GTA3 and Vice City now Online Multiplayer

glengineer writes "A deep bow and an "I'm not worthy" to Kent Simon, at the University of Kentucky, Ed Lyons in London, and Chris McArthur in Canada who have made the dream come true for GTA fanatics like me - GTA3 and Vice City online multiplayer! Now I can streetrace and play Liberty City Survivor with real people, not just use the "crazy pedestrians" cheat. Rockstar would be nuts not to hire these guys. So, anyone up for a deathmatch? Meet me at the Malibu Club in Vice, or the construction site on Staunton Island."

Comments

Welcome to 2003

[Anonymous Coward]

This isn't new, and it's been covered on Slashdot at least 5 times (possibly more, but Slashdot's search sucks and they don't set it up right to allow Google to index everything.)

• May 29, 2003 - MultiTheftAuto Mod For GTA3 Released
• August 2, 2003 - Multi Theft Auto Goes To Vice City
• September 20, 2003 - Multi Theft Auto Update Released
• October 26, 2003 - Multi Theft Auto Gets Stunt Update
• January 1, 2004 - Multi Theft Auto Hits Vice City Again

Next on Slashdot: Free Unix clone developed by some Finnish guy

Re:Welcome to 2003

[Anonymous Coward]

*Bang!*

Now look and see what you made me do! How am I going to get this stain out of the carpet!

Re:Welcome to 2003

[alatesystems]

Paul, just replace the subdomain in the url, and you can access it. I change it all the time so I don't have to see that godawful "It is what IT is" theme on it.slashdot.org. I just change it to hireadesigner.slashdot.org.

Hope that helps you get your games.slashdot.org fix at work.

Nothing new here...

[kmartshopper]

I used this quite some time ago... fun to play but when I tried it, it was pretty laggy if you were playing over the net and not on a lan.

Re:Any chance of litigation?

[another_mr_lizard]

Previous new posts on the MTA:VC site indicated that they had support from Rockstar in developing it.

I tried it a while back

[hairykrishna]

I agree that a properGTA:Vice city multiplayer mode would be the best thing since sliced bread.

Unfortunately multi theft auto is so flawed it's unplayable apart from a few minute novelty value blast. It's laggy, collisions (bullets and cars) are screwed, there are no pedestrians. Oh, and all the car and gun stats are local so the few games that are available are filled with 14 year olds with 5000000 round capacity superlight chainguns who can run faster than your car.

I understand that this is because the game in no way was designed to be multiplayer friendly. Unfortuantely I think we're going to have to wait for GTA4 (or whatever) for a 'proper' multiplayer game.

Re:GTA online

[damiam]

Not in Multi Theft Auto - you get teleported to your character type's spawning point.