Things continue to be very up and down in the GTA modding world, with the latest instance of this involving Project Vice, the GTA 5 modding project which had re-created a version of GTA 6‘s map in that game. Its creator, YouTuber Dark Space, has opted to pull the latest set of download links to it offline, in response to a Take-Two copyright claim on a YouTube video they’d made showcasing their work.
Dark Space began working on the mod last year, was sharing some screens of their progress by January, and released what looked to be the 1.0 version of Project Vice earlier this month. It’s the set of links to download the mod they shared as part of that release that they’ve now gotten rid of.
“Take Two Interactive has copyright claimed and removed my video on the GTA 6 map I made in GTA 5,” Dark Space tweeted yesterday, March 23, referencing their video entitled ‘I finally made a playable GTA 6 map in FiveM and single player’, “I expected something like this could happen. I am surprised they didn’t bother emailing me. I would have taken it down if asked.”
“Take Two Interactive has not contacted me, but rather, they have copyright struck my youtube video down,” they re-emphasised in an announcement on Discord.
In a follow-up YouTube video with the title ‘Take-Two Took Down My Video/Map Project‘, they added: “I’ve also removed the download links to my mod. Even though [Take-Two] didn’t ask me to, but I think it’s smarter to get out in front of them, rather than waiting for their email that will never come.” VG247 has reached out to Rockstar/Take-Two for comment.
It looks like the links Dark Space is refferring to here were the ones that could previously be found in a channel under the community subheading on their Discord server called “project-vice”. Said channel now appears to have been archived or hidden. You can, however, currently still find links to download the mod via Google Drive in the description of a video titled ‘We put Leonida In GTA 5‘ Dark Space put out about it in December 2024. It’s unclear if these are links to older versions of Project Vice.
In response to a Discord user asking them whether the continuation of work on the modding project has now been cancelled, Dark Space responded: “Probably gonna cancel it on my part, but I won’t stop others from taking it and moving on with it.”
Back in January, the YouTuber told IGN they were “always worried” about the possibility of Take-Two action against their modding project, however, they also suggested that they saw what they were doing as being different to other GTA mods which the company has taken action against.
One of those projects was the Liberty City Preservation project mod, which re-created GTA 4’s map in GTA 5 and recieved a “friendly takedown” earlier this year/
