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'''Grand Theft Auto Advance''' is a video game by | '''Grand Theft Auto Advance''' is a video game by [[Digital Eclipse]], released on 26 October [[2004]] for the [[Game Boy Advance]]. | ||
GTA Advance is considered to be less part of the [[Grand Theft Auto]] series as the other games. It is the only GTA game not developed by a [[Rockstar Games]] studio, it was released on the same day as [[GTA San Andreas]] so suffered from a lack of interest, and it is not listed on the Rockstar Games [http://www.rockstargames.com/grandtheftauto/ site] (although it does have its [http://www.rockstargames.com/grandtheftauto/gba/ own page] there). | |||
The game is played from a top-down perspective, similar to that in [[Grand Theft Auto 1]] and [[Grand Theft Auto 2]]. However, GTA Advance also borrows several aspects from the more recent [[GTA III Era]], including vehicle-based side missions (such as vigilante), the [[Heads-Up Display]] and many weapons. | |||
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These limitations, coupled with the game being released on the same day as its highly anticipated cousin [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]], caused the game to be widely criticized by fans, and it is largely unpopular. Indeed some fans of the original top-down games say that they preferred the old games' mechanics better. | These limitations, coupled with the game being released on the same day as its highly anticipated cousin [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]], caused the game to be widely criticized by fans, and it is largely unpopular. Indeed some fans of the original top-down games say that they preferred the old games' mechanics better. | ||
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