Customer Reviews

Grand Theft Auto III

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Of course compared to it's earlier incarnations and later incarnations, in my opinion GTA SAN ADREAS PS2 BEING THE BEST FOLLOWED BY VICE CITY PS2 AND GTA IV PS3. this game although it freezes at times, and graphic wise not on par with later, but still a Starting point!

Rockstar has experimented with the GTA series alot since this game -- businesses and holdups in Vice City; car modifications and photography and gang control in San Andreas; the cell phone in GTA4. These are all great games, but their ambition flaws them and makes the game a little more unweildly. GTAIII here is definitely my favorite, and if you missed it, you missed out.

They did a good job bringing Liberty City from cartoon to 3D but they should've left it as Brocklyn, Kings, Brix, and Manhaddan bordering the Garden State of New Guernsey instead of changing it to Portland Island and Staunton Island bordering Shoreside Vales! The protagonist is none other than silent Claude Speede who's shot by his girlfriend Catalina Villasenor during a bank robbery, left for dead, arrested, sentenced to 10 years, and busted out of a police convey headed for Liberty State Pennitentury! He doesn't talk! He'll take any job to make ends meet! He's known to kill his bosses after they hve no more work for him! I hope he gets killed in a later game!

i love the way all gta's are made!
the story, the city, the cars, everything!
the graphics for this game aren't great(i gues that's because I'm used to playing gta IV).

Remember when the ps2 first came out and it was impossible to get one without camping out in front a store at 6am? I gave up on getting one until I visited my brother and saw him playing GTA III on his. I remember saying "Oh my God! This is the game of games!" This one put the gaming world on it's head. Vice City, San Andreas and IV were landmarks but this is the one that started it all. III raised the bar to heights unimaginable in 2001. There aren't to many games from back then that I still play, but I still knock the dust off this one and take it for a spin from time to time. I love the city and the overall feel. Playing as a uncaring street thug on the mean streets of liberty city fits the best with the whole GTA thing. All the sequels require more suspension of disbelief than this one. All the subsequent "heroes" have been given names and voices and have a certain level of compassion. When Vice city came out I had a hard time understanding why a drug baron who lives in a mansion would take to the streets with a baseball bat and start massacring people. No such problems here. You play a psychopathic street hoodlum who kills for fun and money and never climbs the career ladder that would have him kill people over the phone rather than do it himself. I love all the GTA games but this one was the first to make me realize the vast potential of video games as an entertainment medium. They sure have come a long way. I remember thinking that if they took this same formula and set it in a new city every year I'd be happy. Well they took a lot farther than that thankfully! Gameplay and graphics have grown in leaps and bounds but the overall mood and feel of III is still the best.