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: Players could find and use a variety of weapons, including pistols, machine guns, rocket launchers, and flamethrowers to fight off both rival gangs and the police.

The game actually began as a racing title called . Development shifted after a glitch caused police cars to aggressively ram the player instead of just pulling them over; playtesters found this chaotic behavior so fun that the team rebuilt the game around it.

A standout feature of the 1997 original is its pioneering open-world "living city" gameplay , which offered unprecedented player agency for its time. Unlike the linear mission structures common in the late 90s, the game dropped players into a top-down sandbox where they could freely choose how to earn points—whether by completing criminal contracts or causing freestyle mayhem. Key Game Features

: The game introduced Liberty City (New York), San Andreas (San Francisco), and Vice City (Miami). These settings laid the foundation for the entire franchise's future.