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by growt 135 days ago
An interesting fact about the early GTA games is that they owe their success to a bug. The cop cars were supposed to behave nicely like in every other game, but due to a bug in pathfinding they just drive straight into the players car. So at least to some extend the whole billion dollar franchise owes its success to a bug: https://medium.com/@bdunn313/the-psycho-cop-bug-de9121335cf9
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It's true while also hiding a lot of the truth.

It's a bug... That happened during development, and when they saw it decided to keep it and make it normal behavior.

It's not like they released the game without noticing the cop cars were super aggressive.