Photorealistic action Unrecord pokes fun at GTA VI » Vortex

We probably don’t need to remind you about the Unrecord project for a long time, it will suffice to mention that it is a photo-realistic event evoking police records, which caused a storm on the Internet at the end of April this year. While some fans marveled at what Unreal Engine 5, various filters, and clever design could create, a large portion of players loudly doubted that it was even a game at all. There were also a number of indiscriminate comments, to the point where he had to prove to the game’s authors that this is really a scene in the editor of the mentioned engine and that Unrecord is really a digital project. But then there was a long silence, which was only broken by the post from yesterday, with which the developer and author of the game Alexandre Spindler responded to the Grand Theft Auto VI trailer.

“We’re still here,” Spindler wrote on Twitter, sharing a short video with new footage from the game. However, they are preceded by a clip from the aforementioned GTA VI trailer, on which you can watch a police intervention. In the new GTA, it is brought out similarly to how Unrecord processes the action, but it is not such an elaborate and photorealistic affair. For that reason too, in the GTA VI video, Spindler gets a little tight-lipped, suggesting that when two do the same thing, it’s not the same thing. Unrecord still seems much more believable when we’re talking about trying to turn police or riot squad body camera footage into a game, and even after many months since the game was revealed, I’m personally still quite fascinated by it.

If you are already planning to write a comment in the sense that this is a forgery and that the games simply cannot look this good and realistic, I highly recommend the article linked in the introduction, in which Spindler refutes such accusations. Perhaps the strongest moment of proof is flying through walls in the scene that was used to shoot the first trailer, and of course other little things, such as the recorded launch of the entire game from the Unreal Engine editor and other things that could have remained hidden in the patched video. But since it really is a game – or at least a game in its infancy – we don’t need to address the authenticity of Unrecord any further.