Fans recreate classic GTA mission as GTA Online jobs

By Will Fulton July 23, 2014

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Rockstar has shared a collection of fan-made jobs for GTA Online inspired by classic missions from Grand Theft Auto III, GTA: Vice City, GTA: San Andreas, GTA IV, and GTA: Chinatown Wars.

You can relive the explosive finale of GTA III with The Exchange. Claude’s final showdown with the Colombian Cartel has been restaged in exquisite detail as a Deathmatch along the Land Act Dam. Alternatively you can blow up the Les Cargo ship docked off the Port of South Los Santos terminal in a Deathmatch recreation of Bomb da Base.

Get a double dose of nostalgia for San Andreas and Ferris Beuller’s Day Off with the Valet Parking mission. Take cars from willing Richman Hotel patrons on a joyride around Morningwood before returning them to their owners without a scratch.

If you’re looking to relive more recent memories, look no further than Lost Angels, a Capture mission that recreates the conflict between The Lost and the Angels of Death from the GTA IV The Lost and the Damned DLC. Grab your sawed-off and a few Molotov cocktails and try to steal as many of the rival gang’s hogs as you can while protecting your own stable.

The full list of classic missions is up on Rockstar’s blog, along with a selection of missions based on other classic Rockstar games.

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