Greetings DC Fans! | Story: GTA2 made me cry

new to dreampipe, new to dreamcast as well. Have mainly been playing via emulators but i have recently bought a dreamcast online because the console just has a fantastic community and homebrew support, so when my system arrives in the mail i still dont think i'd be able to fully enjoy it til i get more freetime on my hands hopefully within half a year from now, so i'd like to talk about my first dreamcast experience and how it made me cry, because it seemed so rushed yet so promising.

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As you read in the title, its GTA2. in case you haven't played it before its a bit odd for a GTA game, its retro-futuristic and more like a fast paced arcade game than later titles or even the first title, on PC and PS1 its a blast! It's not great but its pretty fun to go around running over rows of elvis impersonators in a futuristic 1930's race car, so when i saw the dreamcast version i had to try it first on an emulator and...

At first i was very pleased! It looked exactly like the PC version, but the controls were weird to me, when oddly i feel like it would work pretty well on the DC controller with the right layout, of course its not a deal breaker but i wish you could at least configure the controls outside of a few presents, then in the streets i saw cars you wouldn't see until you reached the other levels, which honestly to me was fine [it was always weird to me that Downtown only has 1 kind of taxi for example] so unphased by the details i proceeded to jack a car and heard the head radio jingle "69 to 89 FM", of course i didnt think much of it until i started a mission, once i then went back into the car i heard it again "69 to 89 FM"! It turns out the radio repeats from the beggining [Unless, apparently if you drive for a very long time it wont restart unless you die] So i looked it up and it turns out yeah this port was sadly rushed, in fact a prototype from not too long before the final build doesn't even feature the radio and there were quite a few buggy things in it so it seems the game was just quickly rushed to release in May 2000, probably because of a certain console eating at Dreamcast's market share or maybe other minor factors. Now i know why Dreamcast Magazine gave it a 5/10, seems like the latter is such a minor problem but i forgot to mention you cannot mute the music you have to hear "69 to 89 FM" or the beginning of every radio station when you enter a car!

Real shame because i thought it was the perfect GTA for the dreamcast because of its fast paced arcade-like feel + the pc version had online mode and i really wanted to see if you could do all of those cool Online matches with dreamcast owners. It would be cool to see a fan made fixed version of the game but the sad part is i dont think anyone would really want to attempt to try to make a better version of a rushed port of game that was only really a mildly decent Action-Adventure game that tmk doesn't have available source code when the more famous sequel does. But knowing how Rockstar has been with fan-made remakes that shouldn't be a surprise.

Guessing this isn't the last time Rockstar games made a dev studio rush out a GTA port...

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