Canceled GTA Content You'll Never Get To See

It may be hard to believe, considering how much there is to do in these games, but the Grand Theft Auto series has actually left tons of missions and various other content on the cutting room floor. Let's take a look at some interesting GTA content that never properly saw the light of day. It's usually nice to feel wanted. Not so in the Grand Theft Auto universe, where a higher Wanted Level means that you're in deep trouble with local law enforcement. Whether you've attacked a civilian or been unlucky enough to tap the bumper of a police car, your Wanted Level will steadily rise, signified by a series of stars at the top corner of your screen. With each star that fills in, the police presence and their corresponding gear heightens. Your only choices are to evade the police or, in GTA 5, pay your buddy Lester to get the cops off your tail. The Wanted Level capped off at six stars in previous games, with the actual military occasionally being called in to take you down.

GTA 5 seems to only go to five stars, but players digging in the game's code seem to believe there was originally a sixth star that was removed before release. Was this done to make the game's online component more balanced? Whatever the case, it's fun to imagine what kind of response a sixth star would have brought upon unlucky criminals in GTA 5. Oof - can you imagine? "Actually, that's overkill." "Indeed.” Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas memorably featured a character named the Truth, who was a conspiracy theorist and hippie who straddled the line between lucid and hilarious raving. “Calm, brother… panic paves the way to bad karma.” Voiced by the late Peter Fonda, the Truth was a friend of San Andreas protagonist CJ, sending him on missions to uncover various secrets hidden by the US government. He would also occasionally call into one of San Andreas' radio stations, claiming to have seen aliens firsthand. The Truth was a real trip, but there was one wild mission involving him that was left out of the final version of San Andreas. This mission, called "The Truth Is Out There," involved CJ mounting a rescue mission after the Truth was taken captive by government agents in the mysterious military base called Area 69. Adding to the Truth's predicament was the fact that he had taken a bunch of psychedelics while hiding from the feds, making him even more agitated than usual. Some players have been so taken with the idea of this mission that there is a fan-made version of it than can be modded into the game. Yup, you read that right. Eat your heart out, Avril. As the Grand Theft Auto name implies, there's no shortage of vehicles to hijack and to wreak havoc upon the populace. However, there was one other mode of transportation that nearly made it into San Andreas: players could originally take skateboards from NPCs and use them to get around town. Even better, their usefulness wouldn't have been relegated to merely transportation; no, these bad boys could be picked up and used as melee weapons as well, turning CJ into a hardcore mix of Wesley Snipes and Tony Hawk. Unfortunately, the skateboard and the corresponding NPCs were cut from the game before the final version was developed, which is honestly kind of a shame. This could have made a really fun addition to the game - so it's pretty rad that some enterprising players seized upon this concept and have modded skateboards back into the game, allowing for both uses. While Grand Theft Auto 5 has a very lengthy campaign, there was almost even more to the single player story. Unfortunately, while Grand Theft Auto Online continues to grow, GTA 5's planned single player DLC was canceled. The details we have heard about them sound tantalizing. One of them involved a zombie apocalypse, similar to Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare. In addition, elements of the casino missions added to GTA Online were originally intended to be included in DLC for the base game, as well. While many resources were diverted to work on Red Dead Redemption 2, the main reason for the cancellation seems to come down to the simple fact that Rockstar chose to focus on GTA Online instead. Furthermore, they felt like GTA 5 already seemed like it was complete. Imran Sarwar, Rockstar's director of design, explained: "With GTA V, the single-player game was absolutely massive and very, very complete … the online component had a lot of potential, but to come close to realizing that potential also sucked up a lot of resources." Therefore, Rockstar focused on making GTA Online stronger, as well as preparing to port GTA 5 to next-gen consoles.

Apartment 3C is a location in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, wherein players can find a chainsaw and two bags of drugs next to a bathtub covered in blood. This is meant to be a reference to a deal gone bad in the film Scarface, but the apartment is infamous among Grand Theft Auto players because of how little is explained about its true nature. As with many GTA myths, there are conflicting reports as to the bloodstained apartment's significance. Some players say that there is actually a cutscene buried within the game that shows someone being murdered with a chainsaw in the apartment Leatherface style, accounting for the mess on the wall. However, there is no solid evidence that this cutscene exists. The original intention of the room was that it was a safehouse that the player would earn following a violent mission given to them by the character Sonny Forelli, a Scarface-esque mafia boss. "Times are changing. The families can't keep their backs turned while our enemies reap the rewards." The mission was removed after the beta version of the game, however, and as it stands in the final version of Vice City, Apartment 3C is simply an eerie Easter egg. Check out one of our newest videos right here! Plus, even more SVG videos about your favorite stuff are coming soon. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and hit the bell so you don't miss a single one.