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Caterina Sforza, one of the game's major allies and a romantic interest for Ezio, was the real illegitimate daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, the same Duke of Milan whose assassination kicks off the story.
Halo 3's multiplayer wasn't just a launch-week phenomenon. By March 2009, more than one billion online matches had been played across the game, and it had gone on to sell over 14.5 million copies in total, making it one of the best-selling titles of its console generation.
When Ezio first meets his uncle Mario Auditore, Mario greets him with "It's-a-me! Mario!", a direct lift of the first line spoken by Mario in Super Mario 64.
GTA V was the first game in the series to let players simultaneously control three separate protagonists: Michael, Franklin, and Trevor. Each character required their own voice recording, motion capture sessions, animations, and dedicated mission strands, a huge driver of the game's production cost.
