Game ReactionCam with Lockingĭebug:- Cam Choice4. Uses Locking Button LeftShoulder 1.ĭebug:- Cam Choice3. No Locking, used as game defaultĭebug:- Cam Choice2. In San Andreas, it is indeed confirmed that Claude is the GTA3 player character's name.ĭebug Text Debug:- Cam Choice1. This could be a reference to Claude Speed, who was the protagonist in Grand Theft Auto 2, and if so, they likely intended to give the player character in this game, who is normally nameless, the same identity. The very first string found within the game's text file. Unused Text Can the Real Claude Please Stand Up? Claude
Additionally, no mission passed music cue is present yet. After delivering both girls back to Luigi's, the mission is passed and you are rewarded $1500 as in the final (though this text isn't displayed properly). Trixie is set to spawn near Saint Mark's Bistro and uses one of the generic pedestrian models. As the source file is from a much earlier point in development, Misty's coordinates do not match up with the location of the hospital in the final game. The objective is also different, telling you to not only pick up Misty from the hospital as you do in the final mission but a second girl named Trixie from "Reverend Flannery's" as well. The mission doesn't seem to have a proper motion captured cutscene or any voice acting yet. Pick up the girls and return them to Luigi, who rewards you handsomely." and that it was ".for you to familiarize yourself with game controls and city layout.", though this version of the mission doesn't have any kind of tutorial implemented. This inaugural mission involves Luigi, pimp and owner of a seedy strip club called Sex Club Heaven, getting you to pick up two "ladies of the night", one from a shop and the other from a clinic. In issue 93 (July 2001) of HYPER magazine, Leslie Benzies mentioned that ".the first could be looked upon as a training one. The iOS port of the game contained mission source files, one of which seems to be an earlier version of Luigi‘s Girls.
This, along with the fact that all of these leftovers can only be found within the Windows version of the game, suggests that FPS mode was a concept meant for the prequel instead.
Fortunately, the PC version still has all of the animations made up until then, so we can witness them in all of their glory:
Implementing this feature wasn't tried again until Grand Theft Auto V, and only for the next-gen versions as not even the 7th-Generation consoles could handle it. #ğPS anims loaded (ie available):ğPS_PUNCH, FPS_BAT, FPS_UZI, FPS_PUMP, FPS_AK, FPS_M16, FPS_ROCKET # X:đst person version of anim (using orig HGUN & PUMP cause they work better at mo') 6.1 Can the Real Claude Please Stand Up?Īccording to leftover data, first-person was once going to extend beyond a simple crosshair and into a fully-fledged mode with animations and all! Apparently the feature didn't make it very far, as not all of the necessary animations were completed, and comments in the weapon stats file indicates that it was only in the testing stages before getting axed:.
Grand Theft Auto III is the entry where the series went into a 3D third-person view and really threw GTA into mainstream media, laying down the foundations for the rest of the series as well as defining the wicked sense of humor that would enrage lawyers for years to come. This game has a hidden developer message.