'Due to the increasing DMCA takedowns against various GTA San Andreas map modifications, it is with a heavy heart that we must announce that we decided to preemptively take all remaining instances of GTA United, including its predecessors VC2SA and LC2SA, down,' the modders said in a post titled 'Final Chapter'. Mindful of this, the makers of GTA United have pulled the mod offline. And though no one's entirely sure why Take-Two has enacted this now (it has yet to comment), some speculate it's either something to do with GTA Online's recently-released summer update, or perhaps a remaster or remake project that will see older GTA games released on current-gen systems.

Even HD texture projects such as Vice Cry were targeted.įrom what the modding community can gather, it looks as though Take-Two's lawyers are scouring modding databases for terms such as Liberty City, Vice City, and San Andreas. Mods such as GTA: Underground, and the 15-year-old project, GTA: Liberty City, were hit. Rockstar parent company Take-Two has issued a raft of takedown notices for GTA map mods in recent weeks. It remained available ever since - until now. Five years later, in December 2012, GTA United 1.2 was released. Then, in late 2007, the beta for a combined effort called GTA United was released. The beta for 'Liberty City 2 San Andreas' came out soon after.

The first beta of what was then known as 'Vice City 2 San Andreas' came out in early 2007. Work on the free, non-commercial mod began in 2006.

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