Grand Theft Auto

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Grand Theft Auto is a free roaming crime saga with multiple settings and a top-down view.

Overview

Grand Theft Auto was originally released in 1997 for the Playstation and PC. The game is set in three different fictional cities: Liberty City, Vice City and San Andreas. Each city is loosely based on a real-life city. For example, Liberty City is based on New York, Vice City is similar to Miami and San Andreas is loosely adapted from Los Angeles.

The main character is dropped into the game world and does various odd jobs for the local crime bosses. Progress through the different cities is done by earning money from completing missions assigned from various pay phones.

Evolutionary Differences

A number of major differences exist between Grand Theft Auto's design and that of the later games in the series:
  • Mission failure is strict and inflexible. There is no option to return to a failed mission, it is simply gone forever.
  • Money can be earned from killing people and crashing cars
  • Three distinctly different cities are included. Subsequent games in the franchise would go on to focus on just a single city, with the Grand Theft Auto III trilogy reimaging the three cities contained in this game.
  • The only modes of transportation are ground-based vehicles and walking/running. Boats, planes and other, more exotic forms of transportation were not included in the game.
  • Support for internet and LAN multiplayer game modes. These would not officially return again until Grand Theft Auto IV, though there would be unofficial patches to Vice City and San Andreas' PC versions to include similar functionality.
 

Character     

   
The pc version of the game lets you pick from eight characters while the playstation version only lets you choose the four male characters.    
 
Travis 
Kat 
Nikki 
Divine 
Troy 
Kivlov 
Ulrike 
 
There is no difference in the characters in the actual gameplay, the only real difference is when you change the characters name. 
 

Soundtrack

 
Radio '76 FM

Genre: Funk

    * Ghetto Fingers - "On The Move"
    * Ashtar - "Aori"
    * Stylus Exodus - "Pootang Shebang"

Brooklyn Underground FM


Genre: Trance

    * Retrograde - "Benzoate"
    * Government Listening Post - "E104"
    * Trancefer - "Figiwhiz"

The Fix FM

Genre: Techno

    * Animal Testing Centre - "DSP"
    * Rotorman - "Ride"
    * Technophiliak - "Lagerstar"

The Fergus Buckner Show FM

Genre: Country

    * Sideways Hank O'Malley (and The Alabama Bottle Boys) - "The Ballad of Chapped Lip Calquhoun"

Head Radio FM


Genre: Pop/Rock

    * Reality Bubble - "Days Like These"
    * Meme Traders - "Automatic Transmission"
    * Ohjaamo - "Complications"

It's Unleashed FM


Genre: Alternative/Hard rock

    * Stikki Fingers - "4 Letter Love"
    * The Hounds - "Let It Out"
    * Bleeding Stump - "Just Do It"

N-CT FM

Genre: Hip hop/Rap

    * Da Shootaz - "Grand Theft Auto" (
    * Slumpussy - "This Life"
    * CCC Featuring Robert DeNegro - "Blow Your Console"

Freeware Release

On December 23rd, 2004, Rockstar announced that they would be releasing both Grand Theft Auto and Grand Theft Auto 2 as freely downloadable packages on their website. The content of both games remains unchanged, but they have been reworked to natively run in Windows XP and Windows Vista.

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Original US Release July 2, 1998
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