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[[Image:TrueGrimeStreetCleaners-GTASA-billboard.jpg|240px|right|thumb|Billboard in ''GTA: San Andreas'' mocking ''True Crime: Streets of LA''.]]

In Grand Theft Auto III, [[Claude]] is tasked with a mission called "[[Two-Faced Tanner]]", where they must kill an undercover cop (that [[Asuka Kasen|Asuka]] describes as "strangely animated"). This "Tanner" character is described as being "totally useless outside of his car", a reference to the uselessness of on-foot action in ''Driver 2''. Rockstar even went as far as to give Tanner a female walking animation.

In [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]], during the mission "[[Autocide]]", the targets that [[Tommy Vercetti]] must kill are subtle references to the main characters of ''Driver 2'' (Dick Tanner, after Tanner), ''The Getaway'' (Marcus Hammond and Franco Carter, after Mark Hammond and Frank Carter), and ''True Crime: Streets of LA'' (Nick Kong, after Nick Kang Wilson). ''DRIV3R'' responded by including ten hidden enemies named "Timmy Vermicelli" (after Vice City protagonist Tommy Vercetti), who wore waterwings, since no one in the GTA series could [[swim]] before GTA: San Andreas.

As a mockery of ''DRIV3R'', GTA San Andreas included a mission where, while [[Madd Dogg's Rhymes|breaking into]] [[Madd Dogg]]'s [[Madd Dogg's Crib|mansion]], there is a man playing a video game and making fun of the way the main character walks (Tanner's walking animations were often criticized) and asking how "Refractions" (A spoof of Reflections Interactive, the designers of the ''Driver ''Series) could "mess up so bad".

Luxoflux, makers of ''True Crime: Streets of L.A.'', also responded by putting up billboards in their game mocking the Rockstar Games logo used to advertise jockstraps around Los Angeles, California. In response to the "Jockstrap" billboard, another ''San Andreas'' Easter egg mocks ''True Crime'', which was depicted on several billboards in the city of [[Los Santos]] as "True Grime". This is also evident in the "TRUEGRIME" vehicle cheat code in ''San Andreas'' that spawns a garbage truck on input, mocking ''True Crime''. [[Home Invasion|One mission]] features Ryder, before entering and robbing a house, crying "Yeah, yeah, we gotta do it ninja style.", a coin phrase for the True Crime protagonist, Nick Kang. And in a cemetery in [[San Fierro]], gravestones with "R.I.P. Opposition, 1997-2004" can be seen, as Rockstar implies that San Andreas has "killed" the competition. Luxoflux again referenced GTA and it's use of remote controlled vehicles in the GTA III era in ''True Crime NYC'', by having the protagonist, Det. Marcus Reed, say at the start of a mission: "Now I gotta be a cab driver for this fool? Next thing you know I'll be flying remote controlled toys and shit."

When Saints Row 2 was released in 2008, Rockstar did not have time to respond as THQ ran a television commercial that mocked [[Grand Theft Auto IV]] of it's [[TV|useless features]]. No controversy became of this, and no actual footage of GTA IV was shown, but the ad did feature the [[Pricedown]] font, which is the font used on all GTA logos since GTA III.