Analysis of the GTA: Liberty City Stories archive files from May 29, 2005

We continue to analyze early versions of the GTA series games. In this article, you will analyze the Liberty City Stories files, which date back to May 2005. Of course, this is not a fully playable build, but it allows you to understand how the development of the prequel to the third part was carried out.

Many tasks in the game initially had completely different names. Full list:

On the left you see the title from the archive with files, on the right — from the final version of Liberty City Stories.

A similar situation with vehicles. Many of them were renamed. As in the previous section, on the left we indicated the name from the leaked files, and on the right — from the release version of the game.

The archive mentions cars that were originally planned to be added to the game. But they did not make it into the final version of Liberty City Stories.

I would like to highlight the cars and helicopters that have migrated from other parts of the GTA series. In addition, there are original vehicles that were designed specifically for the story of Toni Cipriani. You will not be able to find them in the open world of the game, but you can call them using the debug mode, also known as debug mode. However, not all models work as they should — some of them are empty bodies.

The Bus, the Dodo plane with clipped wings, the Ghost speedboat, the Helicopter, and the Manana car were transferred from the third GTA to Liberty City Stories.

The RC Goblin remote-controlled helicopter from that very mission and its RC Raider counterpart with a different paint job, the Top Fun van, as well as the VCN Maverick and Police Maverick helicopters arrived straight from Vice City.

Of the original models, one can note the two-door Tommy, which is based on the Morris Mini passenger car with serious differences in design.

And in the mission The Made Man, it was planned to use a Sentinel with bullet holes and blood on the windshield. It was called MafiaBlood. In the game itself, it was replaced with a regular version of this car, familiar from GTA 3.

The developers planned to add Franco Forelli to the game, as well as alternative models for Ned Burner, who was called Father Ned, and for Liberty City Mayor Roger Hall. However, in the end they decided to do without them.

A lot of changes are related to the appearance of familiar characters.

For example, the main character Toni Cipriani's suit was initially close to what you saw in GTA 3.

Vincenzo Cilli's face in the early version was thinner than on release. In addition, the color of the tie is slightly different.

Donald Love's model also had a different tie color — in the leaked files it was light green, not dark blue. He also had an additional look that looked more like a homeless person, with holes in his pants and a dirty jacket. Perhaps it was planned that he would appear in this form after bankruptcy.

Liberty City Mayor Miles O'Donovan initially looked different. He was young and tanned, and a smug grin adorned his face. His tie was also different — like Donald Love's, it was light green, not black.

Ray Machowski in the preliminary version of the game wears a green cloak and a red tie.

The defector Joseph Daniel O'Toole, who betrayed Sindacco and went over to Leone's side, initially wore glasses with blue frames and a gold cross instead of a medallion. The character also has other models — with a strict suit and an outfit for sexual pleasures.

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