Shoreside Vale builds on this by offering the player a choice of skin and primary weapon to spawn with. There are no classes each player has exactly the same advantages as the next. GTA III players are offered a 'drop-in' style of deathmatch gameplay on Portland and Staunton Island, where the player spawns with limited weapons and has to purchase more at Ammu-Nations with money earned from kills.

Stunt offers players the opportunity to race and perform stunts over ramps that are added to the map. Deathmatch offers several character classes that players can spawn as, each with advantages and disadvantages. Currently, the old MTA core for GTA Vice City and GTA III is at version 0.5, while the new core supporting GTA San Andreas is currently at version 1.5.8.Ġ.5 offers two game modes for GTA Vice City: Deathmatch and Stunt. Only in-vehicle play was supported at the time when outside the vehicle the user was invisible to the other player.Īs time has progressed, MTA has improved considerably and now allows users to play GTA Vice City as well as GTA III on the 0.x core, supporting dozens of players and including many of the features of the original games. This allowed two people to play GTA III against each other after pressing a key combination (ALT+F12). Multi Theft Auto was first released under the name/acronym GTA3AM ( GTA III Alternative Multi-player) on February 8, 2003.

The world's first ever third party GTA III multi-player screenshot. They believe this will bring back a few players to the older editions of MTA. There is a team of developers called Project Redivivus (Latin for revived) which are currently working on re-building MTA III and MTA VC (MTA 0.5). MTA's first San Andreas version, MTA:SA R1.0, even showed peaks of up to roughly 1500 players up until weeks after release. Previous statistics (measured with The All-Seeing Eye) of GTA3:MTA and MTA:VC have shown steady amounts of players up to roughly one thousand people playing simultaneously online. Current player numbers can be seen at Game-Monitor.COM, which records and displays information including number of players, player names, scores, and other relevant data from a reasonable percentage of all public servers (with reporting enabled). MTA was ranked as one of the top online games according to. Multi Theft Auto ( MTA) is a modification for the PC versions of Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas that allows them to be played online against other players around the world, in a manner similar to Grand Theft Auto Online.Īlthough often referred to as a mod, MTA is mostly based on the trainer and code injection methods of manipulating the game through its own memory and does not alter any original files supplied with the game itself. Screenshot of an early closed MTA:SA Deathmatch test.

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