Grand Theft Auto 2 Reviews

Classic! I grew up playing this game and after years of struggling to replay it, I finally found some patches to be able to fully enjoy it on a modern machine on a 32:9 monitor. This is my first replay of this game after probably 25 years. And I'm loving it. I loved modern GTA games, all of them, but these are the roots they all came from and their DNA is unmistakeable. There's a widescreen fix online, which I obviously cannot link here, but it's the one from PC Gaming Wiki. After fixing up some settings, the game runs in super-ultrawide (16:9 HUD optional) with only one issue, which is that nothing ever spawns on the screen, which means that when you're traveling horizontally or trying to kill a lot of enemies in a small area, things will be spawning very far away from you, which made one mission nearly impossible to do (kill 100 scientists in a mall). It's also supposed to support zooming the camera with Num+/Num-, but that didn't work for me either. The game is unfortunately coded in 25fps and increasing the framerate increases the game speed, but thankfully Lossless Scaling again comes to the rescue with one of its best examples of the X4 mode, which brings this game from 25fps to 100fps. Obviously it's not without a fair share of artifacts and doesn't fix the lousy responsiveness this game always had due to the low base framerate, but it's definitely worlds better than playing it at 25fps or without the frame limiter. I've tried the same thing in GTA1, which suffers from the same hard-coded low base framerate and it works just as well as GTA2.