![]() The gangs range from the neo-corporate Zaibatsu group to the backward Rednecks all the way up to the Hare Krishnas from the first game. Once the jobs have dried up with one gang, there’s nothing stopping you from rampaging into their part of town and wrecking their shizzle up right good to curry favour with one of their rivals. You can tell how much “respect” you have with the gangs by looking at a meter in the top left of the screen. Sometimes if a gang in a local area really do despise you, it can lead to them opening fire on you the minute you enter their line of sight, which often makes forays into that area of the map pretty hazardous journeys. Often the three gangs in each district will not be on good terms with one another, which means that doing jobs for one gang can make you public enemy #1 for one of the others. Instead, your character is plonked into one of three districts in the dystopian “Anywhere City”, where there will be three separate gangs who can offer him work. What immediately differentiates Grand Theft Auto 2 from the first game in the series is that the criminal you play as doesn’t just do jobs for one paymaster every level an more. It was relatively rare to see a games company go to the effort of making a specialised mini-movie just to hype a new release like this, but sadly, young Mike was completely oblivious to it. ![]() Some of this video was eventually put into the opening FMV sequence for the final release, and it’s a really cool way to start up the game. It’s a shame because Grand Theft Auto 2 was hyped really well by Rockstar, including an 8 minute mini-movie that showed a young Jack Branning running around as Claude Speed causing mayhem. The first one I really remember reading about online was “WWF SmackDown!: Just Bring It”, actually. A lot of this could probably be attributed to my family not really getting the internet until 2001, so I was often unaware of games coming out. So when Grand Theft Auto 2 first hit the shelves in 1999, I was completely oblivious to it, and it wasn’t until a friend of mine brought it round to my house many months later that I realised the game I had enjoyed all that while back finally had a sequel. ![]() I played GTA: London and liked it just fine, but it wasn’t as enjoyable as the original, and I thought that was it for the series. I did eventually manage to complete all but the sixth level on the game though, so I enjoyed my time with it overall.ĭespite this, I had no idea that a second game was in the works. I would often fail a lot of missions due to getting routinely shot to pieces whenever the game called for a combat section, even when using the famed “BSTARD” cheat name to unlock all of the weapons. ![]() I played the original GTA quite a bit (long before my 18 th birthday, I should confess, I borrowed the game from a friend whose parents were clearly far more relaxed than mine were when it came to the PEGI rating system), and I did enjoy it, even if I found the combat system to be really fiddly and difficult. ![]() Looking back at it now, the game comes across like a teenager trying too hard to be cool by throwing out some “f-bombs”, but at the time, having a game be this vulgar and violent on a home console was somewhat of a novelty. The original Grand Theft Auto had been a controversial smash hit on both the PlayStation and PC thanks to the copious amount of violence and swearing that could be found within it. Grand Theft Auto 2 was the first genuine sequel to the original Grand Theft Auto (with games like Grand Theft Auto: London being closer to expansion packs than straight up sequels). ![]()
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