History Trivia / GrandTheftAutoV

* AdoredByTheNetwork: When ''Grand Theft Auto Online'' surpassed the game's single-player mode, Rockstar almost completely dropped their support of the latter in favor of the former with the ill-gotten gains update being the last one that had its content added to story mode in the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 versions while the next generation consoles had more extra content added to story mode if players had a Rockstar Social Club account and were returning from that generation.

** Multiple Strangers and Freaks missions ended up being cut from the final game. One was another mission for Barry as Franklin where he had to deliver a helicopter full of drugs near Barry's apartment and would have taken place in between the Grass Roots missions "The Pickup" and "The Drag", Two missions for Franklin involving him meeting a character named Dale outside a nightclub with the first mission being him asking Franklin to take photographs of the hot women around town and send them to him as a sort of Collectibles mission with the second one revealing that Dale was planning to drug said women and Franklin had to kill him in order to stop him, three missions for Michael where he meets Magenta Andrews with the first mission having her ask him to attain true perfection by buying and wearing high-end clothing in order to be welcomed by her and access the second mission at her house where he is invited in to the sight of a group of elderly people having sex and becoming disturbed in the process where he exists building and calls his shrink for more therapy with the third mission being mostly unknown, and finally five missions for Franklin split between two characters known as Mrs. A and Mrs. B who both have each other where he would help one of them sabotage the other throughout most of the missions with the final mission having both of them confronting and attempting to kill each other with Franklin having the option to either join in the right or watch them kill each other.

** Multiple Strangers and Freaks missions ended up being cut from the final game. One was another mission for Barry as Franklin where he had to deliver a helicopter full of drugs near Barry's apartment and would have taken place in between the Grass Roots missions "The Pickup" and "The Drag", Two missions for Franklin involving him meeting a character named Dale outside a nightclub with the first mission being him asking Franklin to take photographs of the hot women around town and send them to him as a sort of Collectibles mission with the second one revealing that Dale was planning to drug said women and Franklin had to kill him in order to stop him.

** There was going to be a heist called "The Sharmoota Job" that would have involved a "nice house" and stealing a safe, a horse and someone's wife. It would have involved Michael and Trevor and have three options for how it would have been performed. In the final game this is reduced to Trevor [[spoiler:kidnapping Madrazo's wife off-screen, with Michael being unhappy about it when he finds out]], partly because the horse riding mechanism from ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' couldn't be implemented into the game.

** There were going to be profile pictures for Michael,Trevor, and Amanda for the in-game dating website "Hush Smush"

** A design document and later a major leak across Rockstar Games confirmed that Single Player was to have 8 DLC packs; One continuing the default GTA experience which was actually teased along with the Heists update for Online and was known to contain even more flight school missions with its name implied to be "Assassination Pack" which likely would have added even more assassination missions for Franklin, one known
as "Prologue DLC" which would have seen the player return to Luddendorf, North Yankton and take place before the prologue of the original game, one known as "Agent Trevor" where Trevor would work with the IAA to steal a submarine and stop a rich billionaire named Clifford, an expansion where the player could return to Liberty City from the previous game with early screenshots showing what it would look like, a DLC themed around one of Rockstar's other game series "Manhunt", a relationship DLC, an enterprise DLC, one which featured aliens cracking open a mountain and starting a full-scale invasion with a ship hidden inside (The mural is believed to connect to it) and a Next Gen only Zombie DLC titled "Norman" in the sorce code. The latter two would have featured changes to the map, such as destroyed buildings, walled off Los Santos and campsites on the countryside. They were scrapped after Leslie Benzies left Rockstar Games and they were forced to reorganize their internals, with the GTA Online creators being the only unaffected. Modders have unearthed what seems to be a DLC select with the options "GTA" "Trevor" and "Dead". Rockstar [[WordOfGod eventually revealed]] that the main reason the singleplayer DLC's were scrapped was the growing interest in GTA Online and the then unannounced ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'', which required a lot of attention from them. This may be technically [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], as a lot of the planned content eventually made it's way to the multiplayer mode, although heavily edited with "Agent Trevor" eventually becoming " The Doomsday Heist" only for Trevor's role to be cut out and the enterprise DLC was recycled as "The Business Update".

as "Prologue DLC" which would have seen the player return to Luddendorf, North Yankton and take place before the epilogue of the original game, one known as "Agent Trevor" where Trevor would work with the IAA to steal a submarine and stop a rich billionaire named Clifford, an expansion where the player could return to Liberty City from the previous game with early screenshots showing what it would look like, one which featured aliens cracking open a mountain and starting a full-scale invasion with a ship hidden inside (The mural is believed to connect to it) and a Next Gen only Zombie DLC. The latter two would have featured changes to the map, such as destroyed buildings, walled off Los Santos and campsites on the countryside. They were scrapped after Leslie Benzies left Rockstar Games and they were forced to reorganize their internals, with the GTA Online creators being the only unaffected. Modders have unearthed what seems to be a DLC select with the options "GTA" "Trevor" and "Dead". Rockstar [[WordOfGod eventually revealed]] that the main reason the singleplayer DLC's were scrapped was the growing interest in GTA Online and the then unannounced ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'', which required a lot of attention from them. This may be technically [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], as a lot of the planned content eventually made it's way to the multiplayer mode, although heavily edited with "Agent Trevor" eventually becoming " The Doomsday Heist" only for Trevor's role to be cut out.

** A design document and later a major leak across Rockstar Games confirmed that Single Player was to have 8 DLC packs; One continuing the default GTA experience, one known as "Agent Trevor" whee Trevor would work with the IAA to steal a submarine and stop a rich billionaire named Clifford, an expansion where the player could return to Liberty City from the previous game with early screenshots showing what it would look like, one which featured aliens cracking open a mountain and starting a full-scale invasion with a ship hidden inside (The mural is believed to connect to it) and a Next Gen only Zombie DLC. The latter two would have featured changes to the map, such as destroyed buildings, walled off Los Santos and campsites on the countryside. They were scrapped after Leslie Benzies left Rockstar Games and they were forced to reorganize their internals, with the GTA Online creators being the only unaffected. Modders have unearthed what seems to be a DLC select with the options "GTA" "Trevor" and "Dead". Rockstar [[WordOfGod eventually revealed]] that the main reason the singleplayer DLC's were scrapped was the growing interest in GTA Online and the then unannounced ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'', which required a lot of attention from them. This may be technically [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], as a lot of the planned content eventually made it's way to the multiplayer mode, although heavily edited with "Agent Trevor" eventually becoming " The Doomsday Heist" only for Trevor's role to be cut out.

** Agent ULP was initially reprised by Milton James in the single player game; however, in the ''Doomsday Heist'' update, Agent ULP is voiced by Jeff Steitzer, due to James suffering a stroke and subsequently dying from its complications.

** Some phone contacts were cut from the final game, such as one for Chop, which was likely just a placeholder for actual contacts, and the LS Tour Board in the original PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game, implying that the wildlife photography challenge was planned for the original release before it was added back in the enhanced versions for returning players who linked their Rockstar Social Club accounts to the game.

** [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV Brucie Kibbutz]] was originally supposed to have a slightly larger role in the game, as one of the targets in Devin Weston's car theft ring in a scrapped story mission known as "social networking". While most references to that mission have been removed, the car the player was originally supposed to steal (a red vintage Stinger convertible) is present as a sixth car on the Packer in "Pack Man", despite Devin only asking for five cars.

** There were originally going to be at least two more missions for Solomon Richard that were cut from the final game. One of these had Michael steal a plane for Mr. Richard.

** A design document and later a major leak across Rockstar Games confirmed that Single Player was to have 8 DLC packs; One continuing the default GTA experience, one known as "Agent Trevor", an expansion where the player could return to Liberty City from the previous game with early screenshots showing what it would look like, one which featured aliens cracking open a mountain and starting a full-scale invasion with a ship hidden inside (The mural is believed to connect to it) and a Next Gen only Zombie DLC. The latter two would have featured changes to the map, such as destroyed buildings, walled off Los Santos and campsites on the countryside. They were scrapped after Leslie Benzies left Rockstar Games and they were forced to reorganize their internals, with the GTA Online creators being the only unaffected. Modders have unearthed what seems to be a DLC select with the options "GTA" "Trevor" and "Dead". Rockstar [[WordOfGod eventually revealed]] that the main reason the singleplayer DLC's were scrapped was the growing interest in GTA Online and the then unannounced ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'', which required a lot of attention from them. This may be technically [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], as a lot of the planned content eventually made it's way to the multiplayer mode, although heavily edited.

** A design document and later a major leak across Rockstar Games confirmed that Single Player was to have 8 DLC packs; One continuing the default GTA experience, one known as "Agent Trevor" , one where the player could return to Liberty City from the previous game with early screenshots showing what it would look like, one which featured aliens cracking open a mountain and starting a full-scale invasion with a ship hidden inside (The mural is believed to connect to it) and a Next Gen only Zombie DLC. The latter two would have featured changes to the map, such as destroyed buildings, walled off Los Santos and campsites on the countryside. They were scrapped after Leslie Benzies left Rockstar Games and they were forced to reorganize their internals, with the GTA Online creators being the only unaffected. Modders have unearthed what seems to be a DLC select with the options "GTA" "Trevor" and "Dead". Rockstar [[WordOfGod eventually revealed]] that the main reason the singleplayer DLC's were scrapped was the growing interest in GTA Online and the then unannounced ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'', which required a lot of attention from them. This may be technically [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], as a lot of the planned content eventually made it's way to the multiplayer mode, although heavily edited.

** A design document going around suggests that Single Player was to have 3 DLC packs; One continuing the default GTA experience, one which featured aliens cracking open a mountain and starting a full-scale invasion with a ship hidden inside (The mural is believed to connect to it) and a Next Gen only Zombie DLC. The latter two would have featured changes to the map, such as destroyed buildings, walled off Los Santos and campsites on the countryside. They were scrapped after Leslie Benzies left Rockstar Games and they were forced to reorganize their internals, with the GTA Online creators being the only unaffected. Modders have unearthed what seems to be a DLC select with the options "GTA" "Trevor" and "Dead". Rockstar [[WordOfGod eventually revealed]] that the main reason the singleplayer DLC's were scrapped was the growing interest in GTA Online and the then unannounced ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'', which required a lot of attention from them. This may be technically [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], as a lot of the planned content eventually made it's way to the multiplayer mode, although heavily edited.

** [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV Brucie Kibbutz]] was originally supposed to have a slightly larger role in the game, as one of the targets in Devin Weston's car theft ring. While most references to that mission have been removed, the car the player was originally supposed to steal (a red vintage Stinger convertible) is present as a sixth car on the Packer in "Pack Man", despite Devin only asking for five cars.