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GTA: Sin City Announced 165

Posted by CmdrTaco
Anonymous Howard writes "According to Shacknews, Rockstar has announced Grand Theft Auto: Sin City, a new GTA game that incorporates Frank Miller's Sin City universe. Sounds awesome to me."
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GTA: Sin City Announced

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  • Also... (Score:5, Funny)

    by ackthpt ( 218170 ) on Tuesday April 01, 2003 @05:32PM (#5640938) Homepage Journal
    Also...

    Duke Nukem Forever and Star Wars Galaxies to be combined in monochrome vectorgraphic blowout.

    Sun to drop proprietary line of systems and go paste name on chinese made PC's, to compete with Dell and HP/Compaq

    Windows Longhorn to merge with Linux, Gates finally concedes Open Source the answer to Microsoft's security nightmares.

    AOL/TW turns a profit Q1 2003

    NBC admits acted hastily in Arnett firing, network respects candor and integrity over DoD relations.

    Director Peter Jackson, as quoted in the Los Angeles Times, this morning, "Lord of the Rings:Return of the King will actually be a pretty weak effort, it was just too hard to follow the books acurately and make each into a 3 hour film. We left off a good chunk of The Two Towers and I had no idea how I was going to include that, along with the third book in the next film, so to cut things short, Gandalf casts a spell arming the elves with AR-15's and has Sauron choke on a piece of pretzel. I can't wait to get rid of this stuff and start working on King Kong."

    Unlimited Karma points to return to Slashdot. Hiding them and capping at 50 a terrible mistake, says source.

    IPv4 to include Evil Bit (RFC 3514)

    • You forgot:
      • Hurd ported over to Itanium2
    • "Gandalf casts a spell arming the elves with AR-15's and has Sauron choke on a piece of pretzel. I can't wait to get rid of this stuff and start working on King Kong."

      Later to be re-released: Gandalf casts a spell arming the elves with evil looking walkie-talkies, and Sauron coughs and moves to a farm house in the country.

  • Hmmm (Score:3, Funny)

    by packeteer ( 566398 ) <packeteer@@@subdimension...com> on Tuesday April 01, 2003 @05:32PM (#5640943)
    Sin city... Vice city... whats next "temptation city"?

  • Another dupe (Score:1, Offtopic)

    by corebreech ( 469871 )
    Not yet, but when they repost the story, then it will be a dupe.

  • Riiiiight. (Score:3, Funny)

    by Renraku ( 518261 ) on Tuesday April 01, 2003 @05:34PM (#5640953) Homepage
    Featured in the game are a number of easter eggs. One of which happens on April 1st, which you jack the car you've been wanting for a while, and it immediately turns into a Ford Pinto the second you step into it.

  • hmmm (Score:1)

    by roche ( 135922 )
    On April 1st, i is hard to take anything seriously......
    • This is slashdot. It's hard to take this site seriously ANY day where the editors post duplicate stories that THEY posted while the other is still on the front page (and I'm not talking about today either).
  • ...RockStar should take that idea and run with it! Vice City is great, but after this long, it's starting to get old.

    I'd love nothing more than to toast Wayne Newton with a Flame Tank!

    [ Reply to This ] [tinyurl.com]

    • OK first, I was duped by your fake "[reply to this]" signature. thanks, another look at the goatse.cx guy's ass.

      Anyway, speaking of /old/, someone has been working on MULTIPLAYER for GTA3!! Apparently it's still buggy. I dunno, haven't tried it. Still, seems cool! It's about time! ;)

      http://www.guardians.ch/ggm/ [guardians.ch]

  • What a fucking excellent idea.

    I hope this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, as distant as it seems. Great joke, but I actually think this would be a fantastic setting for a GTA game.

    • Interestingly enough, I BELIEVE that the third city mentioned in the original GTA literature was San Andreas, which is likely either Las Vegas or Los Angeles. The other two were (interestinlgy enough) Vice City and Liberty City.

      This MAY turn out to be true, at least to some extent. I can't really base it on anything other than the literature (which is just hearsay from IGN), but it's definitely worth considering.

      I also found it interesting that there weren't any "see you in :: Next GTA Game City Goes Here
  • This is pretty funny. However by far the best thing I have seen was the April Fool's thread posted on Fark [fark.com] yesterday.

    However somehow I doubt my computer science teacher was so amused after we filled out a sex offender registration form and left it on the ground in his bosses office... :)

  • Uh.. (Score:1)

    by Threni ( 635302 )
    Who is Frank Miller? What is "Sin city"? Perhaps a story should include such salient facts?
    • more importanlt, "whats the date?"

      seriously, if you don't know who Frank Miller is, find a copy of "dark knight returns", and read it.
      then read "sin city".

      yes Dark Knight is a comic, but it has great art. I have never lent a copy out where the person didn't enjoy it, and no I am not a 'Comic guy'.

  • This date sucks.... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by miketang16 ( 585602 ) on Tuesday April 01, 2003 @05:39PM (#5640982) Journal
    I might as well just ignore all news stories until tomorrow... =P
    • Actually, you're going to have problems for a whole month as real news orginazations, which have cut staff to the bone and no longer use fact-checkers, get duped by online April Fool's jokes and recycle them as actual news. It'll be bad for a while and then peter out, but even nine months from now one of these fake stories will pop up at a credible news site.

  • Not this time (Score:5, Funny)

    by Elvisisdead ( 450946 ) on Tuesday April 01, 2003 @05:40PM (#5640986) Homepage Journal
    I ain't going to play Sin City.

  • GTA: Sun City (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Now you can hit the eldery right where they live [suncity.com]! Rob them, rape them, even kill them any time you want. Best of all, their horrible driving adds a whole new edge to the game.
    • Heh, that's just what I was thinking! Drive around at 15 miles an hour with your turn signal blinking, make left turns from the right lane, periodically jam on the accelerator instead of the brake... (In Florida, accidents caused by that last one are known as SEA's, Sudden Elderly Accelerations.)

      If that doesn't make the restricted list in Germany, I don't know what will!

  • How is this any different from vice city?
  • More animated violence for protestors and parents of 8 year olds to rally against... Funny how age ratings rarely affect playable audience.
  • ... what does this have to do with the "Evil" bit? I mean, only four posts? Where's number 5!?!?

  • How about GTA: Sim City? (Score:5, Funny)

    by BlaKnail ( 545030 ) <blindspot @ n i m h.net> on Tuesday April 01, 2003 @05:42PM (#5641003)
    I'd like to see a Maxis/Rockstar collaboration...

    Two players: The benevolent mayor building up his vision of a city, while the Mafia Don works to bring it down with crime.
    • Nah, just one player, trying to make this city the most successful by any means necessary. Not getting enough taxes to pay for police? Go collect some protection money. Slums getting too dangerous to do your taxi missions in? Time for urban renewal.
    • What Sim City needs is a new zone. Like a red light district.

      You can use it to map tiles like any other zone, except that for realism is has to be attached to an industrial or commercial zone. Because it's legit, the city tresury gets a cut of the action.

      It'd be the biggest simoleon maker in Maxis history.

      Though the red light district is not without it's problems. You'd need to open more clinics to deal with STD's and you'd need more police presense than usual to help deal with potential problems( like u

  • Damn.... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Lord_Slepnir ( 585350 ) on Tuesday April 01, 2003 @05:45PM (#5641019) Journal
    When I first read it, I read it as "GTA: Sim City". I thought, damn, that would be cool. Create a city in Simcity 4000, then export it to GTA, and run around killing stuff. Kind of like "Streets of Sim City", only with more mindless violence. But alas, same old game, new city.
    • Or better yet, create a simcity and watch it divide into gangs and let the gangwars ensue!
    • I read it as "GTA: Sim City".

      Of course, everyone who bought the original Sim City were thinking the same thing, except with Sim and Sin transposed in the opposite way, the joke being that their minds were dirty and not geekish, rather than geekish and not dirty as you propose. Furthermore, it can be shown the two are not naturally opposed but possibly reconciled through a modern synthesis etcetera and so forth ad absurdum ad nauseam...
    • When I first read it, I thought it was "GTA: My wife is the biggest bitch in history and I should spend all the money in the checking account to spite her."

      But when I got back from the car dealership, I realized my mistake. Silly me.
  • In either case, there is some discussion going on at www.gta-sa.com [gta-sa.com] as to where the next GTA game will be and more...

  • Is this a joke or not? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by xchino ( 591175 ) on Tuesday April 01, 2003 @05:46PM (#5641025)

    I can't seem to see anything that says this is just a prank, so if it is, it's a very poor one. Why wouldn't they do something like this? It's a good idea and apparently alot of people want to see it happen. It's also completely feasible, as the engine already exists, so it's just a matter of setting/plot/graphics. Also, this is about the lamest holiday ever to celebrate, and Slashdot is taking it way too far. I played a prank on my co workers, today. I didn't play 15 throughout the day, 4 of which were the same one.
    • "the real site is down" yeah, they're going to announce it today and the real site is down. Whatever.

    • The existence of another GTA game has been known ever since the Rockstar Games financial conference call. Furthermore, Rockstar Games has put out GTA games for the last two years around that time of the year. There's no reason to suspect that they wouldn't put out another one.

      Also, Rockstar Games' webserver was slaughtered when they released the original GTA for free, so the "slashdotted" nature of the site speaks nothing about the truth of this news. Shacknews also is quite reputable.

    • I can't seem to see anything that says this is just a prank, so if it is, it's a very poor one.
      From "whois -h whois.enom.com gtasincity.com", we see that the domain contact is some random guy at a UK hosting site, who has an aol.com email address. From "whois -h whois.register.com gtavicecity.com", we see that the domain contact is... the administrator for Rockstar Games.

      So, you may not see anything that says this is just a prank, but I sure do.
    • It's another April Fool's joke, it's just not Slashdot's. I did have to read the article a while to be sure, though.
    • if it is, it's a very poor one. Why wouldn't they do something like this? It's a good idea and apparently alot of people want to see it happen.

      Which is part of why it IS a good prank. While it didn't fool me (I'm too cynical to believe anything that nice would happen, if they did this, next thing you know pigs fly and Lucasarts goes back to making great adventure games), if a prank like this gets you to believe it, and then lets you down, it's done it's job.

  • Or is it [ign.com]?
  • I'm just wondering ... I mean, one good april fools joke is fine, two is cool, three's getting a little tired ... four's a crowd. There must be some serious news out there, and I'd rather not have to sift myself through other less reliable sources (the register, various blogs, news.com.com.com (shiver)) to get my daily fix.

    Sheesh

    simon

  • GTA: Moscow? Berlin? Cold War? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Dukeofshadows ( 607689 ) on Tuesday April 01, 2003 @05:50PM (#5641046) Journal
    I'd like to see a few regionalized GTAs, especially one in the former Soviet capital about a year or two after the fall of the USSR when anything and everything was for sale (maybe it's still that way?). Maybe another one for Berlin during the height of the Cold War or Tokyo in the late 80s. In other words, huge metro areas like Vice City only larger and with more adventures behind them.
    • You should try "The Getaway". It's not as free form as GTA:VC as you have to follow the missions as they are given to you (as opposed to VC, where if a mission is bugging you, there are a few submissions and a bunch of sub tasks you can concentrate on instead). But it has the actual city of London, and a dark plot with great voice acting. I was pretty blown away by this game.
    • GTA:
      Sloth City (AKA LA)
      Greed City (AKA LA)
      Wrath City (AKA LA)
      Envy City (AKA LA)
      Lust City (AKA LA)
      Vanity City (AKA LA)
      Gluttony City (AKA Houston)

      More seriously...
      Bay City (San Francisco/LA... Triads, Yakuza, Male prostitutes, Hippies, .coms)
      Motor City (Detroit/Pittsburgh/Chicago - Inner industrial City, corrupt unions/industrials)
      Border City (San Diego/Tiajuana or El Paso/Juarez - drug and immigrant smuggling, from both sides)
      Liberty City (New York, any time in history - go nuts)
    • Hell yeah...cruisin' round the Kremlin in a stolen Lada, working job for the Russian mafia. Good idea.
      • You ever been to moscow? You aint cruisin' anywhere there I tell you. When the roads aren't blocked with trafic they're blocked with snow. Also the police there are right bastards, stopping people at random, searching cars and asking for bribes. On the other hand perhaps it would be perfect.

  • what's next... (Score:5, Funny)

    by v_1_r_u_5 ( 462399 ) on Tuesday April 01, 2003 @05:54PM (#5641061)
    is "The Sins", followed promptly by "The Sins Online." Both feature exquisite graphics involving .. well, perhaps it's best to leave that to the imagination.
    • Half the posts on /. exhibit such a painful sexual repression. Parsing their three-year-old-child references to sexuality can really be excruciating. "THE GRAPHICS ARE EXQUISITE. THEY DEPICT .. WELL .. YOU-KNOW-WHAT!@!!!!!!"

      This isn't a troll. As someone who visits this website daily, it really is frustrating and embarrassing. Let's grow up a bit, if possible.

      I say again unto you: "rm -f marinasirtis*.jpg"
  • I can't believe that GTA-Sin City [gtasincity.com] is already slashdotted!
  • You see this is the problem of a site which funnels in news articles from many source, on april fools day it funnels in every bloody joke article going :-(
    Though i owe rockstarr games a big debt, great games, much mis spent time :-)
  • Isn't this close enough to "Sim City" to have Maxis suing the GTA guys? Now, if Maxis can make "Grand Theft Sim" that would be pretty sweet. (Yes, I know it's April Fools)
  • I'm begging you, no more...
  • My anus voted as head of the OpenGL ARB,...
  • So, all of slashdot is just lame April 1 jokes? How tedious. Usually /. is tedious about things that are at least interesting.
  • In GTA1, the three citys were Liberty City, Vice City, and San Andreas. Those of you who are thinking that it may be true, no.
    • Let me reiterate:

      Are you sure it isn't true [ign.com]?

      Now I'm not saying it is absolutely, 100%, without a doubt, unequivocally true but the page linked to above is dated December 06, 2002. That's a long build-up for what would be a mediocre (at best) joke.
    • All of this (what I think of as a) myth about "GTA: Sin City" could have been started at one source of people just speculating and making something up. I have heard the "Sin City" joke many of times from people who read a forum post saying "Yeah ITS SIN CITY" followed usually by a bogus release date. Logically, it should be based in San Andreas. And I've learned not to pay attention to anything from IGN (or gamespy alike). Its ultimately your decision on what to believe, But I just think "GTA Sin City" is
  • GTA: Coruscant
    ohhh yeah!!! Just think of the possible scenarios.
  • FAKE NEWS STORY

    posted by CmdrTaco

    Nothinginterestingtosay writes: "Something we always talk about and something else we always talk about are combining. It's so ludicrous, it's hilarious." I concur -- It's so funny, it's hard to believe it's true. Wink! Ogg Vorbis.

    ( Read More... | 3 of 97 comments )
  • one word: nukes

    I want to be able to decimate part of a city (or all of it!) with a nice phat explosion. It'd be great for police standoffs: set up a nuke, then fly out in a helicopter, and detonate it from the other side of the city... BOOM!

    Hmm, I think GTA has made me a bit nuts...
  • This would be a pretty cool game, IMO. Seems to be a joke for sure. The quote in the writeup on Shacknews pretty much confirms this (or alternately, makes Frank Miller look like an ass) for claiming to have been "a fan of Rockstar since the first GTA". Of course, there was no Rockstar when the first GTA was released.
  • The story submitter which is usually a link to a user profile isn't a link at all in each of the fake stories posted today. I know a lot of the readership around here is too...shall we say...special...to realize that a usb George Foreman grill is too good to be true, so this should help to clear up the confusion. PS - Can you spot the whitespace code in this post??
  • ... for GTA 3. Right now I have the car etc, but I want to Turbo Boost and Ski Mode and all that other cool stuff. Damn that'd be fun. Poor cops.
  • There is always GTA3 for Gameboy Advance. [tagor.com]
  • Please don't be a prank. Pranks like this make baby Jesus cry.
  • I don't know which stories are real anymore!

    Aaaaauuuugggggghhhh!!!!!!!!!

    Personally, I want Grand Theft Auto, Vatican City. You play a preist gone bad, and you can jack the Pope-mobile.

    And you can wear the big hat.

    I'll leave the pedophile jokes to others.

  • ...I'm still waiting for them to port Vice City to the PC. I've already beaten GTA III several times and am getting bored with screwing hookers then beating them up and getting my money back.
  • This is probably not real given that its April Fools Day alone. But also because of the domain registration.

    gtasincity.com:
    Registrant Contact:
    HostSupreme.co.uk
    Vikash Patel (sleepers97@aol.com)
    447789506027
    FAX: none
    Chertsey Road
    London, - TW1
    GB

    Administrative Contact:
    HostSupreme.co.uk
    Vikash Patel (sleepers97@aol.com)
    447789506027
    FAX: none
    Chertsey Road
    London, - TW1
    GB

    gtavicecity.com:

    Administrative Contact:
    Rockstar Games
    System Administra

  • OMG (Score:2, Interesting)

    by govatos ( 109160 )
    Just call me Marv. This is the happiest game announcement of all time (for me anyway). Considering that Frank Miller has apparently gone insane (see DK2 Issue 3), this game should rock!
  • It would have been funnier if you called it "GTA: Sim City".
  • I want to see the streets of MY TOWN in GTA. Could you imagine wreaking havoc in a fictious GTA city whose streets were almost exactly like your own town's streets?

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