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==The Fan Base== | ==The Fan Base== | ||
Grand Theft Auto has one of the largest fan bases of any game franchise. There are many unofficial [[Fansites]] about GTA games, providing the latest news, download databases, and often an online forum for the GTA community. | Grand Theft Auto has one of the largest fan bases of any game franchise. There are many unofficial [[Fansites]] about GTA games, providing the latest news, download databases, and often an online forum for the GTA community. Thousands of GTA fansites exist, ranging from small one-person news blogs to community-edited wikis to massive downloads databases to forums with hundreds of thousands of members. | ||
One activity popular with fans is [[Modifications|modding]] - creating new vehicle models, skins, re-texturing of objects, and tweaking settings in the games' configuration files. These modifications are then made freely available on these fansites for anyone to download and install into their game. Another popular pastime (since GTA III) is [[stunting]] - the act of performing wild stunts with vehicles, and producing compilation videos. | One activity popular with fans is [[Modifications|modding]] - creating new vehicle models, skins, re-texturing of objects, and tweaking settings in the games' configuration files. These modifications are then made freely available on these fansites for anyone to download and install into their game. Another popular pastime (since GTA III) is [[stunting]] - the act of performing wild stunts with vehicles, and producing compilation videos. | ||
Some of the more creative members of the community enjoy writing their own [[Fan Fiction]] - stories based on events which follow on from, or are based around events which happen in the games. These are not considered to be canon, but | Some of the more creative members of the community enjoy writing their own [[Fan Fiction]] - stories based on events which follow on from, or are based around events which happen in the games. These are not considered to be canon, but | ||
The [[List of GTA Forums]] attempts to list all of the large communities, and demonstrates just how big the community as a whole is. | The [[List of GTA Forums]] attempts to list all of the large communities, and demonstrates just how big the community as a whole is. | ||