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Grand Theft Auto 2

Developer(s) DMA Design
Tarantula Studios
Publisher(s) Rockstar Games
Series Grand Theft Auto
Platform(s) Dreamcast, Game Boy Color, PlayStation, Windows
Release date PlayStation
NA EU October 22, 1999
Windows
NA EU October 27, 1999
Dreamcast
NA EU May 2, 2000
Game Boy Color
NA EU December 25, 2000
Genre(s) Action
Mode(s) Single player, Multiplayer
Rating(s) ESRB: M (DC/PC)
ESRB: T (PS1/GBC)
OFLC: MA15+
OFLC: M (GBC)
BBFC: 18
Media CD-ROM, GD-ROM, cartridge, download

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The Entertainment Software Rating Board ( ESRB) is a self-regulatory organization that applies and enforces ratings, Advertising guidelines and The language and violence was toned down for the PlayStation and Game Boy Color versions which received a T rating. [1] Rockstar now offers the PC version as registerware for free download at their website. Registerware refers to Computer software which requires the user to give personal information through registration in order to download or use the program [2]. GTA2 was preceded by the original Grand Theft Auto and succeeded by Grand Theft Auto III. Grand Theft Auto ( GTA) is a computer and video game created by Scottish company DMA Design (now Rockstar North Grand Theft Auto III (abbreviated as GTA III) is a sandbox-style action-adventure computer and Video game

Contents

Setting

Unlike other games in the series, GTA2 is set in an unspecified time in a metropolis referred to only as Anywhere City. The year is not specified, but the game's manual uses the phrase "three weeks into the future", and phrases such as "X weeks into the future" or "X minutes into the future" are common phrases meaning "near future"; fictional journal entries on the GTA2 website suggest the year to be 2013. 2013 ( MMXIII) will be a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. [3] However, radio host Johnny Riccaro mentions in the game that "the millennium's coming," which would set the game somewhere before 2000, most likely 1999. A millennium (pl millennia) is a period of Time equal to one thousand Years (from Latin la mille, thousand and la annum Anywhere City consists of three levels, or "districts. " The first level is The Downtown Area and features casinos, hotels, a large mental institution and a university. A casino is in the modern sense of the word a facility that houses and accommodates certain types of Gambling activities A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging usually on a short-term basis A psychiatric hospital (previously called insane asylum, mental hospital; or derogatorily looney bin, nut house or Funny Farm) is A university is an institution of Higher education and Research, which grants Academic degrees in a variety of subjects The second area is The Residential District and contains the city's prison, a trailer park with an Elvis-themed club named "Disgracelands", a research center and a large hydroelectric power plant. A prison, penitentiary, or correctional facility is a place in which individuals are physically confined or interned and usually deprived of a range of A trailer park is a neighborhood consisting of an area of land where Travel trailers rest Hydroelectricity is electricity generated by Hydropower, ie the production of power through use of the gravitational force of falling water A power station (also referred to as generating station, power plant or powerhouse) is an industrial facility for the generation of The third and last area is The Industrial District. It holds a large seaport, a meat packing plant, a Nuclear Power Plant and a Krishna temple. ||-||-|-||-||-||-||-||-||-|} A port is a facility for receiving Ships and transferring cargo The Hare Krishna Mantra, also referred to reverentially as the Maha Mantra ("Great Mantra" is a sixteen-word Vaishnava mantra made well

The player is a man named Claude Speed, who is freed from prison, having awakened from a cryonic sleep but experiences amnesia. Claude refers to a set of fictional characters in the Grand Theft Auto Video game series Cryonics is the low-temperature Preservation of Humans and other Animals that can no longer be sustained by contemporary Medicine until Amnesia (from Greek) is a condition in which Memory is disturbed The storyline shifts to his goal of becoming the "King of the City" by any means necessary. [4]

The game can be played in two modes (only in the PC version), noon or dusk. Noon (also midday) is the hour of 1200 in an observer's local time zone or more loosely a time near the middle of the day when workers in many countries take a meal break Dusk refers to the period of time following Sunset. Although commonly confused with twilight dusk is the time frame that occurs either before or after a twilight - when the On the noon setting the lighting is bright making the game clear to see (also lowering the graphics overhead on weaker hardware because of the fewer lighting effects). On the dusk setting the game is darker, with multiple dynamic lights from explosions and car headlights. This feature was also expanded further in Grand Theft Auto III where the daylight is changing with the time of day in the game. Grand Theft Auto III (abbreviated as GTA III) is a sandbox-style action-adventure computer and Video game

Gameplay

Police pursue the player (center) in the Windows version.
Police pursue the player (center) in the Windows version. Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft.

GTA2 retained the top-down viewpoint of GTA, as well as the car-stealing/telephone-answering formula of the original. The player has the ability to explore cities on foot or in various vehicles. The aim is to achieve a certain score. On achieving this goal the player then can proceed to the next level. Doing missions awards the player more points than any other method but are not essential for completion of the game.

A new feature introduced in GTA2 was doing missions for separate gangs, of which there are two new gangs for each of the three levels of the game, and one faction which is present in all levels. Being employed by one gang can cause distrust from others (working for gang #1 will incur the wrath of gang #2, working for gang #2 will cause enmity with gang #3, etcetera). In the original GTA, only the local police pursued the player. In GTA2, SWAT teams, as well Special Agents and the army, begin chasing the player as his or her wanted level increases. SWAT ( Special Weapons And Tactics) is an elite special operations tactical unit in American Police departments similar to the Taiwan Thunder Squad An army (from Latin Armata "act of arming" via Old French armée) in the broadest sense is the land-based Armed forces The wanted level is represented by images of a cop's head, and differ between the Windows and Playstation versions.

GTA2 also included a saving technique that improved upon that of the original GTA, which saved only when finishing a city. If the player entered a church with $50,000, a voice announced "Hallelujah! Another soul saved!". This notified the player that the game had been saved. If the player did not have enough money, the voice would say "Damnation! No donation, no salvation!" The "safe house" feature would become standard and expanded upon in later GTA games, although saving would become free of cost.

Other minor improvements pertain to city activity. Passing vehicles and pedestrians are no longer cosmetic parts of the environment, but actually play a more significant role in gameplay. Sometimes pedestrians would occasionally enter and ride in taxis. A taxicab, also taxi or cab, is a type of Public transport for a single passenger or small group of passengers typically for a non-shared ride The game is also noted for the emergent behavior of its non-player characters. Pedestrians, gang members and the police would occasionally engage in fights, and there are even other carjackers (Green sweater) and muggers (Red sweater) in the city. [5]

The PlayStation version of Grand Theft Auto 2 is noticeably toned down from its PC counterpart, with lower quotas for the number of kills needed in rampage style missions, and containing no voice acting in the saving interface. The PlayStation (abbreviated PS, PSone, PS1, or informally as PSX) is a 32-bit fifth generation Video game console The port also includes an unusual feature wherein the player's car will explode after the player runs over a large number of gang members. One level was also changed. Instead of the player tricking civilians into entering a bus to drive them to a meat processing plant to be cannibalized, the victims are Hare Krishna gang members.

As is the case with the original Grand Theft Auto and GTA London: 1969, the player receives bonuses for running over certain people with car without stopping or braking. Grand Theft Auto ( GTA) is a computer and video game created by Scottish company DMA Design (now Rockstar North The Grand Theft Auto Mission packs are Expansion packs for the game Grand Theft Auto. A string of Elvis impersonators are sometimes spotted walking the streets. An Elvis impersonator is someone who impersonates or copies famed American musician Elvis Presley, either as a Hobby, a Career in Entertainment Their deaths are awarded with a large money bonus, followed by the bold words "ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING".

The PC version of GTA2 was released as a free download on December 22, 2004. Events 1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " This version also includes support for multiplayer games. To find other players you will need a client created by GTAMP. This makes it easier to use GTA 2 on multiplayer.

Gangs

Grand Theft Auto 2 includes a pool of seven gangs, with each of the city's three levels containing only a group of three gangs. The Zaibatsu Corporation gang is included in every level.

Radio stations

Main article: Grand Theft Auto 2 soundtrack
The PlayStation version of GTA2, taking place in daylight
The PlayStation version of GTA2, taking place in daylight

Each area features five radio stations from a pool of eleven, in which one of them would be played as the player drives most vehicles in game. Each area features five Radio stations from a pool of eleven in which one of them would be played as the player drives most vehicles in game This article is about radio broadcasting for other uses see Radio (disambiguation. Changing radio stations for preference was also possible in the Windows PC version by using the "F1" function key and also in the Playstation version by pressing the "up" directional button. A function key is a key on a Computer or terminal keyboard which can be programmed so as to cause an operating system command interpreter or application "Head Radio" was present in the original GTA, Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. Grand Theft Auto ( GTA) is a computer and video game created by Scottish company DMA Design (now Rockstar North Grand Theft Auto III (abbreviated as GTA III) is a sandbox-style action-adventure computer and Video game Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories is a sandbox-style action-adventure Video game developed by Rockstar North and Rockstar Each gang also has its own radio station that transmits within a limited area.

The theme song on the main title screen is the song "Short change" by the group E-Z Rollers

GTA2: The Movie

The opening video of the game was pieced together using live-action footage taken from an eight-minute short film created for the purpose of advertising the game. The E-Z Rollers are a British Drum and bass group made up of Jay Hurren (also known as JMJ Alex Banks (also known from the band Hyper-On Experience) and Kelly Richards This film has since been made available to the public and is downloadable from Rockstar's website. [6] Claude Speed (the game's playable protagonist) is played by Scott Maslen in the film. Claude refers to a set of fictional characters in the Grand Theft Auto Video game series Scott Alexander Maslen (born June 25 1971 in London, England) is an English actor best known for his portrayal as DS Phil Hunter Scott Maslen also plays DS Phil Hunter in the UK drama The Bill which is on the United Kingdom TV channel ITV and also plays Jack Branning in the BBC soap opera EastEnders in the UK. Superintendent ( Supt) often shortened to "Super" is a rank in British police services and in most English-speaking Commonwealth nations Phil Hunter is a fictional police officer from popular police drama 'The Bill' The Bill is a long-running British Television Police procedural, named after a slang term for the police. Independent Television (generally known as ITV) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters set up under the Independent Jack Branning is a Fictional character in the popular BBC Soap opera EastEnders. EastEnders is a most popular and award-winning Television Soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985 The short film shows Claude being murdered (shot by a Zaibatsu hitman while trying to break into a sports car). Contract killing occurs when a private contractor or a government hires someone to kill a specific person or people for a sum of money It was shot in present-day New York City with the World Trade Center (obviously before 9/11) in clear view, instead of the game's anonymous city of the future (it should be noted, however, that two fictional locations were mentioned in the film: "Chernobyl Docks" and "Disgraceland", the latter being the name of a club featured in GTA2). The City of New York The World Trade Center in New York City, United States (sometimes informally the WTC or Twin Towers) was a complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan The film depicts a blue-and-white NYPD 1991-1996 Chevrolet Caprice police car as a pursuit vehicle, as well as a black BMW E39 528i driven by Claude, which is later repainted white. The Chevrolet Caprice and Caprice Classic were full-sized Automobiles produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors in the United

References

  1. ^ Thed Paddestroy (24 November 2000). Events 380 - Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Content toned down from PC to Playstation version (HTML). Retrieved on 2007-04-29. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans.
  2. ^ Stuart Miles (23 December 2004). Events 962 - Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Rockstar give away GTA2 for free (HTML). Retrieved on 2007-04-29. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans.
  3. ^ Fictional journal created by Rockstar Games (HTML). Retrieved on 2007-04-29. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans.
  4. ^ Grand Theft Auto 2 Information. GOURANGA!. Retrieved on July 21, 2006. Events 356 BC - Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
  5. ^ Tal Blevins for IGN (18 November 1999). IGN (abbreviated and formerly known as I magine G ames N etwork is a multimedia news and reviews Website that focuses heavily on Video Events 326 - The old St Peter's Basilica is consecrated 1302 - Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Grand Theft Auto 2 review (HTML). Retrieved on 2007-04-29. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans.
  6. ^ http://www.take2games.com/modules/gta2/downloads/movie.html

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