Sorry, no GTA2 for you Mr. Xbox Live Arcade

by Dustin Burg { May 2nd 2008 at 10:45AM }

Recently, a countdown clock over on Rockstar's official Grand Theft Auto 2 website caused a rumor to Spring up speculating that, when the countdown expired at the end of May, Rockstar would announce that GTA2 would be releasing to the XBLA. But, sadly, that isn't the case.

IGN confirmed with Rockstar that the countdown clock in question isn't counting down to any new announcement and is actually quite old. It was used once, way back in the 1990s to countdown to GTA2's release onto the PS1. But why the 2008 countdown expiration? Simple. The countdown code is messed up because it doesn't understand how to take into account the 2000s. So, no GTA2 for the XBLA, no new announcement, just an old clock that should have been removed ages ago.

Tags: grand-theft-auto-2, gta2, rockstar, rockstar-games, xbla

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

ZEBRA NINER @ May 2nd 2008 10:54AM

Y2K bug!!! OH NOES!

xenocidic @ May 2nd 2008 1:52PM

planes will fall from the sky ! with snakes in them !

Tony Bowman @ May 2nd 2008 11:07AM

the first two GTAs on XBLA would have been AMAZING.

Lewis @ May 2nd 2008 11:13AM

Aren't they free for PC or something? They're not that good if you have GTA4 :)

JakubK666 (Ninja Defence Force) @ May 2nd 2008 4:32PM

They are.People are just too spoiled to look it up.

andres @ May 2nd 2008 11:23AM

i call bs cause if it was an old counter dont you think they would have removed it.

Tony @ May 2nd 2008 11:33AM

Most companies don't remove old sites whatsoever. You can still find crap about ancient Kriss Kross albums on their record label's site.

jc @ May 2nd 2008 11:36AM

LOL, why are you looking at Kriss Kross stuff?!?!?!

psychohog @ May 2nd 2008 12:28PM

A daddy-mack will make a Jump Jump. Kriss Kross? I haven't heard that shit since 6th grade.

Tony @ May 2nd 2008 1:07PM

Don't hate!

Tony @ May 2nd 2008 1:08PM

Actually, the site is really funny... They have a photo of the two with a woman who is placed in by Photoshop. You can still see the white pixels around where they cut her out.

Brodak @ May 2nd 2008 11:50AM

Pardon my ignorance in such matters, but if it couldn't take into account the 2000's, would it not have waited until 2098?

AnOffday @ May 2nd 2008 12:42PM

I think it just looks at the last number. So it'd be 8, as in 1998.

Anyway, kinda cool that this thing started back up again. But I don't see the point in having this on XBLA, unless it'd be free. Rockstar lets you download GTA 1 and 2 from their website.

Tucker @ May 2nd 2008 2:53PM

Looking at the javascript in the source, that's exactly what it does. But what I find more awesome is that the R* guys even injected humor into their friggin' JS source:

if (iveGotFlash) {
theDudeAbides();
}

Note to self: include movie references in future web programming projects.