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A reality show with "20 recently paroled guys...equipped with grenade launchers and flamethrowers". They have to hunt each other down until only one man is left standing. Parodying reality television, especially the very early 2000's trend towards more degrading formulas such as Fear Factor. Liberty City Survivor is also a reference to a promised-but-cancelled multiplayer mode in GTAIII. However, "Liberty City Survivor" would come to frutition as the multiplayer mode in Liberty City Stories. The voiceover is from Jeff Berlin. The show bears strong resamblance to the novel Battle Royale, where a group of kids are given assult weapons and forced to hunt each other down til only one is left alive.
'''''Liberty City Survivor''''' was a reality show about "20 recently paroled guys...equipped with grenade launchers and flamethrowers". They have to hunt each other down until only one man is left standing. The idea parodies reality television, especially the very early 2000's trend towards more degrading formulas such as ''[[WP:Fear Factor|Fear Factor]]''. Liberty City Survivor is also a reference to a promised-but-cancelled multiplayer mode in GTA III. However, "Liberty City Survivor" would come to frutition as the multiplayer mode in Liberty City Stories. The voiceover is from Jeff Berlin. The show bears strong resamblance to the novel Battle Royale, where a group of kids are given assult weapons and forced to hunt each other down til only one is left alive.

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Liberty City Survivor was a reality show about "20 recently paroled guys...equipped with grenade launchers and flamethrowers". They have to hunt each other down until only one man is left standing. The idea parodies reality television, especially the very early 2000's trend towards more degrading formulas such as Fear Factor. Liberty City Survivor is also a reference to a promised-but-cancelled multiplayer mode in GTA III. However, "Liberty City Survivor" would come to frutition as the multiplayer mode in Liberty City Stories. The voiceover is from Jeff Berlin. The show bears strong resamblance to the novel Battle Royale, where a group of kids are given assult weapons and forced to hunt each other down til only one is left alive.