Flashback: 'Grand Theft Auto III,' the Open World Blueprint, Turns 15

Perched high above the living, breathing city, as pedestrians shuffle by on their way to jobs that don't exist, I survey the street down below. Today, it looks almost embarrassingly artificial: a sea of muddled faces muttering the same stale lines, too-angular vehicles honking as they pass. They look like toy soldiers in a toy world, just begging to be knocked aside, perhaps by a sniper

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