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Grand Theft Auto Double Pack |
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Action/Adventure |
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Rockstar Games |
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Rockstar Games |
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Driving along the avenue in your newly acquired vehicle at night. The fresh
paint job reflecting the city lights off every surface. The curves cutting
the air like a sharp knife through soft butter. The smell of the interior
leather oozing quality on your nostrils. Your arm hangs casually out of the
window making the hairs on your exposed skin dance as you apply more
pressure to the accelerator. Your in car stereo is pumping the sounds of the
city, almost making your teeth rattle. You feel good, real good. In fact
life could not be better for this moment is sheer bliss.
With your eyes wandering as you cruise at a leisurely pace, scouring the
many shops and people as you pass by, a pair of long legs and tight butt in
a short skirt catches your attention. Slightly easing of the accelerator and
shifting into a lower gear, your vehicle purrs like a street cat after
polishing off an ice cream dropped by some hapless child. With your eyes
totally focused on this vision of beauty you feel that life has left and you
have just died and gone to heaven.
Crunch, like the instantaneous moment of a shattered pane of glass this
vision ends as quickly as it had begun. Swiftly interrupted with the reality
check. Your head uncontrollably leans forward stopping mere millimetres from
the steering wheel and causing a slight pain in your neck then springs back
hitting the headrest on the seat . "Holy **** what the hell" you shout with
the tone of someone who is surprised and not exactly impressed. Beyond the
ghostly looking steam that is rising from your vehicle’s bonnet it becomes
clear that you have shunted another vehicle. The occupant of the other
vehicle, somewhat dazed seem to be ok and remains in the seat. Looking to
apportion blame on anyone but yourself, you open the drivers side door and
get out screaming like a deranged lunatic. "My wheels man, my god dam
****ing wheels you piece of S***". A small crowd of people have started to
gather plus a queue of other vehicles has formed as they watch the ensuing
commotion. As anger finally takes over you lose it completely. Making a
beeline to the driver of the shunted vehicle, you fling the door open almost
busting the hinges. Grabbing the driver’s arm and using some extreme
adrenaline fuelled strength you pull him from the vehicle tossing him onto
the hard tarmac, gasps of shock coming from the ever increasing size of
onlookers. As the man clambers to his feet and without hesitation you pull a
9mm pistol from under your belt, point and fire one, two, three, four, five,
six shots into the guy that has just messed up your day.
People start running and screaming in a mass panic. Motorists step on the
gas to get away from the carnage as quickly as possible. Meanwhile the blood
from your victim snakes its way across the road leaving a trail like some
sick street art painting. Some of the blood has splattered on your sneakers.
Looking down at your feet and remaining totally unfazed this starts to
really annoy the hell out of you. "For Christ’s sake my f****** shoes, you
b****". Prompting you to place a hard boot to the now dead driver’s body.
The sounds of sirens can be heard getting closer and closer with every
heartbeat as instinct takes over. Amongst the mass of people running in
complete fear a street cop has arrived on the scene. Aiming his pistol in
your direction and yelling " drop your weapon and get down on the floor".
Screw this you think to yourself as you open fire on this solitary cop. A
few bullets later and the cop is wasted although more have arrived on the
scene and are closing in on your position. With the guile of a tiger you run
to the nearest vehicle on the opposite side of the street (your own being
boxed in and unable to be moved). You proceed to open the door, then pull
out the occupant, climb inside and finally hit the gas. The tyres producing
thick smoke as the deafening sound of screeching rubber blasts out. Smashing
another car as you make your exit and also hitting a cop who has tried to
prevent your escape sending him crashing to the ground. Amid a hail of cop
gunfire, with bullets entering the shell of the means of your escape, you
are gone into the night. There are only two thoughts on your mind your
prized car left at the scene and the state of your sneakers which now sport
a nice coating of red.
Back to reality. In essence, as a player you will be able to live out that
very story I have described as often as you like when GTA 3 and GTA Vice
City is released on Xbox later this year. Published by Rockstar games and
developed by DMA Xbox owners can now be able to experience what PS2 and PC
owners have been enjoying for some time now. Initially GTA 3 was going to
appear on Xbox being announced some short time after launch, but it never
happened. With its freeform mission based game play and its go anywhere do
anything approach the GTA series has gone from strength to strength over the
years despite always remaining controversial and almost taunting those who
oppose video game violence.
The double pack will include the original next gen title GTA 3 alongside the
more recent Vice City. However some new features are going to be included
for Xbox owners. The use of the hard drive will enable players to use custom
soundtracks while they tear up the mean streets. This is a great move as the
music already provided is either loved or hated depending . Also promised
are more detailed characters than the PS2 version alongside a whole host of
other new lighting and weather effects. It is not clear whether their will
be any exclusive content in the form of vehicles or weapons perhaps even
missions but either way the two games are going to keep you busy for quite
some time. Due out in the US on November the 4th of this year. Having
already played the PS2 versions of both games I, like many others are still
looking forward to this once PS2 exclusive gracing my beloved Xbox, about
time Rock star.
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