Grand Theft Auto has revealed that the game’s tank started out as a pedestrian on a car.Stewart Waterson, an artist at DMA Design in the 1990s, shared some insight into the game with Gamerhub.
He and coder Ian Johnson pushed for Race’n’Chase, originally a driving game, to be turned into a game about crime – i.e. Grand Theft Auto.Waterson explained how adding tanks was a turning point for Grand Theft Auto, transforming it into a game for sandbox rampages. “It was so ludicrous,” he explained. “There was no reason for them.”Waterson and Johnson spent a lunch break figuring out how to make a tank work in a game that was never meant to support them. “The premise was that there was a vehicle code that we could use,” Waterston explained.
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