Every time you die you have to run all the way back to the hangar to try again, which makes learning the tricksy ways of the Dodo a real test of patience.

Fail to do so and you'll lose control, and probably end up exploding in a ball of flame, or drowning in the water surrounding the airport. It was just a fun thing that people went crazy with when they figured out various bugs that let them fly it.' It's a tricky process, involving keeping the plane as level as possible by constantly tapping down on the D-pad. 'The Dodo was never meant to be flown much at all. 'We were making a driving and shooting game, and even that was radical at the time,' Rockstar said in a fan Q&A. 'Is that a plane?!' Then I climbed inside and realised that, while it was indeed an aircraft, I couldn't actually get the thing into the air.īut players found a way, and after some searching on the internet I managed to get it aloft and see Liberty City from above. I remember seeing it at the time, and feeling a surge of excitement as I sprinted towards it. The infamous Dodo-appropriately named after the flightless, extinct bird-could be found parked in a hangar at the Francis International Airport after completing a mission called Grand Theft Aero. There is a plane in Grand Theft Auto 3, but it's barely functional, with stubborn controls and clipped wings that make it a nightmare to fly. Helicopters were introduced in Vice City, but it wasn't until San Andreas that we got to fly a plane-or, more accurately, a plane with wings. In the earliest days of Grand Theft Auto's shift to 3D, flight was a luxury.

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