Modders have made GTA 6’s map in GTA 5’s engine, and it looks enormous

Fresh off of the one-year anniversary of GTA 6’s reveal trailer, a YouTuber and a group of GTA 5 modders have decided that they’ve waited to see the Florida-inspired state of Leonida long enough. Using a community-created map that uses reference points and footage from past leaks to determine the size of the game’s world, plus visuals from the trailer, they’ve created GTA 6’s map within its predecessor’s engine.

Now, of course, we’ve only seen a fraction of what Leonida has in store for us in GTA 6’s one and only trailer, so this is by no means a complete GTA 6 map. Instead, it takes the map compiled by the community, blows it up to a 1:1 scale, and then fills in some of the areas that we’ve seen already with custom assets. Not only does it give starved fans a small taster of what Leonida could look like, it also shows you just how enormous it might be.

YouTuber ‘Dark Space’ has posted a video of the project which shows them flying the same helicopter from one end to the other of both GTA 5’s map and GTA 6’s theoretical one. This is by no means an exact science, but the fact that it takes three and a half minutes to cross GTA 5’s Los Santos and just over six minutes to cross Leonida is an indication of just how much bigger GTA 6 could be.

While vast areas of this map are completely blank and simply contain the names of potential points of interest, the areas of Vice Beach and the Stockyard, both of which feature heavily in the trailer, have been filled out with assets and NPCs. Dark Space created these more detailed spaces with the help of the Ambitioneers, a group of modders that create map expansions for GTA 5. These two areas look great, and while they are of course more bare and less visually impressive than what we’ll get in the real game, this is all about giving you a flavor of what it might be like to wander the streets of GTA 6.

In the video, which was spotted by Eurogamer, Dark Space also creates a short cutscene based off of a moment mentioned in past leaks, which sees Lucia and Jason steal a safe by towing it out of a pawn shop with a chain attached to their car.

If you’ve been hankering for a GTA 6 fix, this should definitely help settle you – at least for a day or two. To further suppress the cravings, why not read up on everything we know about the game so far in our GTA 6 release date guide. Our friends over at GTADb have compiled loads of information about the game too.

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