Release Date: Oct 27, 1999
Developer: DMA Design
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Genre: Action
Theme: Crime
Rating: M for Mature
Game Modes: Single player, multiplayer
Grand Theft Auto 2 uses the same 2 dimensional/top down game play of the original Grand Theft Auto. In it players have ability to steel cars and explore the city on foot or in vehicles. The game also contains multiple games and three levels that are all mission based. Grand Theft Auto 2 was made available as freeware.
In 1999, Rockstar Games and Rockstar North (then known as DMA Design) furthered the groundbreaking gameplay concepts established just two years prior in the original Grand Theft Auto - with the release of GTA2.
GTA2 expanded on the top-down, open-ended crime world gameplay formula with a host of new features including the advent of multiple rival gangs – seven, to be exact, including the Yakuza, Scientists, Looneys, Rednecks, Zaibatsu, the Russian Mob and Hare Krishnas. Earn your respect with each gang.
Reap the benefits with all manner of shady work-for-hire gigs contracted your way. And climb your way to the top of the criminal pile. Now, longtime Grand Theft Auto fans can revisit this classic entry in the series - and new jacks who missed out on this early franchise title can further discover Grand Theft Auto’s roots - absolutely free.