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GTA: Sin City Announced
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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Sin city... Vice city... whats next "temptation city"?
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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.
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
On April 1st, i is hard to take anything seriously......
roche
Bah Humbug!
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There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
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.
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
This is pretty funny. However by far the best thing I have seen was the April Fool's thread posted on Fark 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...
Who is Frank Miller? What is "Sin city"? Perhaps a story should include such salient facts?
I might as well just ignore all news stories until tomorrow... =P
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-- George Orwell
I ain't going to play Sin City.
"Want in one hand and spit in the other and see which one fills up first." - My Dad
Now you can hit the eldery right where they live! 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.
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!?!?
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
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.
How is this any different from vice city?
Umm... vice city is a real game
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.
In either case, there is some discussion going on at www.gta-sa.com as to where the next GTA game will be and more...
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.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
Or is it?
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
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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.
As long as there is a Second Amendment, there will always be a First Amendment.
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.
JERSEY city!
;)
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
I can't believe that GTA-Sin City 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
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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)
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.
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.
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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.
GTA: Coruscant
ohhh yeah!!! Just think of the possible scenarios.
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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...
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
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"
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??
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Sorry, Slashdot really needs sarcasm tags. I guess I'm too subtle...or too easily confused with clueless people.
The anti-salmon
hehe, sorry about that. my bad.
neurostar... 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.
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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.
-no broken link
Maybe you're not subtle enough? Us "clueless" people got the joke, you didn't. Perhaps it's time to revaluate just how intelligent you truly are.
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Scroll down the front page a bit before ranting. And now it's been posted on the front page a 4th time.
Please don't be a prank. Pranks like this make baby Jesus cry.
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.
--- Ban humanity.
I think he was joking about "Sin City" being the same as "Vice City"
neurostarGTA:
.coms)
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,
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)
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Let me reiterate:
Are you sure it isn't true?
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.
...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.
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-Bill McKinney, in Deliverance
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 underage johns or unlicensed hores). This of course costs money, but fits in pretty nicely with the game's mode of play.
The hell with premade cities like Berlin and NYC. Give me Reno, NV and Amsterdam!!
Huh?
How about <sarcasm>I love Daikatana!</sarcasm>?
Oh man, that game was a mistake. I went out and bought it even though all the reviews I saw were less than 5.0/10.0.
:-/
I sure learned my lesson. I quit playing it before I even got to time travel!!!
neurostarno, that's my bad. Looking back at the post, it really wasn't clear whether I was being sarcastic or clueless. Entirely understandable. You can't tell anything on April Fool's day....next time I'll add sarcasm tags or something. Then there won't be confusion.
The anti-salmon
hehe, it's all good. :D
neurostarThis 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 Administrator
575 Broadway, 3rd floor
New York, NY 10012
US
Phone: 212 334 6633
Fax..: 212 334 6694
Email: administrator@take2games.com
Technical Contact:
Register.Com
Domain Registrar
575 8th Avenue
New York, NY 10018
US
Phone: 902-749-2701
Fax..: 902-749-5429
Email: domain-registrar@register.com
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!
Hell yeah...cruisin' round the Kremlin in a stolen Lada, working job for the Russian mafia. Good idea.
It would have been funnier if you called it "GTA: Sim City".
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
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?
they actually are making GTA3 for Game Boy Advance.
I know. The story was 100% true.
:D
The screen shots were the April Fools bit.
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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.
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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...