Take-Two Interactive has spent years taking down Grand Theft Auto mods that rebuild classic titles in newer engines. Revolution Team, the Russian modding group behind the defunct GTA Vice City Nextgen Edition, knows this better than most. So when the team released a new gameplay progress video for its upcoming GTA San Andreas Nextgen Edition mod, it came with a detail that has the internet equal parts amused and impressed: a fake Sora AI watermark plastered over the footage.
The idea is as clever as it is absurd. By making the gameplay video look like it was generated by OpenAI's Sora, the team is essentially daring Take-Two to file a copyright claim against what it's claiming as AI content.
It's a legal gray area wrapped in a joke, and it might just work.
For those unfamiliar, Revolution Team announced GTA San Andreas Nextgen Edition back in December 2025, shortly after calling its Vice City Nextgen Edition project complete. That earlier mod, which rebuilt Grand Theft Auto: Vice City from the ground up inside Grand Theft Auto IV's RAGE engine with working missions, cutscenes, and original cheats, was a genuine passion project that took years to complete. It was also the subject of a DMCA takedown from Take-Two, which forced the team to stop publicly distributing the mod. By the time the dust settled, GTA Vice City: Next-Gen Edition had already found its audience through alternative channels, but the message from Take-Two was clear.
The new project is even more ambitious. GTA San Andreas Nextgen Edition will port the entirety of Rockstar's 2004 classic into Grand Theft Auto V's iteration of the RAGE engine. Every story mission, side activity, and the sprawling three-city map of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas covering Los Santos, San Fierro, and Las Venturas is being rebuilt. The jump from GTA IV's engine to GTA V's is significant, giving the modders access to better lighting, physics, and handling systems than what they had to work with on the Vice City project.
Revolution Team has stated from the outset that it would share details "more cautiously" compared to the Vice City mod's development. Given that Take-Two had already issued takedowns against Vice City: Next-Gen Edition and has a documented history of going after remaster-style mods, the modders know exactly what they're up against.
Take-Two's copyright policy explicitly prohibits "porting existing game content to a platform or game engine where it is not otherwise officially available," which is where the Sora watermark stunt becomes equal parts comedy and ingenuity.
It's a tactical decision born from years of dealing with Take-Two's legal team.
