Grand Theft Auto V may be the hottest game on the market, but remember the first Grand Theft Auto? Game creator Michael Dailly does, and he is bringing gamers back to Liberty City with a 3D remake of the original Grand Theft Auto.

The world of 1997's Grand Theft Auto was much different than Los Santos, the setting for the record-breaking sequel, Grand Theft Auto V.

"The original Grand Theft Auto was a top-down action game that got its fair share of criticism for having visuals best described as 'functional' rather than impressive, and a difficulty level that was through the roof," USgamer said.

Despite its primitiveness, the game was still good enough for four sequels to be made, and now Dailly wants to make the game even better with a first person perspective.

Today, Dailly is a developer for YoYo Games, the creator of GameMaker: Studio, the tool Dailly is using for his remake.

"Dailly's remake uses YoYo Games' GameMaker Studio package as the rendering engine, but has built the map loader and primitive builder systems from scratch," UsGamer reports. "Currently, the engine runs in both HTML5 and WebGL (both of which are 'plugin-free' Web technologies) at 60 frames per second -- a considerable performance increase over the original game."

Dailly will not release the 3D version of Grand Theft Auto to the public because Rockstar owns the rights to the game, Metro reports. According to UsGamer, however, "once it's all done, he says, he'll decide what to do with it."

Follow Dailly's journey to a 3D Liberty City via his Twitter page.

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