How can these guys possibly go wrong?

Grand Theft Auto III
State of Emergency

and soon...

GRAND THEFT AUTO: VICE CITY

These guys make the best and most violent games for the Playstation 2.

I like what I have seen of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City...

i'm wautung a bit, but real soon i'm gonna get
HOT PERSUIT II
for PlayStation2
my favorite game is
NEED FOR SPEED... HIGH STAKES
you gotta love it!!!

Video games!?!? Give me strip poker any day!

UGA are the best games developers (sorry Ian) !!!

Much love Pochacco

Actually the guys who did State of Emergency was called "VIS" (they are just around the corner from my flat) and it was published under Rockstar Games. Different developer to GTA3, but they are very good guys.

GTA3 was developed by another developer - DMA Design who are now called Rockstar North, in Edinburgh. Most of my workmates are ex-DMA Design, and the company was founded by someone I work with. They did games like Lemmings, Grand Theft Auto, Wild Metal Country, Silicon Valley, Tanktics etc.

Vice City looks absolutely brilliant - over 9 hours of 80s music, along with helicopters and motorcycles

Check out these related sites:

http://www.kentpaul.com
http://www.degenetron.com
http://www.rockstargames.com/vicecity

Pochacco said:

Don't be sorry, I love UGA!!

I played Rez and Space Channel 5 to bit

ian said:

Great information, Ian!

Okay, Rockstar is a great publishing company and they put out the greatest stuff!

Damn, those games are great fun.

id Software - ehem.

ian said:

You can add another one in there Ian.

http://www.vicecityradio.com/

You can pre-order the music boxset and have a quick preview listen to some of the radio stations!

Can't wait!








Duh! I had to edit...
[This message was edited Mon Oct 14 4:41:45 PDT 2002 by npgsmfc]

LaVisHh said:

id make great game technology, not great games

npgsmfc said:

Good call! And, the site for international orders will be:

http://www.sonymusic.com/...ernational

I've been checking out the movies of the game up on IGN and the helicopters look like great fun. I know quite a few of the lads in Rockstar and even they still love the game (which is unsual, usually by the time you reach the end of a long development cycle you can't wait to see the back of it).

Quick tip from Ian: don't buy Mario Sunshine for GameCube. I've been playing it recently and it stinks, really buggy with a very annoying camera

Have to agree with you there Ian,the camera in SMS sucks big time,very disappointing indeed but sooo lovely water effects

Much love Pochacco

ian said:

I am a retired "Quake'er"... so watch your language!!!

IceNine said:

Grand Theft Auto III is the bomb...I love to play it and just randomly start shooting people. I find it to be a good way to release stress.

I heard it rumoured that you can rape women in GTA3. Is this true? I mean, why would the designers put that in the game???

I'm not a big gamer, but I have GTA and Midnight Club - Street Racing. This older ps2 game has the distinction of having WTC graphics in the New York option. You can actually drive in the underground garage and roam on the WTC site.. creepy!

feltbluish said:

You don't rape people... you bang whores...

Pochacco said:

Yeah the water is lovely but the swimming system was better in SM64 in my opinion.

And ICO had the nicest water of any video game

LaVisHh said:

Hey i was a quake player too back in the day but id really aren't what I'd call a "games studio" - they make kickass 3D engines and license the crap outta them. Their games are pretty miserable shooty affairs with no real attention to good game design, but each iteration of their technology drives the industry for years afterwards.

feltbluish said:

NO of course it isn't true. There's been a lot of silly things said about GTA3 by the "hysterical parents brigade" in the media, and it has done nothing but help sales Really, when you look at the original GTA, the only cool thing about it was the subject matter and the music - it already looked very dated when it was released. But thanks to the news coverage of the "controversial" subject matter it sold by the bucket load

I can't play the original GTA now though... the zooming in-and-out camera makes me seasick

Aerogram said:

You could always get a pre-2001 copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator with the New York maps ... now that WOULD be spooky.

ian said:

Actually, I have a copy...

ian said:

That's better.