More importantly, it established the concepts that paved the way for GTA V, which has sold more than 150 million copies since its 2013 launch. The first game in the series to cross the eight-digit sales threshold, GTA III transformed a hit into a blockbuster.
And it’s frankly difficult to imagine how these kinds of games would exist at all without GTA III. While ubiquitous in 2021, open-world games simply didn’t exist in the early 2000s. “Suddenly you were in this world, not above it,” Garbut says.
It moved the perspective from a top-down 2D view to an immersive 3D environment. Grand Theft Auto III, released by Rockstar Games on October 22, 2001, changed video game history with one simple shift.
How do you build an entire world out of nothing?įor art director Aaron Garbut, it was as simple as adding a third dimension.
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