Grand Theft Auto 2

Ok, I will never, EVER imitate what happens in this action/driving game, but I have never been more tempted to speed a red light, steal a cop car or run over pedestrians for a laugh than after I've played GTA2. Personally, I think that this game is the perfect way to relax after being stuck in a traffic jam for hours on end, as it lets you do anything you shouldn't and get away with it...if you can lose the increasing number of cops that give chase!

GTA2 hasn't attracted as much media attention as its prequel, which just goes to show that GTA was the scapegoat of the games industry when it came out. What we have left is an addictive, long lasting and above all, FUN driving game where you have to gain respect from rival gangs, each of whom have a mortal enemy. Taking on jobs from one will affect how you play the game. For example, completing a mission for one gang will get you respect from that gang, but you'll lose respect from that gang's mortal enemy, and thusly not be offered any jobs (and driving through their neighbourhood would be a bad move).

The piéce de resistance are the massive cities that you race around. What makes the game so good is how busy and realistic they are, with hospitals, restaurants, police stations, sewage plants etc. etc. They are nothing if not believable. There are over 120 vehicles in the game (according to the blurb on the back of the box) each with their own handling, and with a quick visit to a garage you can add machine guns to the sides or arm it with a bomb. Some of them have special features like taxies which will attract paying civilians and tanks which roll right over SWAT vans and fire shells at your persuerers. Sometimes the chaos is awe inspiring, as the flames light up the screen.

Each 'job' is fun and hilarious, and they increase with difficulty throughout the game. The later missions will definately increase the lastabilty of what could have been a "one week" game. In one such mission, the Russian mafia requires food for it's members. The boss tells you to steal a bus and collect passengers. When you have enough, you take the loaded bus to the meat factory, where behind closed doors you hear the screeches of the "livestock" as they become fresh hot-dogs. Using a hot-dog van (naturally) you drop off the 'dogs at a resturant. Mission Complete! While guys like me love this kind of humour, some may find it not quite to their liking, and belive me, that was one of the tamer missions.

The only bad point about this game is that it costs points/money to save your game, so you don't really want to unless you've done 2-3 jobs in a row. This becomes repetitive if you don't have the time to do so. Other than that, make sure you don't lose the all-important map or you'll get lost very quickly!

I'd recommend GTA2 to anyone who has an unhealthy sense of humour and thinks that's it's better to kill in games than in real life. 9/10

Rated M for Violence and Language.

The Grand Theft Auto series is my all time favorite video game series.Its the almost perfect game series.You can do almost anything in the games.It is a very controversial and excellent video game series.It was really Grand Theft Auto 3 that caused GTA to be a really famous video game series.I got Grand Theft Auto 2 cheap from EB games a couple of years ago.The game is very fun and good especially for its time.For its cheap price the game is excellent.Unlike after Grand Theft Auto 3 the pre-GTA3 games don't have a real story to it.There are three gangs in each city(there are three cities).Each gang has different cars and different missions.Doing a mission for one gang or killing members of a rival gang will bring your gang points.When you get high gang points you can do missions that you could not do when you had low points.If you have really low gang points the gang will start trying to kill you.You don't need to complete missions to play the game.You need to get a certain amount of money.GTA2 is a fun game and if you can find it get it.

9/10

So Much better than GTA 1, Faster Cars, A Really Cool Gang System, Better Graphics, and the Controls While still Clunky, are much more fitting to the newer GTA Titles for example Triangle is to get into a vehicle now while in GTA 1 it was Square. They're Still Flaws, For example No In-game Map, A Wonky Health system (But hey at least you have health this time). and lastly even thought the controls better than in GTA 1 it still takes time to get used to. Overall I give this game an 8/10. Its far from perfect and could use some touching up, But hell I would much rather play this game instead of GTA 1 Any day.

...but still not much of an improvement. The gameplay is still EXACTLY the same and the missions are not too dissimilar either. But the cool soundtrack is still there and those radio DJs are funny as hell. Jill Tasker's news updates are awesome and there are some brilliant songs too.

The graphics have improved tho and there are some real cool weapons. Check out the colors as you blow up 10 cars with a ray gun. But this is the only real difference between this and the first.

If you have the original this is, at a push, still worth buying. But it just feels so much more like an expansion pack than a whole new game tho.

Back in 2001 I bought a used Playstation from someone I knew for like thirty bucks. It came with a bunch of games. I bought two more -- "The Italian Job" (which I hated) and "Grand Theft Auto 2." My other friend already had a PS2 and we had played "Grand Theft Auto III" on it, and I had hoped the "GTAII" version for original Playstation would at least be fun. I knew the graphics would be terrible, but figured the gameplay would be equal.

Unfortunately, it wasn't. This game is really poor. First of all, as I expected, the graphics are bad. But the gameplay isn't fun at all! The controls and movement are hard and never natural. The entire method of the game is annoying and you can't really do very much at all. In order to save you have to get to the starting point which is quite annoying.

People don't talk in the game, when you get mission instructions there's a static image of a man's face and then this squeaky mumbo-jumbo dialogue that is supposed to substitute for the audio... it just sounds silly and out-of-place.

Overall, this sucks. Get "GTAIII" or "Vice City" or "San Andreas." Skip this.