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Body Harvest begat Grand Theft Auto III
What jumpstarted Grand Theft Auto III? Before Body Harvest, DMA Design (now known as Rockstar North) kept the ultra-violent world of Grand Theft Auto locked in two dimensions. Released for the N64 in 1998, Body Harvest introduced free-roaming sandbox gameplay and over 60 vehicles to tool around with as you traveled through time to fend off an alien invasion.
Combine Body Harvest's free-roaming 3D gameplay with the car-on-car chaos of the first two GTA's and you've got all the key ingredients needed to create GTA III, GTA: Vice City, and GTA: San Andreas.
Above: Do the math.
Useless Facts:
- DMA Design's Body Harvest contains a ton of Biblical references with many boss names that come straight from the good book, such as Leviathan, Cerberus, Moloch, Beelzebub.
- Body Harvest features an ice cream truck much like the one in GTA III.
- GTA: San Andreas features a mission involving a combine harvester titled "Body Harvest."
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