About LSPDFR
Our story begins in Liberty City. It's 2009, and Grand Theft Auto IV on PC is flavour of the month, but 'modding' is still in its infancy...
Sure, we'd seen all sorts of things in San Andreas. There's the two massive multiplayer mods (both of which are still going strong 15 years later!), there was the big-bang of vehicle and character models, and there was of course the mod, the infamous mod; so infamous we probably shouldn't talk about it, but there was something missing. There was no police mod. How? In a game - not even a game, but arguably the most popular, successful and controversial series of games ever made - that started off as police chases, that became famous for its police chases... how? Why?
Why couldn't we do the chasing for once?
Humble beginnings.
August 5th, 2009
It starts off as an idea. It's summer of 2009 and schools are out. Armed with some new computer parts, the most rudimentary high school textbook knowledge of programming and a whole lotta free time, I dived into the world of GTA IV modding.
At the time, it was eye-opening. There were edits to the game that could change the rocket launcher from a single-shot weapon of relative destruction into a gattling-gun-couple-hundred-of-rockets-a-minute weapon of extreme destruction. There was a little something that let the game's radio stations play when you were on-foot. There was a neat little tweak that let you save the game anywhere, not just at a safe house.
There was something else though. My favourite mod. It let you play as any character from the game. You could be Roman, Dimitri, Vlad, anyone. Any random person from the street. You could also be a cop. Player Selector, by c06alt, is what got me into modding GTA. It was so simple, yet so new. So interesting. Just being someone else in the game, not wearing Niko's clothes, not having Niko's voice lines. It was a game changer, and it set the stones in motion.
TBC.
100,000.
September 13th, 2013
To be added.
One point zero.
December 29th, 2013
To be added.
It all begins again.
April 14th, 2015
To be added.
TBA.
TBA, TBA
To be added.
Ten.
August 5th, 2019
To be added.