Bill Fiore was cast in the role of Darkel, which made it into the pre release version. But for undisclosed reasons, the producers decided not to include him in the final version, which has become the subject of hot debate for fans. The most popular reasons for his absence include: Darkel was going to be a revolutionary street urchin who vowed to bring down the city's economy. Rumour has it, is that many of his missions were based on terrorism and even included an aeroplane explosion. Thus, due to the games releases proximity to the events of [September 11], he was promptly removed from the final version. The final and most popular reason, stems from the fact that Darkel was originally going to give out Rampage esque missions and even had his voice recoreded for this part. Rockstar games then decided that they would like to go back to the original system of giving out rampages as featured in Grand Theft Auto and Grand Theft Auto 2.
Also, Originally the police cars were going to use the NYPD blue and white paint scheme. A few screenshots of them can be seen in the map/poster that comes with the game (the best one is right under the word "Liberty" in the title "Welcome To Liberty City"). It is believed that the police cars were changed to the standard black and white paint scheme to make them not look like the NYPD cars because of the terrorist attacks on the USA of 11 September 2001.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 8 January 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Vice City's map, for me, was always its main drawback, as it is largely flat with grided streets. Andreas was the perfect mix, with grided cities and winding country roads and freeways.
I prefered the plot of III the best, especially the fact that you don't talk, as it always creeps me out when Ray Liotta chimes in with some catchphrase as I'm crushing some grandma's skull.
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 9 January 2006 05:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Greig (treefell), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link
Since this thread started I've been playing SA quite a bit, in fact found two more tags at the weekend. Having lots of fun with the handheld gattling gun and the police choppers, not so much fun for the choppers mind.
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 9 January 2006 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 9 January 2006 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Legend of Tony Balls (Adrian Langston), Monday, 9 January 2006 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― c(''c) (Leee), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 05:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Still can't finish last mission though.
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― antexit (antexit), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― antexit (antexit), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Legend of Tony Balls (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 10:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Legend of Tony Balls (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 10:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
I HATE YOU WITH THE HEAT OF A THOUSAND SUNS AND IF I COULD I WOULD SHOVE A KOMODO DRAGON UP YOUR ANUS UNTIL ITS HEAD CAME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH AND THEN IT WOULD SLOWLY EAT YOU.
xoxo(>")>
― c(''c) (Leee), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 13 January 2006 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Legend of Tony Balls (Adrian Langston), Friday, 13 January 2006 05:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 13 January 2006 05:40 (eighteen years ago) link
The races I struggled with were the short NRG bike one on los santos, if you went too fast up the hill the bike did some crazy things and you'd fall off. And the Freeway one, again on LS, because the car is so fucking awful to drive!
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 13 January 2006 09:16 (eighteen years ago) link
never did beat any of the figure 8s
― kingfish russian bigamist (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 13 January 2006 09:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 13 January 2006 09:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Friday, 13 January 2006 09:51 (eighteen years ago) link
My fondest memories are of GTA3 as it's the one I got most of the way through.
I remember being stuck on a race mission on GTA3 and ended up stealing a fire truck and parking it across the road in front of the other three cars before it started.
My favourite between missions carnage was going up on the roof above the nightclub (Luigi's? The first missions guy) and taking out everything that moved until I ran out of rockets for the helicopters, then jumping off the roof into a swarm of cops and trying to jack a car and make it to the paint and spray.
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 13 January 2006 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 13 January 2006 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― A BOLD CLAM (Adrian Langston), Friday, 13 January 2006 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 13 January 2006 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― A BOLD CLAM (Adrian Langston), Friday, 13 January 2006 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Friday, 13 January 2006 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link
WELL.
I'M NOT CHANGING MINE >:[
― A BOLD CLAM (Adrian Langston), Friday, 13 January 2006 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― c(''c) (Leee), Saturday, 14 January 2006 01:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― c(''c) (Leee), Saturday, 14 January 2006 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 14 January 2006 01:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― A BOLD CLAM (Adrian Langston), Saturday, 14 January 2006 01:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Does anyone else get so frustrated they just switch on cheats (and don't save obviously!) and go mental. It's replaced the rampages I miss so much from GTA2.
Not tried VC or III but never say never etc.
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Saturday, 14 January 2006 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 14 January 2006 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Saturday, 14 January 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 14 January 2006 18:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― c(''c) (Leee), Saturday, 14 January 2006 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link
Steve
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/w/N.W.A.---100-Miles-N-Runnin%27?v=AYzxhi4EyEc
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 20 January 2006 08:12 (eighteen years ago) link