While Rockstar has been working hard to remove any early gameplay from the internet, GTA 6 fans have been busy piecing together a map and attempting to figure out game protagonist actors based on recent leaks.
GTA 6 Actors & Unofficial Map Leaks
GTA 6 Actors May Have Been Discovered
Rockstar Games has a long history of creating memorable video game characters. We have Arthur Morgan, John Marston, Niko Bellic, and other great game protagonists, but almost all of them were played by unknown actors at the time.
After the PS2 era, Rockstar Games decided to move away celebrities for a variety of reasons. We can see this as an opportunity for Rockstar Games to create a character from the ground up without hearing or seeing a real person or one of those other characters. That strategy appears to be applicable to Grand Theft Auto VI, a game with a colossal budget that will undoubtedly make a fortune.
Last weekend, over 90 videos of Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay were leaked after Rockstar Games was hacked. The game’s setting, fresh mechanics, and its two playable protagonists, Jason and Lucia, were all revealed in the footage. Of course, the internet set to work trying to determine who was portraying them. Bryan Zampella is thought to play Jason, and Alexandra C. Echavarri is thought to play Lucia, based solely on the characters’ rough appearances and brief audio samples of their voices.
The GTA Forums community has likely found the identity of both actors portraying GTA 6's protagonists.
Bryan Zampella portrays Jason
Alexandra C. Echavarri portrays Lucia pic.twitter.com/VjRkxQpTyU— Michael (@LegacyKillaHD) September 22, 2022
Based on social media posts and an online resume that stated Alexandra C. Echavarri was portraying a “principal character” in a Rockstar Games game, there has been considerable speculation that she is playing a character in GTA 6 for some time. Her resume was later changed to remove any mention of Rockstar Games, but it still makes clear that it was a Take-Two project—the business that owns Rockstar and 2K Games.
In the past, Rockstar Games did not reveal the cast for Red Dead Redemption 2 until just before the game’s release, so it’s likely that there won’t be much confirmation until closer to the game’s release, in order to avoid having too many people swarming them with questions.
GTA 6 Gets Unofficial Map
The map-piecing project reminds me of a GTA V fan map created by GTA Forum users using screenshots and promotional media to get an early look at Los Santos. This time, the map is being created using in-game coordinates from the leak to determine how each location relates to the others.
Because of the contentious nature of the clips in the leak, those working on this cartographical project have had to use some unusual methods, such as Google Earth and MS Paint. Other projects hosted outside of the forums are working on more complete maps, including mini-map segments based on leaked footage. One map posted by Church of GTA includes some speculative roads and borders, as well as more concrete information gleaned from leaks.
