Grand Theft Auto 2
Grand Theft Auto 2 is an action-adventure video game developed by DMA Design and published by Rockstar Games. It was released on 22 October 1999 for Microsoft Windows and the PlayStation, followed by Dreamcast and Game Boy Color releases in 2000. It is the sequel to 1997's "Grand Theft Auto", part of the "Grand Theft Auto" series. The open world design lets players freely roam Anywhere City, the setting of the game.
Grand Theft Auto clone
Games of this type are sometimes defined under the broader terminology "open world games" or "sandbox games". However, many games that predate "Grand Theft Auto III", such as "Metroid" from 1986, are also called open world games. Conflictingly, games such as "Grand Theft Auto III" and "Body Harvest" are credited with inventing this genre more than a decade later. Furthermore, reviewers have stated that this genre does not include every game with a freely explorable world and that this genre is much more specific, thus excluding the free-roaming titles "Spider-Man 2" and "" from this class of games. The terminology is inconsistent, sometimes including any game with open level design, while other times focusing on a specific genre created at the turn of the century.