GTA Online, the multiplayer mode for GTA 5, is a gigantic success. It is helped the sport stay popular–and profitable for Rockstar and Take-Two–in the ten+ years since GTA 5 initially got here out in 2013. As it seems, Rockstar Video games wished the GTA collection to have a multiplayer mode a lot, a lot earlier.
Obbe Vermeij, who labored on GTA 3, Vice Metropolis, San Andreas, and GTA 4, advised GamesRadar that Rockstar’s groups wished to include a web-based mode “for the reason that GTA 3 days.”
“For GTA 3, I prototyped a easy deathmatch. Gamers may kill one another, drag one another from automobiles, and respawn across the metropolis,” he mentioned.
This confirmed promise within the growth course of, Vermeij mentioned, however Rockstar merely “ran out of time.”
“We would have liked lobbies, scripts working over [the] community and so forth. We determined to chop the hassle,” he mentioned.
Rockstar tried to construct a web-based multiplayer mode for Vice Metropolis, however it was lower as properly on account of growth deadlines, Vermeij mentioned. For San Andreas, Rockstar by no means even tried, with Vermeij saying it was “not well worth the effort.”
2008’s GTA 4 introduced a multiplayer mode, with gamers in a position to roam by means of the sport’s open world collectively and duke it out. GTA 5’s GTA Online mode, although, elevated issues to a brand new degree. The sport is up to date weekly and simply acquired its newest massive enlargement, Cash Fronts, this week.
GTA 6 is predicted to have a web-based ingredient, too, however Rockstar has solely talked concerning the sport’s single-player ingredient for now. We additionally have no idea what’s going to occur to the present model of GTA Online when GTA 6 launches, however Take-Two’s high boss has urged it may nonetheless be supported after GTA 6 launches.