Rumour Killer: No XBLA appearance for GTA 2

We just noticed C&VG recently updated with news that Rockstar could be planning to release GTA2 on XBLA soon – May 22nd, in fact. They cited a clock on the game’s official site as their reasoning for the news. We read their news, and we were getting excited about playing a HD version of that game. However, after some thought we noticed something was wrong.

Yes, it seems that C&VG forgot that GTA2 took place “three weeks into the future.” It was written in the game’s manual! How could you forget? So, seeing as that date is in fact three weeks from today we got a bit suspicious.

We quickly changed our computer’s date, moving it a day forward and then visited the site again. Interestingly, it had all changed, and now May 23rd appeared at the bottom. Then we moved our computers date a whole year forward and the date again changed to some time in 2009.

It seems the site will always remain three weeks ahead of whatever day your computer clock is set to, and it is just a clever way of messing about with the period Rockstar set the game in.

We still hope both GTA 1 and 2 hit the console download scene soon, as we would be happy to replay both those titles. However, it wont be happening anytime soon – certainly not May 22nd, anyway.