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'Variety has always been really important to what we do. To this end, scale and how it is interpreted, is a key part of Rockstar's design process as it applies to its open world playgrounds.

Nowadays, the faux California map is brimming with icons, activities and distractions, yet has never grown in size.

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The latter has been subject to dozens of free updates since launch eight years ago, all of which вЂ“ bar last year's Cayo Perico island adventure вЂ“ have been set in GTA 5's mainland San Andreas.

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The crime sim's most recent series entry, GTA 5, launched two console generations ago in 2013 and is still going strong, thanks to the enduring success of its online offshoot, GTA Online.

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In some ways, Garbut says he can't believe it's been two full decades since that first trip to a three-dimensional Liberty City, but when he considers how far the series and the studio have come since вЂ“ with the hugely successful Red Dead Redemption (2010) and Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018) having taken the freewheeling GTA sandbox formula to the Old West вЂ“ that timeline comes into focus. So as the original team finished GTA 2, we formed a new team around the development of GTA 3.' We did some prototypes on the Dreamcast, and through that, got the greenlight to start GTA 3. The original team (who'd worked on GTA and GTA 2) had tried pushing the camera behind the car a little in some tests for GTA 2, but there were a few of us who were really excited by the possibilities of freely modeling a world that would stream in as needed and moving the camera right into it. 'Sam (Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games) was always keen to see the Grand Theft Auto series move to 3D, but there wasn't a plan as much as a desire. We just made what we thought was a good game, we poured our heart and soul into it as a group and so it was incredibly rewarding to see the response from players.'

We had a fairly subdued E3 before release and that was hard, though it gave us some fuel to push the game further. 'But there is never any way to know how others will feel. 'We were making the game we had always wanted to play we took the earlier GTA's as a guide, but we just ran with things, excited by the possibilities and iterating organically as we played and felt things evolve,' says Garbut. Those things were there too, but at its heart it was freedom that felt exhilarating.' If I can make it here

'It felt new вЂ“ there was a level of immersion in the world that felt like it happened around you rather than for you, like you could just have fun in, without following a path defined by missions or story. 'I remember knowing it was something we thought was cool вЂ“ I remember enjoying just messing about in our world and interacting with the ambient world and the cops,' says Aaron Garbut, the head of development and co-studio head at Rockstar North who's worked on every Grand Theft Auto since the series' inception. GTA 3, though, was the game that pistol whipped them back to their screens on account of its variety, scale and possibility вЂ“ that this world was real, ripe for exploring and manipulatable to their every whim. At 15 years old, at a time when gaming was still viewed by many as niche, my core circle of friends had begun turning their heads away from consoles and control pads, and towards teenage indulgence. It's been 20 years since that exchange, and 20 years since Grand Theft Auto 3 changed the landscape of open world video games.