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    Grand Theft Auto

    Game » consists of 9 releases. Released Nov 28, 1997

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

    Short summary describing this game.

    Grand Theft Auto last edited by Banshee on 12/03/22 08:10AM View full history

    Overview

    Grand Theft Auto was originally released in 1998 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. 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 re-imaging 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.

    Characters

    The PC version of the game lets players pick from eight characters while the playstation version only lets players choose the four male characters. There is no difference in the characters in the actual gameplay, the only real difference is when players change the characters name.

    • Travis
    • Kat
    • Nikki
    • Divine
    • Troy
    • Kivlov
    • Ulrike

    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.

    PC System Requirements

    Minimum

    • 75 MHz Pentium
    • 16 MB of RAM
    • 1 MB VESA-compatible SVGA graphics card
    • DOS 6.0 or Win95/98
    • 80 MB hard disk space
    • Sound card
    • Keyboard

    Recommended

    • 166 MHz Pentium
    • 2 MB VESA-compatible SVGA graphics card
    • Win 95/98
    • Soundblaster-compatible sound card

    Optional

    • Joystick or gamepad
    • Modem (Hayes-compatible needed for the DOS version)
    • Local area network using the IPX protocol
    • Serial cable (null modem cable or adapter)
    • Video card or 3D addon card using a 3Dfx-based chipset
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