It’s easy to forget that Grand Theft Auto is a game ostensibly about cars. That the ‘auto’ in the title is short for ‘automobile’, rather than ‘automatic weaponry’. Or perhaps ‘autopsy backlog’. Or even ‘auto-erotic hand gesture’. I’ve seen that one a few times after losing a round of Team Deathmatch in GTA Online.
Back when the concept for the original Grand Theft Auto was percolating inside the massive brains of some 1990s video game developers, it had the extremely twee working title of Race’n’Chase, which suggested even greater emphasis on driving and less on unloading an entire magazine of ammunition on a group of mobsters.
