grand theft auto
GTA: Harbour City Details Leaked (April Fool)
April 1, 2009
IGN, the gaming website has come up with some great April Fools jokes in the past, my personal favourite is the Legend of Zelda Movie trailer that they created last year, it clearly took a lot of work, whereas this year’s would appear to have taken a simpler twist – the leak of a new Grand Theft Auto game – GTA: Harbour City.
Take a look at the pictures available over at IGN Xbox 360, it looks quite convincing that there would will be a new GTA released by the end of next year.
Continue reading »Wheelman Demo (PS3)
March 18, 2009
From my last post on the Wheelman preview, I was quite excited to get my hands on a version of the game that I could play, so I was pleased to see the demo available on the PSN.
But after playing the demo, I’m less enthused about the final product.
Imagine if you will, Grand Theft Auto mixed with………….Crazy Taxi!!
Now some of you might think, “WOW! That sounds amazing”, but I was left feeling disappointed by a game that promised quite a lot.
Continue reading »Taking Handhelds Seriously: Legitimizing Portable Gaming Through Controversy
March 11, 2009
The GTA series is notorious for being controversially progressive in the way it deals with issues previously deemed too sensitive for the video games medium. Be it shooting cops or encrypted sex mini games, whatever the case may be, renegade developers RockStar North deserve props for generating serious discussion on the inclusion of such adult themes in games, while at the same time inching the boundaries of the medium forward.
With the recent release of The Lost and Damned; a downloadable episode for GTA4, the developers included some brief scenes of full male nudity (yes, people get worked up about this supposedly) and as you might have assumed, controversy has sparked up again.
Continue reading »Wheelman Preview
January 17, 2009
Wheelman is the new action game from Midway Studios who have worked along side Vin Diesel and his studio Vigon. It’s pretty cool that Vin Diesel is a gaming fan and wants this to be a decent game instead of the usual movie tie-in games as this Wheelman preview shows!
“Vin Diesel stars as Milo Burik, a CIA agent who goes undercover as a Wheelman to infiltrate the gangs and criminal powers of Barcelona, in order to stop a potential nation breaking situation.”
Wheelman is meant to separate from the film, which funnily enough starts Vin Diesel as well. Weird eh! The story is set in Barcelona because of the style of the city and it should make a nice change from GTA games that are all in America.
There are the usual gangsters in this game, with Romanian arms dealers, Spanish Mafia, Chillos biker gang loitering the streets of sun soaked Barcelona.
Continue reading »‘Manhunt 2′ Released Into UK Community
October 8, 2008
Manhunt 2, the sequel to one of the most gruesome games ever made is set to FINALLY hit the UK shores this Halloween!
Manhunt has come under huge pressure because of the graphical content of the game, with people asking questions about whether or not a game with this magnitude of violence is appropriate.
Manhunt is made by Rockstar games, and if you don’t know who they are, what rock have you been hiding under?! Rockstar are the company behind Grand Theft Auto 4, just in case you didn’t know.
Continue reading »Grand Theft Auto 4 Content?
March 10, 2007
The Grand Theft Auto
The first GTA game to come to the next generation consoles is scheduled for October 2007, there isn’t a great deal known about its content yet, but it will feature episodic content downloads. You can currently see a big countdown to the trailer’s release on the website – the trailer itself should appear around the 29th March.
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