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GTA3: Vice City Announced

Posted by Hemos on from the blam-blam-whak-whack dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Why not GTA4? by wilhelm · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you had actually happened to read the article, you would realize that the game is to be called "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City". The Slash editors and the submitter both didn't apparently read it either, so you're in good company.

  2. Have fun with the PC version while you can.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    ..since Rockstar just announced their until-2005 exclusivity agreement with Sony yesterday.

  3. Re:Mainstream news sites... by beddess · · Score: 4, Informative

    yep, you sure know what you're talking about.

    "Grand Theft Auto 3 and all future titles in the GTA franchise will be exclusive to PlayStation 2 until October 2004, SCEA announced today at its E3 press conference"

    here's the link

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  4. Re:Why not GTA4? by batkiwi · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is essentially GTA3 in a new city.

    No new features (or very few), same engine, etc, just new content.

    If it was a PC game, it would be released as an addon-pack (just the content, no engine, you'd have to own the first one, sims style), but since that's not feasable (and barely possible without a LOT of forethought) on a console, they're releasing a "new" GTA3.

    Make sense?

  5. The WaReZ d00dZ are busy little bees. by Echo5ive · · Score: 2, Informative

    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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  6. Multiplayer options by gabec · · Score: 2, Informative
    I agree. I don't see why they didn't include some kind of multiplayer abilities in GTA3.. It was in their older titles! :/ but whatever. I guess they'll just feed their competitors a little bit.

    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

  7. Re:Thanks a lot by NineNine · · Score: 3, Informative

    I usually like racing games but this game is really annoying, it's just like that Wreckless game.

    Maybe you didn't like Grand Theft Auto 3 because it's NOT a racing game.