Earlier this year, Rockstar parent company Take-Two Interactive played whack-a-mole takedown. Reverse-engineered versions of Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City. It looks like the publisher has gone even further in the past week by issuing DMCA takedown notices for GTA 5 map mods like Vice City of Umrah, as well as many popular mods for previous games in the series.
GTA: Liberty City It was a total transformation that brought the GTA 3 setting to the Vice City engine and was first released in 2005. It is no longer available on ModDB. vice crying, which replaced Vice City’s textures and models with HD versions, is also gone. This is what it is GTA: Underground, which collected maps not only from GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas, but also from other Rockstar games Bully, Manhunt and Manhunt 2, and then added guerrilla warfare. As well as mods that turn San Andreas into console-exclusive ports Freedom City Stories مدينة and the Vice City Stories. And that’s not all.
subject to GTAForums Movements are indexed in addition to the comment Rockstar statement on the solo mods, initially during Back and forth via OpenIV rate In 2017, which many applicants thought would protect their work, it was quietly updated in 2019. It now notes that it does not apply to “use or import any other IP (including Rockstar IP) into the project” for games, stories, or tasks or new maps. None of these clauses were in the original version of Rockstar’s statement, which excluded: Wayback Machine, but it can still be read on our website News item from that time.
As for why Take-Two has decided to pursue these mods now — one of which, it’s worth saying, is 16 years old — the internet is currently split between two theories. First, because it is seen as a competition to the remastered virtual versions of GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas. The second is connected to the latest Rumors about GTA 6.
