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PC
Compilation
| Viewed: | 2D Top-down, Multi-way scrolling | Genre: | Compilation Adventure: Free Roaming Combat Game |
| Media: | CD | Arcade origin: | No |
| Developer: | DMA Design | Soft. Co.: | DMA Design |
| Publishers: | Sold Out
(GB/GB) |
Released: | Dec 2001
(GB) 2001 (GB) |
| Ratings: | BBFC 18 |
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Summary
Originally released through Take 2 Interactive and designed by Dundee-based DMA Design, these two games are rightly regarded as classics. Grand Theft Auto started the ball rolling with its unique use of a top-down view of the game's sprawling metropolis. Fresh out of prison, the player is cast as a wannabe hood and must grease their way up the greasy pole of the underworld by performing criminal acts for the local kingpins.
To this end, the player undertakes a series of daring crimes, ranging from stealing cars, acting as a getaway driver and delivering stolen goods. However, the police are permanently on the look out for such chancers and, as the game progresses and the missions grow more daring, so the game becomes ever more gripping.
Grand Theft London continues the theme, but ups the ante with more involved missions - and a considerably larger police force, as SWAT teams are called into play. In the game, though, crime does pay and the financial rewards available are duly increased to reflect the game's considerably more dangerous tasks.
To this end, the player undertakes a series of daring crimes, ranging from stealing cars, acting as a getaway driver and delivering stolen goods. However, the police are permanently on the look out for such chancers and, as the game progresses and the missions grow more daring, so the game becomes ever more gripping.
Grand Theft London continues the theme, but ups the ante with more involved missions - and a considerably larger police force, as SWAT teams are called into play. In the game, though, crime does pay and the financial rewards available are duly increased to reflect the game's considerably more dangerous tasks.
