Grand Theft Auto Classics pack on Steam sale

by Ludwig Kietzmann on Apr 17th 2011 4:00AM

If you thought Rockstar's crime saga began with the illicit exploits of Niko Bellic, your thumb may have obscured some vital roman numerals when you last picked up a Grand Theft Auto box.

We'll just avoid boxes entirely and point you to Steam's ongoing Rockstar Weekend sale, which now has the Grand Theft Auto Classics pack for $7.49 (a discount of 75% off the regular price). The pack contains top-down classics Grand Theft Auto and Grand Theft Auto 2, along with sandbox giant Grand Theft Auto 3 and its follow-ups, Vice City and San Andreas. The deal's making a quick getaway tomorrow, so don't wait too long if you prefer your virtual violence vintage.

Source: Steam

Tags: grand-theft-auto, grand-theft-auto-2, grand-theft-auto-iii, Grand-Theft-Auto-San-Andreas, grand-theft-auto-vice-city, GTA-San-Andreas, pc, steam

Reader Comments (73)

I remember back then I used to think that Miami girl was hot.

Nothing has changed.

@jtenma She looks a bit like Jaime Murray, sexy.

@jtenma

I honestly thought GTA4 was going to have a super hot CGI babe on it.. instead we get some ugly dude.

I was disappointed.

@jtenma
Dont know why but i used to think that girl on GTA3 had some sort of STD and i still think that to this day.

@Special Agent Bob

I'd say they all have STIs, but Vice City and San Andreas are hot enough to risk it.

@Special Agent Bob GTA3 was the only cover girl who seemed real. That still one of the best video game covers of all time.

im going to need this, carl johnson ftw

Amazing what people will pay so as not to deal with the "inconvenience" of putting a DVD in a computer.

People like me...

@ch3burashka
You would honestly pay the $7 in driving to the store. Or shipping.
Plus, this copy lasts forever.

@Special Agent Steve

I think he's referring to people like me, who bought Borderlands three days ago on the Steam despite having a disc copy in a box ten feet away from my desk.

I'm so sad.

@Special Agent Steve Just wanted to point out - it only lasts as long as Valve keep their servers online.

30 years from now that may not be the case, and all your digital games will be kind of useless. This is coming from a Steam user, a long-time Valve fan - nothing against digital downloads, I buy lots of them. But to say games last forever when bought this way is not true at all.

@MrXBob I think everyone's more likely to lose or break their game CDs before steam gets shut down

@Colin

Well, in a break from tradition I despise my physical copy of Borderlands. It refused to update for the longest time, so that I couldn't co-op with my friend's perfect Steam copy.

@MrXBob
Difference is Valve have always said they'd make their games playable offline should they ever shut down. And even if they did and every computer with any evidence of you owning a game on Steam is destroyed simultaneously... you could just grab a cracked EXE and all those Steam games are playable once again.

I have no worries about my Steam library being made infertile.

@Haggard

Yeah, I hated mine too cause of Securom, and also because my optical drive is super picky about discs and spits them out at the worst time. But the Steam version runs perfectly so far!

@MrXBob Let's be honest here. How many people are really going to be playing a game of this gen 30 years from now?

SA is my pick of the franchise, man I loved that game. I was just digging around for a game to throw in and came across my GC copy of Simpson's Hit n' Run. Yeah, I get it. They're not really objective comparable. But they're two games I'll hang to.

haha, from quick google search. It's myself from the year 2008,- "Yep, and I don't know why, but a handful of people came out of the woodwork to call me a douche, which I'm fine with, after I said that I'd miss being able to customize cars. So sue me, I like pimping out a crappy little hatchback with rims, hydraulics, nitros, and parking it in my garage. Safehouses were almost wholly pointless in GTAIV, outside of being able to start/save from somewhere convenient. Sniffle..."

@MarkezJM

I prefed VC.

VC > SA > 4 > 3

@MarkezJM

I liked the car customisation of SA too.
When I had a really big mission coming up I always got out of my favourite car of the time... (the one that hadnt blown up yet lol)

@Faenix

i agree but just switch SA with VC....

@den69

Thats probably the worst thing about the Car Customisation not being in GTA IV after its existance in SA.

For once i would've been able to have pimped out ride and driven down the street. Without the hassle of me turning the corner only to have a fire engine randomly crash into the side of me which for some reason flipped my car onto its hood causing it to explode.

Hell, its even worse trying to drive around safely whilst looking for the cheat code for that "all Taxi's are Nitro's enabled" cheat; because you forgot to turn it off. Regardless, Good times :)

Thing is, I would want nothing more to do than just cheat my way from the very start and just go nuts. I already own all the games on PS2 (sans GTA 1 & 2) yet I find the sale tempting. perhaps GTA4 will go on sale and I may just pick that up (also have that one already...)

@JohnDM

Remember.. type 'jumpjet' or 'rocketman' any time you start getting bored.

Really on the ball today... You post this 16 hours into a 24 hour sale...

@mietha
Hey, better than the Torchlight post. They posted about the sale 23.5 hours into a 24 hour sale, no joke.

@mietha

better than 25 hours late.

@LENSconcept Unfortunately I was late in reading this. I would have bought this yesterday had I been at my computer...

Guess we are gonna pretend GTA: London never happened lol

@den69

Yeah, I'd like to see a GTA Europe game based on the GTA IV or better engine.

these banner ads on the side make me sad :(

And Australians get shafted again.

@Harrishun - you missing GTA 1 & 2? I am (in NZ), but still, US$7.50 for VC, GTA3 and SA ain't too shabby

@Halwende

This was already linked below by Osprov, but I'll repost for connivence.

http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/

GTA 1 and 2, legally free here. I dunno if there's a region lock, but I can download them and I'm up in Canada, so it's probable that you can too.

@Colin

Curses, autocorrect. I usually don't fix typos, but i meant convenience.

@Colin

and you also put an extra r in my name :P

@Ospov

Gah, sorry! I should have triple checked.

SA>VC>VCS>4>3>LCS>1>2

That's how it is.

I already bought these the second they were available on Steam. Outstanding titles each and every one.

@VeeDeeVee

never played Vice City Stories but other then that i agree with this.

I desperately want GTA VC & SA remade in HD!!!!!

@youngterrified
Yes!

I'd love to see VC or SA using the GTAIV engine, but with the silly physics and fun added back in. But technically that would be "the best GTA ever" and therefore nobody would buy another one beyond that. So not good for Rockstar.

FYI: GTA1 & 2 are actually (legally!) free. Rockstar is giving them away for free at

http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/

@Ospov
i was about to say that

@Ospov
But not on Steam. Infact you can't even buy them individually on Steam - you have to get the pack.

Why would I want to play a PC game outside of Steam?

@VeeDeeVee

I mean I bought the pack regardless. I like having games in my Steam library so I can just download them whenever and wherever. I rebought Mass Effect 2 when it was on sale just to have it in my Steam library.

But if somebody is getting the pack ONLY for GTA1 & 2 I'm pretty sure they'd rather just download them for free.

@Ospov
No belly of explosives?!

Er....why would I want any of those games, except the most recent one?

@Yuglyoshi

Because their great, and some cases better than IV.

@Yuglyoshi

Because Vice City is ballin.

SA is pretty good too.

@Yuglyoshi
Some people just like having stuff.

If I were to ever go back to a GTA game right now I would play San Andreas before playing GTA4.

@Yuglyoshi
Why would anyone want the newer GTAs over the older ones?

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