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Due to the success of the Grand Theft Auto series, notably Grand Theft Auto III and subsequent games, several other developers have attempted to emulate GTA's driving/shooting formula and open-ended sandbox game style play. Subsequently, the term "GTA Clone" has come into use by video game critics and players alike to refer to the many titles released following the massive success of Grand Theft Auto III in 2001, which attempt to emulate the gameplay style of games from the Grand Theft Auto series. More specifically, a GTA Clone is often an action sandbox game that usually contains a large free-roaming map that can be explored on foot or in a vehicle, as well as a large crime element with a crime-related storyline and missions.

Notable games that are sometimes seen as GTA Clones are Crackdown, True Crime: Streets of LA and True Crime: New York City,[26][27] Saints Row[28] and Scarface: The World Is Yours.[29]


Billboard in GTA: San Andreas mocking True Crime: Streets of LA.As a result of such similarities, Rockstar has placed several Easter eggs to mock the competition. One such Easter egg in GTA III references Tanner, the protagonist of several games in the Driver series. In a mission called "Two Faced Tanner" players must kill a "strangely animated" undercover cop who is "useless out of his car" (they even go so far as to give the pseudo Tanner a female pedestrian's walking animation).

In GTA: Vice City, during the mission "Autocide", the targets that the player 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 sticking water wing-wearing characters named Timmy Vermicellis, after the protagonist of Vice City, Tommy Vercetti, since none of the protagonists in the GTA series could swim before GTA: San Andreas.

In GTA: San Andreas, while breaking into Madd Dogg's mansion, players will see a man playing a video game and making fun of the way the main character walks stating "How could Refractions [a parody of Reflections Interactive] mess up so bad? Tanner, you suck ass!!" (Tanner's walking animations were often criticized.) Another San Andreas Easter egg mocks True Crime, which was depicted on several billboards in the city of Los Santos, in addition to the "TRUEGRIME" garbage truck cheat code, which also mocks the game.


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Driver
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The Getaway (series)
True Crime
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