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How I play GTA games
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21-03-2012 12:13pm#1
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There was a cool place just off Ganton in GTASA, you might remember it as the place where you pick up Sweet and his girlfriend when some rival Grove Families go mental. Twas two apartment complexes with balconies across from each other. Camping out there with loads of ammo and health cheats for about 2 hours was some serious craic.
GTAIV has Happiness Island, but that gets tedious after a while, and the only highlights are when the NOOSE guys survive helicopter crashes and come from behind you inside the statue.
I also remember in GTA (the original) up at the very top left of the map, there was a HUGE stretch of footpath that I would just hop into a car and floor it, racking up score in no time.
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Shotgun? Hell no. I'd do that for the (M4A1) "Carbine Rifle" that I'd get from the SWAT team that would eventually pop inRonnie Raygun wrote: »That's a lot of trouble to go to for a shotgun.
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GTA 1:Nothing overly special you could do really. I liked finding those random cars that had the 5 second time bombs in them. Also, trying to find a huge straight stretch of road and getting in a bus/oil tanker and driving so fast that the thing would start having a spaz attack and immediatly blow up if anything tipped off it.
Electric rail lines were fun too for just zapping yourself.
GTA 2:I loved running around the gang hideouts/factories and blow the crap out of the all and getting the worst reputation with them so they would fight back.
Ooh! stealing a taxi and picking up random people then taking them on the ride of their lifes!
Get outta my car asshole/gimmie your wallet! police help! etc etc
GTA 3: I used to go the all glass 2 story building in the middle of staunton island and shoot people and destroy cars from the second floor. The cops and Army couldnt get you up there especially if you parked your car on the stairs.
It was a short drive down from the internet cafe, which was similar in design.
Speaking of which, I used to go to the second floor of the internet cafe and wait for some person to stroll up there with me and when they walked in front of the windows I combat shotgunned them at short range so they flew back and out through the glass window onto the ground below. It was awesome.
GTA Vice City: I used to drive up and down the dual road between the Greasy Chopper and the docks on a Faggio with a 6 star wanted level, seeing how long I could survive the mental tanks and army trucks coming after me. You can last surprisingly long on that little thing, and it was great fun!
and damn the way if you left your car idle for more than 10 seconds some random dude always carjacked it.
I also think we all had great fun in the Malibu Club with a minigun or molotov cocktails
GTA SA: Far too many things to mention, but I loved using the give pedestrians weapons cheat, the all pedestrians fight cheat, and the chaos mode cheat (which turned the city into the way it was during the LS riots in story mode). Utter chaos in the streets! Peds blowing the crap out of each other, random lads shooting rockets into walls and ak47 fire all over the shop!
To top that off, I often hopped in a hydra and turned on a 6 star wanted level then engaging in dog fights with the other hydra's that come after you. If anything went wrong I would parachute down into the chaotic warzone city and try battle my way through side alleys and streets to get back to my safe house.
GTA IV: Meh, not a huge fan to be honest. Playing on top of the big crane in the city centre was fun with a high wanted level.
I could rant on about these games all day. Ill spare ye all though with my long enough post as it is.0 -
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I love the Grand Theft Auto series, from my first play of GTA on the Playstation 1 in a friend's house back in secondary school (remember that overhead camera view with visible bullets!), to the present installment of games on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.
But it was upon first hearing this theme music on the PS2…
…followed by the early objective involving a cycle through the hood in early 90's Los Santos, where you could gun down rivals gang members on the streets shouting "gimme them duckets!", while progressing to the point of cruising through the air over the deserts of Las Venturas in a helicopter with Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" playing over the radio, that made me think; This. Is. The. Shit.
I consequently spent way too many hours playing San Andreas (I think my total playing time was over 250hrs by the time I gave up) picking up the elusive 100.00% in the process. I was so enthralled with the game that I once went to the top of the map and swam north for an hour to see if there was anything out there!
When I heard that GTA V would be set in San Andreas again, I gave myself the cold objective of achieving 100% in all of the games of the GTA IV era before V came out.
GTA IV
GTA: The Lost And Damned
GTA: The Ballad Of Gay Tony
Mission accomplished! GTA, serious business
I got the 100% in LA Noire just before this and GTA IV looked so dated compared to it, the vehicle handling seemed cartoonish and difficult to control so I hope that's something they improve on with V. I'm looking forward to it, I'm gonna take my time and go on plenty of random acts of destruction as opposed to just playing for the 100%.0 -
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With GTA SA for the PS2, for me it was mainly using cheats for the Hydra and then mostly bomb the crap out of cars on the highways + chase any other Hydras that came after me. Shot them down too. Never got boring! I never really did any missions apart from the odd Vigilante missions - was happy enough in the Hydra.
GTA IV was by far the most fun game I've played online0 -
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cocoshovel wrote: »GTA 1:Nothing overly special you could do really. I liked finding those random cars that had the 5 second time bombs in them. Also, trying to find a huge straight stretch of road and getting in a bus/oil tanker and driving so fast that the thing would start having a spaz attack and immediatly blow up if anything tipped off it.
Electric rail lines were fun too for just zapping yourself.
GTA 2:I loved running around the gang hideouts/factories and blow the crap out of the all and getting the worst reputation with them so they would fight back.
Ooh! stealing a taxi and picking up random people then taking them on the ride of their lifes!
Get outta my car asshole/gimmie your wallet! police help! etc etc
Also the docks in GTA2 where you could bring cars and put them in the crusher. The cars would go in one side, and rewards would come out the other side. Different types of guns and police bribes etc...cocoshovel wrote: »GTA 3: I used to go the all glass 2 story building in the middle of staunton island and shoot people and destroy cars from the second floor. The cops and Army couldnt get you up there especially if you parked your car on the stairs.
It was a short drive down from the internet cafe, which was similar in design.
Speaking of which, I used to go to the second floor of the internet cafe and wait for some person to stroll up there with me and when they walked in front of the windows I combat shotgunned them at short range so they flew back and out through the glass window onto the ground below. It was awesome.
GTA Vice City: I used to drive up and down the dual road between the Greasy Chopper and the docks on a Faggio with a 6 star wanted level, seeing how long I could survive the mental tanks and army trucks coming after me. You can last surprisingly long on that little thing, and it was great fun!
and damn the way if you left your car idle for more than 10 seconds some random dude always carjacked it.
I also think we all had great fun in the Malibu Club with a minigun or molotov cocktails
I'm sorry, but you can't talk about GTA: Vice City without mentioning the vigilante missions in the Hunter. Vigilante missions were always a bit of a pain and the fact that you couldn't change the radio station in the cop cars was annoying. The Hunter had a proper radio though, so stick on your favourite station and start hunting people down and blowing them up. Auto-aim machine gun or missiles - what a machine. It was also possible to max out your cash in that game because of that glorious machine.cocoshovel wrote: »GTA SA: Far too many things to mention, but I loved using the give pedestrians weapons cheat, the all pedestrians fight cheat, and the chaos mode cheat (which turned the city into the way it was during the LS riots in story mode). Utter chaos in the streets! Peds blowing the crap out of each other, random lads shooting rockets into walls and ak47 fire all over the shop!
To top that off, I often hopped in a hydra and turned on a 6 star wanted level then engaging in dog fights with the other hydra's that come after you. If anything went wrong I would parachute down into the chaotic warzone city and try battle my way through side alleys and streets to get back to my safe house.
Without a doubt the best part of GTA:SA. Instead of turning on the 6 star level cheat though, get the hydra beside your house ( after 100% ) and just fly over the forbidden area on the map, that'll get you an instant 5 stars IIRC. Blow up the helicopters that follow you and you'll be on 6 stars soon enough.cocoshovel wrote: »GTA IV: Meh, not a huge fan to be honest. Playing on top of the big crane in the city centre was fun with a high wanted level.
I could rant on about these games all day. Ill spare ye all though with my long enough post as it is.
In general, it's better to get 100% in the GTA games before you start your wave of destruction and murder because you get infinite ammo so no need to keep doing cheats to get more ammo.0 -
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wnolan1992 wrote: »Just started another playthrough of IV tonight, and it reminded me of my favourite tactic of all time.
There's a mission in IV where you've to steal a cop car to track down Bucky Sligo. And you chase him back to his house, where there are like six gang members waiting to kill you. Well what I did was pull up a just out of reach of their shots, call the police and wait.
The cops will show up, Bucky's guys will shoot at them, the cops will shoot back at them and call for back up.
By the end of the mission, there were 12 cop cars surrounding Bucky's house, about 10 dead cops, and 30 more cops running around the street trying to take out the guys in the house. They ended up doing my dirty work for me, and I just sat across the street and laughed.
NOTE: Sorry if I posted this ;before, I just remembered it tonight and it made me smile.
Yes I forgot about doing that! I used to do that at random street and stuff in GTA IV. Find a gang member that would shoot at me, then call the cops and watch all hell break loose after that.Hunter
Ah that reminds me, driving past the army base was usually a death wish unless you were wearing the cop uniform. 0 -
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I used to use the same cheat, i'd recruit about 4 people, get them in the coastguard helicopter, bring them to the top of a building and then throw tear gas at them until they kept backing away and fell off the building, dunno why but that used to keep me busy for hours.cocoshovel wrote: »Do this along with the "give pedestrians weapons" cheat and you will have you own personal army. Attack/get attacked and they will all blow the crap out of them with their guns. Just be careful not to recruit someone holding a rocket launcher :pac:
I hope they bring back cheats like this for GTAV. That and flying cars, peds riot, etc 0 -
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