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Not meant for kids, but lots of fun for adults

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: December 23, 1998
Author: Amazon User

Grand Theft Auto is an interesting game, and, surprisingly difficult as well. While the language and violence of the game mean it should not be played by children (hence the M rating), adults should find it challenging and addictive.

Answer phones around the city to get your assignments. These range from picking up your boss after a bank robbery, to getting revenge on members of another crime syndicate, to even blowing up a police station with a tanker truck. If you break too many laws, the cops will be after you, and you'll have to learn a couple tricks to get away clean.

There are three cities available for play, and no structure to where you have to go. There's no path to follow, few time limits, and lots of freedom to just explore the city, drive around, and have fun.

This game is great fun and full of surprises.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: July 27, 1999
Author: Amazon User

GTA is the most fun you can have with a video game without your kids. It is definitely a game with adult entertainment in mind. Children under 18 should not be playing this game without parental supervision. It is not for the squeemish. Do not take the game seriously, it is fantasy not reality. It is a game with a sense of humor, and that is all that is required of those who dare take on the challenge of GTA. So, get out there and jack a few cars, run over pedestrians and waste anyone that gets in your way. Above all, HAVE FUN!

Would have been good without a couple of huge problems

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: April 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've recently beaten Grand Theft Auto 3, which I enormously recommend to anybody who has a PS2 and can tell the difference between reality and fantasy. I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the original GTA (Historical interest, you know), so I bought a used copy.

As everybody already knows, and as I knew, the graphics aren't great. They're 2D and pixellated, and they don't seem at home on a Playstation game. But graphics aren't everything (After all, Tetris was one of the best games ever), so this flaw doesn't greatly detract from the game, in my opinion.

Unfortunately, two other flaws greatly ruined my fun while trying to play. The first is the game's camera. It's really, really annoying, and you can't do anything about it - the camera keeps zooming in on you/your car and then zooming out for no reason, making it difficult sometimes to see what's happening sometimes. Other times, it's just annoying. Also, you can't rotate the camera, which bites.

The second flaw is much more aggravating, and really hurts the game, I think. The controls are almost indecipherable. I figured that maybe it was just that I was still using GTA3-styled controls, and after awhile, I would learn to adjust, but I didn't. I still can't drive a car in this game without constantly bonking into a building, or frantically trying to steer my car back onto a road. There are five different layouts for your controls, all pre-set, so you can't customize it. All five are useless. It really hurts gameplay if you can't even play the game.

The game has great historical interest, and it's still a fun concept. However, if you have a PS2, just forget about this and go for GTA3. At least in that game, if you have a hard time beating it, it's because the game is challenging, not the controls.

The streets is a dirty, dirty way of life...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

and you just became part of it.
Pros:
Brought violence and profanity in videogames to a whole new level
Very good sound effects
long enjoyable levels and misions
A short, but destructable arsenoal
Very useful cheat codes(Despit I usally don't cheat)
Pretty good music
Cons:
The graphics are plain out horrible
one shot death(A bit too realistic)well, unless you have armor
Can't save until you beat a level
definitly not for kids
The game suffers from slowdowns, if too many things are on the screen

In 98 this game was jst a instant classic, despite being overshadowed by loads of games(especially Metal Gear Solid, and Zelda:Ocorina of time). It's definitly unknown since GTA 3 and Vice City overshadowed it by a loooong mile, but yet I still play this game from time to time. In this game you could even say ... the police and let them eat the gat, take out a squad of them with a machine gun, blaze them up with a flame thrower, or just blow them away with almighty rocket launcher(That was propably the main reason this game got a lot of heat form contaversy). If you're used to GTA 3 or Vice City, then this game will hardly be interesting to you, but if you have this game, then I'm sure you appreciate the joy the classic burng to you, and took you on the crazy ride from this, all the way to vice city.

Final Words:Speaking of Vice City, That was one of the levels in this game, and so was liberty City, and San Anderess is the last city. Could San Andress be the next Grand Theft Auto? Hmmmm...

peace

GTA is one of the best games for the PSX that I've played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 19, 1998
Author: Amazon User

This game is so fun. You hi-jack cars, trucks, motorcycles, even cop cars. W/ the "Kill Frenzy", this game could keep you at the edge of your seat for hours upon hours. It's just too bad that you can't play two players, or if it was 3D, but the graphics are one of the cool parts.

Enjoy!!! :)

In it's time, it was an underground classic

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The original Grand Theft Auto was a classic for the PC, but it's gleefully unabashed violence, simple graphics, dark humor, and addictive gameplay garnered the game much appeal and controversy. Eventually Take 2 Interactive (now they're called Rockstar) published GTA on as many systems as it could: the PS1, Dreamcast, and even the Game Boy Color. These days anyone and everyone are GTA nuts, but only when it comes to GTA 3 or Vice City. The original GTA may seem simple enough, but it is undeniably fun for the most part, no matter how simplistic the graphics seem. The missions can get rather tedious, and the fact you can't save your progress in game (a problem which would be corrected in GTA 3), and eventually you'll lose interest, but for the most part the original GTA is still loads of fun. Those who have only played GTA 3 or Vice City will not like this original installment, but it's a great ride while it lasts.

what better way to break the law than a video game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Grand Theft Auto is an awesome game in my opinion. The graphics arent as great as some of the new games on playstation, but it is still a lot of fun! You can CarJack, shoot the innocent, kill police officers, get arrested, cuss at people you dont even know, and great stuff like that! NO LIMITS! This is a definatley buyer!

A GAME YOU CAN NOT GET SICK OF

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Ive got one word for this game : AWESOME

Ive always dreamt of a game where you could just go around a city full of civilians and cops.Where you got total freedom to do what you want and go where ever you want to go, commit any crime you want, hijack any car you want.

And my dreams came true, when i found this game i honestly couldnt get enough of it and still cant.You can do illegal jobs for bosses of the town such as murder one's, collect money and get into gang wars.Or if you are not in the mood to follow orders just go on a killing spree or try to see how many cars you can hijack before the cops arrest you.You have a wide range of cars also you can get buses, trucks,tanks, police cars, ambulances and you can even drive with the siren on.

Thats what i love about this game as you can do what you wish, and dont think the cities are small, they are very big with alot of highways, bridges and little ally ways where you can escape from the police.

BOTTOM LINE get this insane highly enjoyable game.But i must warn you before you buy that homework wont be completed or you will be late for work as this game is hard to put down.

HIGHLY RECOMENDED

gta is the bloodest and best game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 30, 1999
Author: Amazon User

If you haven't tried this game your missing hours of fun. You can do missions, drive around killing people or burn them on the street. This is a must have game.

Codes are absolutely neccasary

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Pros:
Open ended gameplay
fun missions
many ways to win game
missions optional
you can get in practicly any car
pretty ... inexspensive
Cons:
Horrible graphics GBA style graphics
Bad controls
gets boring
can only save between levels which take up to 3 hours + to beat
Tough gameplay makes codes neccasary
shooting system is horrible
Gets too old quickly to buy but to long to rent

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