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You aren`t going to buy this, right?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

To be a PC game I would expect it to be like in the xbox, I mean that you could see the person and you could see the things in the way that the character sees them. This is just as PS1 and that`s not such a good console...

I'm slowly catching up on VG's so bare with me

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

For years now i've loved playing the first GTA. I hadnt played it for a while and I ended up playing it again recently for the hell of it. The only other GTA game i'd ever played was a demo to GTA London that didnt impress me... well, thanks to someone telling me you can now download this game for free, i figured... what the hell, why not.

At first I didnt like the vehicles, apparently it's set sometime in the future, but they looked more like the past to me. I wasnt all that impressed untill I blew something up and loved the graphics of the new explosions. The flame thrower looks awsome, the machine gun fires more smoothly, and the elctr gun and other added goodies are a real treat.

Just like the original GTA, i find this game so much more fun when activating cheats for infinite lives and weapons ect... if you kill people or jijack cars near cops, or kill enough people, the cops come after you. If you kill enough cops, the swat team join in, if you take out swat, the special agents come along, take out the agents, then the streets run red with military everywhere coming at you with guns, phasers & tanks. I liked that new feature... it was always fun to use a tank in the first GTA but there was only one per mission, they could only fire on a kill frenzy and once they where gone, they where gone... where as in this game, there is one hidden tank per level, but if you get the military after you, there is tanks galore... it's just too bad the other tanks will blow you to smitherines when your in one, so get out just before it blows. The invincibility/god mode cheat works well, but only on foot, if youre ina vehicle...KABOOM!

Everything else is pretty much the same as the original game, do missions, blow things up, run from this and that, take out him and her, steal one of those and take it to whatever.

I may not like the vehicles they used for this game, but the good thing about the PC version is you can do something about that. You can find various info on the net for sites where you can download new vehicles, or make your own and put them into the game... now i'm cruising around in Knightrider and the General Lee avoiding Lambourghini Cop Cars and it makes the game a lot more enjoyable.

Unless the free version is different, the only thing i did miss from the orginal was the end of level movies... i know they wernt much, but it was at least something for your reward of completing a level. Which reminds me, there is only 3 levels in this game, but unlike the first GTA, you only do the 3 levels once. But there are a whole heap of bonus games to play with this one. Just a heap of bonus stages of kill frenzies galore.

There are alot of improvements in this, and so, i still preffer the original GTA over this one, but it's not to say this game isnt as good, the only way i'd say this game was crap would be if they go back and make the original GTA game with the graphics of this game, with weaopens and bonuses and everything included.

It would be nice to see an ultimate GTA game where both this game, the original and London where all packed into the one game. And i dont mean a ppackage where you can buy all 3 together, or it has 3 discs of each game... i mean add them all into the one game, 6 or more missions, start with the original 3, then the londons, then this games and include even more to each game with it.

Anyway, this game certinly has brought out my interest to check out the latest GTA games like GTA 3 and San Andreas ect... And as soon as i buy them sometime this week, you can check out my review of them sometime soon.

Great game for old schoolers

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game, really fun. It's not 3D, but so what, this game rocks. One feature that makes this stand out among even the recent GTA games is, of course, MULTIPLAYER! We actually played this game for several hours at a LAN party. Incredibly addictive.

I feel sorry for you

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

For the review below mine, I feel sorry for you kid. It is the year 2005 and you have windows 95 and you do not have a graphics card compatible with gta 2? How old is your computer? Ah, anyway, the game is fun and, just like the new ones lets you go anywhere you want. But still, save you money and don't buy this game, because the new ones are much better.

WONT WORK

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: April 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i have windows 95. i installed it and it said that my computer had no compatable graphics cards.

great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Not quite gta3 but what can ya say it isn't 3d so it can't get there, but of course my favorite thing about this game was the commercials and just the radio in general. I also like the respect meter, something that i personally wished could have been incorporated into all other gta's. It also has the most freedom, you don't have to do a gangs missions if you don't want to, you can do the other's you have 3 choices in each city. Or you could find a tank and rampage like i LOVE to do. I mean whatching people go flying up into the screen is classic. I also love how the people curse at you if you almost hit them, it cracks me up almost every time. Good classic game, recommend it even if you already have gta3/vice. See gta at it's best.

GTA2 is fun.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: October 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Carjacking.Explosions.Cussing.It's a wonder this game is T-Teen,but it should be M-Mature.Still,it is an excellent,fun,talented title.You can steal any car,bomb any building,kill anybody,and lure out cops.Very Violent,but funner than most other games.

U have to play this game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game had me hooked for months, and when i got sick of it, i went back to playing it a few weeks later and i was hooked again. If u noticed the people that gave this bad reviews mentioned gta 3 and vice city. Well that cuz they spoiled themselves with the graphics of gta 3 and vice city. If they played this game first they would have thought this game is awesome, which it is. The controls are not bad at all, u just have to get used to them, which isnt hard. This is one of my favorite games and u should definitely get it, and while ur at it pick up gta3 and vice city while ur at it.

If you love GTA 3, you'll hate GTA 2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: May 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because I loved GTA 3. GTA 2 was a big disappointment, and here's why:

1) The cars and character are hard to control
2) The graphics are reminiscent of 80's arcade games (like APB, only APB was more fun)
3) When you start going fast, the view zooms out (this is very disorienting)
4) Often you can't see your character/car because it's blocked by a building
5) The view is from directly overhead; when you turn, your character/car turns, not the world (i.e. if you're pointing south, left is right, right is left; if pointing west, right is up, left is down, etc.)
6) Everyone else in the game world is stupid - people run out in front of cars, cars run into you for no apparent reason. And there are way too many of them.
7) It costs money to save the game (or at least it does the first time; I wouldn't know - I couldn't stand playing it long enough to earn enough money to save)

To it's credit, the music and commercials are fun, like in GTA 3 (hardly a reason to buy it, though). I would only recommend this game if you see it in the bargain bin and you are really bored. Other people seem to have loved this game - personally I don't see it. Don't bother with this game - get GTA 3 and/or GTA Vice City instead.

Fun game, as long as you don't have XP

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game as long as you don't have Windows XP. Aparently this game isn't made for XP, it still works untill you try to go to certain places. Then your computer crashes! If you don't have XP, I recomend this game. But I think it would be okay for kids to play, the graphics aren't good enough to give it "graphic violence". So if you don't mind "birds eye view", this game is pretty good. You can also play online in tag team matches and stuff. I recomend this game unless you have 50 bucks to get Grand Theft Auto 3 or Vice City. Just for the record, i'm 13, the review form only goes to 12.

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