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Grand Theft Auto: London 1969

Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 is a mission pack for Grand Theft Auto. The game uses the same game engine as Grand Theft Auto, thus having similar graphics and gameplay. Like Grand Theft Auto, the mission pack…

90 31 March 1999

Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 is an adventure developed by DMA Design, released 31 March 1999 on Game Boy Color, PlayStation, DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 is

Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 is an adventure game developed by DMA Design and released in 1999. It was published by Rockstar Games. It is available on Game Boy Color, PlayStation, DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Grand Theft Auto Mission Pack #1: London 1969 is an expansion pack for the 1997 action-adventure game Grand Theft Auto, developed by Rockstar Canada and published by Rockstar Games. It was released for PC and PlayStation in April 1999. The expansion adheres to the same gameplay mechanics as the main game and takes place in a fictionalised version of London during the 1960s. Players assume the role of a criminal who works for several London-based crime syndicates, and complete levels by achieving a set score, within an open world environment that allows them to do whatever they wish alongside linear jobs to achieve their goal.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Grand Theft Auto series

Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 is the second of 59 entries we hold in the Grand Theft Auto series. It arrived a year after Grand Theft Auto. The next entry was Grand Theft Auto: Director's Cut in 1999. Its critic score of 90 is 9 points above the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Grand Theft Auto III at 95.

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How it was received

Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Players rate it 79, 11 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 launched on 31 March 1999, within three weeks of RollerCoaster Tycoon, Metal Slug X, Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy and EverQuest. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: RollerCoaster Tycoon, Metal Slug X, Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy, EverQuest.

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When did Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 come out?
Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 was released on 31 March 1999 for Game Boy Color, PlayStation, DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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