GTA 6 Extended Look Featured Red Dead 2 Easter Egg

Official GTA 6 Extended Look Included Secret Red Dead 2 Easter Egg Custom image created by James Lucas with assets from Rockstar. Published Aug 28, 2026, 5:55 AM EDT James Lucas is an Executive Editor at TheGamer who has worked in professional journalism since 2018. A Newcastle University graduate with a degree in Journalism, Media, and Culture, they have written hundreds of guides, news stories, and original reports, with bylines in IGN, NME, GaymingMag, and VG247, sourcing interviews with studio heads, legendary industry figures, prominent actors, and more. An expert on FPS games, Soulslikes, RPGs, and survival horror, James has intimate knowledge of a wide variety of titles, providing in-depth coverage and exclusive profiles. Some of the games they have extensively covered include: Half-Life 3, Counter-Strike, Elden Ring, and Fallout. They pride themselves on their consistently thorough research, leveraging nearly a decade of industry experience. You can reach them at James.t@thegamer.com Sign in to your TheGamer account Odds are, when watching the GTA 6 extended look on Netflix last night, you didn't think much of the in-game advert featuring a bunch of animals on a field. It's a bunch of animals on a field. What more could there possibly be to it? Well, it turns out the ad was filmed in Red Dead Redemption 2, and in less than 24 hours, someone has already triangulated the exact location. "Recognized it as RDR2 right away," Reddit user DangerousLeo posted. For someone with over 700 hours, it's hardly surprising they clocked it so quickly. The animal models are recognizably Red Dead, and you can just make out the burdock root. So, from there, it was simply a game of wandering in the general vicinity until they found the right spot — west of Annesburg along the Lannahechee river. "Recognized and knew it was around there somewhere," they explained in a follow-up comment. "Luckily stumbled across it pretty much immediately." It Only Took Them Five Minutes There are a couple of differences, which you can see in the side-by-side DangerousLeo shared above. The woods and river are exactly the same, but there's more foliage in the GTA 6 ad, with rocks positioned close to the camera that don't exist in Red Dead. I'm sure this will pour even more fuel on the 'same universe' fire after Jack Marston's biography popped up in GTA 5. Rockstar does love peppering its games with easter eggs and references to one another, but from a purely practical point of view, using an old game with plenty of wildlife and nature to film an ad makes more sense than making an entire area from scratch and wasting both time and resources. Especially with RDR2 still looking spectacular even eight years later. Most people aren't going to notice that it's from another game, let alone one that's nearly a decade old. Systems Released November 19, 2026 ESRB Rating Pending - Likely Mature 17+ Developer(s) Rockstar Games Publisher(s) Rockstar Games Engine Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE) Genre(s) Action, Adventure