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Drive to Your Heart's Content!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: October 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Maybe this is too late in the day to review a game released last year. But I am very excited about it as I only purchased it 3 months ago and since then, this game has given me nothing but absolute fun! First off, realize that this isn't your regular wholesome family entertainment. This is a crime-spree game, the kind where you are the bad guy. A lot has been written about it's story, missions, strengths and weaknesses so I'll just give my opinion about it's driving value.

5-plus STARS! Here's why:

(1) I couldn't think of any other game as cleverly done as GTA 3. Your game world is enormous! One city with 3 islands, each island complete with pedestrians, traffic, buildings and parks, spectacular scenery and changing weather, and a remarkable array of cars. From fog to rain, morning to night, the color of the sky changes to reddish cast as well. Even the train's head lights make a realistic flare effect as it turns a corner. At night, one of the street lights will flicker like a true, defective lamp. These are minor details but given great attention.

(2) You can drive or run, explore your vast world, do anything you like. Accomplish criminal missions or do good guy jobs. Ride the trains, elevated or underground. Dig deep into this game's Internet resources and you'll be amazed at what else you can do besides the missions. (Hint: pick up a hooker and park at an isolated, grassy place. The car rocks, you lose some money, your health goes up 125%, and then the hooker leaves. Very funny, Hahahah!)

(3) If you think you can only drive on the regular road and off-road grounds, think again.

When I was chased by a bunch police squad cars, I threw them off by driving down the stairs to a subway. I jumped the car into the tracks and speed off to the next subway station through the underground path of the train! Just make sure you dodge the speeding train or you're toast! It was blast driving the car down the stairs and back, what with all the bumps and swearing pedestrians. At the next station, I climbed up to the exit, driving my wrecked but still running car and the police were back on my tail. I even managed to drive a Banshee to the top floor of Kenji's Casino just for the heck of it, parked it next to the chopper and oggle the cityscape. If that ain't cool I don't know what is!

(4) Drive off a ramp in Chinatown and land on the elevated tracks. Or drive and take off the top of a building in Staunton Island. If your angle of approach isn't right, you'll see your car flip and turn midair, in 3-D slow-motion, multi-angle-camera view! And what a breath taking sight it is! I saw no other game like it! And if you land wheels first the game will reward you for your "insane jump" and give you a bonus for "a great landing." Tell me that's not crazy fun!

(5) The cars' handling is no less remarkable. They behave as you would expect in real life. They slide down grassy slope, the heavier cars land nose first, they get gradually damaged and eventually catch fire.

(6) Most motorists faithfully follow traffic rules and yeild the road when you honk your horn. Really! But stand on a corner and wait for a driver to make a traffic mistake. You will witness an almost real traffic altercation as other irate motorists jockey and curse their way out! The list goes on and on...

I had briefly played GTA Vice City which many said is superior to GTA 3. Not for me, at least. After a while I traded Vice City for another game. I was just hooked on the vast atmosphere of GTA 3, bigger money, taller buildings, wide wide open roads(!) and bigger choices of realistic, speed-demon cars!

Have fun!

One of the best Mafia game ever.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: December 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I think this game is first real good gang related game of all time. There is the new mighty Vice City, but this game is the first 3rd person mafia game that you can do endless stuff on. The previous GTA were all good in overhead view, but after this 3rd person view of GTA came out I was so excited. But I bearly got this game last month. It's because I got Vice City instead of GTA3 when I had the money. Anyway, this game was amazing. I already finished the whole game in about three weeks. The first mission where you have to get to the hideout was really easy but as you keep on completing missions and get a new mission, it will get much harder. The game itself is really good. Now, I'm going to talk about the requirments and stuff. You don't need all that good computer to run this game. I have lot of computers at home and I can run this game on all of the computers except for the cheap computer which belongs to me. Other good computers are either my dad's, brother's, or for my dad's work stuff. Even though I can use one of my family's computers which are all pentium 4 and pentium 3s, I decided to see if it would have ran on my computer. My computer is Celeron 897MHZ, 256mb ram, and my video card is GeForce 2 MX400. So I ran this game and it ran very smooth. It slows down when there is too many police chasing me, but other times, it runs way faster than PS2 version and it runs almost perfectly. I also have Windows XP HE and I didn't need any patches to run this game. It was also on high settings;1280 X 1024. That means even if you have Celeron processor, you can fully satisfy this game without a problem. I'm recently playing the mod which replaces all the cars and stuff. So the replay value is even better. There is even multiplayer mods. Overall, this game is an A+ and it's a must have for mature gamers.

YOU PEOPLE NEED GET A LIFE

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 19
Date: January 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

You people blame everything on this game. SO what if it has violence in it, so do movies but i dont see any of you complaining about them. These games have a rating on them just like movies M stands for MATURE just like R MEANS RESTRCTED TO PEOPLE uNDER THE AGE OF 17. This is a really good game when you get past the violence. I also have some other things to say about that person who said this gamme shows that women are worthless; IT DOESNT SHOW THAT WOMEN ARE WORTHLESS YOU CANT BEAT UP A MAN JUST A LIKE YOU CAN DO TO A WOMEN. And one other thing it's really sad that people are comaparing a simple video game with what happend on 9/11 this game isnt going to make our children go out and drive a plane into a building. You need to look at where a child's enviroment was like before you blame a school shooting on a video game! Games like this can realive stress. After i play this game I never feeel like going out and shootig someone, it's all in your head people, stop blaming violence on video games and get a LIFE!

Will Give Congressmen the Screaming Heebie-Jeebies

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: June 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Will give you months of fun. I have been through the main plot 3 times now, and STILL keep finding new stuff to do. The violence factor is off the scale, so keep it away from the kiddies unless you want them permanently warped. No multiplayer, but who cares? If you can't have fun playing this as it is go get your pulse checked. There are just so many different things to do. An example, I unlocked a "super cab" by doing a ton of taxi runs. It is the stuff like this that makes this game one of the replay kings. You'll have to upgrade your video card sooner or later, so cough up for a Ge-Force 4 and enjoy one of the best games ever made. It has pure style from the opening credits to the hilariously dark closing credits.

Excellent

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

The best game I think I've ever played. I've been playing Grand Theft Auto since GTA1 on the PC and I loved it. Always wished it would go 3D and lo and behold, Rockstar games did it. And splendidly. Absolutly masterful, this game is. Perfect. I wanted to give it 20 stars. I bought a PS2 for this game alone (with Final Fantasy X) and I have not been dissapointed. I want to see if the PC game is going to expand on it and allow for more creativity with the cars, skins, music on the radio...BUY IT!

Highly immersive, high replay value

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: June 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Absolutely one of the most immersive games I have seen, from the great audio (both ambient and "soundtrack" provided by an in-car radio) to the fantastic graphics and interesting tidbits like weather (from rain and fog to sunny) and variable traffic patterns during the day (Rush hour is a PITA). I am currently playing on a P3-850MHZ with 640MB of RAM and a GeForce3 Ti200 graphics card, and the gameplay and graphics are smooth as silk (including running between islands during the game). Note, if you don't have the recommended specs for this game, don't even think about buying it until your computer is up to snuff. Memory and a good graphics card are key.
The premise of the game is that you are a small-time thug. You can (and probably will) engage in various and increasingly lethal acts of violence as the game progresses. WARNING: this is an incredibly violent game, and not for kids.
I have spent several hours just walking around the city. This is actually a rewarding experience, in game, because there are hidden secrets to find which actually increase your ability to finish the missions.
If you are a fan of games such as Max Payne, this is right up your alley, but keep it away from the kids.

I 'heart' mayhem.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you either own a t-shirt that bears this logo, or should, then this is a game for you. Those wicked people at Rock Star Games have produced a divine orgy of criminality and carnage with a sane control scheme, wonderful visuals, and (YES!) radio stations.

However, a caveat for the squeamish: if you flinch during Hong Kong action movies; if you are repulsed by the cultural obsession with the Mafia and crime; if you feel that wanton disregard for human life, the law, and even common decency are wrong even in the confines of an artificial gaming environment, then don't waste your money.

Otherwise, plug in, grab a bat, and get muggin'.

GTA3

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I, along with many other people who actually PLAYED the game, think that Grand Theft Auto 3 is extremely fun. Not because of violence, because it has a story line that is very in-depth. All these people are complaining, "It has no story!", or, "It's too violent!" when obviously they hadn't played the game. You don't have to be violent in this game. No one is telling you to kill everything that moves, and if it does (very rarely and it's usually not part of the story) you don't have to do so, there is always the free-roming aspect of the game.
Lets get this out of the way, don't buy this for anyone under 14. This game shouldn't be banned, rather the parents should keep an eye on what their kid is playing and watching. It has a M rating for a reason.
The game is very non-linear and the locations are large with plenty to do, like street races, driving an ambulance, putting out fires, arresting crimnals, and lets not forget the main story. This game will easily provide 150+ hours of gameplay.
Overall, I think the story line and the non-linear gameplay is a big plus for this game, and it is definatly worthy of a 5 star rating. Just remember parents, make sure you know what you are buying for your kids before you give it to them.

The reason i am even alive anymore

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is hands down one of the top 5 games ever. Full 3d gameplay with both on foot and in the car capabilities. 73 missions to pass, as well as some 20 unique jumps, rampages, and others to complete. 100 hidden pacakages, taxi missions, vigilante missions fire missions, more. This game has hours of gameplay, with nothing quite the same. Top it all off with SWEET graphics, much better than the originals. get this game, your fingers will hate you, but nothing else will.

GAME OF THE YEAR

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First off, to all the people who said it wouldn't run on their "power" rigs, I have 384MB RAM, 1.79 GHz and it runs PERFECTLY. If you think the graphics are terrible just go to options and turn off TRAILS. This improves the graphics greatly.
Also, To the people who gave it 1 star just because its a port of the PS2 version, the game has been significantly improved over the PS2 version. First off, it utilizes full use of the mouse, making aiming MUCH easier. The graphics are greatly improved, you can fully customize your character, and an mp3 player has been added to the radio lineup. This allows you to play your favorite mp3s in the game while driving a vehicle.

Now to gameplay. Computer Gaming World named this GAME OF THE YEAR, and for good reason. The game spans over three HUGE sections of the city; all distinctively different. There are more stealable vehicles than one can count, and an assortment of over 10 weapons to choose from. My personal favorite aspect of the game is that you can actually drive up to a hooker on the street, and she will get into your car and have sex with you. ;) With over 40 missions to accomplish, numerous sub-missions to do, and the fact for once you actually play as the bad guy, makes this one of my favorite games of all time. The only people who I wouldn't recommend this to are those individuals who are easily offended by anything (i.e. voilence, drugs, cursing, etc.) For all others, this is definitely a $ well spent.

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