6 out of 6 people found this review helpful.
Original Idea and lots of fun
Date of Review: Mar 18, 2000
The people who created Grand Theft Auto should be patted on the back for creating such a unique and innovative game. Before this game, most games out there had you control the good guys. You were always the one that had to save the day. It was always good versus evil. The people at Grand Theft Auto changed this and made it evil versus good. While doing this, they created a great game.
The goal in Grand Theft Auto is to obey your bosses commands. You are part of a street gang and on each level you must obey your bosses commands. The commands vary from robbing banks, stealing cars, to actually running people over. While you are out on the missions you collect money by stealing other cars, running over pedestrians, and committing hit and runs.
You must complete a certain amounts of your bosses commands successfully before you can move onto the next level. The missions are not easy and each level takes a long time to finish. This can be good or bad depending on the way you view it. You can not save a level half way through so you must have a lot of time to sit down and attempt to finish the level.
Each level is packed with many different weapons and a wide variety of cars ranging from a Dodge Viper to a School Bus. Each city has parks, rivers, and parking lots to cause trouble in. The more trouble you cause within each city, the more police are sent out to arrest you. If you cause a lot of trouble watch out, they set up roadblocks to stop your crime spree.
The game does have special cheat codes to make it interesting. There are certain codes that allow you unlimited ammo and weapons, or allow yourself to become invinsable.
Overall this game is really fun. If nothing else it becomes a great stress reliever just to blow up some buildings.
