Grand Theft Auto

Plot synopsis:
Two young lovers, Sam Freeman (Ron Howard) and Paula Powers (Nancy Morgan), want to get married in Las Vegas. When Paula introduces Sam to her parents they dispute their daughter's decision: they see Collins Hedgeworth (Paul Linke), the son of a wealthy family in the area, as her fiancée. Paula's parents are rich as well and her father, Bigby Powers (Barry Cahill), is planning to run for governor. They think Sam is marrying Paula for the money and call him a fortune hunter, which Paula fiercely disputes.
Sam is thrown off the premises and Paula is sent to her room. She escapes through the window, steals her parents' Rolls-Royce, picks up Sam and hits the road: this is the beginning of two runaway lovers in a wild explosive car chase and race towards Las Vegas. As news of their elopement spreads, several people start off after them to try to stop the fleeing couple.
Paula's father, Bigby Powers starts the chase by arranging his helicopter. Collins Hedgeworth leaves his stable and starts chasing his love interest like mad. When he calls to the TenQ radio station – to DJ Curly Q. Brown (Don Steele) – he offers a USD$25,000 reward for the ones who can catch Paula and Sam. As a result the chase becomes more and more chaotic as many people along and on the road try to stop the couple in order to claim the reward. A number of cars are wrecked and stolen, and a subsequent reward of $25,000 is offered for Collins Hedgeworth, who is wanted by the police for grand theft auto, after he stole a car.
With so many cars following them, Paula and Sam turn onto small, country roads to try to lose their pursuers. He wants to head somewhere else to get married, but she is set on a Vegas wedding. Paula's father makes an emotional appeal to her via telephone, but she refuses to listen to him. As they approach Las Vegas, Sam begins to have doubts about Paula's reasons for eloping, and questions whether she is genuinely motivated by affection for him or a desire to spite her father. She persuades him that she does want to marry him.
The chase is gaining increasing coverage in the news media, with live cameras following the chase. The pursuing cars become involved in a demolition derby, leading to a massive pile-up. The priceless Rolls Royce is totally destroyed, but Paula and Sam manage to escape. They eventually get married.

Tags: violence, comedy, neo noir, murder

Review:
Cool Game and Highly Addictive.
I remember I once played this game for 5 hours straight and I still could not get past the first level.
But for me, most of the time, I'm having so much fun killing people and smashing up cars that I don't care about the missions.It's also most fun to defect from your current gang and just kill 'em all off.
This is one game that makes it look like so much to actually run people over.
It's a pity that only the Playstation version doubles as a soundtrack CD but I gotta admit that is one cool radio station.
These songs are rockin'.
This is rather good considering it's only a game.The graphics are kind of poor tho and the gameplay doesn't change much from level to level but who cares?!?!.
one of the best games of it's time!.
this game is excellent and I just want to say that despite the graphics, it is still an excellent game.
It's funny, fun, and well, entertaining.
it's not as good as GTA 3 and GTA: Vice City, but who cares??
for it's time, it's marvelous!
Not the best shoot-em-up, but fun to play.
This action-packed game is violent, bloody, vulgar -- and fun.
The object is to complete many odd jobs for local crime lords in the United States and become a very popular criminal.
Popular criminal?
Along the way bump off a few innocent pedestrians, steal cars, and shoot as many cops as you can.
If you're really good, you can practically get away with murder.
Let's not skip on the weapons.
Choose from a machine gun to grenade launcher or a flame thrower.
What's really funny about this game is the excessive use of foul language.
(That explains the M-rating.) On occasion, a pedestrian will call you a "piece of sh--." The biggest weakness is the graphics: third-rate and out-dated.
They could have done better.
Other than that, a really fun game if you don't mind redundant gameplay and age-old graphics.
My evaluation: 7 out of 10.
Best Of Grand Theft Auto.
As an aspiring young thug, your mission in this video game is to perform odd jobs for the mob, picking up points along the way by committing random crimes ranging from auto theft to hit-and-runs to murder.
After proving your worth on the streets of Liberty City, expert hoods can move on to terrorize the streets of San Andreas and Vice City.
This game is notable for its free playing style, in which players don't actually have to complete any of the missions to win the game, instead racking up points by engaging in freestyle mayhem.this is the best Grand Theft Auto.weapons,tank,plane etc etc etc.
GTA London 1969 was good too,but others sucks..
''Next time I'm at the mall, I'll bring you back a spine!''.
I played this game regularly back in the '90's.
The idea of controlling a ruthless thug to wreak havoc around the streets of America appealed to my delinquent mind.
However I regrettably have to say that this game has not stood the test of time with me at all.Your character is required throughout the six levels in the game to perform missions as diverse as killing rival crooks, stealing cars and escorting hookers and gangsters.
The three cities in which the game is set are Liberty City, Vice City and San Andreas, all of which would be used seperately as the setting for subsequent games.'Grand Theft Auto' was originally to be named 'Race 'N' Chase' and was meant to be released in 1996 on the Commodore Amiga, however the discontinuation of that console meant it would become 'Grand Theft Auto' for the PS1.
Even a version was released for the Game Boy Color.
It was popular at the time of release, there's no disputing that, but sadly these days the only thing the game's birds eye view graphics leave one with are strained eyes and a migraine.Two sequels were made for the PS1 - 'Grand Theft Auto: London' and 'Grand Theft Auto 2', however none of these games live to their past reputation either.
It was not until the arrival of 'Grand Theft Auto III' on the PS2 would the franchise make a change for the better.Playable?
Barely.
Only really worth having in your collection to complete the set.