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We're after the very first alpha tests!

You may be thinking the project is dead. You can't be further from the truth. Yesterday we did the first alpha tests, up to 7 players. First of all the game was absolutelty lag-free, including the fact that there was a quite big amount of cars and pedestrians everywhere which did not influence the ping.

We tested two game modes: Capture The Flag and Hunting.

Hunting is what you know from GTA2, where it was called Tag Game. One player is running away and the rest is hunting him. The one who runs most of the time wins.

As for CTF I guess eveyone knows the story. Two flags, two bases. Can you imagine how fun it was when we set off for the enemy flag in 2 players in 1 car, while chomzee was driving and I was shooting from a rocket launcher?! Other time I was driving and chomzee made use of AK-47 :>. The gameplay is already truly fabulous despite the fact we dont have powerups implemented yet.

Right now, we are on our way in implementing two new game types: race and bomb match! Bomb match is actually the same mode that you can find in Counter Strike.

The alpha test has revealed some bugs (that's what they serve for, don't they?) so we're working hard on tuning the game :].

The website may still remain "dead" and probably no screenshots will appear by now. However, we're putting various screenshot-stuff here.

What is it all about?

Hello,

It's the first post so I would like to introduce you to the project. Greedy Car Thieves (GCT) is actually nothing more than a much more technologically advanced remake of fantastic Grand Theft Auto 2 (by now we're developing only multiplayer version).

We've been working on this project since summer 2008 We've written our own engines (renderer, physics, net). You may wonder why we decided not to use any middleware? The answer is simple: because we wanted it to be fun. We love doing what we're doing and after over 1,5 years we've gone really far with this project. Believe me, it's neatly optimized, works well even on low-end hardware and offers nice visual effects.

For more information look at "about" section. We've also put some screenshots that come from the entire process of development. Also, if you have any questions or ideas, visit our forum.