Rockstar Games discovered documents show why GTA 3 was meant to be a success
10 October 2021
jdayke
New video on YouTube-channel GTA Series Videos shines light on newly discovered Rockstar Games game design documents. The vid is based on authentic GTA 3 Design Document dated December 29th, 2000 what the studio had used to prepare for E3 2001.
Let's take a look what Rockstar were planning to do with GTA 3.
Rockstar underlined that players are interested in:
Plans
The game was set in a modern era for players to immerse faster. It was stated that the game should be developed for wider audience and not only for nerds. Rockstar didn't want to make players to kill innocent people but rather only criminals.
Developers was interested in implementing:
The developers cut the following weapons:
And yeah, Claude was mute from the start.
Some big features that were cut:
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