You can view the screenshots here.
I figured the best way to share this is as a folder via a cloud service, since I'll continue to make changes to the collection as I find new screenshots and better variants of the existing ones. I'll talk about each screenshot briefly in this topic to point out interesting details and differences compared to the final version. As a start, here's a brief overview of the game's development:
- Development supposedly started in 1998 and ended in August 2002 when the game was released
- The game was delayed several times
- Initial name for the game was Gangster(s)
- The game initially ran on the Insanity engine, used by Hiden & Dangerous, Illusion Softworks' previous game
- First screenshots were released in May 2000 or so
- In July 2000 the Insanity engine was replaced with a newly made LS3D engine
- The game was presented at E3 2000, 2001 and 2002
- Alpha was finished in October 2001
- Beta testing was done during March 2002
- Multiplayer was planned (the racing game mode was partially developed) but later removed
- Of course loads of other things were either removed or changed substantially before release