Grand Theft Auto 2
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Developed_By:
DMA Design Limited
Published_By:
Rockstar Games
Released On:
22 Oct 1999
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Lie, cheat, and steal your way through three districts of a huge city in the follow-up to Grand Theft Auto . Earn the respect of 7 different gangs as you demolish the town in your attempt to make lots of cash.
The game takes place at an undisclosed time in the near future. Unlike the first game which featured three different cities, Grand Theft Auto 2 only features a single town, but it's divided into three districts that are unlocked one at a time: downtown, residential and industrial. The player goes around answering phones to initiate various missions. The game uses an overhead camera in a 3D landscape and allows the player to freely explore the city and steal any vehicle they set their eyes on. To unlock new districts the player must reach a certain score which is done by committing crimes and finishing missions.
Because the game now features multiple criminal gangs, the player must choose allegiances. Performing missions for one gang will decrease the player's reputation for another. When the player commits crimes they also become wanted by the local police, but as more crimes are committed without shaking the police, they will give way for first SWAT Teams, then Special Agents and finally the army.
New features include the ability to save at a designated location when donating enough money, and various side missions such as becoming a taxi driver to earn money. There are also many new cars with weapons attached such as a firetruck with a flamethrower and a car with machine guns.
On the PC version the player can change the time of day from noon to dusk to allow for more moody lighting. On the PlayStation and Dreamcast versions, the game can only be played at these specific times respectively.
eBay Product ID:
1700298978 (United States)
UPC-A:
710425230370 (USA)
ASIN:
B00001ZUL7 (United States)
Sony PN:
SLUS-00789 (United States)
Part #:
SLUS-00789GH (USA)
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Manual
Game Guide
Extracted from the original game manual
This is an open-world crime action game where players navigate a decaying, corporation-controlled city. You play as a rising criminal, performing illicit jobs for various gangs to earn respect and money, while avoiding the increasingly aggressive police and rival factions. The core gameplay involves completing missions, building reputation with different criminal organizations, and surviving the chaotic urban environment.
Story
Introduction
Society is in rapid decay. With the crime rate soaring and bio-chemical dependency in healthy proliferation, you are about to have the time of your life. The city is on the edge of collapse, with law and order beginning to break down completely.
People are running wild, half-addled on food-additives and semi-legal pharmaceutical pills. A giant corporation controls every aspect of society, from entertainment to organ transplants. Everything is polluted, dirty, unpleasant. Life has never been cheaper.
Fuelled with desire to make a dishonest dollar any way you can, there's a lot of work available from extremely amoral individuals looking for anyone who knows their stuff. With the police just beginning to lose their patience, this city is never going to be quite the same again.
The only thing that's organized in this town is crime. Every shady activity from brewing moonshine to blackmailing politicians is controlled by one gang or another. Every neighborhood has local hoods that don't appreciate some new guy taking whatever he fancies.
So you've got to make these gangs respect you, and give you work. If you're any good they'll employ you, and eventually trust you enough to do some serious work. But if you screw up a job or double cross them, they'll treat you accordingly—like pet food.
Do whatever you want, and work for anyone who will have you, but always be careful that the city doesn't bite back. You're not the only tough guy in town, and you're not the only guy looking to borrow vehicles without their owner's consent.
In the meantime, the police have not only become more aggressive, they've now got the help of the Special Agents and the Army, should things get way out of control. Things are going to get way out of control.
Select a Character
Before you enter yourself into the action, you must choose your agent of defile. Every once in a while you'll want to save your position. By selecting save position you'll be able to do this.
Think of it like a safety deposit box that you can stash your valuables in. It's the only way to keep track of your felonious achievements and save your score.
Who Lives Where
The Zaibatsu Corporation dominate illegal and semi-legal activity across the whole city. Nobody really knows that much about this shadowy monolithic company, but they are perpetually up to no good. In each level, they are joined by two other street gangs who fight against them and each other for control of the city.
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Downtown, the Zaibatsu compete with the Yakuza and the Loonies.
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In the city's Residential Zone, the SRG and the Rednecks fight the bad fight with all their might, with each other and with the Zaibatsu.
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In Industrial areas, the police have to contend with Russians and Hare Krishnas, along with trying to figure out what the Zaibatsu are up to.
Maps have been provided for you as a reference for on-the-fly assistance during your slash through the city.
Respect is Everything
You're a mongrel. No one knows you. No one trusts you. At the beginning the only work going for a punk of your professional stature are the easy missions. To move the tough stuff and get the big money, you'll need to build some cred first.
In order to get a job or be employed by one of the gangs, you'll have to earn some RESPECT. To do this, you've got to perform and do things that the gang like or will appreciate.
For instance, delivering a couple of very nice cars to the railroad terminal controlled by the Russians will make them respect you a little. If you killed a few Zaibatsu employees to get the cars you're certain to get even more. Once you have respect for a gang they start to give you missions and jobs.
Of course, the downside of this is that the Zaibatsu will not be VERY impressed with you. Their animosity for you will affect how you move through the city. If the Zaibatsu want you dead driving through one of their neighborhoods is not one of the brighter ideas.
The more respect you get, the tougher and riskier the jobs will be and the more cash you earn in return. Of course, you can always even things up. Rig a car with explosives and take it to the Russians, blowing them sky high and the Zaibatsu might MIGHT just cut you some slack. They may even start giving you a few delivery jobs.
It's completely up to you how you want to control this bunch of degenerate psychopaths. Just one piece of advice—watch your back.
Gang Agenda
There are seven major gangs who you'll have to work with and against, and each controls a different part of the city and is responsible for a different aspect of crime within this fully dysfunctional city.
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Amongst the gangs, the Yakuza are famed for their vanity - they want the latest and greatest in weapons, cars, and clothes.
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The Rednecks are religious nationalists that hate everyone and everything, from the comfort of their large trailer park complex. The Rednecks brew potent moonshine, hate anyone who's not like them and blow things up occasionally, usually on purpose.
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The Russians steal expensive American cars and weaponry to ship back homeland and control a huge underground organ and body part smuggling operation. They also dominate the important contract killing industry.
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The Hare Krishnas loath technology - if you were always getting run over with nothing more to defend yourself than a tambourine, you'd hate it too. They steal guns and cars, and have them crushed and destroyed to rid the
How to Play
GETTING STARTED
1. Ensure your PlayStation is set up according to its instruction manual; plug in Controller 1 and a Memory Card if you have one.
2. Ensure the power button is OFF before inserting the GTA2 disc, label side up, into the PlayStation.
3. Press the power button ON; the PlayStation logo will appear; when the Title Screen is shown you are ready to play GTA2.
4. If the Sony Screen or Title Screen doesn't appear, press the power button OFF; ensure your PlayStation is set up correctly and the GTA2 disc is properly inserted before pressing the power button ON again.
5. Always ensure the PlayStation power button is OFF before inserting or removing the GTA2 disc while the power is ON. It is also recommended that you don't insert or remove peripherals or Memory cards once the power is turned on. Make sure you have enough free blocks on your Memory card once the power is turned ON.
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Top View
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SONY
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OPEN BUTTON
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RESET BUTTON
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POWER INDICATOR
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DISC COVER
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POWER BUTTON
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CONTROLLER PORT
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MEMORY CARD SLOT 1
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MEMORY CARD SLOT 2
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Front View
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CONTROLLER PORT 1
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CONTROLLER PORT 2
LOADING A SAVED GAME
Insert a Memory Card with previously saved games into your Console. Select Load Game from the main menu and press the button. You will be presented with a list of saved games - unless the memory card is unformatted, in which case there are no files to load.
Use the Directional buttons to highlight the file which you want to load and press the button. When you are prompted to load a new game, press the button to confirm or at any time to cancel.
To delete a previously saved game, press the button then press the button. The game will prompt to confirm the action, press the button to cancel or the button to confirm. Press the button at any time to select a Memory card in another Memory card slot.
SAVE A GAME
In each sector of the city, you'll see a big neon sign displaying "Jesus Saves". Here you'll be able to save the game, have a break, and come back later in your quest.
You can save your progress from the Character Selection screen onto a Memory Card by pressing the button. Enter a name for the saved game by using the Directional buttons to change the letters or press the button to delete a letter.
If you want to delete a previously saved game then press the button. The game will prompt to confirm the action, press the button to cancel or the button to confirm. Press the button at any time to select a Memory card in another Memory card slot. If an unformatted Memory Card is inserted, the game will prompt you to format the Memory card. Press the button to confirm the prompt to format a Memory card.
OPTIONS
From the Title Screen, select Options to call up four new options.
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Use the Effect Music options to change the volume balance of sound effects and music during play.
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While driving a car you can change the radio station you are listening to by pressing UP on the D-pad.
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Use Text to change the speed of text display during play.
THE LAW
In this city there are four levels of response from the Law. The Police are determined and aggressive. If you cause enough damage without getting caught, SWAT teams will be called in to assist the police in your apprehension. They drive fast, and they shoot to maim. The Police, and SWAT teams when needed, are on duty in all three sectors of the city: Downtown, Residential and Industrial.
If you managed to evade this level of law enforcement in the Downtown section, you will become officially classified as a danger to the public at large. Your actions through the Residential and Industrial sectors will be tracked under the jurisdiction and management of the Special Agents, should you become too much for the police and the SWAT teams to handle. These men are not messing about. They do not accept failure. They have one option: bring you in dead.
Even if the finest men in the land fail to apprehend you, the city will no longer allow people to run around, thinking they are above or beyond the law. Acceptable loss will be approved. In the Industrial Section, the Army is brought in. One agenda: Seek and Destroy. Martial Law is declared, and for the average citizen caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, this is a little unfortunate. The Army will bring the city to a halt, hunt you down and send formal apologies to all the families of all those caught in the crossfire later.
TO BE SUCCESSFUL, YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE GOALS
At the start of each level you are told how many points you need to move on to the next area (the quickest way to score is to complete jobs for the Gangs). Earn enough points to finish a stage and your status is recorded along with a string of performance-related statistics for good measure.
BEING SLOPPY & GETTING CAUGHT
When you are brought down in a gunfight, car explosion or other equally unpleasant demise you'll be taken to the nearest hospital where your body will be identified by no one, and you'll be stripped of all your gear. But you'll retain your Bonus Multiplier.
When you are arrested, you'll be taken to the nearest Police Station and allowed to re-enter the streets with your Wanted Level reset to zero. In exchange for all your weapons (your guns, your molotovs, your rocket launcher) and half your Bonus Multiplier (the score you can keep).
MESSAGES
When you
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Left Directional Button
TURN LEFT
Right Directional Button
TURN RIGHT
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X button
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BRAKE (JUMP)
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NEXT WEAPON
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PREVIOUS WEAPON
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