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Has anyone seen where to check the footage out?? Looks like it's all been DMCA'd from the majority of the web... I'm not a huge GTA Stan but I kinda wanna see what got leaked!
IIRC it looked a lot like GTA V with some debugging info added. Most changes seem to be under-the-hood.
It did look very similar to GTA V, but it's also worth noting that pretty much all of the footage was from very early production. It's likely that they were using less detailed character/world models for testing purposes. I imagine the game will look pretty damn good and modern once the proper lighting and textures are applied.
Ultimately I don't remember anything incredibly interesting from the videos I saw outside of a couple of story beats revolving around the new main characters. It seemed like most of the videos were pretty much testing certain console and systems at non-specified points in game.
Games can be pretty late in development and not look very good, when you see gameplay demos and whatnot in development games is almost always snowflake examples that they bring up to a "gold" standard just for the demo, which is often why they can drastically change prior to release (see halo 2). From the footage of this I've seen it was footage recorded from someone in some QA capacity role trying to show an issue to a developer, so it was absolutely one of the most in development looks you could possibly have, any visuals were essentially fluff at that level of development. They probably have a pretty good idea of what the finished product will look like, but there's really no reason to put that into a version of the game that's just testing AI.
It isn't very interesting because it's just a bunch of internal videos that people sent to each other for various reasons. And it's all out of context because the context would have been provided in an email but we don't ever see.
Sometimes I'm not sure what some of the footage is trying to demonstrate.
Also most of the animation stuff isn't complete yet and the AI, at least in the videos I saw was brain dead. So it's not really representative of the final product and it doesn't really look like anything.