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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."
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.
Article refers to a GTA3 addon pack. The 'warez' version that just came out is the PC version of original GTA3.
Incidentally, three groups released it. None managed to do a proper release, as all three cracks included on the iso are buggy. Deviance has re-packed one thats *supposed* to work, but doesn't. You can't use savegame after more than four minutes of play.
So, SafeDisc3 is still secure. Just. Kinda. Maybe.
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The PC version of GTA3 hit stores today.
Is it out on KaZaa yet?
Or is it a very clever worm *NAMED* GTA3?
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.
..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.
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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Aren't you talking about Gran Tourismo rather than Grand Theft Auto 3?
I know I can certainly flip my car on it's top and I've had more than my fair share take too much damage and explode.
> the realisim is not there. The car needs to incurr
> damage,
Eh? Cars do incur damage! Lots of it!
> the tires actually need to wear (Buy the
> best tires drive on them forever as they never
> wear out)
Eh? You don't buy tires - and I don't want to
see that added.
> you can slam into a wall at 212MPH and
> just simply stop.
EH? Car burns!
> you cant flip over (I tried,
> when your car hit's the groun it magically
> rights it'sself)
WHAT!? I flip mine all the time after jumps!
> i love GTA, I play it alot. but they need to
> add some realisim into it.
You see, you DIDN'T READ THE ARTICLE! AT ALL!
You mean Grand Tourismo. Everyone else is talking
about Grand Theft Auto.
Idiot.
No it doesn't. That is what made it so fun. You put grand turismo physics in GTA and it would be dull.
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.
Uhhhh, "Vice City". As in "Miami Vice". Liberty City is based on NYC. "Vice City" will be roughyl based on Miami.
Make sense?
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
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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.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
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
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
It's supposed to take place in the 80's, so expect lots of white blazers, open-collared pastel shirts and spurious references to both Crockett and Tubbs.
*grin*
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
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.
whay are you forgetting the very first GTA, Grand Theft Auto (1)? It is still a very playable and fun game.
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I dunno, I think I beat Flashback FM for coolness while playing last night. Thanks to GTA3 PC's ability to play MP3's if you place shortcuts in a directory, I took a directory of my MP3's that only included one-shots, stuff where I only had one song from an artist, and wound up with some very odd gaming moments.
Taking a hooker to the pier for a little "health inrease mambo" to Paradise by the Dashboard Light. (And then killing her to get my money back)
Driving away from an exploding warehouse with Paul Simon's "You can call me Al"
Simply cruising the streets with not -only- the Top Gun theme, but followed immediately by the Peter Gunn theme, the Theme from Shaft, and the James Bond theme to top it off.
Today's GTA3 music... Devo!
All it really needs now is the ability to skip back or ahead a track on the MP3 channel.
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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!
Features:
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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Yea, deviance had a bad crack on the original release, the released a -CRACKFIX version (30 minutes after the original release) , which was obviously on to much crack to do any good.
;-) (or: now that they went thru the process once, they will easely do it in half the time)
;-)
Then 20 minutes later they released the CRACKFIX-REPACK, which does work correctly..
I gues you are right, safedisc3 is still secure, for atleast 60 minutes worth of hacking
Don't underestimate how smart some of the crackers of some of the warez groups are. Good ones are rare, but often highly gifted (the ones i knew were satelity programmers, compression specialists, etc) and often get big offers from agencies and game companies.. The main reason why they do not accept these job offers is because they know if they invent a great new protection scheme, its gonna get cracked within days, and they will have to start developing the next revission right away