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GTA 4often feels like an ignored middle child.

“To focus on making the game truly next-gen, we dropped many game features from San Andreas.

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“It was a big jump from San Andreas,” Vermeijwrites.

“It was also the hardware.

PS2 to PS3 was a massive jump.”

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“We finally realized a 32 player web connection game which later evolved intoGTA Online,” Vermeij claims.

Who knows what parts of GTA 6 will lead to whatever Rockstar cooks up in the future?

He alsorevealedsome of the fun defenses added to GTA games to prevent people from pirating them.

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“I put in some code to make things go subtly wrong when the CD protection was removed.

For instance; in Vice City it would rain forever.”

In the meantime, check outeverything we know about GTA 6.

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