Grand Theft Auto Retrospective

Sadkey writes "In light of the release of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories for the PSP, UGO has posted a retrospective around the GTA games. "Come take a trip through time, and see how a franchise went from a cult hit to a cultural phenomenon, set the tone for an entire generation, and made open-ended gameplay a buzzword of the early 21st century. It's a long, bumpy ride, but at the end, Grand Theft Auto stands tall as the game that changed everything.' ." I remember playing the top down GTAs and just loving it. Great games.

I miss...

[nmb3000]

Two words: Kill Frenzy!

Top down was ok....

[austinpoet]

But i've learned to prefer the 'from behind' view

Re:Top down was ok....

[Cerdic]

Agreed... Missionary position can get dull all the time.

The real question is...

[rob_squared]

...when will they release Grand Theft Auto: Model T Ford edition when you travel the early 20th century speeding around at 15 miles an hour and running illegal moonshine.

Stop it!

[Com2Kid]

Stop it stop it stop it! You are making me feel old! I am only 21, it was NOT that long ago damnit!

Ok so I did spend two entire days downloading GTA from a Warez site over dialup 2MB zip file by 2MB zip file.....

Ouch that was awhile back wasn't it...

Re:The real question is...

[zxnos]

the model t could hit 45 mph. [wikipedia.org] the problem was getting impaled by the steering column. but with the moonshine flowing, you should feel fine.

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Net play

[lampiaio]

One of the best bugs^H^H^H^H features of the first two GTAs was the fun-packed, sync-less net play! I remember playing it in my school's computer lab (which had a very laggy network) with other "students":

Player 1: HA! Burn, mother fucker!
Player 2: What do you mean? I just ran over you!
Player 3: Hey guys, will you stop walking towards the building's walls?

the good side was that everybody always won.

Re:If you really miss top down that much...

[timothykaine]

... then change the camera angle to top-down. I know it exists on the Xbox in GTA3. I use it from time to time when the 3d cpu-controlled camera shows its main weakness, off-angle views.

Or I suppose you could keep complaining. That might work.

Two words..

[Anonymous Coward]

Mario Crimespree.

Re:Stop it!

[Com2Kid]

They already don't believe me about the command line!

Heck a lot of people don't even believe me when I tell them that Windows used to crash every 10 minutes, rather regularly.

Arg! It is like people are starting to expect their computers to work or something!

Re:What I'd Like To See

[Rydia]

More games like Shenmue? So what you'd really like to see is more Sailors?

Re:Eh?

[FidelCatsro]

"But if you take gaming that seriously, maybe you should stick to mario 64. ;)"

That is all well and good , till someone jumps on your head , flattens your family and steals all your gold coins .

MMORPG

[todd10k]

Only a matter of time till someone takes this and runs with it. I mean, christ, think how amazing it would be to play online against 5000+ other people trying to steal your car. Driving along, heading to do a mission, and BAM, your radio, pants, wristwatch, and anal virginity get stolen.

Re:Eh?

[Nuskrad]

Jeez, name me a book not prefixed with "The BabySitters Club" that does not contain violence, drugs, sex, profanity, greed, lust... etc. Thats what makes life interesting.

The Holy Bib... oh wait

Re:Priceless

[geeber]

Actually they are my friend, unfortunately the editor I originally scribed the piece in evidently got smitten with evil and in a sinister act of fowl play striped my post of line breaks and as it seems, mangled some text. Thank you for your helpful observations and insights.

Hey, just trying to help a little. I can sympathize, though. I too hate it when barnyard animals screw up a perfectly good post!