The streets in GTA 3 and Vice City were so clean that the developer Rockstar deliberately filled them with trash. However, he had to remove them from San Andreas.

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A former Rockstar Games employee willingly talks about the series he once helped create grand theft autoprovided us with a curiosity from years ago. This of course relates to Obbe Vermeij, who recently claimed that GTA VI might disappoint players a bit on release day.

This time, Vermeij posted an X on the site. wide range functionIn it He mentions his initiative to add trash to the streets of Liberty City in GTA 3Because the city was so clean.The idea was finally implemented… 4 wasted textures were added to the game. Two of them depict a newspaper, and the other two depict a leaf.

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Although this is not much, it did manage to bring some variety to Liberty City… and as it turned out, to Vice City as well, where Vermeij added the same four textures to GTA: VC. As the developer wrote, after completing the mission “Dildo Dodo”, in which we distributed leaflets throughout the city, the “garbage” texture was replaced with such a paper advertisement.

Not everyone on the team liked the concept of trash, so after losing the discussion with his teammates, Vermeij was unable to introduce it into the then-created group. GTA: San Andreas. However, he managed to implement it in another Rockstar game – Manhunt.

Although creators are not able to implement all of their ideas in the final version of the game, modders can do it for them after the premiere. So players have created special mods that put trash back on the streets. San AndreasTo the author of the entry in question. male One of the users of the X site comments on them, and the latter in turn He saidThat this is his “kind of modification”.