According to various reports and screengrabs, the original Grand Theft Auto and its sequel, GTA2, have been rated for PlayStation 3, PSP and PS Vita by ESRB.
This continues Rockstar's trend of releasing, what they consider their classic games, on the PlayStation Network. They last promised more "titles coming soon to the PS2 Classics collection" back at the end of March when Liberty City Stories, Vice City Stories, and the first two Midnight Club games made their way to PSN.
The original Grand Theft Autos are pre-PS2, with the original landing on PC in October 1997, followed by a PlayStation 1 release in December of the same year. Both are currently available for free via the Rockstars Classics page on their official site. It does bring in to question why these games have cropped up as re-ratings for PSN, considering the wording of their previous promise.
As at the time of posting, the listings on ESRB's website can no longer be found, so whether they've been removed due to error or request are, as yet, unknown.
TimeSplittA has posted news on the Official UK Playstation Forums that Grand Theft Auto I and Grand Theft Auto II are coming to the Playstation Network. He got this information via the Official Playstation Magazine. Backing up TimeSplittA's claim, Buubar posted a scan of the page. It will be intresting to see how much the two will cost since the PC versions of the game have already been released for free via Rockstar Classics.
Thanks to TimeSplittA and Buubar over at the Official UK Playstation Forums.
As most know, the classic Grand Theft Auto's, GTA1 and GTA2, have been available free of charge from Rockstar Game's classics website for several years now. However these downloads like many of Rockstar's games have been exclusive to Windows, being the computer platform best set up for gaming. Fear not Linus users, using some basic applications that have been available for Windows to Linux cross-use, most well known is WINE. Using WINE and a few small tricks mixed with a terrific technique you can have Grand Theft Auto 2 (and thus Grand Theft Auto 1 also) up and running your Linux! Revive your Inner Carjacker.
Rockstar Games has been kind enough to release some of their classics for free download– including Grand Theft Auto and Grand Theft Auto 2. All you need to do is supply some basic information, and download away. Here’s a quick howto on how to get GTA2 running under WINE. So get ready to blow up some hummers and hos!
The first thing you’ll want to do is install WINE. On Ubuntu, Debian, or PCLinuxOS, this is as easy as sudo apt-get install wine. On other distros, you’ll want to use your supplied package manager, or visit the home page to install from source or contributed package.
