Earlier this month, art director Aaron Garbut revealed Rockstar Games was not able to include a "huge volume of plans and ideas" in Grand Theft Auto V.
"As a group of people, we're never short of ideas. There are always things that come up during development that you want to add. Often we do, but the closer you get to release, the less that happens. I don't feel like the game fell short, but there is undoubtedly a huge volume of plans and ideas that we wanted to do to push it further."
For a game as big and as expansive as GTA V, these lack of additions to the top-selling open world sandbox game perhaps went unnoticed to some gamers, but others were plain to see. Rockstar received much criticism when, in January last year, news broke that the crime title would be delayed by four months and not released until September. So for us now to be told that Rockstar still weren't able to include certain things in spite of the extra time they had in development rings a little hollow with us. GTA V is a glorious and immersive game and these lack of features certainly didn't impact on its sales, generating more than $1 billion in three days and earning rave reviews thereafter. But they did impact on our playing experience, with Rockstar's inability to follow through with certain ideas sometimes sticking out like a sore thumb, while we can't help but wonder what else may have been added to the game under different circumstances. Fortunately, with the publishers confirming DLC for some point this year, there's an opportunity for Rockstar to further polish what has been an otherwise groundbreaking game thus far. Here, we take a look at 5 Unfinished Features We Want As DLC.
Joseph is an accredited football journalist and has interviewed nearly all of the current 20 Barclay's Premier League managers. He is also a correspondent for Bleacher Report and has written for Caught Offside and Give Me Football.
