GTA III's intro cutscene takes place in a fully modeled street called 'Cutscene Road' that exists in the actual game world, hidden north of Shoreside Vale. Because it was only meant for the opening movie, the ground has no collision — you fall right through it. Players didn't discover it until someone figured out how to make the Dodo fly far enough to reach it.
Source: Cutscene Road — CC BY-SA
A distant view of GTA III's Ghost Town, the hidden zone where Cutscene Road lies — unreachable by normal means.
A deli and pizza joint built solely for the intro cutscene — step on it and you'll clip right through.
A video store sitting on Cutscene Road — fully visible in the intro, physically hollow in-game.
The east view of Cutscene Road itself — Claude walks it in the intro, then it vanishes from Liberty City.
Liberty City Bank on Cutscene Road — a fully modeled building never meant for player boots.
Litter detail on Cutscene Road — Rockstar went all out on props nobody would see for years.
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