On October 1, 2013, GTA Online was released on PS3 and Xbox 360 as a free add-on to the fifth part of the series. But a similar project was conceived by Rockstar back in the early 2000s. Initially, multiplayer could have appeared in GTA 3. And we are not talking about simple shootouts between players, but about a full-fledged gangster RPG with skill upgrades. This is evidenced by the design documents of the early parts of Grand Theft Auto, which recently appeared online. We analyzed them and are ready to tell you what online GTA would have turned out like if it had been released in 2001.