GTA 3 is the first 3D open-world, action-adventure game in the GTA franchise. On their way the convoy gets attacked by the Colombian who retrieve the old man.Īt this event Claude and 8-Ball manage to escape in the chaos.įast forwarding Later on 8-Ball will introduce Claude to the Italian Mafia where the real Chaos begins. The other 2 prisoners are 8-Ball and an elderly Colombian man. The game starts when Claude and 2 other prisoners are being transported to prison. Right after they do the robbery Claude is shot and betrayed by Catalina who escapes with an unknown Colombian thug.Ĭlaude survives the gunshot but get’s arrested and is sentenced to do 10 years in prison. Claude is a small time criminal that plots a bank robbery with his accomplice and girlfriend “Catalina”. In GTA 3 you play the character “Claude”. GTA 3 was the best selling game in 2001 but also got a lot of critique to it’s violent nature and therefor was rate M for mature. The first 3D open world version that set the standard for future GTA games and for the time it was AMAZING!!ĭeveloped by Rockstar North in 2001 that back then was still operating under the name DMA Design, GTA 3 was a revolution!
If we could only express how ecstatic we were when this came out back in 2002. GTA 2 also featured a multiplayer mode that consisted of 4 games: Tag, Race, Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch.
To earn some extra cash you could play missions as a truck driver, bus driver and a taxi driver. You would see people entering taxi’s, buses and be part of the occasionally beat down.Īnother feature that came in GTA 2 were the side-missions. Where in GTA 1 pedestrians and passing cars where just cosmetic in GTA they play an active role. Other improvements resolved in the game surroundings.
However, if you would enter a church and you didn’t have $50k you would hear a voice saying “Damnation! No donation, no salvation!!” Unfortunately the save voice could only be heard in the PC version and not the PSX version. If you would enter a church with $50k on the PC version you would hear a voice saying “Hallelujah! Another soul saved!”. Where in GTA 1 the game only got saved when finishing a city in GTA 2 you could manually save by entering a church. Another improvement was the “saving” system.
GTA 2 was again developed by the DMA Design crew but this time Rockstar Games was the publisher worldwide.Īlthough slightly better graphics the game kept it’s overhead viewpoint. In 2000 it was also released for the Sega Dreamcast and the Game Boy Color. In 1999 the sequel to the popular game “Grand Theft Auto(1)” was released for the PC and later in the same year for the PlayStation. GTA 1 also had 2 mission packs named “Grand Theft Auto: London 1969” and “Grand Theft Auto: London 1961” Grand Theft Auto 2 Drive around, stealing cars and create as much chaos as possible. Another similarity was that if you didn’t want to play the missions you could do whatever you want. Even though the graphics were very basic at the time you can still find similarities with the 3D versions of today.įor example in this first version stealing and selling cars was already a big part of the game. The game has 8 playable characters, 4 male and four females but there is no difference in the game play. Development started in 1996 and was intended for the Commodore Amiga. The game was originally released for the PC but got ported to the PlayStation 1 in 1998.Īlthough the Grand Theft Auto brand name is well known today it almost was released under a different name which was Race’n’Chase. It was developed by DMA Design a British game developer that is today known as Rockstar North. The first GTA game named “Grand Theft Auto” was developed back in the good old 90’s, 1997 to be exact. Although the younger generations mostly only know about the 3D versions GTA started out as a 2D game.Īs of today the Grand Theft Auto games have sold over 200million copies in total. A Little GTA HistoryĪs said before, GTA stands for Grand Theft Auto and has been the most well-know sandbox game worldwide.
You can download the PPSSPP emulator from the official site but we will also include it in all our downloads. Of course turning your smart phone into a game handheld is the most fun.
Anyway, with the PPSSPP you can play PSP games on your Android and iOS device among other platforms.
PPSSPP stands for “PlayStation Portable Simulator for Playing Portably”. In this article we will talk about a little about it’s history, the different GTA PPSSPP games. The GTA franchise has become one of the most popular sandbox games of all time worldwide. But for that 1% that don’t know, GTA stands for Grand Theft Auto. When people read the abbreviation GTA for probably 99% it will need no explaining.