Rockstar Games osaa tehdä myös urheilupelejä, vaikka heitä ei siitä yleensä muistetakaan. VGC:n mukaan Rockstar päätyi melkein tekemään painipelejä 1990-luvun lopulla.
Youtubessa Hard4Games haastatteli painija Tommy Dreameria pelistä ECW Hardcore Revolution, joka piti saada ulos vuonna 2000. Ilmoille on nimittäin karannut nyt varhaista materiaalia pelistä. Dreamer olisi ollut mukana pelissä.
ECW meni lopulta konkkaan vuonna 2001, ja Rockstar laski maailman iloksi pelin Grand Theft Auto III.
"There was a fan, who worked for this company, and they were like 'man, we want this ECW game to be our number two behind this other game, and it's revolutionary, it's a perfect fit for ECW. They all came to an ECW Arena show and this one guy was such a big fan, and all this stuff was supposed to happen. They [said], 'we just need our one game to hit, and if that game hits you will be our next game.'"
"And we couldn't wait due to financial reasons, because Acclaim had lost its license for WWE, so now they offered us money on the back end as opposed to the front end. But that other game, that if it hit we were going to take off - that game and that franchise was Grand Theft Auto. And you think about how ECW would have fit that whole genre, and that guy was Kevin Gill, who worked there, he was a big ECW fan."
Youtubessa TruHeelHeatWrestling teki hieman lisäkyselyä, ja Rockstarilla töissä ollut Kevin Gill osasi kertoa samanlaisen tarinan painiskelun mahdollisuudesta.
"I actually put together a deal for Rockstar Games to do the ECW video game. I had put together a deal with [ECW owner] Paul Heyman, we had a series of meetings, and one weekend I rented a van and brought the whole Rockstar Games team, like a 15-passenger van, and brought everyone down to the ECW Arena in Philly to see it in person."
"[ECW]'s financial situation was getting very shaky and at that time, this is 1998, could have been 1999, all the talent was leaving. There were a lot of questions in the [wrestling press] about talent being owed money and those types of things. And video games take so many years to develop, and cost so much to develop. It was put to me like, 'do you think ECW will be around in two and a half or three years when we put out this game?.'"