The whole GTA III design documents have leaked
, by Thibaut
Albeit released in October 2001, Grand Theft Auto III is back in the news today. A GTAForums user has shared the complete design documents for the title.
This is the perfect opportunity to learn a little more about what Rockstar Games intended to do for the first 3D entry in the franchise. It was supposed to feature an online mode, a faction system, some skills to unlock, properties to buy and much more. Many of these features ended up being included in the following games.
What's more, the documents reveal that the game was supposed to be developed by Barking Dog Studios, a company that ended up being bought out in August 2002 by Take-Two Interactive and later became Rockstar Vancouver. All files are availabled for download here. You know the drill, take care whenever downloading these, as they are not secure.
Obbe Vermeij, who was Technical Director at Rockstar Games until 2009, has already pointed out that these design documents were shared in the past. There's a long video on the GTA Series Videos channel looking back at all the details.
Vermeji says he worked on including death matches in GTA III, where players would have stolen cars and killed each other to earn some points. Alas, such a mode was deemed to ambitious for the time, and ended up scrapped.
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Source: archive.org