With Xbox Live down for maintenance today I turned back to the DS, but only got a couple of adventures completed in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon before the battery indicator came on. So, it’s back to the PC tonight, and I figured I should finally get back to a series I’ve been meaning to play for a long time now: Grand Theft Auto. I played SA for a bit on the PS2, but never got around to finishing it.

I bought the entire series as part of a Rockstar Collection on Steam a while back, but I think I’m going to skip the first two entries. I fooled around with them for a while, but just couldn’t get into them; the 2D perspective just felt too limiting and I was constantly crashing into things (and not intentionally) and getting lost. So, I’m going to kick it off with GTA3, and then Vice City and San Andreas. I doubt I’ll go for 100% completion, since I’d like to finish these within a reasonable amount of time not too far away from when the PC version of GTA4 comes out, and that’s pretty close now.

So far it’s your typical gangster story, starting out at the bottom and getting in good with the mob, and the missions so far have been fairly typical: bump off some guys, steal an armoured car, escort a hooker, etc. There are all sorts of side missions and collections to do, but I haven’t started on any of those yet.

I miss the overall map from San Andreas, but the area is small enough that it hopefully won’t take too long to learn it well.