[ On lack of multiplayer ] Of course, this was something we thought long and hard about, but in the end it was a fairly simple decision. We feel the single player experience - the game as it is - is very revolutionary - the number of different types of gameplay - driving, running, shooting a huge variety of weapons, interacting with npcs, holding up shops, exploring something bordering on a fully developed game world, driving boats and so on, and above all the seamless way it is integrated into one game represents a step forward for action games. [...] We just didn't feel we could make similar advances for a multiplayer game. To do justice to the key concepts of GTA, non- linearity, seamless moving between the action, attitude and complete immersion into a funny game world, we have to do something more than just death match, and to do that will take a lot of time.