Unlike its successors, it's a true open world game.It's split into three level, to progress between them you need to earn a certain amount of money. How you earn this is up to you. You get money by blowing up cars and shooting dudes, but that's small beans compared to what you get for taking missions.Each level has three gangs in it. You can do jobs for any of them. They have set rivalries, so killing members of one gang will increase your reputation with one other gang (while obviously decreasing rep with the gang you kill). When your reputation is low, gang members attack you on sight. To do missions, you need to hit certain reputation thresholds. Easy missions can be done at neutral rep, medium missions need higher and hard missions very high rep. Due to how the gang rivalries work, doing missions for one gang will reduce your rep with its rival so there's always at least one gang in the map hostile to you.Missions are relatively open-ended. You receive a goal and have to achieve it. Sometimes there's a time limit but not always. If you fail a mission you lose rep with the gang, but can attempt it again. Missions are offered at phone booths, every phone booth has a unique mission and usually every gang has 3-4 phone booths for every mission tier, so you can pick which missions you want to do. If you repeatedly fail the same mission you can just skip it.While there's some handholding in form of an arrow that points to your mission goal, there is no strict "you have to do the mission in this particular way or bust".Missions are usually stuff like infiltrate the enemy gang's compound, steal a vehicle, bring it back to us.Go to the enemy gang compound and kill X gang members.Take this stolen car and evade the police by finding a car paint shop and repainting the car.Etc.It's a genuine open world sandbox where you choose which gangs to work for, and the only goal is to get X amount of money. The game doesn't care how you get it.No GTA after was this good.
>>12690919Chat GTP thread
it costs too much money to do things like this in 3d
>>12690919not only is it the best GTA, its the last good game the devs ever made. when they changed their name to rockstar, they lost all soul. just give me more of this and lemmings, man. fuck that 3D garbage.
>>12690919SOUL MAKIN'
>>12690924What does GTP stand for?
>>12690927They didn't change their name to Rockstar North until the release of GTA Vice City in 2002.
secretly? it was best gta always, none other game managed to recreate reputation system as well as this game. so many rpgs fail to have basic choice and consequences for your actions, yet gta2 from the 90s managed to do it
>>12690992Goy Troon Propaganda
>>12690926GTA was always 3D
