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==Official Support==
==Official Support==
While Rockstar did include multiplayer support with the free download release of [[GTA2]] for the PC, no modern GTA game yet has featured a true officially supported multiplayer mode whereby people from anywhere in the world can play against each other over the Internet. There have been hints that official support was going to be implemented in ''[[GTA3]''], however nothing materialised from it, although snippets of text from the game's GXT language file has some hints of a planned but cancelled multiplayer option. Small implementations have been made in other GTA games and are detailed below.
While Rockstar did include multiplayer support with the free download release of [[GTA 2]] for the PC, no modern GTA game yet has featured a true officially supported multiplayer mode whereby people from anywhere in the world can play against each other over the Internet. There have been hints that official support was going to be implemented in ''[[GTA III]]'', however nothing materialised from it, although snippets of text from the game's GXT language file has some hints of a planned but cancelled multiplayer option. Small implementations have been made in other GTA games and are detailed below.


===GTA2===
===GTA2===
The first game to officially support multiplayer modes was the [[PC]] version of [[GTA2]] which was released as a free download in December 2004.
The first game to officially support multiplayer modes was the [[PC]] version of GTA 2 which was released as a free download in December 2004.


===GTA3===
===GTA III===
It is now known that the PC version of [[Grand Theft Auto 3]] was at one point going to have a multiplayer mode. However, for whatever reason, it appears that the developers at [[Rockstar North]] (then [[DMA Design]]) decided to stop developing the feature.
It is now known that the PC version of Grand Theft Auto III was at one point going to have a multiplayer mode. However, for whatever reason, it appears that the developers at [[Rockstar North]] (then [[DMA Design]]) decided to stop developing the feature.
This is evidenced by the fact that one can view textures related to multiplayer mode menu screens in the file ''models/menu.txd'' which can be opened using a [[TXD]] viewer. Additionally, strings found in the game's [[GXT]] files suggest some of the modes and options that would have been available, shown by this excerpt from the ''american.gxt'' file:
This is evidenced by the fact that one can view textures related to multiplayer mode menu screens in the file ''models/menu.txd'' which can be opened using a [[TXD]] viewer. Additionally, strings found in the game's [[GXT]] files suggest some of the modes and options that would have been available, shown by this excerpt from the ''american.gxt'' file:
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