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GTA3 Multiplayer
Kent767 writes "I'm on the development team for a GTA3 mod, called multi-theft auto. This mod makes GTA3 multiplayer over LAN or internet. Very shortly version 0.3b will be released (this is our first version which supports over 2 players). Dedicated Servers can run on Win32 machines, and a Linux version is in production.
2 of the game modes supported will be DM (Deathmatch) and CTW (Capture the Whoopie) which is a lot like capture the flag, only with a Mr. Whoopie truck." Making a great game even better! Hooray!
It kind of makes you wonder, why wasn't multiplayer not added to this game by default? I mean, a Windows PC isn't a goddamned Playstation. It doesn't have to do that split-screen multiplayer horseshit and chug on the admittedly impressive GTA graphics. How come the Windows version of the game didn't come with out-of-the-box multiplayer?
Every time a friend comes over to play GTA3 or Vice City on my Playstation, they always bitch and whine 'why isn't this game multiplayer?' to which I can never give a satisfactory answer.
All I can say is maaaaan, GTA3 would be k-rad multiplayer. If only I could get the Windows port to you know, run faster than three frames per second on my machine...
A second aside: To the nimrod who made a DUR DUR IS THIS LEGAL comment: quit being a fucking retard. This is a GAME MODIFICATION which is very legal, just not in accordance to the ol' EULA thing that we all ignore and click OK at. If there were a warranty on the software, installing a modification would void it (wooo, if you break the game you can GASP just reinstall it off the disk!)
Didn't you like, hear of Counterstrike and its ilk? All of whom are mods for a highly-profitable video game which for some reason or another still rakes in the shekels hand-over-fist six years ex post facto.
Why is it when I hit ^R that ZSH calls me a cocksucker?