...kaged as GrandTheftAuto:ViceCityStories. Of course, like the original it is a prequel but unlike the original remake GrandTheft Auto Liberty CityStories, you are no longer playing as the main character from the PS2 version, but rather a bran...
If you are looking for GrandTheft Auto 3....2, well welcome to Liberty CityStories. Originally put out for the Sony PSP, Liberty CityStories was the first hit on the system. It showed off what the system could do, and even today it would be my favourit...
It's not often that a game's sequel arrives while the first game is still selling for the full $50 price tag. The grand success of GRANDTHEFT AUTO III has put Rockstar in that rare position as it releases GRANDTHEFTAUTO:VICECITY. But is this release ...
His cousin Roman told him he was rich, that he had a palace for him to come to. There was a new life awaiting Niko Bellic in Liberty City, and he was all set to leave his past and the old country behind.
Glittering skyscrapers, elegant parties and a life...
In a Knoxville, Tennessee courtroom, a federal judge is deciding whether the families of two individuals shot by a pair of teens have the right to place blame upon the makers of the smash-hit video game GRANDTHEFT AUTO. The families of Aaron Hamel, 45, a...
Welcome back to Gamers' Thumb and another edition of Fact or Fiction. While we don't plan on doing this every week, we wanted to examine the biggest games coming out in the not too distant future. As always, your comments and questions are appreciated at ...
Gordian Recon by Captain Gordon Edward (Sat 03-03-2007)
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GrandTheftAuto:ViceCityStories (PS2) - A few years ago GrandTheftAuto:ViceCity made its way to the PS2, which probably had the best soundtrack of all of their series. But as with a trend on the PSP system, a new game was created f...
...lls it.
GrandTheftAuto:ViceCityStories (PSP) - It seems that GrandTheftAuto: Liberty CityStories will no longer be the lone car jacking game on the PSP, as a follow-up to another popular game is ported to the PSP. The original game was fan...
...d the PS2 GrandTheftAuto:ViceCityStories breakdown.) Knowing this, I paid the extra money for the extended warranty: free service for three years. The problem was that I had to send my business computer away for up to two weeks. Murphy, being a...
Ever wanted a game where you can hijack any car, kill any pedestrian, shoot cops, drive hookers to work and blow people up? GRANDTHEFT AUTO III might just satisfy your criminal desires.The story goes like this. You're sharing a police truck ride with a m...
If you've gone to the mall already today and don't know why there was that long lineup outside the video game store, it's because one of the year's most highly anticipated video games went on sale starting today. GRANDTHEFTAUTO: SAN ANDREAS is the lates...
Blink and you would've missed it. Yesterday a number of video game websites caught wind of a new product listing on Amazon UK's website for the next chapter in the GRANDTHEFT AUTO game franchise. It was called SIN CITY, but if you check the product entry...
Rockstar games announced today that it has opened the website for one of its most highly anticipated titles, GRANDTHEFT AUTO 3. GRANDTHEFT AUTO 3 is the first game in the series to be released on the Playstation 2 and has full 3D graphics for the first ...
The war on the next GrandTheft Auto has already begun. Big Apple politicians aren’t happy with the setting of GrandTheft Auto IV. The controversy is based on the first and only GTA IV trailer, a 30-second cutscene depicting an Eastern European imm...
Plot:
Taking place in an Atlanta-esc city, you must be ready for the sandbox of drugs, violence, and driving fast.
Platform:
X-Box 360 and PS3
Company:
Rockstar Games
Status:
In Development
Latest Rumors:
One feature may allow for players to jo...
Before we dive in, there's a new, official-type e-mail address you can reach me at. You can still get me at kurtamacker@yahoo.com, but now comicscape@cinescape.com is up and it comes directly to me. It mostly just makes me look slightly official when I'...
Interscope Records and Rockstar Games have signed a deal that will see the former release a soundtrack based on the highly anticipated forthcoming console video game GRANDTHEFTAUTO: SAN ANDREAS. Both companies aren't releasing any details as to which ar...
In an author’s world the side project is the inventive diversion from the norm, the natural extension of those delectable creative juices, and the next thing on the horizon of the mind’s eye. In some cases this is an entirely new adventure or ...
2002 was one heck of a year, filled with ups and more ups. There were so many games this year that deserve mention, but only so many awards to give out. In our truest Gamers' Thumb fashion, Cinescape hands out this year's Golden Thumb awards. Best PC Game...
Greetings, COMICSCAPE faithful, and welcome to another week of editorial content to keep you sane at work. Talking about men in long underwear beating the hell out of each other always trumps filling out TPS reports. For those of you checking in again, th...
Each week, Mania special correspondent Damon Brown, author of Porn & Pong: How GrandTheft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Modern Pop Culture, offers his unique take on society, entertainment and other issues of critical concern to Mani...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yoshida AkimiTranslated by:Matt ThornAdapted by:What They SayViceCity: New York in the 80's...
Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of c...
I met Bob Ross several years ago. I was probably around eight. We first connected between Pinwheel and Quincy, my favorite show at the time. Bob had a large, bushy afro, similar to the one my mom carried around when she carried around me. He would grab...
Even though Rockstar made major news by announcing GRANDTHEFTAUTO:VICECITY, its booth was far from spectacular this year. Nowhere to be found was the new VICECITY, or MAX PAYNE 2, rather, the very soon to be released GRANDTHEFT AUTO III for PC domin...
Christmas is upon us once again, and as usual, video games normally top a lot of people's Christmas lists. And like always, there are always these killer games out there that everyone wants, including us (just because we get games for free doesn't mean we...
Game Tunes by James Stevenson and Troy Roberts (Fri 03-26-2004)
Music in videogames is one of the most important aspects of a game. While many games are overlooked for the qualities of their composition, how many gamers can hum the theme to any of the MARIO BROS. games without even thinking about it? Groups of dedicat...
When someone mentions EA to me, I immediately start thinking of cows. Firstly, I like cows: huge docile animals that give everything and ask for nothing in return. Cows are great, I watched the other day the industrial process of milking a cow on 'Dis...
Each week, Mania special correspondent Damon Brown, author of Porn & Pong: How GrandTheft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Modern Pop Culture, offers his unique take on society, entertainment and other issues of critical concern to Mani...
Every celebrity whom went through their own 15 minutes of fame and watched it fly away for the next 30 minutes has some law troubles this week. The topper is the Boy George Law Trouble and I’m sure after you read it, you’ll agree. It left me s...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Jun AbeTranslated by:Kenichiro YagiAdapted by:Kelly Sue DeConnickWhat They SayAsami\'s best friend Chiharu has stopped coming to school and isn\'t answering her phone. It seems she\'s found something that\'s a little more addi...
The roots of Japanese manga can be found in American cartoons and comics. Pioneer manga-ka Osamu Tezuka got his start by emulating Disney, and from there the medium soared. Now that manga has found its niche in America, the roles have changed a little: Am...
Last week I somehow got into the Hollywood premiere of Grindhouse. It was interesting and… well, I’ll leave any commentary to people actually qualified to review this genre movie. I will say I had fun. In fact, I often found myself being t...
In 2001 the Dabel Brothers founded a publishing company in search of a niche. Under the name “Roaring Studios” Ernst, Les, Pascal and David Dabel took their love of comics and fantasy to a new height, capitalizing on the vacancy of book-to-com...
Just for once I want to sit down and enjoy a game for its originality and stimulating gameplay. Apparently, that is too much to ask of games today. Granted, it's tough to make something unique nowadays, and you'd think that it's easy to critic...
Heist by Branislav "Bane" Babovic (Tue 03-13-2001)
Virgin Interactive Europe (responsible for the famous Dune) decided to return to the market with an interesting game named Heist. There have been a lot of games recently that dealt with the criminal "underworld" Games like GrandTheft Auto or the somewhat...
I believe that 2008 could be the year of the PS3. Microsoft took second place after a monumental pricing blunder by Sony. An arrogant Sony released their new console, as we all know, for $700.00 which forced us to purchase a Blu-Ray player along with...
Each week, Mania special correspondent Damon Brown, author of Porn & Pong: How GrandTheft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Modern Pop Culture, offers his unique take on society, entertainment and other issues of critical concern to Ma...
It'd be easy to say that THE GETAWAY is merely a GrandTheft Auto clone. But the game has been through much more than that. In development for eternity and costing Sony a fortune, the game has slowly evolved from a game like DRIVER to more of an interacti...
This week, Sony held a press event to show off its upcoming first-party and online lineup for the PlayStation 2 console. The event was an all-day function at the W Hotel in San Francisco, and CINESCAPE was there to check out the games.The day got started ...
No man leads a truly normal life. However we might group and classify others by peculiarity, subculture, or social strata, no group of lives can unite in consensus to define normality in the fullest sense of the word. They can only attain degrees and func...
Greetings, Comicscape faithful, and welcome to another exciting Wednesday morning. I trust you’ll all walk into your neighborhood comic shops later today – if you already haven’t – and walk out a few dollars poorer, but, I...
This week the Prize Closet holds copies of two DVDs about heroes assigned to quests by their respective deities. Enter to win by sending an email containing your valid mailing address to psycho@psychotronic.info. To win one of five copies of the thri...
JAK AND DAXTER became a hit due to stellar gameplay, beautiful graphics and a wonderful story told through excellent animation. Two years later, Naughty Dog Studios is preparing the much-awaited sequel. This time, though, things are quite a bit different....
Since his conception in the Icewind Dale Trilogy back in 1988, R.A. Salvatore’s Drizzt has grown from an initial side character to the most well-renowned persona of the Forgotten Realms universe.
Hello Maniac readers and welcome to this, th...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another controversial edition of Comicscape! Last week’s review of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer sparked a hellacious debate on the comment section unlike few we’ve seen on the site. It ...