Grand Theft Auto Ideas Pages

By Michael Mendelsohn (mendel@informatik.uni-bremen.de)

If you have some ideas of your own please share them with me! If you want to contribute to this page, please do so!

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New Mission Ideas (for those who've seen them all)

You will not earn any points in the game when you complete these missions; however, you may enjoy the challenge. A mission editor is in the works, so expect these ideas to turn up in a user-produced level in the near future - participate by sending in ideas!

Liberty City

The bambini are complaining that school is too boring. Take them for a trip to the southernmost tip of Nixon Island! [Easy] Visit the North End of The Island (North No Law)! Get Back! [Medium]

Take a trip into the sewers of Guernsey City! Jump down at this spot in South Eaglewood, walk under the bridge and into Eaglewood/Fort Law, just make sure you don't walk into any 'real' water. If you like, add the code on the right to your MISSION.INI to get the car and the boat. Riding the boat is way cool! Unsolved problem: how to get up again!	[1] Easy Liberty City NEW, 22, nyc.cmp, 0, 100 1 1 1 1 0 Places a bug and a boat on the water 1000 1 (136,43,5) PARKED 1 0 1001 1 (8848,2840,320) PARKED_PIXELS 13 512 0 1 (108,108,4) TELEPHONE 0 768

San Andreas

Vice City

GTA Trivia

• A GTA City Map has 256x256 textured tiles. If you drew the map on a paper with a 0.5 cm (1/4") grid length, you would need a sheet that is 1.28 x 1.28 m (5'4" x 5'4") big. (That is why "Grand Theft Auto - The Board Game" will contain a special offer for a mail order big gaming table.)

• If vehicle theft were a legitimate business, it would rank 56 among America's largest corporations. The NICB estimates 10-15 percent of the vehicles reported stolen are actually frauds (those stolen in this game sure aren't).
  Source: Vehicle Theft Facts, © 1997 National Insurance Crime Bureau

Projects for GTA-crazy gamers

• Recreate the 3 cities in SimCity2000^TM and see whether they work. Check the economics and the traffic simulations. Fly around with SimCopter. Note: requires "SimCity 2000 Urban Renewal Kit" to place the buildings.

• Research the cars featured in GTA. Put up a web site with their real names, full color photographs, technical data (weight, speed, engine power) and link to an appropriate web site for current prices.

• Piece together maps of the cities that contain every pixel. There are two ways to do this:

  1. find the textures and hack the *.cmp files (change street and pavement textures so they print better), or

  2. edit MISSION.INI to create an empty city, then use the PORKCHARSUI cheat to zoom, pan and make screendumps which you need to paste together for the big map (you can do it with approx. 6x8 dumps).

• Create a VRML model of the cities. Put in animated trains to ride on.

• Publish a new "Tower City" Level. Provide a London streetmap. Graphics include LondonTaxis, police and doubledecker buses as well as London-style telephone booths you can vandalize. Missions include robbing the crown jewels, a mail train and doing in Sherlock Holmes. Special Kill frenzy at Speakers Corner, Hyde Park. Don't forget to provide a game patch to make cars drive on the left. Announce the sequel "Banker City" based on the Frankfurt/Germany street map.

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