101 Facts About Grand Theft Auto

greetings [ __ ] my name is sam and today we're going to be stealing stuff and cooking fools and creating general mayhem throughout the decade as we go through one of the most successful franchises of all time peppa pig yes that oh that's next week sorry i mean grand theft auto we've looked at some of the games in detail sure but what about the general history of the franchise that changed gaming well here it is call it an early christmas gift but how did gta generate and utilize controversy on purpose which grand theft auto urban myth turned out to be real and why haven't i been given a full driver's license despite the fact i can drive around los santos for five minutes without crashing or anything to answer through those questions are going to be answered so pack your pockets full of bullets as we go to uh several places all around the world mainly america though dribbling with commentary and irony as we go through 101 facts about grand theft auto the franchise number one so what is grand theft auto apart from being a crime that can give you about 16 months in prison well grand theft auto or gta for short is a video game franchise that started its bloody existence all the way back in 1995. number two it began as a pc game called race and chase developed by dma design who would like a pokemon evolve into rockstar north race and chase originally was a cops and robbers game where the player would choose to play as either the cops or get this the robbers number three while testing a bug was discovered that caused police npcs to start ramming players off the road which actually proved to be more popular and exciting than playing by the straight-laced law developers realised it was more fun to just place the criminals and thus gta as we know it was born number four by the way leaping a little bit ahead here but race and chase does appear in grand theft auto but in gta online in an arcade game that can be found in the diamond casino heist the logo of this arcade game bears a significant resemblance to the original gta logo don't you think number five when grand theft auto was originally released in 1997 it was solely on pc until a playstation 1 version was released a few months later which was kind of rockstar oh sorry no not rockstar because rockstar didn't exist yet number six you see rockstar games wasn't created until a year later in 1998 after take to interactive acquired the assets of bmg interactive who published grand theft auto dma design was swept up in this acquisition too and were later renamed rockstar north they later acquired angel studios in november of 2002 becoming rockstar san diego number seven the pc version actually gave eight choices of playable characters four men and four women when the game was released on playstation the female playable characters were removed and gta still get to have another female lead playable character unless you specifically make one on gta online that is number eight in fact there's only one female main antagonist in the series two catalina in gta 3. there's also molly schultz in gta 5 but she she's pretty minor come on rockstar women are evil 2. actually in isolation that sounds pretty bad that wasn't the point i was making number nine but before it influenced everything else gta had influences of its own and one of them was pac-man according to david jones one of the producers of the first game that sounds weird but actually when you look at them side by side it does make sense a bit number 10. anyway in this pac-man inspired crime fest there are three unlockable locations liberty city vice city and san andreas the names are about as much as the locations have in common with their later ps2 and three era counterparts also hey look at this front cover see that skyscraper tower do you recognize it at all well you should because that's actually trump tower wow did gta predict you know all this i mean i don't know how that would work but people have run articles on less number 12. in later games you can keep what is essentially an arsenal in your back pocket kind of fittingly now i say it out loud because arsenal but in the original you had far less there are only five types of weapon available in this game fist pistol machine gun rocket launcher and flamethrower number 13. actually that's a lie there's technically seven because you can also burp or fart too though this had absolutely no effect on enemies whatsoever so is it really a weapon just rude isn't it really number 14 the gameplay in gta 1 was a little different to how we know gta today you could still go around and do anything but in the first game you get points for general carnage and mayhem and missions would give you multipliers for those points once you've got enough you could go somewhere new number 15. something else that's ever so slightly different too is the fact you had lives in this game if you ran out of them that was your lot points reset and levels over and if you happen to be without body armor one bullet can take you out honestly they say dark souls is hard number 16 there's also a grand theft auto theme song which was created by in-house musician craig connor as back in the origin days the developers didn't have the resource money or support to feature well-known hits like we're used to today number 17 this grand theft auto song credited to dashutas in the game and called joyride kind of fitting really please in the main menu and on the radio of the first gta game as well as feature on the soundtrack for gta 3 on lips 106. it's also a selectable ringtone in gta 3 and 4. best get that song to the hospital because it's pretty sick number 18 gta 1 also contained the first of many controversial easter eggs you could get what was known as a garanga bonus if you successfully killed all the harry krishna monks standing in the line which i mean today would result in pandemonium number 19. expansions for the first gta game arrived two years later in the form of grand theft auto london never heard of it it's a parody of lancashire or something in both 1969 and 1961 variants these expansions are the only time that the gta games have not taken place in fictional locations and is the only non-american location throughout the franchise number 20 more with it being a different place there are slight differences for instance you have to drive around on the left hand side like we do in real life there's also an obligatory james bond reference too like all things in london have to have it's a car called james bomb bomber like bomb james bomb number 21 london 1961 has the same protagonist as 1969 which may not sound like much but actually marks a first in the series these are the first consecutive gta games that have the same protagonist and it's yet to be repeated ain't that something number 22 the first gta was actually banned in brazil the higher-ups there said that it trivializes robbery and murder and could incite the younger players to violence which is ridiculous but okay and so was taken off the shelves and anyone found selling it was fined eight grand number 23 rockstar is no stranger to controversy and in fact that's on purpose for the first game rockstar hired max clifford a pr guru who claimed to be a master manipulator of the tabloid press clifford told a member of the british house of lords about this scandalous new game made in scotland about criminality which led to political and media outrage right from the get-go number 24 an example of another tactic clifford used was to use a story about a small car accident one of the writers went through and planned it in the news the world newspaper under the headline sick car game boss was banned from driving to generate more publicity number 25 and i guess that all worked because two years later in 1999 along came gta 2 released for the playstation pc dreamcast and gameboy color it's set in a place called anywhere at an unspecified date in year anywhere has three districts commercial industrial and residential that have mostly been claimed by various gangs wow rockstar really went there with the creativity this time huh number 26 gta 2 also opens with an actual movie well kind of the opening sequence is made up of excerpts from a live action movie shot by rockstar to promote the game it involves the main character claude speed getting involved in all sorts of legally shady business number 27 claude speed is played by scott maslon who's some and i mean some of our uk viewers might know from playing jack branning in the london-based soap opera eastenders the soundtrack was made by drum bass label moving shadow number 28 this movie not only features some iconic gta features like hiding in a pay and spray in order to lose the cops it also introduces the respect system that comes into play with this game with the seven gangs and their turf throughout anywhere city number 29 some of these gangs are arch rivals meaning that completing a mission for one gang will seriously peeve the rival ones sometimes these rivals won't even offer you another mission until you take out a member of that gang and i don't mean for dinner i mean for death number 30 your reputation with these gangs can be tracked with meters in the top left of the screen so you know who to avoid as you travel the city if you do run into them the more they hate you the more powerful the weapons they carry to take you out are number 31 gta2 is also the first game to feature being pulled out of cars you've stolen by their owners and police brawls with gangs as well as the well-known wanted system as we know it now number 32 forget being wasted in gta in the second installment you can be toasted that's right if claude speed dies after being attacked with a flamethrower or an electro gun you'll be burnt to a crisp and only your skeleton and a pile of ash will be left with the message toasted on screen number 33 as this is rockstar there are funny signs abound in gta 2. highlights include two car companies one named foo and the other named wang which i obviously can't say out loud as well as a company called max paint a reference to rockstar's later series max payne number 34. then in 2001 along came gta 3 an incredible new three-dimensional scum and villainy experience for the ps2 at first it was released to critical acclaim and many have called it one of the best games of all time with others banning about terms like the most important game of all time blimey it's not rugrat's search for reptile lads number 35. what you'll notice about that release date is that it's very close to the tragedy that struck on the 11th of september 2001. as a result of that some aspects of the game were changed very quickly including a plane changing where it flew kills becoming less graphic and the look of police cars changing to be less realistic number 36 something else that also had to change was the front cover of the game as the team felt it was too raw post 911 as it featured explosions this was then replaced with the tiled effect which was inspired by movie posters from the 1960s and this has since become a standard for the gta series number 37 if you somehow use the dodo and fly north past the liberty city limits you'll eventually come across a floating street named the ghost town apparently this was a location for an earlier bank heist that was never supposed to be found by players oh rockstar of course the players will find it number 38 listen carefully to the radio in gta 3 and you'll hear a mention for carter city which was the setting of another rockstar north game called manhunt which for some reason i was never allowed to play number 39 if you complete 200 taxi fares in gta 3 which by the way something you could do you could do taxi first you'll unlock the borg nine taxi now i know what you're thinking that sounds exactly like ernest borgne who played a cabbie in the film escape to new york which is the city that liberty city is based on and that's because well it is that so you know well done you number 40 you can also find an easter egg with a sign that proudly declares that you weren't supposed to be able to get here you know for the more intrepid of players the same location in its prequel liberty city stories says hello again oh my god you're so cute holy sh number 41. by the way you know the phrase shoot for the moon well in gta 3 onwards you can literally shoot at the moon with a sniper rifle that is causing it to change size this is now a near traditional gta easter egg the mooning of life for those who were clinging onto the old past gta 3 included the 2d view style than the previous two games thing is this was a bit of a waste of time as basically nobody used it which must have probably made a developer cry and so gta 3 was the last in the series to have that option number 43 hey look carefully at liberty city fire department's motto it's putting out since 1872 a truly lovely slogan that has absolutely no other meanings whatsoever number 44. there's also a billboard in liberty city that reads see you in miami for those of you not familiar with gta chronology gta vice city is the next century in the series and where is white city based on that's right bermuda oh no wait i mean number 45 speaking of miami the next steely wheelie automobile was released in 2002 with gta vice city which had an all-star cast including rayleigh otter but reynolds and danny dyer now we've done a whole video on this game and indeed san andreas gta 4 and 5. so here are just some of the best bits number 46 fans of call of duty and grey's anatomy yes it's a niche mix but they exist mine recognized the voice of jazz torrent the lead singer of love fist in vice city he's played by none other than kevin mckid voice of soap mctavish in call of duty modern warfare 2 and 3 and plays dr owen hunt on greys he was also in trainspotting number 47 as it's set in the 80s vice city contains many different references to 80s media for instance there are outfits based on miami vice it's sort of namesake and you can stumble upon a bloody aftermath in a bathroom very similar to that of scarface number 48 in fact the whole character of ken rosenberg looks and is basically identical to dave kleinfeld in carlito's way number 49 it's hard to overstate just how popular vice city was on its first day of release it sold 500 000 copies by its second it sold 1.4 million which made it at that time the most popular video game of all time it was eventually beaten though by the highest selling game on the ps2 which was number 15. grand theft auto san andreas which was released to greater claim in 2004 often being named as one of the greatest games ever made as of 2011 it sold 27.5 million copies and that was nine years ago now number 51 a special short film which was made within the gta engine named grand theft auto san andreas the introduction served as a prequel to the main story and was released with the special edition of the ps2 game and can be seen on rockstar's website for foreign it has most of the main characters in it including footage of cj jacking cars in liberty city number 52 tommy vercetti the protagonist of vice city is even mentioned in this short film by his lawyer ken rosenberg confirming he's still alive and well by the time san andreas comes around which makes sense because that guy can pack rpgs in his pockets number 53 if walking around the woods and senators for a while being the easter egg hunter we've all been at some point you could stumble across the ghost car this car randomly spawns in these rural areas often in places that causes it to roll downhill and scare the bejesus out of us number 54. next up gta advanced and no i don't mean it's for advanced players among us it's so named because it was made for the game boy advance it's the only grand theft auto game in fact that rockstar did not develop number 55 the gameplay was the same top-down style of the first two gta games and is a prequel to gta 3 explaining why 8-ball was arrested at the start i mean we're all wondering weren't we number 56 however it being released so much later than gta 3 did not do it any favors fans of the franchise were already in love with the 3d open world that had now become a staple of the franchise number 57 being on a gameboy cartridge also meant there was limited storage compared to the tv consoles this meant that unlike the multiple radio stations that were commonplace advanced players would have a single instrumental song to listen to on the radio and it definitely didn't get annoying very very quickly number 58 gta liberty city stories is next up and is also a prequel to the third gta game set in 1998 three years before gta 3. it was primarily released on the psp also known as the console that's a way ahead of its time and later was released on the ps2 with ios and android versions following in 2015 and 16. number 59. brooklyn nine-nine hero jolo trulio stars as vincenzo chile but he's not the only nine-nine alumnus to feature in the series chelsea beretti for example played laurie in gta 4 and fred armstrong played hugh harrison in gta 5. number 10 vice city stories followed the next year or to prequel to yes that's right vice city it was set in 1984 or two years before the events of fight city and you play as vic vance bad guy lance van's brother i've still never forgiven lance france phil collins is also in this game as himself and you can go and watch his very very low poly concert number 61 vice city stories was only available on the psp to begin with followed by the ps2 the ps2 port was almost entirely lifted from the psp version but with enhanced graphics and a few new side activities including five side missions five additional rampages and a new easter egg i'm not going to tell you what it is number 62 in 2008 the world was graced with the hd era starting with grand theft auto 4 the first one to be made for the next generation of consoles the ps3 and xbox 360. number 63 gta 4 became the fastest selling entertainment product in history at the time of its release earning 500 million dollars in its first week alone it also won a number of awards including game of the year from a number of publications if you want to find out more we did a whole video on it so moving on nintendo 64. of course we can't talk about gta 4 without talking about the lost and the damned and the ballad of gay tony dlc so we can't move on yet past sam the lost and damned was released less than a year after gta 4 was released and gay tony followed just nine months after that like a big baby number 65 bundled together as episodes from liberty city the two stories couldn't be more different the lost and damn centers around gang warfare and liberty city and is far more gritty and brutal whilst the ballad of gay tony is a neon lit drug-fueled party what more could you ask for drugs are bad by the way number 66 do you remember the nintendo ds well if you wanted to break from nintendogs you'd always play gta chinatown wars the only gta game to be made for the nintendo ds number 67 it was later released on psp and like liberty city invited stories chinatown wars made it onto ios and android platforms later down the line similar to gta advance it was a return to the top-down style of gameplay which you know not many people were missing so it got mixed reviews number 68 the mixed reviews obviously didn't hamper chinatown wars too much though as it went on to win best handheld game at the 2009 spike video game awards and best nintendo ds game 2009 from game spot number 69 flies it's also the only single-player gta game to sign an asian-american protagonist since players could choose mickey as the protagonist in the first ever gta his name is hwang li and that's about all i know about him really number 17 next up the behemoth that is grand theft auto 5. just like its predecessor gta 5 broke industry records again earning 1 billion dollars in its first three days alone again it was nominated and won several game of the year and other gaming awards basically it smashed it number 71. it went on to beat the last of us as the best-selling video game in 24 hours and later became the best-selling video game of all time in the uk us brits loved some cars after murder apparently it's the second best seller in the world after everyone's favorite lego game minecraft number 72 gta 5 came out in 2013 which is already insane but also was the most expensive game ever made still i don't mean it costs the most to buy i mean it costs to create estimates are that the game cost up to 265 million dollars to make remaining the most expensive even a few years later number 73 in fact only seven movies in history have ever beaten the production cost pirates of the caribbean three and four avengers age of ultron infinity war and end game justice league okay and solo and the rise of skywalker from the star wars franchise i'd say only a handful of them were actually worth it number 74 as of 2018 gta online has made gta 5 the most profitable media title of all time according to a study by market watch at a revenue of 6 billion dollars it beats out avatar and avengers end game at 2.8 billion dollars and even gone with the wind which turns around four billion dollars with inflation that's a lot of nuggets number 75 ned luke who plays michael in gta 5 is the only known voice actor to gain weight for a voice acting role putting on 25 pounds he did this to give a more distinct impression of someone who hasn't been particularly active in the last few years now that's some dedication number 76 let's take a look at some lovely eggs easter eggs that is i'm sure gta veterans among you remember tana from gta 3 in particular for the mission to face tanner well tana also happens to be the protagonist from gta rival the driver games which have sometimes been called gta clones number 77 in gta he's given a female walking animation to mock his smoking style and driver and in a nice friendly rebuttal driver 3 includes a character called timmy vermicelli a little not to tommy versetti the protagonist of vice city number 78 gta also loves to reference their previous protagonists in san andreas claude speed from gta 3 appears and much like his original character remains silent causing cj to mock him cj has also called tommy at one point to reference who tommy from vice city to which siege responds who on earth is tommy although with different language number 79 remember the gta 3 borgnine taxi reference well there's more in vice city the cabs are called kaufman caps named after andy kaufman who started the tv show taxi and in liberty city stories the cab is called the bickle 76 named after travis bickle robert de niro's iconic taxi driver role in well taxi driver number 80 you can't talk about gta without talking about the controversies that have been a huge part of the franchise's history british mp keith vaz has regularly complained against the series in particular gta 5's torture sequence he previously raised concerns about rockstar's other property bully number 81 other prolific politicians that have actively campaigned against the games are hillary clinton and joe lieberman who co-sponsored the family entertainment protection act in 2005 to limit the kinds of games that could be sold and who they could be sold to the bill was found to be unconstitutional and never became law number 82 disbarred attorney jack thompson was often in the media with his attempts to ban grand theft auto games take two rebutted saying that thompson's lawsuits violated their first amendment rights eventually after almost five years of suits both sides settled basically agreeing to stop threatening each other with the law number 83 he did however make it into gta iv unofficially as a lawyer called tom goldberg who says the lion guns don't kill people video games do a quote that has often been misattributed to thompson once again he threatened to sue take two over the character if they weren't removed before its release the character remained and thompson never follow through number 84 thompson isn't the only person to attempt to sue rockstar in take 2 over the gta games lindsay lohan also threatened to sue over her likeness being used as an inspiration for lacy jonas and mob wives personality karen gravano attempted legal action over andrea pettino's storyline neither were successful number 85 it's less common to hear that take two is on the prosecution side of the court but back in 2008 take two filed a suit against the chicago transit authority for pulling their adverts for gta4 without providing adequate explanation number 86 the 300 000 contract between the pair stated that ads would run between april and june of 2008 but they were pulled the black listing of gta adverts was simply adopted by denver boston and portland in oregon number 87 in fact the grand theft auto series holds a guinness world record for the most controversial video game series in history with over 4 000 articles published about it number 88 decapitation was introduced in gta 3 and continued in vice city san andreas liberty city stories and vice city stories vice city also introduced the katana a weapon that allowed players to behead their enemies decapitation was later taken out of the hd games though most likely because of the improved graphics and higher realism number 89 despite the removal of decapitation the game had been decapitated no anyway images of dismemberment are still around in the hd universe it can't be done by the player themselves but it can be seen in specific missions and on the in-game website except the chaos.com number 90 we've spoken about women and minorities but there are also only two child characters in the entire series these are mary beth williams and vice city stories and jill von krastenberg in gta iv this is because harming children is a step too far for an m rated video game that's just a line that never gets crossed and it's probably a good thing number 91 there's a movie called grand theft auto made in 1977 by ron howard the rights to the name series for splits that fox could not make a gta game and rockstar can't make a gta movie so anyone hoping for a rockstar made gta game movie first of all why but also give up on that dream pal number 92 the grand theft auto series as a whole is the 13th highest grossing video game franchise of all time and the 7th highest selling video game franchise in history that might not sound as incredible as you expect but when you're against mario and pokemon that's pretty amazing number 93 to date the grand theft auto titles have sold over 270 million copies of their games almost half of these by the way are gta 5. number 94. gta holds a number of other world records including most guest stars in the video game series largest voice cast in a video game at the time for gta san andreas largest in-game soundtrack at the time for gta 4 and most successful entertainment launch of all time gta 5. number 95 according to wealth record rockstar games net worth is over 3.5 billion dollars a large chunk of this is attributable to the grand theft auto series and especially grand theft auto online which pulls in a substantial amount of money even seven years after the game's release which is probably why they're still milking it dry number 96 roxner's immense success has allowed the company to continue working to help communities usually donating over 250 million dollars towards various programs that work to enhance living standards number 97 even in 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic rockstar pledged to donate five percent of the revenue created by gta online and red dead online to help communities around their studios the exact amount of money raised is unclear but it's sure to be a crap ton considering gta alone brings in around 250 million dollars a year number 98 grand theft auto 64 also existed for a brief amount of time and just in case you're wondering what happened to gta 6 to 63 gta 64 would have been a port for the playstation version of gta 1 to the nintendo 64 with enhanced graphics and added levels it was cancelled before public previews were released there were similar plans for the sega saturn but these met a similar fate number 99 i know i mentioned jolo trulio earlier but the game has featured a ton of celebrities within them including samuel jackson gary busey debbie harry axel rose james wood danny trejo and will wheaton number hundred i mentioned phil collins earlier but laszlo jones comes under the same category these two were the only celebrities that appeared as themselves within the gta universe in main missions and not just radio appearances all of the core gta games since the 3d universe have had a delayed release gta 3 was delayed by three weeks to make changes post 9 11 via city and san andreas were both delayed by a week and gta's four and five were both delayed by six months in order to polish and debunk their games shame other publishers didn't take note of that isn't it so those aren't one facts about grand theft auto the franchise i still don't think we covered everything though did you want to see another one let me know in the comments down below be sure to give this video a like and subscribe to one-on-one facts because we're all having fun here baby oh yeah yeah in the meantime though sounds look two videos on screen that are really gonna make your day once you click on one why not take my word for it have a click go on and i'll see you there goodbye now

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Published: Sat Dec 19 2020