First Screenshots of Grand Theft Auto on the PS3!

Rockstar's new-fangled racing game has been located. September 29, 2005 - While it's a much bigger phenomenon in Europe than in North America, the Grand Theft Auto series is nonetheless a big deal for a small faction of gamers around the world. In this scene it looks like the main character, Anthony 'Biggie-Stereo-T' Brown is shooting hoops while taking a break from working for some underground crime organization. Our guess is that his job in this game will involve selling drugs, stealing cars, having sex and delivering packages around the Big Easy. Our inside insiders on the inside tell us that the new GTA story will revolve around inner-city poverty, the rampant crime problem and how 'those people' do things that are simply outrageous to affluent suburban mothers, church officials, and American attorneys who have gained popularity by chasing ambulances and attacking popular media. Environmental Damage With the recent popularity of floods and hurricanes, Rockstar has repurposed the Havoc engine and added 'Enviro-Damage' to the game. Players will now have the opportunity to completely saturate an area with random acts of God including; volcano's in Dallas, tornados in Portland, and bowling-ball sized fire-hail any where the players choose. What's even better is that NPC's will blindingly attempt to rebuild in the wake of these disasters, but, if Rockstar knows its audience, the player will never allow this kind of reconstruction to happen. It's like burning ants with a magnifying glass using a $400 console and a $2500 HDTV. Oh yes, you read that right, this game will run in 1080i, baby! Dynamic Lighting Effects With the processing power of the PS3, environments can begin to take life like never before (except in real life). Notice the reflections of the residents in the water and how the depth of field blur adds to the atmosphere. In typical GTA fashion, you will be able to gun down these two and they will actually float on top of the water, bloat, and be picked apart by the various creatures (Rockstar's new 'Vermin Engine') that reside in the sewers of the city. We can't wait! Our Initial Takeaways From what we've seen, this GTA looks to be utilizing the PS3 hardware to its fullest potential. We hope that Rockstar has taken the feedback from it's users to implement new gameplay elements like kidnapping, pig burning, drawing and quartering, and other insanely taboo actions that will create a negative campaign against the video game industry. Dooming this business to basements and 12-24 year old, angst-ridden sexless types that can only get out their racist and pent up aggressions by taking control of an 'urban' man to kill, burn, and blow up as much as conceivably possible. Building upon the marketing success of the 'Hot Coffee Mod/Hidden Code' campaign, Rockstar has informed us that the first 250,000 copies of GTA for PS3 will be passed through a decomposing corpse before being shrunk wrapped and sent to your local game store. (all photo's courtesy of Comcast.net Slideshow)