History YMMV / GrandTheftAuto2

* CompleteMonster: [[Film/GrandTheftAuto2 promotional short film]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KQOWPtROpk link]]): [[VillainProtagonist Claude Speed]], depicted here as a sociopathic crime-addict instead of a mute thug, orchestrates [[MobWar conflict between the gangs]] of Anywhere City to get ahead. A [[PsychoForHire mercenary]], drug dealer, and murderer with [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder no allegiance to his bosses]], Claude works for [[TheMafiya the Russian mob]] and the {{Yakuza}}, manipulating events so that both gangs massacre each other in a bloody shootout. Claude can only smile at the chaos and carnage he's responsible for, and ends his day by trying to break into a car, his thirst for crime still not quenched.

* GameBreaker: The Flamethrower, which is effectively a OneHitKill against anything unfortunate enough to be touched by its stream of hot death, though it's not all that useful against vehicles. Of course, its raw killing power becomes much less funny once it gets turned against you; thus, it's a pretty good idea not to let the Scientists' respect meter bottom out if you have anything important to do on their turf unless you enjoy fighting against a small army of DemonicSpiders.

** One of the missions for the Russian Mafia requires the player to deliver a bus full of Hare Krishnas to a hot dog factory, where they are ''ground alive and turned into hot dogs''. Then the player is tasked with delivering a van full of hot dogs made out of human meat to a [[ImAHumanitarian Diner]]. This is quite possibly the most messed-up mission in the whole GTA franchise!
*** It gets worse. The PC version of the game has the player take a bus full of ''[[MoralEventHorizon innocent pedestrians]]'' to the meat factory.
*** And it really doesn't help that you're forced to watch them get turned into meat, all while listening to their cries and screams of pain as they are ground alive. Some even try to escape, but the Russians shoot them dead before they can even make a move.
** If you have an [[LightningGun Electrogun]], you could have possibly turned criminals, mob-bosses, and even ''pedestrians'' into ''DemBones''. ''[[{{Squick}} Eww]]''.
*** Same effect with the Flamethrower.
*** Even worse when you set a person on fire at a rail station, and they get electrocuted on the rails ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill while still on fire]]''.

* AcceptableTargets: Elvis impersonators. Whenever they appear, killing all of them fast enough will give you a bonus, as well as the announcer [[LargeHam bellowing]] "'''Elvis has left the building!'''"
* AcceptableReligiousTargets: Hare Krishnas show up in the third district as one of the factions you can work for. About as serious as their depiction of the insane, TheMafia, TheMafiya, the {{Yakuza}}...

*** Even worse when you set a person on fire at a rail station, and they get electrocuted on the rails while still on fire.

* ThatOneSidequest: Kill Frenzies, the equivalent of rampages in later games, in the PC version. They aren't particularly hard in the first district, but become one of the hardest challenges in the whole ''GTA'' franchise once you reach the second district. They start requiring killing cops or destroying cop cars instead of civilians or regular vehicles, which not only is more dangerous but also more annoying since usually there aren't enough cops chasing you (and therefore you'll run out of time). Besides, there's a notable GameBreakingBug that permanently corrupts your savegame after completing a Kill Frenzy activated by entering a vehicle initially placed on a trailer. The only known player [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9uSWI4chx0 who has proved to have completed all of them]] did so through different exploits and glitches.

** If you have an [[LightningGun Electrogun]], you could have possibly turning criminals, mob-bosses, and even ''pedestrians'' into ''DemBones''. ''[[{{Squick}} Eww]]''.

*** It gets worse. The PC version of the game has the player take a bus full of ''innocent pedestrians'' to the meat factory.

* AcceptableReligiousTargets: Hare Krishnas show up in the third district. As one of the factions you can work for. About as serious as their depiction of the insane, TheMafia, TheMafiya, the {{Yakuza}}...

* GameBreaker: The Flamethrower, which is effectively a OneHitKill against anything unfortunate enough to be touched by its stream of hot death, though it's not all that useful against vehicles. Of course, its raw killing power becomes much less funny once it gets turned against you; thus, it's a pretty good idea not to let the Scientists' respect meter bottom out if you have anything important to do on their turf, unless you enjoy fighting against a small army of DemonicSpiders.
** Expeditious executions. They give a flat 100k points for accomplishing it, and you can do it easily by finding a boxed in area with civvies, honking your car's horn to scare them against the wall, then manipulating the camera to spawn more without despawning the ones that are panicking. Rinse and repeat a few times, drive a horizontal line across them and bam, free 100k. Even better, it doesn't attract the cops until your second or third time doing it, depending on how skilled you are.

** One of the missions for the Russian Mafia require the player to deliver a bus full of Hare Krishnas to a hot dog factory, where they are ''ground alive and turned into hot dogs''. Then the player is tasked with delivering a van full of hot dogs made out of human meat to a [[ImAHumanitarian Diner]]. This is quite possibly the most messed up mission in the whole GTA franchise!

*** And it really doesn't help that you're forced to watch them get turned into meat, all while listening to their cries and screams of pain as they are ground alive. Some even try to escape, but the russians shoot them dead before they can even make a move.

* ThatOneSidequest: Kill Frenzies, the equivalent of rampages in later games, in the PC version. They aren't particularly hard in the first district, but become one of the hardest challenges in the whole ''GTA'' franchise once you reach the second district. They start requiring killing cops or destroying cop cars instead of civilians or regular vehicles, which not only is more dangerous, but also more annoying since usually there aren't enough cops chasing you (and therefore you'll run out of time). Besides, there's a notable GameBreakingBug which permanently corrupts your savegame after completing a Kill Frenzy activated by entering a vehicle initially placed on a trailer. The only known player [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9uSWI4chx0 who has proved to have completed all of them]] did so through different exploits and glitches.

* NightmareFuel: One of the missions for the Russian Mafia require the player to deliver a bus full of Hare Krishnas to a hot dog factory, where they are ''ground alive and turned into hot dogs''. Then the player is tasked with delivering a van full of hot dogs made out of human meat to a [[ImAHumanitarian Diner]]. This is quite possibly the most messed up mission in the whole GTA franchise!
** It gets worse. The PC version of the game has the player take a bus full of ''innocent pedestrians'' to the meat factory.
** And it really doesn't help that you're forced to watch them get turned into meat, all while listening to their cries and screams of pain as they are ground alive. Some even try to escape, but the russians shoot them dead before they can even make a move.

* EarWorm:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIFx1u8jzc Taxi Drivers must DIE!]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swQULRb2oH4 God Bless All The Universe]]. Also counts as SoundtrackDissonance due to the irony of a religious song against theft and for love playing in a game where you can steal and kill with ease. That goes UpToEleven when it's played on the Loonies' favorite radio station, which is hosted by a TalkativeLoon.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoZlB0-jFi4 Surf City]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCvAaFB3eNA The main menu theme]].

* AcceptableTargets: Elvis impersonators. Whenever they appear, killing all of them will give you a bonus, as well as the announcer [[LargeHam bellowing]] "'''Elvis has left the building!'''"

* WhatAnIdiot: Incredible stupidity among non-playable characters is incredibly rampant, whether by design or by programming limitations or [[ThrowItIn both]]. Even aside from flat-out cases of TooDumbToLive, there are forms of stupidity not directly lethal to oneself, such as police officers whose response to you indefinitely blocking their vehicle is to... just honk at you. Repeatedly. But nothing more, no matter how long you're blocking their vehicle for.

* ThatOneSidequest: Kill Frenzies, the equivalent of rampages in later games, in the PC version. They aren't particularly hard in the first district, but become one of the hardest challenges in the whole GTA franchise once you reach the second district. They start requiring killing cops or destroying cop cars instead of civilians or regular vehicles, which not only is more dangerous, but also more annoying since usually there aren't enough cops chasing you (and therefore you'll run out of time). Besides, there's a notable GameBreakingBug which corrupts your savegame after completing a Kill Frenzy activated by entering a vehicle initially place on a trailer. The only known player [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9uSWI4chx0 who has proved to have completed all them]] did so through different exploit and glitches.

* AcceptableTargets: Elvis impersonators. Whenever they appear, killing all of them will give you a bonus, as well as the announcer [[LargeHam bellowing]] "'''[[IncrediblyLamePun Elvis has left the building!]]'''"

** AcceptableReligiousTargets: Hare Krishnas show up in the third district. As one of the factions you can work for. About as serious as their depiction of the insane, TheMafia, TheMafiya, the {{Yakuza}}...

* NightmareFuel: One of the missions for the Russian Mafia require the player to deliver a bus full of Hare Krishnas to a hot dog factory, where they are ''ground alive and turned into hot dogs''. Then the player is tasked with delivering a van full of hot dogs made out of human meat to a [[IAmHumanitarian Diner]]. This is quite possibly the most messed up mission in the whole GTA franchise!

* NightmareFuel: One of the missions for the Russian Mafia require the player to deliver a bus full of Hare Krishnas to a hot dog factory, where they are ''ground alive and turned into hot dogs''. Then the player is tasked with delivering a van full of hot dogs made out of human meat to a [[IAmHumanitarian Diner]. This is quite possibly the most messed up mission in the whole GTA franchise!

* NightmareFuel: One of the missions for the Russian Mafia require the player to deliver a bus full of Hare Krishnas to a hot dog factory, where they are ''ground alive and turned into hot dogs'' and then the player is tasked to deliver a van full of hot dogs made out of human meat to a Diner. This is quite possibly the most messed up mission in the whole GTA franchise!