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Re:GTA III and Vice City fully reverse engineered: re3 by Hamuko on Sunday February 14, 2021 @01:02PM (#26134502)
Guess it was good market research.

Now GTA V / GTA Online made half a billion dollars in 2019, six years after it was released.

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Re:GTA III and Vice City fully reverse engineered: re3 by Stevvo on Monday February 15, 2021 @02:03AM (#26139954)
Definitely. Early GTA Online was heavily inspired by MTA game modes.

For example, the races on crazy roads floating in the sky was a hallmark of MTA. It's far too abstract to think R* came up with that idea independently of the many years of prior art in MTA.

It's a shame they only copied the game modes and not the architecture, as GTA Online's biggest downfall is the P2P networking.

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