The proximity could be little uncomfortable, when you think about it. One of the best games ever-which had players engaging in all kinds of criminal mayhem in a virtual homage to New York City-came out only a short while after the greatest tragedy to happen on American soil. That rawness might have something to do with the explosions happening against a urban back drop. The biggest change was the US packaging which remixed the previous packaging into what became our signature style – because the previous packaging was, we felt, too raw after 9/11. We removed only one mission that referenced terrorists and changed a few other cosmetic details – car details, a couple of comments, lines of radio dialogue etc – the game came out a very short time later. Rockstar says that the game wound up being only '1% different': Noire runs down how the terrorist attacks on the United States affected the PS2 classic.

In the latest look back at the creation of GTA III, the New York City-based publisher of Red Dead Redemption and L.A. Some things did change about GTA III after 9/11-changes Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser noted late last year-but not as much as conspiracy theorists would have you believe. In the decade-plus since GTA III came out, rumors have abounded: cut sequences where planes hit buildings, a supposedly removed pair of Twin Towers-style skyscrapers and the erasure of children and school buses. It's long been a subject of fan speculation as to how much Rockstar Games changed Grand Theft Auto III in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. GTA master audio tapes almost lost during Superstorm Sandy If you're curious if he said anything about Grand Theft Auto V, he did, but only to say the game was due in the coming spring. Cause I was like 'I'm not going to let this stuff get ruined.''Īsked if he was storing the recordings elsewhere, Lazlow said he'd learned he shouldn't 'keep a lot of amazing masters from some epic video games on the ground floor near a sand bar.' 'I started freaking out and grabbing, just boxes of masters and putting it up on the second floor. 'That's where GTA 3, Vice City, San Andreas, all those masters like the full recordings with Axl Rose and everything. 'My studio is on the ground floor,' he said on the show. Get the GTA: San Andreas master recording. Get the GTA: Vice City master recording.ģ.

In a visit to the Opie & Anthony Show last week, where Lazlow's a regular guest, he related what his priorities were as the storm came barreling in.Ģ.

but it was as Hurricane Sandy came barreling in late October, and Long Island was whomped particularly bad by the stormacane, or whatever it was at that stage. Or, well, a barrier island off Long Island. He also, evidently, has all of the master copies of the recordings. Lazlow Jones co-wrote the radio scripts for all the Grand Theft Auto games (save Chinatown Wars, of course) going back to III, and appears as a radio personality in all of the games.

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