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GTA3: Vice City Announced
broller writes "According to IGN.com, Rockstar Games announced today that GTA3:Vice City, the next version of Grand Theft Auto will be released in October. GTA3 was released "October 2001 and has rapidly become the fastest selling, highest grossing game for PlayStation(R)2." The PC version of GTA3 hit stores today."
And it hit the warez sites yesterday.
Deviance won the race.
Great! a sequal to the most innovative game of last year! Can't wait.
I liked it. I'd love for it to be a giant multiplayer frag fest, though
The next wave of whining and complaining from the politicians and "concerned parents" of America may commence now.
Kinda seems odd to come out with a new version of the game and keep the version number the same. Has GTA3 become what everyone associates with the Grand Theft Auto series and they don't want to chance having someone go "What is GTA4?". Seems sort of like Intel and their whole Pentium branding. Pent = 5. Yet they kept the name through the 6x86 line. It is odd that version numbers become the product's name eventually when the product really catches on.
They seem to sell more because of the sheer ofensiveness than actual gameplay (although it is pretty fun), but I doubt it would be half as popular without the protect the children freaks foaming at the mouth..etc
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
The PC version of GTA3 hit stores today.
Is it out on KaZaa yet?
Or is it a very clever worm *NAMED* GTA3?
September: Jaguar
October: GTA3: Vice City.
Get this summer over with already!
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Somebody know if it will be release soon ?
The only thing I didn't like about playing GTA3 was that I knew it would end. That saddened me.
I fear that I'm going to be reduced to a begging junkie sleeping outside of the store the night before it goes on sale.
Grand Theft Auto is now a Sony Exclusive franchise
That means that, despite hundreds of reports to the contrary, Grand Theft Auto 3 will not be coming out for the Xbox.
I think im the only one that thinks GTA3 has horrible game play and control. It just feels way to bulky compared to the fast paced, action packed GTA and GTA2. I can't have any fun with GTA3, the views are awful.
..since Rockstar just announced their until-2005 exclusivity agreement with Sony yesterday.
Oh wait. Those don't do any harm on their own. Hmmm. How 'bout the object is to make parents pay attention to their kids? Lots of replay value, and since the game is so difficult, only avid gamers need apply.
or GTA; Vice City, not GTA3: Vice City
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Is it true that there is a secert level, where you can kill people at an amusement park...
the realisim is not there. The car needs to incurr damage, the tires actually need to wear (Buy the best tires drive on them forever as they never wear out) you can slam into a wall at 212MPH and just simply stop. you cant flip over (I tried, when your car hit's the groun it magically rights it'sself)
i love GTA, I play it alot. but they need to add some realisim into it.
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They released it yesterday. And apparently Soldier of Fortune II just hit the net.
And before someone asks the inevitable question: NO, you can't download it on the URL I posted. It's just an info site.
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Are you sure you aren't confusing GTA3 (Grand Theft Auto 3) with GT3 (Gran Turismo 3)?
I relay hope this isnt hit by aussie
clasivication laws..
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this site reported a rumor about a GTA-Miami add-on, where the city is built on a rough model of the actual city of Miami. (Similar to Midtown Madness) - Although these are just rumors... it would be a nice add on. Think of pthe possibilities.
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I bought the PC version yesterday. I hadn't had a chance to try int on PS2 but I have played the first two games on PC. So far I'm enyoying the hell out of it. One thing I noticed that doesn't seem to be getting around is that you can make new skins for the main character model trivially. The new dismemberment isn't anything to write home about, the model just clean breaks some of itself off, and the detach body parts don't seem to stick around. Still better than nothing though. Driving is a bit tricky with the keybord, I think my biggest problem is using the handbrake and footbrake together effectivly. It's not horrible though, so some more practice and maybe some key re-mapping will surely solve that.
Overall, it looks to be worth my $52. Now if only SOF2 wasn't being released TODAY...
I really do hope for an MMORPG version of this. Imagine 20-30 of the main player characters running around in the city causing havok. You could have full-on gang wars, crazy races and several other challenges.
I heard that Vice city will be taking place in my favorite decade, the 1980s. We can only hope for Crocket and Tubbs references, several genres of 80s music on the radio, and be able to drive Toyota minivans around. I wonder if they'd have a Fiero-like car that starts on fire in the back? Would you be up against a gang of "punks", complete with thin sunglasses and mohawks? Will there be some special Knight Rider car that's cleverly hidden that has special weapons?
We can only dream for now.
Another thing I'd like to see is more mini-missions. How about drive a city bus around? The firetruck missions proved to me that driving around a firetruck in a busy city is a real PITA that isn't forgiving to the occasional running over people or smashing other cars.
This game is not an expansion pack, it's a stand alone. Even the press release says the game will be called Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
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Executive producer, producer, chief executive officer... chances are that none of these people have seen more than a couple of screenshots and concept drawings of the latest evolution. Wake me up when one of the developers is talking about how good and how soon it'll be.
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Circle(6), R1, L2, L1, Triangle, Circle, Triangle. nuff' said.
1) Australian Parliment Level. Guess what the mission is?
2) Marching Bands and playgrounds( in tribute to postal)
3) Mormons (with bikes!), Jehovah's Witnesses, Krishnas, etc.
4) Nudist Park Rampage
5) Drinking at the wheel improves score
Lack of multiplayer is the reason i'm NOT buying GTA3 for PC. What fool made this decision? Or is it simply an engine problem? GTA2 had wonderful multiplayer setup. How disapointing. I guess I'll have to go out and buy the PS2 version - as soon as it goes down in price; It should be a 'greatest hit' title like GT3 by now.
I did some hunting a few weeks ago for a GTA-like game with multiplayer abilities and I think I found one.. It's called Mafia and is from TalonSoft. It hasn't been released yet, but in theory it'll be out in a month or two.
here's an exerpt from the amazon.com page:
* 3rd-person 3-D action game
* 20 missions set in the 1930s underworld
* Use weapons such as the Tommy gun, pump-action shotgun, baseball bat, or Molotov cocktail
* Drive more than 60 different vehicles, including the Model T, Roadster, and delivery trucks
* Multiplayer support via LAN or over the Internet
I know there's a lot of newbies who never heard of Grand Theft Auto before GTAIII hit the shelves.
The rest of us remember GTAII and GTAII:London.
Same thing happened last time, guys.
-Chris
Hmmm 1980's, vice city, I hope we get the Miami Vice sound track with it. Why do I see the main character wearing a white sport jacket? I wonder if we'll be able to check out South Beach. We all know that they were hinting at Miami being chosen (the police chief, the airport, billboards, etc.)
Whatever it is, it's gonna be cool.
I havent got all the way through GTA3... Espresso 2 Go is frustrating.
With all the great reviews, I headed to the store and buyed the PC version. What is wrong with the reviewers nowadays? I usually like racing games but this game is really annoying, it's just like that Wreckless game.
If you like Wreckless you'll probably love this game because the gameplay is a little better but if you hated Wreckless like I did well then GTA3 is a huge disappointment.
How is this item anything more than lame PR disguised as a news item?
Anyone and everyone who uses this site is capable of going to any of the gaming sites to read about this, or to their favorite game studio site to read press releases -- and they probably do.
A press release announcing a game hardly qualifies as news, and it certainly isn't anything that matters.
You just can't beat that "Scarface" soundtrack while playing GTA. I don't know, maybe "Pulp Fiction" would come close
So press releases regarding Linux ARE news? Like it or not, GTA3 is a phenomenon, and quite newsworthy.
Here's my choices:
Belfast (during the 'troubles')
Ramallah
Bogota
Buenos Aires
LA (after the Lakers win)
oh wait, is that still funny?
The motorcycles! Remember those from GTA and GTA II? (Superbike etc.) They were so fast that you couldn't stay on for more than a few seconds, but they did the coolest jumps and added lots of extra craziness. Bring back the bikes!
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I'm not so sure. I find it both offensive and terribly fun to play. If offensiveness is what is making it sell, then why isn't State of Emergency (also by Rockstar) doing better than it is?
Um, GTA3 promotes violence against everyone and everything, and here's a clue: it's not real, it's a game!
In search of a quick fix, I went to the local evil super store (i.e Best Buy). They're not putting it out until tomorrow because "we always put out new software on Thursday"
I *hate* those places...
A Politically Correct version of Grand Theft Auto?
I find that hard to believe.
Did you play 3 previous GTAs? ;-)
In the original one you couldn't save at all, that's what I call junkie. Almost like playing Elite on ZX-Spectrum (never tried it though).
I just with you could import your profile from GTA3, that would be neat.
A guy edited some GTA3 config-files and found a server entry and a ping entry. There's not much info, but you can find it on this site. This could mean the guys at Rock* were too lazy to remove it, or they left the possibility open to play multiplayer games in the future.
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That's right XBOX fans - No GTA3 until 2004.
SCEA (Sony Computer Entertainment America - the same corporation responsible for the PC version six month delay and no PC version of GTA:Vice) announced yesterday at their E3 press conference that GTA3 will take another stab in the back as far as getting onto other platforms. GTA3:XBOX won't be happening this year after all. Due to the contract between SCEA and Take-Two (the parent company of RockStar Games), RockStar are not allowed to publish GTA3 for any console other than the PS2 for three years since the agreement in 2001.
Consoles are out, that we know. But does anyone have any concrete information regarding the GTA franchise and PCs?
Let's pool real information.
It would be pretty cool to see an online gta, but one thing I noticed about this game was that it was only partially a pervasive environment. ie. if you follow a car it stays in existance, but lose sight of it and it can dissapear. Seems like a pretty good idea to me, the cars that pass you and you come up on are generated dynamically (same for pedestrians) If you steal a lot of cars and park them in the same place, cars stop coming. I wonder if it was just easier to do it that way or if it was a way of getting around memory problems. If the latter is the case that might be a problem for an online version,(world would have to be persistant.)
Ansi's and stupid tricks!
This is a revolutionary game in its open-endedness and detail. I have played alot of games - but Ive never played a game for 5 months straight like GTA3. You are ignorant.
The header here really needs the "3" removed - this is GTA: Vice City, not GTA3: Vice City. Read the press release. This is not an add-on, nor is it GTA3 redux. It's being built from the ground up, though it will obviously resemble GTA3 in terms of gameplay (it's a proven formula). Sheesh, not only am I reading old news on Slashdot recently (Nintendo "announced" Metroid, Zelda, et. al months ago), now I'm reading erroneous news - when there's a press release right in front of you to refer to!
I really wish there was replays in the games. There was plenty of times Iwas wishing I could replay a crazy car chase or a last second escape from the cops. I hope the computer version has that feature. I wouldn't mind downloading a crazy car chase seen from the net. I'm sure some web sites would spring up where people could rate the replays.
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>Rockstar has said "FUCK YOU" to PC gamers
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So what? The vast majority of Console gamers have also said "FUCK YOU" to PC gamers. What's the big deal here?
The Dodo rules, needs more cool vehicles