Line #0 Trivia/GrandTheftAutoIV


1	* ActingForTwo: Creator/KarelRoden voices both Mikhail Faustin and Wade "The Fixer" Johnson.
2	* BannedInChina: The Thai government called for the ban of the game after a Royal Thai Police officer caught an 18-year old student who killed a cab driver. He admitted that he wanted to rob him to get some money to play in the arcade, especially since the suspect said he wanted to see if it's easy to rob someone like in ''[=GTA IV=]''. As of 2013, the ''GTA'' series are not allowed to be sold in the country for commercial purposes.[[note]]This affected the subsequent releases such as ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoChinatownWars Chinatown Wars]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV GTA V]]'' as well as earlier releases, [[LoopholeAbuse except]] the Platform/{{Steam}} version of ''GTA V''.[[/note]]
3	* CreatorBacklash: Michael Hollick has gone on record as criticizing Rockstar for underpaying him and granting him no royalties or residuals for his role as Niko. Notably, while Scott Hill and Mario D'Leon both [[RoleReprise reprised their roles]] as Johnny Klebitz and Luis Lopez for the expansion packs, Hollick did not reprise his role as Niko, forcing the latter to speak through [[FakeShemp reused dialogue]].
4	* DuelingGames: This game came out around the same time as ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'', and each of these two games have almost diametrically opposed design philosophies, which means a lot of gamers tend to favor one over the other.
5	* FakeAmerican: The Texan assassinations manager Wade "The Fixer" Johnson is voiced by the Czech actor Creator/KarelRoden.
6	* FakeNationality: All of the Serbian characters, including the protagonist Niko Bellic, are played by American actors.
7	* FakeRussian: [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]]. Many Russian bystanders are played by actual Russian actors and will often speak in their native language. However, the same cannot be said for major characters. While the actors for some characters like Vlad, Bulgarin, and Dimitri (Misha Kuznetsov, Vitali Baganov, and Moti Margolin respectively) are Russian, the others are not; Mikhail Faustin's actor - Creator/KarelRoden - is Czech, and Timur's actor Creator/GlennFleshler is American.
8	* ShrugOfGod: Rockstar were on record saying Niko has no official nationality, despite Niko being strongly implied as of Serbian descent.
9	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
10	** Early in development, Rockstar considered setting the game not just in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, but in UsefulNotes/{{New York\|State}} ''[[UsefulNotes/NewYorkState State]]'' as well, a la San Andreas, complete with their own renditions of the Hamptons and the Adirondacks. While this was dropped so that they could focus on Liberty City and Alderney, references to an area called "the [[Literature/TheGreatGatsby Carraways]]" (presumably based on the Hamptons) do come up in the dialogue. ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' would later include a countryside region based on rural and coastal areas of southern California.
11	** The player could also do friend activities with [[FlamboyantGay Bernie]], [[TheUnintelligible Real Badman]], and [[ProperlyParanoid Phil Bell]].
12	** The mission "Pest Control" was originally supposed to let the player choose between killing [[spoiler:Ray or Phil]]. This was cut because it would affect the [[spoiler:Deal Ending, where Phil assists you during the mission]].
13	** Some vehicles from previous games were going to appear, with several even completely finished [[DummiedOut within the files.]]
14	** One of the voice actors considered for Niko Bellic was Vladimir Mashkov (the actor for Sasha from ''Film/BehindEnemyLines'', on whose look Niko is based), but he ended up turning down the offer.
15	** Every single closed-down Burger Shot, Cluckin' Bell, and TW@ has data that hints they were going to be functional at one point.
16	* WordOfSaintPaul: While Niko's nationality is generally given the ShrugOfGod treatment, his voice actor said he was played as a Serbian.

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