13 May 2008, 4:55 PM
- Many credit GTA3 for opening up the GTA universe and allowing players to finally experience the supposed greatness that is GTA4... but people seem to forget that there was a game before GTA3 that defined pretty much all of the game mechanics used from GTA3 onwards... no, I'm not talking about the original GTA and GTA2, I'm talking about Body Harvest.
I'm sure none of you have even heard of this title, but it was a Nintendo 64 game developed by DMA Design which was later renamed Rockstar North after their success with GTA3. It featured a very open ended world where players could use a wide variety of vehicles to fight off giant alien bugs... in fact, I still have the N64 cartridge lol.
I think they also made a reference to Body Harvest in GTA San Andreas... but it's been ages since I played that.
- Oh, and if Shigeru Miyamoto had've gone through with it, Ocarina of Time wouldn't have used the third person perspective. Instead, it would've been a first person game. I kid you not.
You've read it! You can't unread it!