Characters:
According to the Rush Casting Call, a lot of characters names were changed, though it’s likely that these names were just cover ups for the final ones. Here are the names which were mentioned:
- Trevor Philips – Simon
- Michael De Santa – Albert De Silva
- Steve Haines – Mitch Hayes
- Andreas Sanchez – Miguel Gonzalez
- Wade Hebert – Clyde
- Brother Adrian – Brother Adam
- Barry – Eddie
- Jimmy De Santa – Kevin De Silva
- Simeon Yetarian – Harut Vartanyan
- Ron Jakowski – Nervous Jerry
- Dave Norton – Calvin North
- Lester Crest – Jerry Cole
- Tao Cheng – Tae Wong
- Cheng’s translator – Tae’s Translator
- As seen in trailer #1, Michael had green eyes. In the Michael trailer, he had brown eyes. Although they were changed back to green in the final version.
- In addition to this, Michael looked older and had more wrinkles and more gray hair.
- Franklin had a lighter skin and looked more Hispanic than African-American.
- Cheetah and Chastity has a phone number, which was somewhat removed from the final version of the game, they can still be called but they have no dialogue.
- Ron Jakowski wore a different outfit in the second trailer.
- Franklin Clinton was meant to wear a helmet during the Dom missions, and was able to wear different undershirt.
Clothing:
- In Franklin’s trailer, Denise Clinton can be seen originally having a different appearance with a different hairstyle, glasses and a green hoodie representing the Families but was changed before the game’s release.
- In The Long Stretch, Lamar Davis originally wore his green cap backwards, and his T-shirt had a logo ofSan Andreas Magnetics on it as seen in Franklin’s trailer.
- In Prologue, Trevor’s and Brad’s Balaclava had a different design.
- In Did Somebody Say Yoga?, Amanda wore a white robe and towel on her head as if she got out of the shower.
Missions:
- Franklin was originally supposed to take Trevor’s role in Caida Libre.
- Franklin and Lamar took place at night.
- In the second trailer, Trevor Philips was seen driving the Crusader out the back of the Cargo Plane inMinor Turbulence, but was switched by driving a Mesa out the Cargo Plane.
- Caida Libre was originally going to be called Vinewood Babylon.
- Three’s Company was originally going to be called The Extraction.
- Hood Safari was originally going to be called Urban Safari.
- In the gameplay trailer, Simeon Yetarian was Employee of the Month. This was possibly done to conceal Franklin’s surname prior to release.
- The Jewel Store Job was originally going to be called Pest Control. The loud approach involved balaclavas instead of helmets.
- There would have been an extra heist involving the 3 protagonists robbing a rich guys mansion dressed as clowns or mimes stealing artwork and kidnapping his wife (probably merged with the Madrazo sub-plot). The name of the heist was called: The Sharmoota Job.
- There was possibly another heist involving a ‘Heat’- style bank robbery where the 3 protagonists dressed in suits and balaclavas had a massive shoot-out with the LSPD in the LS Downtown core (Probably removed due to similarities with the GTA IV mission Three Leaf Clover – A screenshot with Michael in a white suit not available in the game and numerous artworks with the 3 protagonists dressed in suits and balaclavas can be found)
- The Heat styled heist was possibly a beta version of the Big Score: Loud approach.
- The mission Pack Man took place in the Davis Strawberry area instead of Paleto Bay (seen in screenshots and the second trailer).
- A mission involving Michael stealing a fighter jet for Solomon was cut.
- Michael originally used the normal pistol during the mission Three’s Company.
- A mission involving the use of a Forklift was cut.
- A mission that including a appearance of Brucie Kibbutz was cut, since he is fully modeled for GTA V and has a voice appearance in GTA Online.
- Vigilante Missions removed.
- Drug Dealing was cut for Grand Theft Auto Online.
- Pimping was removed.
- Mini-Games like Basketball, Air Hockey, Pool, Bowling, weightlifting, and stealing/ exporting were cut.
- The Hunting side mission originally had a different HUD.
- Michael had a 2 cut random encounters, both with a lady called Magenta, she still appears in game at the start of the mission The Long Stretch.
- Franklin had 2 more sets of random encounters, 2 for a man called Dale, and another 5 between 2 fighting neighbours.
- Wade was meant to have Juggalo makeup in the initial cutscene for The Merryweather Heist freight method.
- Trevor, Lamar and Franklin would of worn Bandanas in Hood Safari, but Lamar and Franklin wore bandanas in the Franklin’s trailer.
- Stretch didn’t wear his cap in The Long Stretch, also the mission started at late night originally instead of late evening.
Animals:
- Chop originally wore just a plain brown collar (as seen in screenshots and trailers).
- There were more dog breeds (eg. Huskies, Files can be found).
- Horses was meant to appear in the game, meaning that they most likely would of been seen in theVinewood Racetrack (removed for unknown reasons, as files “left over” could have been similar to Red Dead Redemption).
City:
- La Puerta and the La Puerta Freeway was planned to be named Los Puerta and the Los Puerta Freeway, but it was changed because of the incorrect translation from Spanish.The Grand Senora Desert was originally much bigger.Road signs mentioning Los Puerta can still be found in Elysian Island.
- Route 68 was originally going to be named Route 69. The Route 69 badge can be seen however.
- Madrazo’s house in the hills does have an interior, how ever it is of low quality and you can’t Access it. It has two floors. The beta version seemed more detailed and it looked like it would of had allowed you to go inside of it.
- Los Santos Elementary School shown in Sue Murry’s campaigning got changed to as the training center for the ULSA in Richman.