GTA San Andreas

Introduction:

            GTA San Andreas is the 5^th game of the Grand Theft Auto game series. It was released in October 2004. This action-adventure game was also developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. They used the RenderWare game engine to develop this game. Leslie Benzies is the producer of this game and the story of this game was written by Dan Houser, James Worrall and DJ Pooh. It was included single-player and multiplayer options. However, it was released for a lot of platforms. They were Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox, Xbox 360, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Fire OS and Oculus Quest 2.

            In GTA game series, for the first time, the player is given the ability to swim. As well as player can drive trains and planes. This game got many good reviews in 2004 and it was the best-selling video game of that year. Not only have that, as of 2011, over 27.5 million copies have been sold worldwide. So in November 2021, Rockstar released the remastered version of GTA San Andreas called GTA San Andreas The Definitive Edition.

Story:

            Our character here is Carl Johnson (CJ) who lives in Ganton, Los Santos, America. He was with his mother Beverly Johnson, two brothers Sean Johnson (Sweet), Brian Johnson and sister Kendl Johnson. CJ, Sweet and Brian had two friends since their childhood. It was Melvin Harris known as Big Smoke and Lance Wilson known as Ryder. When they are young, they join a gang called the Grove Street Families. Over time, Sweet becomes the leader of the gang and CJ becomes the vice leader. Also Big Smoke and Ryder are given important positions in the gang. At this time, apart from the Grove Street gang, there were two main gangs in Ganton called the Ballas and the Vagos. However, the Grove Street gang is able to become the main gang in Ganton.

            In 1987, CJ's brother Brian is killed in an unknown gang attack. Even though CJ is with him at that moment, CJ is unable to save him. Because of this, Sweet tells CJ that he should take responsibility for Brian's death. So CJ leaves Los Santos and moves to Liberty City. Therefore, the power of the Grove Street gang was decreasing. Taking advantage of this, the Ballas and Vagos gangs are working to capture the power of the Ganton. They plan to kill Sweet for that. But their shot hits Sweet and CJ's mother, Beverly Johnson. She dies from that. So Sweet calls CJ after 5 years to inform him of their mother's death. Saddened by this, CJ decides to return to Los Santos.

            On his way home from the Los Santos airport, CJ is arrested by three police officers, Frank Tenpenny, Eddie Pulaski, and Jimmy Hernandez. They threaten CJ that they have the gun that killed police officer Ralph Pendelbury and that if he doesn't do what they want, he will be arrested for the murder. Because of this, CJ agrees to do work as they want. So Returning to his home, he joins the Grove Street gang.

            Meanwhile, Sweet learns that her sister, Kendl, has begun a love affair with Cesar Vialpando, the leader of the Varrios gang outside Los Santos. So Sweet entrusts CJ with finding information about Cesar. There, CJ discovers that Cesar isn't a bad guy and they become friends. Not only that, He learns from Cesar that Big Smoke and Ryder have sold the secret information of the Grove Street gang to the Ballas gang. Also, Cesar tells him that they are the two who gave the information to kill CJ's mother. So CJ decides to fight against Ballas. There, Sweet is injured and Los Santos police arrest them and CJ is taken to the police and Sweet is taken to the police hospital. After that, Tenpenny tells CJ not to get revenge on Big Smoke or Ryder. So he goes to Angel Pine to meet Cesar’s sister, Catalin Vialpando. After that, Caesar and Kendall arrive at Angel Pine because the Grove Street gang has broken up and the Ballas gang is threatening them.

            Meanwhile, CJ participates in illegal car races to earn extra money and also once defeats Catalina’s boyfriend, Claude. From that, CJ owns Claude's garage in San Fierro. After that, Claude and Catalina go to Liberty City (The beginning of GTA 3) and CJ, Cesar and Kendl come to the garage.

            Meanwhile, CJ manages to track down a group that supplies drugs to Big Smoke and kills Jizzy in that group and gets his phone. From that phone, CJ discovers Ryder's whereabouts and kills him with Cesar's help. There, a man named Mike Toreno tries to escape, but CJ shoots down his helicopter and destroys it. But Mike is able to save his life. After that, he meets CJ and gives some information. That way CJ finds out that he is a police officer. Mike says that, if CJ helps him with his work, he will help save CJ’s brother. Because of this, CJ decides to help him. Meanwhile, Tenpenny wants to steal a file from an FBI agent. So he decides to assign that task to CJ. After the task, he learns that Tenpenny has assigned Eddie Pulaski to kill him. But CJ is able to kill Pulaski and escape.

            After these events, Sweet is released from prison by Mike Toreno. So CJ tries to rebuild Grove Street Families with Sweet’s help. After all of this, CJ manages to kill Big Smoke. But Tenpenny who comes there shoots CJ and runs away with Big Smoke's money. So CJ and Sweet are able to follow him. CJ shoots Tenpenny and then he loses control of the vehicle and falls off a bridge to his death. In the end, CJ is able to bring peace to Los Santos. 

Minimum System Requirements:

• CPU                        - Intel Pentium 3 @ 1GH_Z / AMD Athlon Processor    
• RAM                       - 256MB
• Video Memory      - 64MB
• OS                         - Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP / 7 / 10
• Hard Drive Space - 3.6GB 

              

                 

       

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GTA Vice City

Introduction:

            GTA Vice City is an action-adventure game that was released in October 2002. This is the 4^th game of the GTA game series. So this game was developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. They developed this game from RenderWare game Engine. The producer of this game is Leslie Benzies. As well as, this game's story was written by Dan Houser and James Worrall. Also, this game had a single-player option. However, they released GTA Vice City for so many platforms. They were Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 2, Xbox, iOS, Android and Fire OS.

            This is made from the combination of the Scarface movie and Miami Vice TV series. Many new features were included in this game. The player can handle many businesses in this game and we can earn money from that. Many types of weapons were also included. However, this game became the best-selling video game of 2002. Not only that, it has sold over 17.5 million copies. However, this was a very successful design of Rockstar. In November 2021, Rockstar released the remastered version of GTA Vice City called GTA Vice City The Definitive Edition.

Story:

            After serving 15 years in prison, Tommy Vercetti (our character) arrives in Liberty City to meet his old crime boss, Sonny Forelli. Meanwhile, Sonny is planning to spread his drug business in Vice City. So Sonny sends Tommy to Vice City to grow his business. Two of Sonny's friends, Harry and Lee, leave to Vice City with him.

            So this drug deal is with the Vance brothers. But while doing this deal, they are attacked by an unknown group. It kills one of the Vance brothers as well as Harry and Lee. But Tommy and Ken Rosenberg manage to save their lives by giving up money and drugs. After Sonny Forelli learns of this incident, becomes angry and threatens Tommy to pay back his money. Then Tommy promises to return the money to him.

            After that, Ken introduces Tommy to Colonel Juan Garcia Cortez. So after Juan Cortez knows about this attack, promises to help Tommy. One day, at a party on Juan's ship, Tommy meets Juan Cortez's daughter, Mercedes Cortez and she introduces Tommy to some of the top drug dealers in Vice City. Among these was a drug dealer called Ricardo Diaz. During a mission, Tommy meets Lance Vance who also agrees to help Tommy. Because Lance wants to find the men who killed his brother. Meanwhile, Juan Cortez tells Tommy that a man named Gonzalez tipped off the unknown group about Tommy's drug deal. After Tommy knows it, he kills Gonzalez. After that, Tommy goes to meet his new friend, Lance. Then he learns that Lance works with a drug dealer called Ricardo Diaz. Through Lance, Tommy is able to identify Ricardo Diaz.

            After working with him for a while, Tommy Lance learns that it was Ricardo who attacked their drug deal. Here, Tommy decides to gradually gain Ricardo's trust and then systematically kill him. But after learning that Ricardo is responsible for his brother's death, Lance goes off on his own and tries to kill him. But His attempt fails and Ricardo's men capture him. After that, Tommy is able to save Lance and however, at last, Ricardo Diaz is killed by them.

            Meanwhile, Lance thinks that he is not getting any appreciation from Tommy. Because of this, the friendship between the two of them begins to deteriorate little by little. But Tommy knows nothing about this.

            So since there is no right answer from Tommy, Sonny Forelli comes to Vice City to get his money. Knowing this, Tommy, together with Lance, plans to give Sonny fake money. But there Lance reveals Tommy's plan to Sonny to destroy Tommy and betrays Tommy. Although Sonny and Lance try to kill him, Tommy manages to kill them. At last, he controls Vice City with his best friend, Ken.

 

Minimum System Requirements:

• CPU                        - Intel Pentium 3 @ 800MH_Z / AMD Athlon 1.2GH_Z
• RAM                       - 128MB
• Video Memory     - 32MB
• OS                          - Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP / 7 / 10
• Hard Drive Space - 915MB

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GTA 3 (GTA III)

Introduction:

            GTA 3 was released in October 2001. It was developed by DMA Design and published by Rockstar Games. This action-adventure game is the third game in GTA (Grand Theft Auto) game series. It was developed from RenderWare game engine. Leslie Benzies is the producer of this game and the story of this game was written by Dan Houser, James Worrall and Paul Kurowski. Also, this game is an open-world game and has a single-player option. However, GTA 3 was released for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Android, iOS and Fire OS.

            It was much improved than GTA 1 and GTA 2. Various types of weapons and vehicles had included in this video game and the player's walking skills, vehicles’s sounds had greatly improved. However, GTA 3 was the bestselling video game in 2001. To date, it has sold 14.5 million copies. In November 2021, Rockstar released the remastered version of GTA 3 called GTA 3 The Definitive Edition. 

Story:

            This story begins in 2001. This story is about the Liberty City area of ​​America. Our character’s name is Claude. One day Claude and his girlfriend Catalina successfully rob a bank. But while they are escaping from there, Catalina betrays Claude. There Catalina shoots him and runs away with the cash. However, Claude is able to save his life and he is caught by the police. The court sentences him to 10 years in prison. For that, he is taken to the Liberty City Jail in Portland. There was a member who was important to the Colombian Cartel in this vehicle. Because of this, the Colombian Cartel plans to save that prisoner. There they attack the car carrying the prisoners on the Callahan Bridge and rescue the person they want. So, Claude and another prisoner named 8-Ball manage to escape that place.

            After that, 8-Ball introduces Claude to Luigi Goterelli who is his friend. Luigi is an owner of a nightclub in this city. From then on, Claude decides to work under him. There he meets Joey Leone. He is the son of Salvatore Leone, the leader of the Leone family. And Joey had his own garage. While Claude is working with Joey, he is able to meet Toni Cipriani, a member of the Leone family. Toni was often at her mother's restaurant.

            One day when Claude and Toni go to the restaurant, Toni wants to extort money from a shop. But there they are attacked by the Triads mafia gang. However, they manage to escape that place. Enraged by the incident, Toni plans to destroy the Triads mafia gang. He decides to assign this task to Claude. After that, Claude destroys the headquarters of the Triads mafia gang with the help of 8-Ball.

            But before that, Toni, Luigi and Joey are taken to safety at Salvatore Leone's house by Claude. There he is able to meet Salvatore and his wife Maria. Since then, Claude has to work under him. Meanwhile, one day Maria says to Salvatore that she loves Claude. Enraged by the incident, Salvatore plans to kill Claude. So, one day Salvatore orders Claude to destroy a car with dead bodies. But before going there, Maria is able to warn him that it is a trap. Then she asks him to come and meet her.

            After Claude goes to meet Maria, she introduces Asuka Kasen, who is the co-leader of the Yakuza mafia gang. Asuka agrees to give protection to Claude and Maria. But before that, Asuka tells Claude to kill Salvatore to prove his loyalty. So, Claude accepts that task and he kills Salvatore Leon near Luigi's nightclub. Meanwhile, he is able to meet the leader of the Yakuza mafia gang, Kenji Kasen. He is also the brother of Asuka.

            While working with Kenji and Asuka, Claude meets a businessman named Donald Love. His plan is to start a war between the Colombian Cartel and the Yakuza and buys lands in Liberty City cheaply. So, Donald says Claude to kill Kenji, the leader of the Yakuza gang. Then he goes in a Colombian cartel truck and kills Kenji. Thinking that this is the work of the Colombian Cartel, Asuka decides to take revenge on them. Meanwhile, Donald's plane carrying illegal goods is intercepted by the police. Claude is assigned the responsibility of bringing back the goods in there. But before he gets there, Claude learns that the Colombian Cartel had stolen the goods there. So, he decides to attack a nearby Colombian Cartel building. There he meets Catalina and her new partner, Miguel. As soon as Miguel gives Claude the necessary supplies, Catalina shoots Miguel and runs away. At that moment, Asuka arrives and thanks Claude for catching Miguel. Then Claude leaves from there to deliver Donald's goods to him.

            Later, Claude learns that Catalina killed Asuka and Miguel and kidnapped Maria. Catalina tells him to come to her with $500,000 if he wants to save Maria. Although Claude takes with the money, Catalina betrays him again. Because of this, Claude has to kill her. At last, he kills Catalina and saves Maria’s life.      

Minimum System Requirements:

• CPU                         - Pentium 3 @ 450MH_Z
• RAM                        - 96MB
• Video Memory      - 16MB
• OS                           - Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP / 7 / 10
• Hard Drive Space - 500MB

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Mafia 3

 

Introduction:

            Mafia 3 was released in October 2016. But this single-player, action-adventure game was developed by Hangar 13 as well as 2K Games was the publisher of the game. However, this is the third game in the Mafia game series. Mike Orenich is the producer of this video game and William Harms is the writer of this game’s story. This game is an open-world and third-person shooter game. Mafia 3 was released for 5 platforms. They were Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Stadia.

            However, Mafia 3 received some good reviews for its story, characters and sounds. Also, this game has a good graphic setup. But some issues were drew criticism. Averagely this game is a successful game and it has sold seven million copies worldwide.

Story:

         1916 to 1970 was a time when many Africans immigrated to America. These Africans were persecuted by whites living in America. So they formed various groups for their own protection. The Black Mob is one such gang formed by blacks in New Bordeaux, USA. Sammy Robinson was the leader of this gang. He adopts a child from an orphanage run by a black father named James Ballard. This boy's name is Lincoln Clay. But Sammy already has a boy named Ellis. So Ellis and Lincoln grow up as brothers. Lincoln Clay, who grows up under Sammy, joins the Army in 1964. Because of his skills, he is able to take part in covert missions. There he meets John Donovan, who is a CIA agent. After they work together on several missions, they become good friends.

            In 1968 Lincoln receives a full leave of absence from the Army and returns to his hometown of New Bordeaux. There he is able to meet his brother Ellis. At this time, New Bordeaux is ruled by the Marcano crime family, led by Sal Marcano. Sammy Robinson's Black Mob gang was also under this. So Ellis takes his brother to his father's bar in New Bordeaux. There Lincoln is able to meet his father Sammy Robinson and Father James. There he learns that Sammy's Black Mob gang operates under the Marcano family and that Sammy owes Marcano a large sum of money. Then Lincoln decides to help Sammy.

            Here Lincoln proposes to Marcano to take over the businesses of the Black Mob gang to the Marcano family and free Sammy from debt. But Marcano rejects that proposal. He tells Lincoln that rob a bank with his son Jorge Marcano and Irish thug leader Danny Burke and pay off Sammy's debt. Lincoln, Sammy and Ellis agree to this proposal and successfully rob the bank. But Sal Marcano shoots Lincoln, Sammy, Ellis and Danny in order to get all the money. Because of this Except for Lincoln, other all three die. Father James is able to save his life.

            However, Lincoln is slowly recovering from Father James' treatment. After that, He promises himself that he will take revenge on Marcano for killing his father and brother. He requests the help of his old friend John Donovan for this. He introduces several mafia gangs to Lincoln operating against Marcano. It was the Haitian Mob led by Cassandra, the Irish Mob led by Thomas Burke and the Italian gang led by Vito Scaletta (The main character of Mafia 2). So the four of them form a mafia gang called the Clay crime family in New Bordeaux. Gradually, they are able to become the main mafia gang in New Bordeaux.

            By this time Sal Marcano is out of crime and running a casino. Then Lincoln decides to take revenge on Marcano. After that, he goes to the casino and kills Giorgi Marcano and Sal Marcano. Finally, Lincoln Clay becomes mafia leader in New Bordeaux.

            Eventually, we get two options. Either rule the city alone or rule the city with Thomas, Vito and Cassandra. If we decide to rule the city alone, Lincoln has to kill Thomas, Vito and Cassandra. But when he gets out, the car explodes and he dies. If we decide to rule the city with them, Lincoln Clay works for the good of the people. But then he dies because of drug addiction.    

Minimum System Requirements:

• CPU                        - Intel I5-2500K / AMD FX-8120
• RAM                       - 6GB
• Video Memory     - 2GB
• OS                          - Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit) / 10
• Hard Drive Space - 50GB  

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Mafia 2

 

Introduction:

            Mafia 2 was released in August 2010. 2K Czech developed this Action-adventure game. As well as this game was published by 2K Games. This is the second game of the Mafia series. Mafia II is an open-world game and played from a third-person perspective. Lukas Kure is the producer of this game and this story was written by Jack Scalici and Daniel Vavra. It has a single-player option and it was released for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Xbox 360.

            However, the game also received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise focusing specifically on its story, characters and gameplay. But the restrictive world design and lack of certain features present in other sandbox games also were criticized by the audience.

            This game was also remastered by D3T and it was released in May 2020 by 2K Games. It was able to receive some positive reviews. But there were bugs in some places. 

Story:

            The main character here is Vito Scaletta. In 1932, he and his family move to Empire Bay in the USA to find a job for his father. After his father died there, he and his family face big trouble. This time Vito meets a thug named Joe Barbaro. Vito joins him in various robberies where the two become good friends. In 1943, Vito is caught by the police during a robbery. There he has to join the army. Vito, who was wounded in the war, returns to Empire Bay for a month's leave after receiving treatment at the Army Hospital. There he meets his old friend Joe Barbaro. Joe makes some fake certificates showing that Vito was completely released from the army. So that Vito does not want to go back to the army.

            At this time, Empire Bay was divided into four major mafia gangs. They are the Clemente crime family led by Alberto Clemente, the Falcone crime family led by Carlo Falcone, the Vinci crime family led by Frank Vinci and the Empire Bay Triad. All of these American mafia gangs were controlled by a group of individuals called the Commission. They were the top leaders of the mafia gangs.

            Upon returning home, Vito learns that his family was suffering from not being able to repay the $2000 his father borrowed from a mafia Commissioner named Bruno Levine. So Vito goes to his father's worked Derek Pappalardo to find a job. He worked with the Vinci crime family. Vito was able to earn very little money from the job offered by Derek. So Vito decides to tell Joe about this problem. There Joe introduces him to Henry Tomasina of the Clemente crime family. While they are working for the Clemente family, Vito and Joe plan to rob a jewelry store under the direction of its member Luca Gurino. During the robbery, Brian O'Neill's gang also comes to rob the store. At this time the police arrive and Vito and Joe manage to escape, but Brian O’Neill is caught by the police. Vito and Joe's next mission is to assassinate a businessman named Sidney Pen who previously worked for the Clemente family. Upon successful completion of this task, Vito receives the expected $2000. After that, Vito is able to pay off family debts from that money.

            Meanwhile, the police arrest Vito for the crimes committed by him. This information is provided by Richie Mazzeo who worked as a spy in the Clemente family. Upon learning of this, Joe kills Richie. However, he has to face up to 10 years in prison for his crimes. Angered by this, Joe threatens Luca Gurino. Because of this, although Luca Gurino plans to kill Joe, Henry is able to inform about this plan to Joe. Then Joe Barbaro decides to escape from Empire Bay city.

            In prison, Vito meets one of his old enemy, Brian O’Neill. He threatens Vito. Because of the incident in the jewelry store. He threatens to kill Vito because of what happened at the jewelry store. Here, Vito meets Leo Galante, the mentor of the Vinci crime family. He is a talented boxer and he teaches Vito about boxing as well as the power of the mafia. After that, Brian O’Neill is killed in the prison by Vito. 

            Joe returns to Empire Bay in 1950. Later, he befriends Eddie Scarpa of the Falcone crime family and tries to join the Falcone crime family. Vito is released from prison in 1951 and after that, joins with Joe and Eddie. His first task there is to kill Luca Gurino. After that, Vito is introduced to Carlo Falcone who is the leader of the Falcone crime family. After that, Vito and Joe have to assassinate Alberto Clemente, the leader of the Clemente crime family and they both manage to complete it successfully. Meanwhile, Carlo Falcone wants to kill Leo Galante who is the mentor of the Vinci crime family. But because Leo helped Vito in prison, Vito helps him to get out of town safely. 

            Meanwhile, Henry, Vito and Joe plan a large-scale drug deal. That is to give the Empire Bay Triad a stock of drugs. They borrow money from a mafia Commissioner named Bruno Levine for this drug deal. After they buy the required drugs, they inform the Empire Bay Triad about that. But the Empire Bay Triad kills Henry Tomasina without paying and gets all of the drugs. Angered by this, Vito and Joe start a war against the Empire Bay Triad. They are also looking for a way to repay the money of Bruno Levine. Meanwhile, they hear that the Salieri family in Lost Heaven are looking for someone to kill a man living in Empire Bay. Vito and Joe accept this Salieri family contract. They are trying to assassinate Tommy Angelo (The main character of Mafia 1), who provided the evidence needed to imprison Don Salieri. There, Vito and Joe are able to fulfill the target. After finding some money from that contract, Vito goes to Derek Pappalardo to find the balance. There Vito learns that his father was killed by Derek Pappalardo. Infuriated, Vito kills Derek, steals his money and pays Bruno Levine's debts.

            During this time, Leo Galante returns to Empire Bay and he also currently joined with the Commission. He tells Vito and Joe to kill Carlo Falcone who is the leader of the Falcone crime family. After that task, the Commission decides to separate Vito and Joe. So in the end, Leo Galante takes Vito out of Empire Bay and takes Joe in another direction.

Minimum System Requirements:

• CPU                         - Intel Pentium D @ 3GH_Z / AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ (Dual core)
• RAM                        - 1.5GB
• Video Memory      - 256MB
• OS                           - Microsoft Windows XP (SP2 / later) / Vista / 7 / 10
• Hard Drive Space - 8GB

 

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