Vice City was the GTA that established Rockstar's killer formula - and 24 years on, it's still one of the best games ever made

"Get the limey out of here," Burt Reynolds tells the producers of GTA: Vice City during a recording session for the game, as Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser enters the studio. "I'm not going to work if this limey Brit is in here!" Houser refuses to leave, so the story goes - he just came down to meet one of his heroes! - and he and Reynolds end up chest-to-chest, about to come to blows, before a studio engineer breaks up the fight.

I can't verify the truth of this story. It's one of those development rumours that's been around for a long time, originally written in a book about how games conquered pop culture called "All Your Base Are Belong to Us" by Harold Goldberg. But I like to believe it's true, because in this one moment, the two crucial strands of GTA: Vice City's DNA helix together: its star power and Rockstar's arrogance.