follow Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos in a Bonnie and Clyde-style romp around the city of Leonida. Naturally, Jason and the franchise’s first non-optional female character get swept up in a larger criminal conspiracy, and chaos ensues.
Though I’m pretty much sold, seated, and ready, this new leaked GTA 6 storyline kinda sounds better.
Right, so what was the leaked GTA 6 storyline?
According to a leak on Medium, which was then translated and reshared across Twitter by @GTAVI_Countdown, GTA 6 was originally about a police officer who “gradually descends into organised crime in a desperate effort to protect his son, who is struggling with drug addiction.”
“A police crime plot worthy of a thriller that featured 3 protagonists: an old cop, his troubled son, and the right-hand man of a Colombian drug lord,” the account translated on Twitter.
“The cop is principled, but he gradually descends into organised crime in a desperate effort to protect his son, who is struggling with drug addiction. The son, a devout Cuban-American trying to escape his addiction and the dangers of the drug trafficking world. The drug lord’s right-hand man imports narcotics into the US through Vice City, with ambitions to build his own empire in North America.”
The GTA 6 storyline was reportedly ditched in 2016 for being “too dark”, but in a franchise as infamous as Grand Theft Auto, is there really any such thing as “too” dark? Nonetheless, the leak suggested that the scrapped storyline and several other rewrites contributed to Dan Houser leaving Rockstar.
Alleged GTA 6 story that was canceled by Take-Two for being “too dark” in 2016:
– Led by Dan Houser who left Rockstar Games after years of rewrites, consistently rejected by Take-Two
– A police crime plot worthy of a thriller that featured 3 protagonists: an old cop, his troubled… pic.twitter.com/wR84ev2lT1— GTA 6 Countdown
(@GTAVI_Countdown) June 15, 2025
What are people saying about the GTA 6 leak?
The response to the GTA 6 leak has been mixed, to say the least, with some suggesting it could have been the “best yet” and others arguing that Rockstar ultimately made the right decision.
One person wrote: “We could have had the best GTA 6 game. I’m loving what we’re about to receive, but this sounds f*cking amazing.”
“Wow, this sounds cooler than whatever bony and Clyde bs they got for the new one,” another said. “This plot sounds insane… and honestly would’ve been peak GTA. Way darker than what we’re probably getting, but man, this had the potential to be Rockstar’s most mature story ever.”
In contrast, someone else said, “Reading this makes you think they made the right decision.”
Plot change aside, just gimme the bloody game.
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