Not to be confused with Floater, a boat in The Ballad of Gay Tony.
The Float[1] was a carnival float that was cut from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Description[]
There are no leftover models or textures for the Float, except for its handling data.[2]
According to old scrapped american.gxt
lines left in a notusedtext.txt
file by the developers (and accidentally left in the files of the original release of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition), the vehicle was a carnival float and was intended to be appear in a removed mission for the Caligula's Palace, in which Carl Johnson would escort a VIP to the casino while being pursued by one of the rival Mafia families.
{-------------------------- DESERT 12 ---------------------------} [MAF1_11:MAFIA1] Driver: Uh.. [MAF1_12:MAFIA1] Protect the VIP at all costs, take out the RPG's first. [MAF1_13:MAFIA1] VIP: My men are getting cut down Carl! [MAF1_14:MAFIA1] Player: Hang tight! [MAF1_15:MAFIA1] VIP: To our left! [MAF1_16:MAFIA1] VIP: To our right! [MAF1_17:MAFIA1] VIP: Infront of us! [MAF1_18:MAFIA1] VIP: Behind us! [MAF1_21:MAFIA1] "Hey Carl, get that bike!" [MAF1_22:MAFIA1] Watch over the carnival floats The mafia are disguised on top of them. The mafia will jump off the float and attempt to kill the vip. [MAF1_23:MAFIA1] Only take a shoot when you see one of them make a run for the VIP. [MAF1_24:MAFIA1] The mafia driver is getting away chase him down! [MAF1_25:MAFIA1] VIP died!
The original appearance of the Float is foreshadowed during the mission Snail Trail, where Eddie Pulaski is reading a San Andreas Post newspaper with the headline "Las Venturas... [illegible text] ...carnival".[3]