Game:

Grand Theft Auto II (1999)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 1:50

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In this series I will be replaying GTA 2 in 1080p on the PC - Going through All Districts, All Missions, All Bonus Missions and attempting All Kill Frenzys. We will also switch between Night and Daytime on game.

Setting
GTA 2 takes place in a large metropolis only vaguely referred to as Anywhere City. The city is heavily stylized in a retrofuturistic design, displaying a contrast between a vivid color palette and advanced science fiction weapons and postwar architecture and transportation. All civilian vehicles are retro-modified versions of popular cars and trucks built up until the 1960s, further reinforcing its retrofuturistic influences. The player controls Claude Speed, an uprising criminal in the districts of Anywhere who works both with and against the many criminal syndicates of the city.

City
Anywhere City is divided into 3 sectors: Downtown, Residential, and Industrial. In each of them are three gangs, whose bosses give the player missions via payphones. Each district also has a maximum wanted level that the player can acquire, likely to make later levels more difficult:

The Downtown District allows a maximum wanted level of four, which results in the SWAT team chasing the player.

The Residential District bears a wanted level of five in the PC version, with FBI agents pursuing the protagonist, and six in the PlayStation version, where the Army will chase the protagonist.

The Industrial District, the maximum wanted level of six in both versions, resulting in the Army chasing the player in Land Roamers, both armed and unarmed, Tanks, and Pacifiers.

Saving
To save the game, the player needs to find the Jesus Saves church. It can only be found by listening out for the organ playing or by hijacking a TV Van (the antenna on top always points towards it). Once at the church, the player needs to pay $50,000 to save, so it's best not to save until turning off the game; however, completing two to three missions will easily reward the player with enough money.

Respect
Each of the three gangs within the three districts have a gang with whom they are neutral, and a gang with whom they war. The player will earn respect by killing other "enemy" gang members but naturally will lose respect with the gang that they attack—a gang with considerably low respect will attack the player if they enter their territory. In Downtown district, the gangsters wield only pistols, but in other districts, their weaponry matches the hatred towards the player, even though there are always some of those who wield only pistols. Respect is also earned by doing missions for each of the gangs, and a high level of respect is required to unlock the harder but more rewarding missions. The player can find out which gang is hated by other gangs by going to the blue phone in each gang's territory.

Missions
There are three levels of mission difficulty: easy, taken from green payphones; medium, from yellow payphones, which pay better but require the player to have some respect; and hard, from red payphones, which pay very well, but usually are very hard, and require maximum respect. For completing a mission, the player earns money, respect and a money multiplier. Sometimes during a mission, the player is also given access to new parts of town, vehicles, or weapons.

Bonus Stages
After completing each level in the PC version, the player unlocks not only the next district, but also a Bonus Stage. There are two different types, each with three arenas: Destroying Ice Cream Vans, and a time-attack mode where the player must race against the clock (killing pedestrians and gang members earns the player more time).

Bonus Missions
In every city, there are some "side" missions. Most reward the player with an extra life or money, but the Wang Cars side mission rewards the player with three special vehicles. These missions are:

Kill Frenzies – killing many people or blowing up many cars in the appointed time.
Tokens – collecting tokens with GTA 2 signs on them. There are 50 tokens in each district (25 in the PlayStation version).
Wang Cars – finding eight GT-A1 cars in the Residential District.

This game is avalible for the following
- Sony Playstation
- Sega Dreamcast
- Nintendo Gameboy
- Windows PC

I am playing the Windows PC Version as it is the best version for gameplay , Graphics and Content.

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