GTA Vice City Was Supposed To Be A GTA 3 Mission Pack
GTA Vice City was never meant to be a standalone game, instead it was originally planned to be a mission pack for GTA 3
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According to former Rockstar North technical director Obbe Vermeij, what became GTA Vice City was planned to be a mission pack for GTA 3.
Originally it was supposed to be a mission pack to [GTA 3],” he said via his blog.
“This was quite far into the project. (maybe 6 months or so).”
The game’s development, Vermeij says, didn’t feature “many code changes” from GTA 3. Instead, most of the work was done on creating a brand new city for players as well as new missions to do.
“The artists and level designers used the [GTA 3] code base for a while until the programmers were available to make code changes,” he said.
Despite GTA Vice City being a success for Rockstar, Vermeij says that work on the game was “more stressful” than that of GTA 3 because of the prior game’s success and the high expectations on the new game.
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