The year is not specified, but the game's manual uses the phrase 'three weeks into the future', and phrases such as 'X weeks into the future' or 'X minutes into the future' are common phrases meaning 'near future' fictional journal entries on the GTA2 website suggest the year to be 2013. Unlike other games in the series, GTA2 is set in an unspecified time in a metropolis referred to only as Anywhere City. GTA2 was preceded by the original Grand Theft Auto and succeeded by Grand Theft Auto III. The Windows version was later released as a free download through their Rockstar Classics website. The language and violence was toned down for the PlayStation and Game Boy Color versions which received a T rating. The PC and Dreamcast versions of GTA2 are both rated M by the ESRB. It is the sequel to the controversial 1997 hit Grand Theft Auto.

The game was later ported to the Dreamcast console and the Game Boy Color. Grand Theft Auto 2, also known as GTA 2, is a video game that was released worldwide on October 22, 1999, by developers DMA Designs (now Rockstar North) initially for Windows and the PlayStation.

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