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Grand Theft Auto 2 for PlayStation 1
Grand Theft Auto 2 for PlayStation 1 is an overhead-view action game in which you drive and walk through Anywhere City. The city consists of three successive areas with their own streets, industrial sites and gangs. You take assignments from payphones, ranging from delivering a vehicle to eliminating an opponent. You can also explore the surroundings yourself and look for another car. Traffic and police make journeys unpredictable, especially if you have already attracted attention along the way.
Your reputation determines which gang gives you work and how other groups react to you. A job for one side can damage your relationship with its rivals. Your route therefore has consequences: a previously quiet street can become dangerous when the local gang no longer tolerates you. You collect money, weapons and useful items while working towards the score required for the next area. Vehicles differ in speed and handling, and a pursuit sometimes calls for a quick change.
The original PlayStation release is for one player and works with a standard controller. There are no multiplayer matches; the computer version's network options are not included. To save progress while exploring the city, find the church with the Jesus Saves sign and use a PlayStation memory card. Saving is therefore a deliberate action at a fixed location. The game does not automatically save every completed telephone assignment, so keep your return route in mind too.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 1 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
This edition of Grand Theft Auto 2 for PlayStation 1 has a French-language case. The French Box label describes the packaging; it does not confirm which languages are available on the supplied disc.
Manual
Grand Theft Auto 2 for PlayStation 1 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Grand Theft Auto 2
Grand Theft Auto 2 was released in 1999 and developed by DMA Design, with Rockstar Games as publisher. The sequel built on the first GTA's combination of walking, stolen vehicles and telephone assignments. The three recognisably American cities gave way to Anywhere City, an invented metropolis mixing older cars with a grim futuristic atmosphere. The high camera angle remained, allowing you to keep an overview of traffic and streets around your character.
The original manual presented a city where seven gangs fought for influence. Respect became a visible game rule: assignments and attacks changed how groups treated you. Choosing an employer therefore had consequences beyond a different mission description. The church as a save location also made it possible to explore one urban area across several playing sessions. The PlayStation adaptation retained that core, but did not bring the computer release's network options to the console.
On PlayStation 1, GTA 2 concludes the original line of overhead-view games, following Grand Theft Auto and the London expansion. Grand Theft Auto III would develop the series further on PlayStation 2 from a different camera perspective. The second game shows how much changed within the older structure: gang relationships, a different city and deliberately returning to a save point. The various packaging editions remain the same original PS1 game; a missing manual does not change the game content included.
Similar games for PlayStation 1
The first Grand Theft Auto shares the overhead view and the alternation between telephone jobs, walking and stolen vehicles with GTA 2. There you travel through Liberty City, San Andreas and Vice City. The sequel focuses on the areas of Anywhere City and makes gang respect a more important requirement for work and safe travel. The church as a save point also distinguishes GTA 2 from its predecessor's longer city stages.
Driver shares police pursuits and learning to read city traffic with GTA 2. You follow Tanner at the wheel from a camera behind the car and use drifts and quick changes of direction to escape. GTA 2 looks down on the city and also lets you walk and shoot. Driver's undercover campaign centres on car journeys; in GTA 2, contacts with rival gangs and changing vehicles are part of the same urban exploration.
Driver 2 and GTA 2 let you leave a vehicle and take another car when you need transport. The camera perspective and mission structure differ: Driver 2 follows Tanner through three-dimensional streets and builds its story around an undercover investigation. GTA 2 shows the environment from above and uses gang respect to govern work and hostility. The shared ability to change vehicles therefore leads to different considerations when choosing a route.
Auto Destruct shares dangerous city driving, weapons and assignments against organised opponents with GTA 2. You remain in an armed car while destroying targets or protecting other vehicles. The car itself is your main combat tool. GTA 2 lets you steal ordinary cars, get out and use weapons on foot. Auto Destruct builds its missions around fighting a cult, whereas GTA 2 lets you play several rival gangs against one another.
In its Die Hard With a Vengeance section, Die Hard Trilogy also uses busy city traffic and a direction indicator to guide you towards a target. You have to reach bombs in time and change vehicles at designated locations. GTA 2 gives you the freedom to steal transport on the street and uses gang relationships to determine which assignments are available. Die Hard Trilogy's shooting sections are separate; GTA 2 lets walking and driving take place within the same city.
