Grand Theft Auto 2
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DMA Design Tarantula Studios (GBC) |
| Publisher(s) | Rockstar Games |
| Distributor(s) | Take-Two Interactive |
| Director(s) | Alex De Rakoff |
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| Programmer(s) | Keith Hamilton |
| Artist(s) | Ian McQue |
| Writer(s) | Dan Houser |
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| Series | Grand Theft Auto |
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| Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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| Directed by | Alex De Rakoff |
| Produced by | Jamie King Sam Houser |
| Screenplay by | Dan Houser |
| Starring | Scott Maslen |
| Cinematography | Rob Benavides |
| Edited by | Glen Richardson |
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8:17 |
| Language | English |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 71.50% (PC) 70.80% (DC) 69.92% (PS1) 35.00% (GBC) |
| Metacritic | 70/100 (PS1) |
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| Publication | Score |
| GameSpot | 6.9/10 (PS1) 6.9/10 (DC) 6.8/10 (PC) |
| IGN | 7.3/10 (PC) 6.8/10 (PS1) 6.7/10 (DC) |
Grand Theft Auto 2 is an open-world action-adventure video game developed by DMA Design and published by Rockstar Games. It was released on 30 September 1999 for Microsoft Windows, and on 22 October 1999 for the PlayStation. It is the sequel to Grand Theft Auto, part of the Grand Theft Auto series. The open world design lets players freely roam Anywhere City, the setting of the game.
The game is played from a top–down perspective and its world is navigated on foot or by vehicle. The game was made available on Steam on 4 January 2008 as part of a collection. Its successor, Grand Theft Auto III, was released on 22 October 2001.
Grand Theft Auto 2 is set in an unspecified time in a retrofuturistic metropolis referred to only as "Anywhere, USA", but the game's manual and website use the phrase "three weeks into the future"; fictional journal entries on the Grand Theft Auto 2 website suggest the year to be 2013, but rather the in-game references suggest the game to be set in 1999.
The City is split into three levels, or "districts". The first level, Downtown, is a hub of business activity as well as the site of a large mental institution and university. The second area, the Residential District, contains the city's prison, a trailer park with an Elvis-themed bar dubbed "Disgracelands", a shopping mall, and a giant hydroelectric power plant. The third and final area is the Industrial District; it holds a large seaport, a meat packing plant, a Nuclear Power Plant and a Krishna temple.
There are a total of seven criminal gangs in the game: the Zaibatsu, a corrupt corporation, is present in all three areas. The Downtown area is also home to the Loonies, a gang of mentally ill people who have taken over the city asylum, and the Yakuza. In the Residential area, the gangs include SRS Scientists and the Rednecks, who live in a trailer park and drive around in pick-ups with large Confederate flags. The Industrial area contains the Russian Mafia and the Hare Krishna. Each gang has their own special characteristics, car, and behaviour.
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