20 Mind-Blowing Things You Didn't Know About Grand Theft Auto 3

It's not uncommon for elements to be left on the cutting room floor during game development.

At some point during the development of GTA 3, a character known as Darkel, a homeless man who tasked Claude with missions which involved bombing buildings and maybe even a schoolbus, was cut from the game.

There were rumours after release that this was done because of the game's 9/11 censorship, but Rockstar executive Dan Houser told Edge that this wasn't true.

He said: "That's a little bit of a misconception [that changes were significant]," he said. "Some people believe we removed an entire strand of missions because they found some reference in the code to a character called Darkel, but he had been cut months before [release] and the missions were never completed."