 You now you've pissed someone
off when your game gets banned and prohibited in several countries and a couple of
U.S. cities. When DMA Design
released it's original jack-a-ride and do some crime game, Grand Theft Auto that
is exactly what they were facing. The game was illegal to sell in several places around
the globe and frowned upon just about everywhere else. Computer superstore, CompUSA even
refused to carry it on it's shelves when the game was first released. Well, DMA Design is
back teamed up with Rockstar Games
this time to release the sequel to it's original contraversial game.
Grand Theft Auto 2 will follow the same game plan as the original, it's just been
expanded upon with quite a few enhancements. The game will be set in a alternative Los
Angeles where everyone drives around in snazzy retro-50's vehicles, but outbreaks of gang
warfare is bring the town to it's knee's. The same car-jacking, police-outrunning, and
mowing down of pedestrians -type fun is back in GTA 2, this new design and setting will
just allow the developers to get quite a bit more complex with the levels and allow the
action to be more widespread. Your missions will now range from parking lots, construction
sites, malls, trailer parks and prisons. There will be 68 different vehicles in the game,
varying from the hot new sports coupe to the old, clunky ice cream truck, minivans,
garbage trucks, and tractor trailers. There are some new weapons such as grenades, stun
guns, landmines, molotov cocktails and shot guns but some of the original weapons from the first
game have returned including a new and improved flame thrower. Gangs now play a larger
role in the game as you have to earn respect in a gang to get more missions. If you happen
to piss off a gang by screwing up a couple of missions or killing gang members, then
you're going to have some trouble with fellow members of that gang in the future. The same
top-down perspective as in the original is being used for GTA 2, but a more powerful
graphics engine is being implemented. A native resolution of 640x480 in 16-bit color will
be set as the default, but support for Glide, Direct3D and colored lighting will also be
added to the game. Be sure to watch for the controversy Grand Theft Auto 2 will
bring when it is released, currently on a schedule for October 1999. For Now, you can
download a demo from Rockstar Games to tide you over. Get the demo at Rockstar's
Demo's Download page here.
Grand
Theft Auto 2
by Rockstar Games
RELEASE DATE: October 22nd, 1999 |
