Grand Theft Auto started life as a dinosaur tech experiment

There are many things that come to mind when thinking about the Grand Theft Auto series. The characters, the settings, the weapons and cars, an awful lot of chaos - I could go on.

However, one image that probably isn't immediately conjured up in your head when thinking about Rockstar's long-standing franchise is a whopping great big dinosaur rampaging the streets. And yet, this is actually the sort of game Grand Theft Auto started life off as.

Speaking to the BBC alongside the series' 25th anniversary, developer Colin Macdonald revealed "GTA went through a lot of different iterations and [had] quite a troubled development", stating the first game "wasn't really regarded well for most of the time it was in production."

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