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Grand Theft Auto V

Author : Tim Bogenn

Publisher : Bradygames

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 30,85 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Automobile theft

ISBN : 9780744015881

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The best-selling game of all time is coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC. BradyGames covers it all plus exclusive GTA Online coverage.BradyGames has teamed up with Rockstar Games to bring you Grand Theft Auto V Signature Series Strategy Guide- Updated and Expanded. Whether you're playing on PS4, Xbox One or PC you'll have complete coverage of all additions and enhancements to GTA V including planning and execution of all heists, maximising the strengths of all three characters and the most effective weapon for each scenario to win the Gold Medal. Set in the sprawling, sun-soaked metropolis of Los Santos, Grand Theft Auto V centres around three very different criminals all plotting and scheming for their own chance of survival and success. Running out of options, Franklin, Michael and Trevor risk everything in a series of dangerous heists that could set them up for life or send them straight to the slammer. Check out the newest additions in the comprehensive Vehicle Showroom, find out how to earn and spend money and tips for gaining Reputation points and ranking up. BradyGames has explored every square mile of land and sea in Los Santos and Blaine County to find every collectible and complete all activities enabling you to get the most out of GTA V.



Jacked

Author : David Kushner

Publisher : Wiley

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 35,94 MB

Release : 2012-04-03

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 9780470936375

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Inside the making of a videogame that defined a generation: Grand Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto is one of the biggest and most controversial videogame franchises of all time. Since its first release in 1997, GTA has pioneered the use of everything from 3D graphics to the voices of top Hollywood actors and repeatedly transformed the world of gaming. Despite its incredible innovations in the $75 billion game industry, it has also been a lightning rod of debate, spawning accusations of ethnic and sexual discrimination, glamorizing violence, and inciting real-life crimes. Jacked tells the turbulent and mostly unknown story of GTA's wildly ambitious creators, Rockstar Games, the invention and evolution of the franchise, and the cultural and political backlash it has provoked. Explains how British prep school brothers Sam and Dan Houser took their dream of fame, fortune, and the glamor of American pop culture and transformed it into a worldwide videogame blockbuster Written by David Kushner, author of Masters of Doom and a top journalist on gaming, and drawn from over ten years of interviews and research, including firsthand knowledge of Grand Theft Auto's creators and detractors Offers inside details on key episodes in the development of the series, including the financial turmoil of Rockstar games, the infamous "Hot Coffee" sex mini-game incident, and more Whether you love Grand Theft Auto or hate it, or just want to understand the defining entertainment product of a generation, you'll want to read Jacked and get the real story behind this boundary-pushing game.



GTA V: THE FINAL WAR: The Chronicles Of Life

Author : Tymir Rawlings

Publisher : Tymir Rawlings

Page : 39 pages

File Size : 48,25 MB

Release : 2020-03-07

Category : Art

ISBN :

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Based on 2019 Blockbuster hit "GTA V: THE FINAL WAR"! Explore the danger of this book as, Micheal, Franklin, Trevor, Jimmy, Amanda & More GTA V Characters, goes to great lengths to tear Los Santos apart. Trevor's childhood itself was an unhappy one. His father was physically abusive towards him, as stated in Hang Ten, while his mother was emotionally abusive, overbearing, treated him with condescension and saw him as a "useless boy" who cared little about his mother. When he was a child, Trevor's father abandoned him in a shopping mall, which Trevor later burned down in retaliation. Trevor also had a brother named Ryan, whom Trevor was not fond of. Ryan died in an "accident" prior to 2013. His first job involved robbing a place that cashed checks. However, Trevor was caught because the clerk turned out to be someone who knew him, resulting in him serving four months of a six month sentence. Over time, Michael developed a relationship with a stripper, Amanda, which created some friction between them, due to Trevor and Amanda's mutual hatred of each other. Despite this, Trevor became seen as an uncle to the couple's children, Jimmy and Tracey, although Jimmy is understandably nervous around Trevor. Over the following years, Michael became more cautious as a criminal, because he saw himself as having more to lose should he be imprisoned or killed, which led Trevor to believe Michael was going "soft". Some time later, Trevor met Brad Snider, who would often join Trevor and Michael and commit robberies together. Michael and Brad did not trust or like each other, but Trevor got along with Brad to a certain degree. Not long before the Prologue, Trevor told Brad about his beliefs of Michael going "soft". Brad then suggested that they should cut off Michael and work only with each other. Trevor declined, believing he should stay loyal to Michael. Everything that is in both films are heavly tied in this book from Airplane Crashes to Cop Shootouts!



Grand Theft Auto

Author : Tim Bogenn

Publisher : Bradygames Signature

Page : 180 pages

File Size : 38,61 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 9780744001945

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Bogenn provides expert strategies that show gamers the steps to climbing the ladder of crime, along with complete coverage of every mission, including side missions. Detailed maps of Vice City show locations of important items and weapons. Cool game secrets, tips, and cheat codes are revealed.



Grand Theft Auto V Five Notebook

Author : Crazy Books

Publisher :

Page : 122 pages

File Size : 43,1 MB

Release : 2020-01-09

Category :

ISBN : 9781658256636

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Grand Theft Auto V Five Notebook Aka GTA 5 OR GTA V 120Empty Pages With Lines Size 6 X 9 you can find more in my store



Grand Theft Auto

Author : Tim Bogenn

Publisher : BradyGames

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 33,94 MB

Release : 2003-11

Category : Computer games

ISBN : 9780744003550

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BradyGames' Grand Theft Auto Double Pack Official Strategy Guidefeatures complete coverage of both Grand Theft Auto IIIand Grand Theft Auto: Vice Citygames. Expert mission strategies to complete each challenge. Detailed vehicle coverage of every sweet ride in both games. Exhaustive maps that pinpoint all items in both games. Plus, hidden packages, rampages, and other secrets and bonuses!



Video Games Around the World

Author : Mark J. P. Wolf

Publisher : MIT Press

Page : 715 pages

File Size : 18,67 MB

Release : 2015-05-22

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 0262328496

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Thirty-nine essays explore the vast diversity of video game history and culture across all the world's continents. Video games have become a global industry, and their history spans dozens of national industries where foreign imports compete with domestic productions, legitimate industry contends with piracy, and national identity faces the global marketplace. This volume describes video game history and culture across every continent, with essays covering areas as disparate and far-flung as Argentina and Thailand, Hungary and Indonesia, Iran and Ireland. Most of the essays are written by natives of the countries they discuss, many of them game designers and founders of game companies, offering distinctively firsthand perspectives. Some of these national histories appear for the first time in English, and some for the first time in any language. Readers will learn, for example, about the rapid growth of mobile games in Africa; how a meat-packing company held the rights to import the Atari VCS 2600 into Mexico; and how the Indonesian MMORPG Nusantara Online reflects that country's cultural history and folklore. Every country or region's unique conditions provide the context that shapes its national industry; for example, the long history of computer science in the United Kingdom and Scandinavia, the problems of piracy in China, the PC Bangs of South Korea, or the Dutch industry's emphasis on serious games. As these essays demonstrate, local innovation and diversification thrive alongside productions and corporations with global aspirations. Africa • Arab World • Argentina • Australia • Austria • Brazil • Canada • China • Colombia • Czech Republic • Finland • France • Germany • Hong Kong • Hungary • India • Indonesia • Iran • Ireland • Italy • Japan • Mexico • The Netherlands • New Zealand • Peru • Poland • Portugal • Russia • Scandinavia • Singapore • South Korea • Spain • Switzerland • Thailand • Turkey • United Kingdom • United States of America • Uruguay • Venezuela



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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand

Page : 86 pages

File Size : 42,44 MB

Release :

Category :

ISBN : 3759113230

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Fifty Key Video Games

Author : Bernard Perron

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 349 pages

File Size : 39,74 MB

Release : 2022-07-26

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 1000596230

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This volume examines fifty of the most important video games that have contributed significantly to the history, development, or culture of the medium, providing an overview of video games from their beginning to the present day. This volume covers a variety of historical periods and platforms, genres, commercial impact, artistic choices, contexts of play, typical and atypical representations, uses of games for specific purposes, uses of materials or techniques, specific subcultures, repurposing, transgressive aesthetics, interfaces, moral or ethical impact, and more. Key video games featured include Animal Crossing, Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, The Legend of Zelda, Minecraft, PONG, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, and World of Warcraft. Each game is closely analyzed in order to properly contextualize it, to emphasize its prominent features, to show how it creates a unique experience of gameplay, and to outline the ways it might speak about society and culture. The book also acts as a highly accessible showcase to a range of disciplinary perspectives that are found and practiced in the field of game studies. With each entry supplemented by references and suggestions for further reading, Fifty Key Video Games is an indispensable reference for anyone interested in video games.



Playing the Field

Author : Sascha Pöhlmann

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 296 pages

File Size : 27,33 MB

Release : 2019-08-19

Category : History

ISBN : 3110659409

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American Studies has only gradually turned its attention to video games in the twenty-first century, even though the medium has grown into a cultural industry that is arguably the most important force in American and global popular culture today. There is an urgent need for a substantial theoretical reflection on how the field and its object of study relate to each other. This anthology, the first of its kind, seeks to address this need by asking a dialectic question: first, how may American Studies apply its highly diverse theoretical and methodological tools to the analysis of video games, and second, how are these theories and methods in turn affected by the games? The eighteen essays offer exemplary approaches to video games from the perspective of American cultural and historical studies as they consider a broad variety of topics: the US-American games industry, Puritan rhetoric, cultural geography, mobility and race, urbanity and space, digital sports, ludic textuality, survival horror and the eighteenth-century novel, gamer culture and neoliberalism, terrorism and agency, algorithm culture, glitches, theme parks, historical guilt, visual art, sonic meaning-making, and nonverbal gameplay.