- A thrifty Xbox 360 turned out to be an old Rockstar Games dev kit
- The console offers a preliminary version of Grand Theft Auto 4 and a 120 GB hard drive full of unreleased assets
- Some assets included cut content, including an apparent zombies mode.
Fans Discovered a Collection of Hidden Secrets Grand Theft Auto 4 active on a second-hand Xbox 360 that turned out to be a Rockstar Games dev kit.
User “janmatant” shared his find on fan website GTA Forums, revealing that he purchased the console at a garage sale in Edinburgh, Scotland, for £5 (about $7), the same city where developer Rockstar North is based.
Images posted on the forum show the used white Xbox 360 with a sticker on top that reads “Rockstar North Ltd” and features the Rockstar Games logo, but it’s the contents of the 120GB hard drive that RGT the fans go wild.
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“HOLY. Damn. Something important fell,” one user said after the janmatant’s post.
After some investigation, it was discovered that the material appears to contain a 2007 draft version of GTA4as well as a treasure trove of unfinished and previously unreleased assets that have now been uploaded to the Internet Archive.
Aside from ferry items that appear to have been removed from the main game but were used in cutscenes and trailers, fans also discovered different radio stations and songs different from the official version, as well as unused weapons like a revolver, silenced pistol, unfinished animations, and beta versions of character models.
But the biggest discovery is what appears to be an unfinished zombies mode, which featured pickup trucks and specific assets like bloodied police bodies and a hospital gurney.
As Kotaku reports, Obbe Vermeij, a former Rockstar Games developer who worked on GTA4, has since stated that he doesn’t remember much about a zombies mode in a post on X/Twitter, and suggested that it was an “experiment” by a team of artists and other developers “that didn’t work.”
“There were a lot of them,” Vermeij added.
It’ll take a while for fans to completely separate all 120GB of content, but at least they’ll have something to keep them busy while we wait. Grand Theft Auto 6which will launch on November 19, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S.
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