PC Gamer - UK (2022-01)

GRAND THEFT LOTTO

GTA:THE TRILOGY had one of the greatest launch disasters of recent times

PC Gamer asked Vadim M, a GTA

modder, what exactly was left in the

Trilogy’s files. “The developers left in

the files uncompiled mission/script

sources. This is an internal file where

they coded scripts in the ‘native

language’ and made notes.”

OUT OF TUNE

Such things aren’t intended for the

public, but aren’t a huge deal.

However some dataminers found the

Trilogy shipped with songs that have

been ‘removed’ because the licences

have expired. I asked Ash R, another

modder, whether the songs were

playable. “Yes these are playable after

being extracted,” writes Ash R. “For

R

ockstar launched
Grand Theft Auto: The
Trilogy on November
11, 2 020, just over 20
years after the launch
of GTA III: one of the most
important games in history. There
were high expectations. But what
no one expected was a catastrophe.

The GTA Trilogy launched and, a few
hours later, the Rockstar Games
Launcher went down and the games
were pulled from sale. The launcher
came back a day later but the Trilogy
remained unavailable to play or
purchase for three days. Rockstar
said the Trilogy was, “Unavailable to

play or purchase as we remove files

unintentionally included in these

versions.” This was one problem. The

launch Trilogy included a bunch of

unlicensed music tracks and in-code

developer comments. Even more

unbelievably, some modders found

the code for the infamous Hot Coffee

minigame in San Andreas.

DATAMINERS FOUND

THE TRILOGY SHIPPED

WITH SONGS THAT

HAVEBEEN ‘REMOVED’

M O N I T O R

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