One such attempt, dubbed Open ReWrite, or OpenRW, saw some active development but now appears dormant. Over the years there have been multiple attempts at recreating GTA 3, the 2001 action-adventure game developed by DMA Design and published by Rockstar Games. 'We'd been injecting our code into the games for many years for modding but of course that's sort of tedious and you're still limited in what you can do.' 'Open source GTA has probably been a dream for many of us GTA fanatics,' project leader 'aap' tells Eurogamer. It's an exciting development for the video game reverse-engineering subculture that has so far avoided retribution from Rockstar and its parent company Take-Two.
Re3 also includes a map of Liberty City in the pause menu - something missing from all original versions of GTA 3. There are even improved effects from the PS2 versions. Bugs have been fixed, a debug menu and camera are available, there's instant compatibility with current controllers, no loading screens between islands, and widescreen support with a properly scaled HUD, menu and field of view, among other improvements.
