A skin is basically what textures the model of the character you play as in the game. Skins were the first mods made for the game. Some, though, decided to take a look 'under the hood' of the game.
The first few days passed and the only message board posts that appeared over at then known as were error-related or gameplay questions. Crashes could happen in lots of scenarios and there was controversy over the system requirements not being right. When GTA III was released for the PC in May of 2002, it was plagued with lots of problems.
