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“We were like stealth and skydiving and all these bikes, articulated lorries - it was just ridiculous.

And of course, the three cities,” Vermeij adds of San Andreas' development.

Carl Johnson rides a motorcycle and fires a submachine gun into the night in GTA: San Andreas.

This significantly changed Rockstar’s mindset for GTA 4, its next game.

So that’s why we cut down the features on purpose.

So that we could actually make it a much more polished, much more beautiful game.

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And then worry about the additional features later on," Vermeij reveals.

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