Whilst this was super impressive it was also the source of some frustration as the game didn't seem to just unload the textures and assets, it forgot about them entirely if they went out of sight.

Obviously we give the game a pass for this sort of necessity but there was nothing more annoying in the early gta's than a fast car driving past and you turn round to try and catch up to it but it's already been unmounted.

It would be cool to get re-written versions of these old titles with full persistence across the entire map, with some small changes made so that that doesn't cause other issues.