Digital Distribution and The Publisher/Reatiler Hypocrisy Grand Theft Auto Special Edition 2013 1 • GameOn Magazine Digital Distribution and The Publisher/Reatiler Hypocrisy Digital Distribution and The Publisher/Reatiler Hypocrisy What Can You Read Inside? About GameOn 4 Highlights Editorial Staff GTA IV Welcome to the Grand Theft Auto special edition, a Chief Editor - Steve Greenfield About RockStar Games 5 Review series which has held a special place in the heart of Editor - Kris West gamers across the globe. Its unique spin on a life of Take a look back at crime and free roaming world captured the imagination Games Critic - Neil Hetherington Growing Up With our review of GTA of players from all walks of life, old and young, from Games Critic - Gary Durston Grand Theft Auto 6 IV from the time seasoned veterans who started at the beginning, to Games Critic - Ryan Davies of it’s release and those starting their experience towards the later titles. Games Critic - Boffey Steffan relive the excitement Games Critic - Matt Girdler Five Ways of Cocking About in of bein Niko! We will be showing how this one series has been in the Grand Theft Auto IV Multiplayer 12 life of one gamer from the its first inception to current Research & Proofing - Edward Field iteration, how you can have fun cocking about in GTA IV’s Research & Proofing - Luke Greenfield multiplayer, our favourite missions from the franchise Grand Theft Auto GTA V and introducing you to the protagonists which star in Memorable Missions 20 Protagonists the hotly anticipated next installment to to the series. Special Thanks Read full biographies While many games try to emulate the success, Rockstar Games Grand Theft Auto IV Review 29 for the trio of Grand Theft Auto keeps coming back to stamp Take-Two Interactive leading men in the down its authority as the dominant king of its Edward Field newest installment genre. While some games prefer to cut their own The Vehicles of ot the series. unique niche within the market by simply not giving two fucks about the competition and do Grand Theft Auto 38 their own thing (Hi Saints Row), others try to closely imitate GTA but fall short of the bar. Join us in our humble tribute to a game which we hope lives on for another decade. The Series Protagonists 44 However, we have to wonder, where will the series go after GTA V? Best If you want to get your hands on our monthly copy of the magazine, you can simply click here for Grand Theft Auto V Missions the UK Kindle version, here for the International Kindle version or here for the tablet version. Character Bios 52 Read our recap of the If you’d like to get in touch with us, you can drop us an e-mail at [email protected]. best missions from Grand Theft Auto V the original GTA all Alternatively, you can find us on Twitter @TheGameOnMag Will Be Amazing: Here’s Why! 54 the way to GTA IV. and Facebook at Facebook.com/GameOnMagazine The Editor Grand Theft Auto Special Edition 2013 2 • GameOn Magazine Grand Theft Auto Special Edition 2013 3 • GameOn Magazine Digital Distribution and The Publisher/Reatiler Hypocrisy Digital Distribution and The Publisher/Reatiler Hypocrisy ABOUT GAMEON ABOUT ROCKSTAR GAMES GameOn Networking Ltd was founded in 1997 with the aim of providing “lag free” gaming Rockstar Games is split into mutliple studios for different sectors of the world so, as they solutions for dedicated online gamers. Online connectivity in the late 90s was such that are the studio for the Grand Theft Auto franchise, we will be focusing on Rockstar North. realtime gaming was beyond the reach of the average gamer, and so GameOn began hosting LAN parties throughout the UK. To date, GameOn has hosted almost 100 LAN parties. Founded in 1988 by David Jones, Russell Kay, Steve Hammond and Mike Dailly under the name DMA Design and based in the small, rainy city of Dundee, Scotland. In this year, In August 2008, GameOn began producing GameOn Magazine, an online PDF magazine DMA Designs developed Menance and Blood Money for the Amiga. These gained the covering all aspects of gaming including reviews, previews, news and articles. The studio credit within the gaming industry due to the design and difficulty of the games. dedicated magazine staff also provided coverage at high profile gaming events such as E3 and gamescom. In 1990, DMA developed their breakthrough title, Lemmings, the classic puzzle game. It sold over 20 million copies on 21 different games systems, debuting on the Amiga and ending up In February 2012, GameOn Magazine launched in ebook form on the Amazon Kindle on the Macintosh. The next few years were spent developing sequels to Lemmings however; marketplace in both the UK and US and has since developed from strength to strength. they also developed Walker in 1993, and Hired Guns along with Uniracers in 1994. With the same quality coverage as always and dedicated writing and research staff the magazine has gained a loyal following and secured its position as one of the best selling Alongside Rare, Paradign, Acclaim, Midway Games and LucasArts, DMA were gaming magazines on the Kindle store. asked to join Nintendo’s “Dream Team”. The result of this collaboration was Body Harvest and after numerous delays, was released in 1998. During this four year Later in 2012 GameOn lauched the colour version of the magazine via Magzter store which span, DMA Designs released a little game by the name of Grand Theft Auto. is avilable on Android, iOS and Windows. In 1997, DMA was bought by Gremlin Interactive, a British publisher and published For more information, please visit www.gameonmag.com two DMA titles: the UK release of Blood Harvest and the PC version of Wild Metal Country. Gremlin Interactive was later acquired by a French publisher, Infogrames who in 1999 sold DMA Designs to Take-Two and were rebranded as Rockstar Games. Grand Theft Auto Special Edition 2013 4 • GameOn Magazine Grand Theft Auto Special Edition 2013 5 • GameOn Magazine Growing Up With Grand Theft Auto Growing Up With Grand Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto, Growing Up With where do I begin with this classic, the Grand Theft Auto freedom it offered in its unique top down view of life, crime and breaking the law. The visuals of this was part of still remember how I was able to get my hands its charm, with the on the first Grand Theft Auto, I must have only camera zooming in Ibeen 16 or 17 at the time. I was taking a game and out depending back to my favourite retailer (yes I’m intentionally how fast you keeping names out) as it wasn’t working and I were moving in a asked what I could get. I was told that I could swap car, to the crude it for the same game if I wanted and that’s when I animations of cheekily asked if I could swap it for something else. the populace as you strolled past Upon being told I could by the guy behind the burping and farting because I decided to hammer course the gouranga multi kill after mowing counter I wandered up to the shelves of games the special ability key to do so. down a train of Hare Krishnas, the fun came thick knowing exactly what I wanted to chance my luck From the mindless rampages of shooting and fast in this fantastic sequel. I still remember on, Grand Theft Auto. This BBFC 18 rated game everything just so you can get the highest wanted battling the Yakuza for Zaibatsu around the city was like the forbidden fruit for me at the time, level in order to steal the goodies from the police, streets, being pursued by the Yakuza around every being under the age limit of this title, it felt more running down all the pedestrians on the streets to corner and having to deal with the police was risky trying to obtain this with my exchange than the great missions the game had in store, everything heart-poundingly intense gameplay. Furthermore, something else. was just so fun to do. What stands out from all the the introduction of multiplayer in this title was an So, heading back to the counter my palms were rest is that opening menu music, Joyride by Da absolute scream, deathmatch was so frantic and getting a little sweaty, I handed the game over and Shootaz. This one track has embedded itself into filled with explosions, gun shots, swearing and asked if I could exchange my copy of Heavy Gear the core of every GTA fan on the planet, this one bonkers mayhem; we didn’t think this could get (a cracking mech game at the time) for GTA. track IS the sound of GTA. any better. A few moments passed as the employee looked Moving onto GTA 2 and things go from good to Well, how wrong I was thinking GTA couldn’t cautiously at me then asked if I had checked the great. The introduction of a three way reputation improve. When Rockstar landed the bomb that specifications to make sure the game would work system was such a fantastic addition to the game; GTA III was going to be 3D and back in Liberty on my system, I nodded and bam, transaction do a job for one faction and your reputation with complete. I literally flew home on a cloud of sheer the others would change in the opposite direction glee and excitement as I was about to dive into a meaning you would have to think which crime ‘The introduction of world of crime and corruption that would become syndicate you wanted to work for very carefully.