Grand Theft Auto II

Grand Theft Auto 2
Developer(s)	DMA Design Tarantula Studios (GBC)
Publisher(s)	Rockstar Games
Director(s)	Jim Woods David Jones Simon Crisp (GBC)
Producer(s)	Sam Houser David Jones
Designer(s)	Stephen Banks William Mills Billy Thomson
Programmer(s)	Keith R. Hamilton Martin McKenzie (GBC)
Artist(s)	Ian McQue Russell East (GBC)
Writer(s)	Dan Houser
Composer(s)	Colin Anderson Craig Conner Bert Reid Stuart Ross Paul Scargill Anthony Paton (GBC)
Series	Grand Theft Auto
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows PlayStation Dreamcast Game Boy Color
Release	30 September 1999 Microsoft Windows NA: 30 September 1999 EU: 1999 WW: 4 January 2008 (digital) PlayStation NA: 25 October 1999 EU: 22 October 1999 AU: 1999 Dreamcast NA: 30 April 2000 EU: 28 July 2000 Game Boy Color NA: December 2000 EU: 10 November 2000
Genre(s)	Action-adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

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, followed by Dreamcast and Game Boy Color releases in 2000. 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.