200 fascinating things about GTA series (Rockstar) you didn’t know

Today we are presenting you 200 facts about the GTA series you may be unaware of.

200 Facts About GTA Series (Rockstar)

1. Failing a mission for several times gives you a slightly different voice lines during the pre mission briefing (GTA V)
2. GTA IV was the first game in the Grand Theft Auto series that introduced the ragdoll physics.
3. The city of San Fierro in GTA San Andreas shows signs of a recent earthquake.
4. Various radio news reports confirm that a quake had recently taken place and it can be over heard during the gameplay
5. At night if the player looks up in the sky there are stars that form the letter R in reference to Rockstar Games logo. (GTA San Andreas)
6. There is a Black Coloured Washington car, the only one which you’ll find in GTA behind the Love Fist corner where you get to meet the Psycho Killer.
7. Michael’s wife, Amanda can be found on the online dating site HUSHMUSH.COM
8. The mouse cursor in GTA V internet is actually a middle finger
9. GTA 3 was set to release in 2001 but because of the terrorist attacks within America on September 11 2001, Rockstar had to make changes in the game.
10. Though according to rockstar only 1% of the game was cut.
11. The Pole Position Club has a secret room towards the extreme right which houses a strip club.
12. The Ice-Cream factory actually sells cocaine. It is just a front to cover the illegitimate business of Tommy.
13. After the LifeInvader mission, when you go to return the clothes, the clerk asks you how the interview went.
14. GTA IV has estimated more than 50,000 voice lines.
15. There were no children in GTA Vice City
16. You will get money if you will destroy the police helicopter. in GTA VC
17. An outstanding 14 percent of men within the UK admitted that they will call off sick during the launch of GTA 5.
18. The record for speed running GTA 3 is susprsingly 1 hour
19. Originally GTA was supposed to be a simple cops and robbers game, but the developers thought of adding a open world and a long and interesting plot to keep things spicy.
20. The logos of Vice City International Airport and Miami international Airport are same.
21. If you fire in the role of Franklin or Trevor at Michael’s villa with heavy guns (such as rocket or grenade launchers), he sends you an evil text message asking you to stop as soon as possible.
22. Friends of Michael, Trevor and Franklin usually react with disgust to photos of your hunting trophies.
23. First Version of GTA was released in 1997.
24. Never steals a store more than once in GTA V
25. The shopkeeper will recognize you next time you go to steal and may call the police (GTA V)
26. On the beach in Los Santos you will meet bodybuilders who work hard for their muscles. If you get too close to them, they threaten you.
27. In lawsuits it was claimed that the personalities of the celebrities had been depicted without their permission or inappropriately.
28. You can walk under water and explore the sea bed in GTA San Andreas
29. You will start receiving phone calls for returning money once you leave casino in GTA San Andreas
30. Tennis is exhausting – also for Michael’s wife Amanda.
31. After an exhausting match and a subsequent visit to the bar, her mascara was lost which shows the level of detail in the game. (GTA V)
32. There is a billboard that says “See you in Miami!” hinting at where the next game would take place: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, based on Miami.
33. Inside of the TW@ Internet Cafe, there are computers on the first floor displaying screenshots of GTA and GTA 2.
34. In Staunton Island, there is a store with a banner above its entrance. The banner is a Rockstar Games’ self-advertisement banner as it reads “GTA 3 OUT NOW” and “WWW.ROCKSTARGAMES.COM.”
35. The series has been critically acclaimed and commercially successful, having shipped more than 280 million units0
36. In 2006, Grand Theft Auto was featured in a list of British design icons in the Great British Design Quest organised by the BBC
37. The Grand Theft Auto series is split into separate fictional universes, named after the primary level of graphics capability used in each era
38. The PlayStation 2 also featured three installments of the main series
39. Grand Theft Auto has spawned numerous additional games and expansion packs.
40. The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto, a book written by David Kushner chronicling the development of the series, was published in 2012
41. Each game in this series allows the player to take on the role of a criminal in the big city.
42. Typically an individual who plans to rise through the ranks of organised crime through the course of the game.
43. Grand Theft Auto III and subsequent games have more voice acting and radio stations
44. San Andreas was based mostly on San Francisco and parts of Las Vegas.
45. Grand Theft Auto was condemned in Britain, Germany, and France due to its “extreme violence”, and Brazil banned it outright
46. The sixth game in the series, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, also came under criticism.

47. One mission in particular, in which the player must instigate a gang war between Haitian and Cuban gangs, has been controversial.
48. Haitian and Cuban anti-defamation groups criticised the game.
49. The team organised field research trips with tour guides and architectural historians and captured around 250,000 photos and hours of video footage during these visits.
50. All settings in the series from GTA III onwards are located on one or multiple islands, close to one another, at an undetermined distance from the US mainland.
51. While free-roaming the game world, players may engage in context-specific activities such as scuba diving and BASE jumping.
52. The game was first announced by Rockstar Games on 25 October 2011 (GTA V)
53. Take-Two Interactive’s chief financial officer, Lainie Goldstein, revealed that Microsoft was paying a total of $50 million for the first two episodes. (GTA 4)
54. Grand Theft Auto V received multiple nominations and awards from gaming publications.
55. Before release, it won Most Anticipated Game at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards.
56. Parental advisory group Common Sense Media issued a public warning about the expansion pack.
57. Specifically due to a full-frontal male nudity scene during the cutscene.
58. In 2006, Grand Theft Auto was featured in a list of British design icons in the Great British Design Quest organised by the BBC and the Design Museum.
59. The 2008 title Grand Theft Auto IV focused on realism and detail, removing various customisation features, while adding an online multiplayer mode.
60. Grand Theft Auto V for PC also brings the debut of the Rockstar Editor, a powerful suite of creative tools to quickly and easily capture
61. You can also edit and share game footage from within Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online.
62. The game offers players a huge range of PC-specific customization options, including over 25 separate configurable settings.
63. They are for texture quality, shaders, tessellation, anti-aliasing and more, as well as support and extensive customization for mouse and keyboard controls.

64. Grand Theft Auto V for PC offers players the option to explore the award-winning world of Los Santos and Blaine County in resolutions of up to 4k and beyond, as well as the chance to experience the game running at 60 frames per second.
65. San Andreas was criticised initially due to its “gangster” elements, which include drugs, prostitution, and murder.
66. Later it received additional criticism after the discovery of an interactive sex minigame, nicknamed Hot Coffee
67. Initially cut from the game, it remained in the game code, and was discovered in both the console and Windows versions of the game.
68. Several celebrities have sued Rockstar Games and/or Take-Two Interactive for purportedly violating their intellectual property or personality rights, including hip-hop artist Daz Dillinger, Karen Gravano of Mob Wives, and actress Lindsay Lohan.
69. Ever since the release of Grand Theft Auto III in 2001, the Grand Theft Auto series has been a major success
70. The controversies flared up again with Grand Theft Auto III, since the 3D graphics made the violence more realistic, and players could pay for the services of prostitutes to restore their health, and if they wished, kill them to get some of their money back
71. The second entry in the franchise, Grand Theft Auto 2
72. A planned film adaptation of the series is unable to proceed because of a lawsuit
73. Influenced by the earlier game Turbo Esprit, the cities of the games can be roamed freely at any point in the game
74. Criminal activities in Grand Theft Auto games do not go unnoticed by the police.
75. In total, there are 212 different vehicles in the game compared to approximately 60 in Grand Theft Auto III (GTA San Andreas)
76. Battles with enemy gangs are prompted whenever the player ventures into enemy territory and kills at least three gang members
77. According to The Guinness World Records 2008 and 2009 Gamer’s Edition, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas is the most controversial video game series in history
78. An original design document, dated 22 March 1995, was posted online by Mike Dailly on 22 March 2011.
79. According to the original design document, the introduction to Grand Theft Auto is a pre-drawn/rendered animation
80. Grand Theft Auto has seven “radio stations”
81. The team spent time “solving [the] riddle” of a speaking protagonist
82. The game features 8,000 lines of recorded dialogue, four times the amount in Grand Theft Auto III. (GTA VC)
83. The interplay between Tommy Vercetti and Lance Vance was crafted to be similar to the relationship of Miami Vice’s Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs.
84. Upon release, Vice City received critical acclaim, with praise particularly
85. Grand Theft Auto Advance received “mixed or average” reviews
86. The game is played from a top-down perspective, similar to the style used in Grand Theft Auto and Grand Theft Auto 2.
87. The game does not feature radio channels
88. Despite this, radio stations from Grand Theft Auto III still appear on billboards around Liberty City
89. The expansion of GTA LondON was generally seen as having very little in the way of improvement upon the original Grand Theft Auto.
90. The 2008 title Grand Theft Auto IV focused on realism and detail, removing various customisation features
91. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 was developed by Rockstar Games through its Rockstar Canada studio.

92. The graphics are highly pixelated and scrolling isn’t the smoothest
93. Players could use this service to upload their gameplay statistics (GTA Chinatown)
94. Vice City Stories takes place in 1984 within Vice City
95. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories has received “generally favorable” reviews from critics
96. In GTAV you can switch character anytime
97. A pedestrian bears a striking resemblance to Sharon Stone’s character Catherine Tramell in the film “Basic Instinct”.
98. The film came out the same year that the game takes place in, 1992. (GTA SA)
99. San Fierro was originally named “San Fiero”. This can be seen on unused textures within the game’s files.
100. Pictures of characters from Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City are used on the playing cards in the Video Poker minigame.
101. There are unused files for the M249E2 SAW which was originally intended to be included in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, but was never actually in it. They can be found in the PS2 version.
102. GTA Vice City is loosely based on the movie Scarface. The Diaz mansion has striking resemblance to that of Tony Montana’s mansion from the movie
103. In earlier versions of the game, Umberto Robina’s “Trojan Voodoo” mission’s intro cutscene features dialogue mentioning the word “Haitians”.
104. However, in 3.0 release this was modified to remove any mentions of the word “Haitian” to avoid any controversies
105. The game uses a Google Street View-style system. (GTA V)
106. Auto-aim isn’t as rigid at GTA IV but there will be variable options, including free aim, soft lock and hard lock.
107. It’s staggering to imagine that game worlds can approach anywhere near this size, and it gets even more impressive when you compare it to real-world locations.
108. The map size of GTA V is roughly 50 sq miles
109. In the mission “Autocide”, in which Tommy must kill undercover members of a European gang
110. All of the targets are named after characters in rival sandbox games.
111. There are over 8,000 lines of recorded dialogues which is 4 times that in it’s predecessor Grand Theft Auto III (GTA VC)
112. Till date the game has sold over 20 million copies worldwide
113. The voice of Tommy Vercetti, game’s protagonist, was given by Ray Liotta
114. Danville, Illinois, U.S. Ned Luke (born October 4, 1958) is an American actor.
115. He served as the voice and physical actor of Michael De Santa in the 2013 acclaimed video game Grand Theft Auto V
116. By tattoos, the crazy guy trevor expresses his mourning for the death of Michael.
117. Lemmings was the first game that made DMA Design (from 2001: Rockstar North) really famous.
118. Grand Theft Auto caused controversy back then, as the player could run over pedestrians and mess with the police.
119. The first concept for the GTA forerunner Race ‘n’ Chase was a cardboard model.
120. The police in Grand Theft Auto games have never been known for being particularly subtle.
121. The Hare Krishna monks from GTA 1: These orange-colored weirdos ran singing and single file through the city.
122. Liberty City was already included in the first Grand Theft Auto and its shape is reminiscent of the real Manhattan.
123. This is what the advertisement for the first GTA looked like.
124. Cool Britannia: GTA and the Union Jack make an unusual combination.
125. In night mode, GTA 2 was sometimes a little too gloomy. Explosions and flames brightened the scene.
126. The movie Grand Theft Auto (1977) has absolutely nothing to do with the games and didn’t even serve as inspiration.
127. The PC version of GTA 2 had a menu option with which the entire game could be switched from day to night.
128. As a result, the chic new lighting effects came into their own, but you couldn’t see much without the gamma control fully turned up.
129. Anywhere City was color-coded, as were the various gangs.
130. Yeah, baby: a whole conga troop of Elvis impersonators gets caught here.
131. In the multifunctional service stations of GTA 2 you could not only have your car repaired and repainted, but also arm it with machine guns and explosives.
132. The developers were no longer called DMA Design, but were integrated into the Rockstar group: as Rockstar North
133. The protagonist of the first 3D GTA had no speaking role and only carried out tasks in silence.
134. The internet cafe with the two computers is in the Torrington district.
135. He is covered with tasks by all the other characters in the game and sent from pillar to post.
136. Grand Theft Auto, the title of the series, is the name for a criminal offense in the USA: »Serious car theft«.
137. GTA 3 should appear in 2001; the release date was delayed by the events of September 11th
138. The bridge in Liberty City, which was actually called “West Port Bridge” during development
139. Jack Thompson tried to sue Rockstar Games with a class action suit for damages totaling $ 246 million – unsuccessfully.
140. Rockstar’s attorneys invoked the constitutional right to freedom of expression and won the case
141. The Liberty City Fire Department’s motto in GTA 3 is “Putting Out Since 1999”.
142. The main character of GTA: San Andreas , the gangster Carl “CJ” Johnson, had the most options of all GTA protagonists to change his appearance.
143. In addition, Carl was the only one who was given some kind of role-play system
144. every activity, from driving to jogging, swimming or shooting, was linked to an experience bar and could be trained
145. Officer Frank Tenpenny, the corrupt cop, partner of the no less corrupt Officer Pulaski, grinds the protagonist of GTA San Andreas
146. In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the badass cop is personally set to music by none other than head badass Samuel L. Jackson
147. The moon in GTA San Andreas has strange properties – most of all, it seems closer than commonly believed
148. Try targeting the moon with a sniper rifle and fire a few shots – the satellite will change its size with every hit.
149. All vehicles, weapons and activities in GTA: San Andreas are tied to a skill system
150. The word “fuck” appears in the cutscenes and dialogues of GTA: San Andreas a total of 365 times.
151. In chance encounters with passers-by and the soundtrack, it can of course be heard much more often
152. The “local mountain” of the city of San Andreas is Mount Chiliad
153. Ammu-Nation: The gun shops adjust their offer according to the game progress of the player. At the beginning of a gangster career you can only buy light handguns.
154. GTA: San Andreas was four times the size of GTA 3.
155. The GTA cities are much more packed with details.
156. A villain from the film served as a model for Niko Bellic, the Serbian immigrant and main character of GTA 4.
157. The Internet presence of the Epsilon program on the in-game GTA Internet is a parody of sects in the Scientology style.
158. WKTT (We Know The Truth Radio) is a talk radio station in GTA 4 that lets a number of listeners talk live over the phone about the state of the nation and their own problems.
159. In GTA 4, Niko Bellic can arrange to meet different women for romantic hours.
160. After a date with the spoiled Alex Chilton, take a look at www.blogsnobs.org on the in-game internet: Alex runs a blog there and will publish all the details of her dates with Niko there.
161. No buttons, no reception, no storage space – all just ego. This is how the strangely shaped iFruit phone is advertised in GTA 4.In GTA 4, Petrus has his own extension number
162. In GTA 4, Petrus has his own extension number
163. In an episode of “Family Guy,” Peter Griffin aims to improve his driving skills in real life by playing Grand Theft Auto for hours.
164. Bonus: The three trigger-happy bully patriots who fly their spaceship through the galaxy and protect the American people from evil aliens, terrorists and alien terrorists wear crude but obvious copies of the Mjolnir suit from Halo
165. GTA 4 even contains a few hours of in-game television program on various channels
166. Which Niko can while away the time in his apartments.
167. In GTA 4, driving a car while drunk is extremely difficult. Just like in real life.
168. As long as Niko has alcohol in his blood, the screen is blurred and driving straight ahead is impossible.
169. Karl Lagerfeld would like to be a real creep.
170. German fashion czar Karl Lagerfeld himself plays the radio DJ of the radio station K109 in GTA 4.
171. It’s not the Statue of Liberty, but the symbol of Liberty City: the “Statue of Happiness”.
172. Anyone circling her in a helicopter discovers further details: Her face looks suspiciously like Hillary Clinton’s, and she is holding a coffee mug instead of a torch.
173. If you are looking for an alternative open-world game in which it is a bit more intense than in the meanwhile quite good and pompous GTA, you should try the Saints Row series .
174. If you would like to get an insight into the creative process and the background story of the GTA series, there is no way around the book ” Jacked “.
175. The book tells the story of the two, and that of their life’s work
176. GTA 5 takes place again in San Andreas, an alternative Los Angeles.
177. The plot will not focus on one character – instead, the player will be able to switch freely between three actors.
178. Each of the three has their own missions, friends and skills.
179. After the release of the first GTA V trailer, shares in Rockstar’s parent company Take Two Interactive increased in value by a whopping seven percent.
180. Before the game was officially announced, it was registered as “Project Rush” under the auspices of THQ
181. In October 2011, Rockstar Games Announces Grand Theft Auto V ‘s Twitter by putting through a link to the home page, a style look of the game was changed accordingly.
182. Two collectible versions of Grand Theft Auto V have been released: Special Edition and Collector’s Edition .

183. In December 2014, in a few Australian retail chains, the game was withdrawn from sale due to a customer online appeal criticizing the game’s violence against women.
184. Niko Bellic is the main character of the game. He has come from Eastern Europe to Liberty City in search of a better life
185. Roman Bellic is Niko’s cousin (their fathers were brothers) who had left Eastern Europe for the United States before Niko
186. Grand Theft Auto IV has 19 radio channels, three of which are talk channels.
187. One day of the game takes 48 minutes of real time in GTA 4
188. The release was postponed to December 3, 2008 on the PC platform
189. Throughout the series, there are Easter eggs in which other open world series are mocked.
190. Rockstar took to the streets and found real gang members to come in and provide their own voices.
191. In the Ocean Beach area of Vice City, there is an apartment building with a pink roof. On the south side of the building is room 3C, which is empty, except for a chainsaw and blood stains in the bathroom.
192. Prostitutes will sometimes have phone calls about how they need to pay off student loans or rent.
193. GTA V took over one thousand people to create in a span of 5 years.
194. If you punch someone wearing glasses, they will fly off their face.
195. Steven Ogg, who plays Trevor Philips in GTA 5, would record his lines in underwear to help stay in character
196. She is not Lindsay Lohan but Shelby Welinder.
197. The moon phases change over the days and weeks.
198. If you follow female NPCs for a while, they’ll get confused and try to walk faster or look over their shoulder.
199. There’s an NPC walking around in GTA San Andreas, he is wearing a black and yellow shirt that Cuba Gooding wore in Boyz in tha Hood.
200. Planes were cut from GTA IV because it wasn’t appropriate after 9/11. Fearing players would do the obvious.