The arrival of GTA 3 represented a true revolution for the industry, since Rockstar Games set the pace for future open worlds. It wasn’t the last time we visited Liberty City, as the New York parody was back for GTA: Liberty City Stories in 2005.
On that occasion we were transferred three years before the events starring Claude Speed and with Toni Cipriani we were able to drive motorcycles, something that was strictly prohibited in his predecessor. The developer, far from ignoring the issue, tried to explain why, now, two wheelers were availablebut to find the answer it was necessary read the game manual
If we opened the box GTA: Liberty City Stories In PSP, we would find the instructions, which were scattered with newspaper clippings from the Liberty Tree, the newspaper that is printed in the city. One of the articles, signed by Gaylord Morrisen, had a headline that “Motorcycles kill children: they must be banned, says pressure group.” Along with that inflammatory statement, the following text appeared:
A new pressure group has insisted on eradicating all two-wheeled vehicles from the streets of our city. Following in the wake of the successful ban on the circulation of bicycles imposed in Liberty City a few years ago, the Group of Safe and Approved Automobile Users (GUASA) has been lobbying in recent weeks to ban the circulation of motorcycles in the city.
They use chilling statistics as their main argument, although some believe that they have invented them. A GUASA spokesperson told Liberty Tree: “Every year more people die from motorcycles than from natural deaths. They are the number one killer in our city and they need to be banned.”
And he added: “If the city does not take measures, we, the people, will have to take the initiative. Those who ride motorcycles are trying to kill us all, so from GUASA we think that the time has come to fight back. All motorcyclists “They will be treated as a legitimate target from now on: we invite all civic-minded citizens to throw these murderers off their motorcycles.”
The news is illustrated with a photo of Cipriani riding a motorcycle and also points out that the GUASA collective was founded thanks to a generous donation from Maibatsu Corporation of America, so we begin to understand how the sudden interest in eradicating motorcycles arose. The plan came into effect and the propaganda campaign achieved its objective in 1998, since in GTA 3 It is impossible to find a single motorcycle on the entire map.
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