In an alley in Bedford Point that has no entrance, Rockstar left a note reading « You werent supposed to be able to get here you know ». The apostrophe is missing in the game. Getting there means driving a small car up a flight of stairs and jumping between rooftops. Below are 13 secrets from GTA III, each with the place to stand.
The Sign That Started It
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The Hidden Sign
An alley behind the south-western block of Bedford Point
You need a small car. Drive it up the stairs to the platform north of the car park, jump from the roof of the car onto the building to the west, drop onto the wall, then drop again into an alley with no other entrance. On the far wall a notice reads « You werent supposed to be able to get here you know », missing apostrophe included. A ramp lets you back out.
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The Ghost Town
Fly a Dodo due north, past the city limits, for a few minutes
Town names appear on the radar where there is nothing at all: Obbeburgh, Aaronsville, Woodcunty, Les County, Garystown, Adamton. They are the developers, Obbe Vermeij, Aaron Garbut, Alisdair Wood, Leslie Benzies, Gary McAdam and Adam Fowler, turned into places that do not exist.
Rockstar Advertising Rockstar
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The Miami billboard
On a billboard in Liberty City
It reads « See you in Miami! ». Vice City, set in a version of Miami, was announced the following year.
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The badly hidden logo
On the unusable helicopter on the roof of Kenji's Casino
The Rockstar logo is painted on it, and the words « Rockstar Games » are written underneath in case you missed it. Rockstar usually hides the logo. Here they gave up.
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The logo on a hat
The pedestrian wearing headphones
The same logo, on the cap of the man whose headphones play a tune players spent years trying to identify.
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GTA 3 OUT NOW
The news ticker above the Music Movies store, Staunton Island
The shop's scrolling headlines include an advertisement for the game you are playing, and the Rockstar Games web address.
The Older Games Are in the Background
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Top Down City
Film advertising across the city
A fictional film named after the camera angle of the first two GTA games, which were played from directly above.
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Screenshots in the cyber cafe
The ground floor of the TW@ internet cafe
The monitors display screenshots of Grand Theft Auto and GTA 2.
Insulting the Competition
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Two-Faced Tanner
The mission of the same name
The target is called Tanner, the name of the protagonist of the rival Driver series. Rockstar gave him a female walking animation, because reviewers had said the real Tanner walked like a girl.
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Carcer City on the radio
In-game radio chatter
The city is mentioned two years before Manhunt was set there.
Jokes You Have to Stand Still For
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The YMCA builder
A construction worker pedestrian, anywhere
Walk into him and he quotes the Village People: « Young man », « There's no need to be down », « I'm in the YMCA ». The lead singer of that song is dressed as a builder in the video.
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Chuck Schwartz and Arnold Steelone
Named on in-game media
Two film stars who never appear, whose names are Arnold Schwarzenegger crossed with Chuck Norris, and Arnold Schwarzenegger crossed with Sylvester Stallone.
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Badfellas
Film advertising
A parody of Goodfellas, in a game where Salvatore Leone is voiced by Frank Vincent, who was in Goodfellas.
The First of Three Signs
That note in Bedford Point is where a twenty-year joke begins. In 2004, San Andreas put a sign at the top of the Gant Bridge reading « There are no easter eggs up here. Go away. », aimed squarely at the players climbing it looking for Bigfoot. In 2008, GTA IV finished the sequence by writing « No Hidden Content This Way » on the one door in Liberty City that leads to hidden content, the giant beating heart inside the Statue of Happiness.
The tone changes across the three. The first is surprised you got there. The second tells you to leave. The third lies to your face. Nobody at Rockstar has ever explained the sequence, and none of the three signs does anything at all.
A Town Map With No Towns
Fly a Dodo north out of Liberty City for a few minutes and names start appearing on your radar: Obbeburgh, Aaronsville, Woodcunty, Les County, Garystown, Adamton. There is nothing underneath any of them. They are the developers, Obbe Vermeij, Aaron Garbut, Alisdair Wood, Leslie Benzies, Gary McAdam and Adam Fowler, written into the map data as places. The team signed the world by putting themselves on the edge of it, somewhere no player was expected to go.
Where Rockstar Stopped Hiding
Rockstar usually buries its logo. In GTA III it is painted on the helicopter on the roof of Kenji's Casino with the words Rockstar Games printed underneath, and it turns up again on the cap of the pedestrian with the headphones. Meanwhile a news ticker on Staunton Island advertises « GTA 3 OUT NOW » to the person playing GTA III, and a billboard promises « See you in Miami! » a year before Vice City existed.
A notice on a wall in an alley behind the south-western block of Bedford Point, reading « You werent supposed to be able to get here you know », with the apostrophe missing. The alley has no ordinary entrance: you reach it by driving a small car up a flight of stairs and jumping between rooftops.
How do you reach the Ghost Town in GTA 3?
Take a Dodo, leave the city limits and fly due north for a few minutes. Town names appear on your radar where there is nothing to land on. They are the names of Rockstar developers turned into place names, and no buildings exist there. The towns are on the map and not in the world.
Why is there a Rockstar logo on Kenji's Casino?
On the helicopter parked on the roof, with the words Rockstar Games written underneath. Rockstar normally hides its logo in places that take effort to find. This one is signed.
Does GTA 3 reference the Driver games?
Directly. A mission called Two-Faced Tanner has you kill a character named after Driver's protagonist, and Rockstar gave him a woman's walking animation as a reference to reviews that mocked how the real Tanner moved.
Did GTA 3 announce Vice City?
In a way. A billboard in Liberty City reads « See you in Miami! », and Vice City, a version of Miami, was the next game in the series.
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