Crime is Grand Theft Auto's whole M.O. You hijack cars, get into shootouts, break into airports, and occasionally run over pedestrians while trying to overtake some poor sap on the sidewalk. But a night in jail — or even just the hospital — washes away your murderous sins.
Escaping the police is half the fun of GTA's no-consequences open world. But we would've been doing a lot more of that had former Rockstar developer Obbe Vermeij had his way. As reported by GamesRadar, he originally designed it so that running a red light in GTA 3 would get you a one-star wanted level. But this idea was quickly scrapped because it "was not popular with the team."
During GTA 3, I gave players a one star wanted level for running red lights. This was not popular with the team. I quickly removed it.
It's a fun idea in theory. We've all gotten so bored that we started following traffic laws in GTA, stopping at red lights and meandering like an NPC. But if you want to get across the map in a hurry, you'll inevitably run red lights, which would have meant a constant one star wanted level that would...
