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Top-down perspective was evidently featured in GTA1 and GTA2, but fell out of use when GTA III introduced [[RenderWare|an improved graphics engine]] and freeform camera view that enabled players to better move around and explore the environment. GTA III retained top-down perspective as a camera option, but as an alternate view. A year later, the view was dropped in GTA Vice City. | Top-down perspective was evidently featured in GTA1 and GTA2, but fell out of use when GTA III introduced [[RenderWare|an improved graphics engine]] and freeform camera view that enabled players to better move around and explore the environment. GTA III retained top-down perspective as a camera option, but as an alternate view. A year later, the view was dropped in GTA Vice City. | ||
Only three titles since GTA III have featured top-down perspective as a camera option, two of which are not titles traditionally developed by [[Rockstar North]] (DMA Designs). [[Grand Theft Auto Advance]], developed by [[Digital Eclipse]], opted for top-down perspective as its camera view due to hardware limitations on the Game Boy Advance; the PC version of [[Grand Theft Auto IV]] also features an "overhead" view as one of its camera views on its Video Editor, but does not adopt it in actual gameplay; while [[Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars]], developed by [[Rockstar Leeds]], is slated to include a hybrid of the view with a forward-viewing angle. | Only three titles since GTA III have featured top-down perspective as a camera option, two of which are not titles traditionally developed by [[Rockstar North]] (DMA Designs). [[Grand Theft Auto Advance]], developed by [[Digital Eclipse]], opted for top-down perspective as its camera view due to hardware limitations on the Game Boy Advance; the PC version of [[Grand Theft Auto IV]] also features an "overhead" view as one of its camera views on its [[Video Editor]], but does not adopt it in actual gameplay; while [[Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars]], developed by [[Rockstar Leeds]], is slated to include a hybrid of the view with a forward-viewing angle. | ||
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Image:Top-down perspective (GTA1).jpg|Top-down perspective in [[Grand Theft Auto 1]]. | |||
Image:Top-down perspective (GTA2).jpg|Top-down perspective in [[Grand Theft Auto 2]]. | |||
Image:Top-down perspective (GTA3).jpg|Top-down perspective in [[Grand Theft Auto III]]. | |||
Image:Top-down perspective (GTA4).jpg|Top-down perspective in [[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'s Video Editor. | |||
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