GTA 2 places Claude Speed in Anywhere City, where three districts and seven gangs turn every phone call into a question of money, respect, and timing. The completion route combines district missions with Special Tokens and Kill Frenzies, while vehicles, weapons, and gang identities explain how the city works.
- Developer
- DMA Design (Tarantula Studios, Game Boy Color)
- Publisher
- Rockstar Games
- Release
- PC: 1999-10-27 · Dreamcast: 2000-05-02 · PlayStation: 1999-10-22 · Game Boy Color: 2000-11-10
- Platforms
- PC, PlayStation, Sega Dreamcast, Game Boy Color
Game data
Characters
Grand Theft Auto 2 follows Claude Speed as he earns respect and accepts jobs from competing gang bosses across Downtown, Residential, and Industrial Anywhere City. The local leaders change by district, while the Zaibatsu maintains a presence throughout the campaign under different bosses. Many supporting figures exist only through calls, police files, or messages, fitting a game where a few lines of text can be enough to start a citywide gang war.
Power-ups
Anywhere City rewards players who know which pickups are permanent, which are held, and which fade after a short window.
Cheats
Cheats in Grand Theft Auto 2 use PC name codes that change money, weapons, police pressure, and world state. The right name reshapes a district run before you answer the next phone.
Vehicles
Find GTA 2 vehicle models and compare their Downtown, Residential and Industrial crusher rewards. The list includes towing and transit references, but excludes the multiplayer-only Tow Truck and ten static wreck models.
Radio Stations
Grand Theft Auto 2 ties its radio to the structure of Anywhere City. Head Radio is the broad commercial signal, while Rockstar Radio, KREZ, and Lo-Fi FM anchor Downtown, Residential, and Industrial; gang broadcasters add local personality around them. Move between areas and the available broadcast mix changes, turning the dial into a map clue.
Weapons
Weapons in Grand Theft Auto 2 cover street firearms, thrown explosives and vehicle gear built for Anywhere City gang work. You collect them from street spawns, gang encounters and garage upgrades, then match the slot and mount type to the job you are about to run.
Story Missions
GTA 2’s mission structure is a negotiation with a timer attached. Every gang wants work done, every phone color raises the stakes, and the final job arrives only after Claude has made the whole district angry enough to notice him.
Gangs & Factions
Gangs shape Anywhere City around Claude. Their phone colors, car choice, and district alliances reflect the respect system, so helping one faction can change how another treats him.
Collectibles
Special Tokens
Special Tokens encourage careful exploration of each district. The hunt is a good excuse to learn shortcuts, gang boundaries and rooftop access you can reuse for jobs.
Kill Frenzies
Kill Frenzies are GTA 2 at its most arcade-like: one weapon, one clock, and one corner of the city suddenly becomes the whole game. The fun is in learning which tool makes the target look easy.
Wang Cars
Wang Cars is a Residential District side activity tied to numbered GT-A1 sports cars. You bring each GT-A1 to the Arbo showroom and the dealership answers with a lot full of unusual vehicles that are otherwise hard to borrow. It is a short detour that pays back in heavy hardware for the rest of the district.
Controls
- Pause / level information
- console: PC: F6
- Repeat last phone message
- console: PC: F10
- Repeat last beeper message
- console: PC: F7
- Cycle radio stations
- console: PC: F5
- Display suburb name
- console: PC: F9
- Previous weapon
- console: PC: Z
- Next weapon
- console: PC: X
- Move
- console: PC: Arrow keys
- Attack
- console: PC: Ctrl
- Enter or exit vehicle
- console: PC: Enter
- Jump over / slide under vehicle
- console: PC: Space
- Special
- console: PC: Tab
- Special 2
- console: PC: Alt
- Handbrake
- console: PC: Space
- Horn / siren
- console: PC: Tab
- Rotate turret
- console: PC: Tab + Left / Right
- Fire turret
- console: PC: Ctrl
GTA 2 gameplay tips
- Clear a district's mission route, token set, and Kill Frenzies before moving on.
- Watch gang respect: green, yellow, and red phones unlock different risk and reward levels.
- Check crusher results by district before sacrificing a useful vehicle.
- Treat PlayStation and Game Boy Color changes as version differences, not missing PC rows.









































