Personal Computer
A Personal Computer (or PC) may refer to a desktop or laptop computer that is used for personal tasks such as browsing the Internet and gaming, rather than business or server functions.
A PC is one "platform" for gaming. The PC platform is the most versatile, with the user easily able to download and install modifications. Most Grand Theft Auto mods are for the PC version, and although some exist for the console versions, they are significantly harder to implement, and often require installing a "mod chip" which may damage the console and void the warranty.
Until GTA III, GTA releases for the PC platform were given some degree of equal treatment as the PlayStation, having been released simultaneously with or launched a week after the PlayStation version. The GTA series is also known to have a single PC-exclusive title, Grand Theft Auto: London, 1961, which was available only for download (at a time when gaming consoles had yet to extensively adopted online downloads). The release gap between console versions and PC versions was widen with GTA III and several more major GTA titles after, in which the native console version(s) is first released, followed by the PC port several months later, if not longer. Grand Theft Auto IV's The Lost and Damned episodic content underwent the longest PC release delay, at more than a year, due likely to the decision to release it simulatnously with the PC version of The Ballad of Gay Tony and the Episodes From Liberty City compilation.
GTA titles which are native to handheld consoles (Grand Theft Auto Advance, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars) have not been ported to the PC; however, it is still possible to play these games via emulation.
GTA games on the PC
- Grand Theft Auto 1 (1997)
- Grand Theft Auto: London, 1969 (1999)
- Grand Theft Auto: London, 1961 (1999)
- Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999)
- Grand Theft Auto III (2002)
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2003)
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2005)
- Grand Theft Auto IV (2008)
- Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City (2010)
See also