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OpenRW, an open source engine for Grand Theft Auto III

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I love open source! OpenRW joins the ranks of game engines like OpenMW (Morrowind), OpenRA (Command & Conquer, Red Alert) CorsixTH (Theme Hospital), OpenXcom (X-COM: UFO Defense) and many more.

It's early days for the project, but I have high hopes that it will join the ranks of many other playable and open source game engines.

Like other the other open source game engines it will require a legal copy of the games data files to run and it's completely unofficial.

Hopefully more developers interested in having it on Linux will join in on the effort, would be pretty awesome to have it on Linux. I remember when it first came to PC and my little unit couldn't handle it!

Find OpenRW on github. It's licensed under the GPL. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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wvstolzing May 19, 2016
Would Vice City also work with this?

There's nothing on the included documentation.
rcrit May 19, 2016
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I build from source and it seems promising. There is a test option from the menu so I chose that. It drops you onto a parking garage with all the weapons and a variety of vehicles. The weapons can be picked up but have no ammo. The cars can be driven but they are all basically the same AFAICT. You can't damage vehicles.

It looks really good except for the minimap which isn't so mini:



I think the original games used the same engine. The current build of openrw doesn't work for me with GTA:VC (I get a segfault).
Shutup-Fool May 19, 2016
I'd be happy if this were done for San Andreas too
ced117 May 19, 2016
Good work he did there !
Thanks for the info ;-)
Kristian May 19, 2016
Is there any progress report/todo list? How much of the game does this implement and how is left to implement?
RTheren May 19, 2016
(Not so) soon :)

Maybe if they would port GTA from Android, it would be easier (correct me if i am wrong)
nifker May 19, 2016
Sadly requires the original game files.
Beamboom May 19, 2016
Quoting: nifkerSadly requires the original game files.

Why is that sad? Or surprising?
NoYzE May 19, 2016
Nice
Kristian May 19, 2016
Quoting: nifkerSadly requires the original game files.

Ehmm..that is the whole point. Otherwise it wouldn't be GTAIII but some whole other game.
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