On its twentieth anniversary, GTA San Andreas extinct shares the beginning-world turned initially cut up into three maps: “Reminiscence turned very tight on the PS2”

Rockstar Video games launched its seminal crimathon Gigantic Theft Auto: San Andreas exactly two whole many years in the past – October 26, 2004, one other lifetime – and one extinct developer has decided to allotment a exiguous little little bit of acknowledged tidbit referring to the beginning-world sport in celebrations of its twentieth birthday.

The ever-chatty Obbe Vermeij, who turned the ground-breaking studio’s technical lead for years, just lately jumped on social media to current that the primary draft view for San Andreas’ world turned fairly completely completely different. 

“The unique plan was for the three cities to be on separate maps,” Vermeij tweeted earlier on the current time, previous to noting that the primary two GTAs had furthermore been structured throughout the similar method, albeit from a high-down angle. “The participant would journey between the cities utilizing trains and planes.”

Vermeij explains that “reminiscence was very tight on the PS2,” so splitting the draw into three completely completely different sections meant each metropolis’s skyline objects put now not want strained the console’s already strained reminiscence. “It could additionally make it simpler to have completely different police/ambulance/firetrucks for every metropolis. Completely different pickups, climate sorts and many others. It could even be simpler to include the participant till it was time for the subsequent metropolis. It could additionally make it simpler to prepare the fashions on the DVD city-by-city which might assist the streaming.”