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.

Grand Theft Auto Vice City Nextgen Edition is a large-scale modification by the Russian team of enthusiasts, Revolution Team, offering a different vision of the remaster of the classic 2002 game. The modders transferred Vice City onto the «rails» of the fourth part and offered fans an unprecedented level of visual and gameplay enhancements that Grove Street Games could not provide in the official remaster, The Definitive Edition. Despite numerous challenges and legal battles with Take-Two Interactive, the publisher of the Grand Theft Auto series, the modification was released at the end of January 2025. In this review, we will look at the history of the modification, its improvements, and answer the main question of why the unofficial remaster looks and plays better than the official GTA: The Trilogy — The Definitive Edition.

On January 20, two early builds of Liberty City Stories leaked on 4chan. This is a prequel to GTA 3, which was released on October 25, 2005 on PlayStation Portable. We have studied them and are eager to share information about what the game was like at various stages of development.

Recently, an interesting topic was launched on Reddit — they showed the difference between girls in bikinis from Vice City, the fifth and sixth parts of the series. We decided to develop it, but not limit ourselves to just sunbathing beauties, but compare the main and secondary characters, as well as random NPCs.

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.