Grand Theft Auto IV (PC)/Unused Textures

Unused Textures
There are plenty of unused textures hidden in the game's files.

Boat Map Icon


An unused map icon representing a boat. Its file name is, suggesting that a boat tour service was once available in the game.

Well Stacked Pizza Company


An unused texture of a Well Stacked Pizza Company pizza box. In-game, the only traces of this shop are some of the workers, who work for another pizza shop called Pizza This.

Phone Place-holders
Four unused place-holder images can be found in the phone's  files.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Found at the  directory, in the   file, are 19 leftover texture files from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

These consist of various vehicle textures, such as license plates, lights, steering wheels, tires and police livery.

The aforementioned files being present adds credibility to suggest that Grand Theft Auto IV was literally developed directly from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

It's not clear why these specific files are leftover, as opposed to any other files being leftover. However, it's feasible to suggest that they were perhaps used as filler material to test the R.A.G.E. system early on during Grand Theft Auto IV's development.

Unused Store
There is a texture for a billboard of what appears to be the Binco store from past GTA games in the game's files. The area depicted in it is the Russian clothing store in the final game.

PS3 Controller Icons
The PC version of this game contains the file buttons_ps3.wtd, and frontend_ps3.wtd which is located in \pc\textures. The buttons_ps3.wtd contains textures for every key and button, including the Sixaxis tutorial icons for the PlayStation 3 controller. The frontend_ps3.wtd contains a whole ps3 controller to show the controls which is not supported in either the PC or Xbox 360 versions. This is probably just a leftover from porting the game from the consoles to PC.



Cut Visual Effects?
Found at the  directory is a   file,   in size. It appears to be an empty, unused texture(s) file which contains no data that could be used in-game. Furthermore, opening the file using a text editor reveals nothing more than a short line of nondescript text.