Goat Simulator 3 advert pulled after using leaked GTA 6 gameplay
A Goat Simulator 3 advert that included leaked Grand Theft Auto 6 gameplay footage has been pulled following a complaint from the copyright holder.
The playful advert in question, which is viewable in the tweet below, introduces Goat Simulator 3 NPC Shaun, who discusses his role in the game and what it took to secure the role.
“To get this job I had to be prepared both mentally and physically,” he says. “I mean you get thrown around quite much and it has to look good, so I spend quite some time at the most prestigious ragdolling school in the world. I learned a lot and I think I turned out to be a pretty good ragdoll.”
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In the next part of the video, Shaun narrates over a clip of Grand Theft Auto 6 gameplay footage which was leaked earlier this year.
“Apart from this job, I have other stuff in the pipeline, other big game worlds – you can actually see me in some footage that was leaked a couple of months ago,” he says.
The advert didn’t go down well with Rockstar owner Take-Two, which was presumably behind its removal “in response to a report by the copyright owner”.
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In one of the games industry’s most high-profile data leaks, more than an hour of GTA 6 development footage was published online in September by an anonymous user who claimed to have obtained it via an internal Rockstar Slack channel.
Rockstar and Take-Two have both since claimed that the leak won’t impact the game’s development.
A 17-year-old reportedly arrested on suspicion of hacking Rockstar pleaded not guilty to charges of computer misuse during a September hearing at a
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