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March 30th, 2005, 22:52 GMT

GTA 3 can be played over LAN and Internet

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GTA 3 has more and more fans despite the increasing controversies and the accusations made by Senator Hillary Clinton that the Rockstar team is racial and sexist.

And when the fans are also skilled in programming, then the result is MultiTheftAuto. What does it do? It adds the last titles from Rockstar a multiplayer component. Therefore, the GTA fans have now the chance to compete against each other and not just with cars and characters controlled
by the AI.

MultiTheftAuto 0.5 was conceived without having access to the source code of the game. The team behind the project, among which Ed Lyons, an 18 year old London student and ChrisMcArthur, a 22 year old man, has been working on this project for over one year and consider it more than a multiplayer mode.

MTA intercepts the game's source code and runs as if it was designed by the Rockstar's team itself. The MTA development is based only on open source programs like RakNet and Crazy Eddie's GUI System and as the authors state in the interview OSDir.com this is one of the biggest changes ever brought to a game.

As for the possible legal action taken by Rockstar, it seems that they are not interested in the status of this project as long as it will not be used for commercial purposes.

MultiTheftAuto has also a dedicated web site where you can find out all the details about how to install and create a server.

So, it's open season for GTA3 deathmach!


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Comment #1 by: Jon White on 05 Apr 2005, 16:04 UTC reply to this comment

Wieso kann man GTA 3 nicht hier im INTERNET spielen ?? !!! Oh man bin ich sauer ich rate euch geht nie auf solche seiten das is nur scheiße hier !!!!!!!!

Comment #1.1 by: dfgh on 18 May 2011, 01:51 GMT

ur not from america ru


Comment #2 by: UFO on 29 Jul 2008, 06:06 UTC reply to this comment

Gta, Multi-theft-auto wont work for me =(, HOW can i connect to a lan network with it - yes i do have a working lan network.


Comment #3 by: Blubber on 29 Sep 2009, 18:44 UTC reply to this comment

GTA SAMP Works fine, you need just the orginal SAMP installation exe from the samp homepage

(SAMP = San Andreas Multi Player)

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