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DONT BELIEVE THE LOW-SCORE REVIEWS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: July 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

GTA 3 is a blast, hands down. Any reviewer that gave it any lower than 4 stars is either: (1) does not own either a decent PC or a PS2 and wants to express his agony by making up lies about this game that would persuade some clueless people not to buy it, because he is a fool that thinks that if he cant enjoy it, no one should. (2) is lost in this massive game because he is used to playing linear platformers. (3) does not know how to download a patch or call tech support. (4) does not know how to adjust the resolution and other settings in the game menu...

If you dont have a PS2, but have a PC, it does not mean that you have to rush to the store or order it online. Your PC should be beefed up for this baby, because this is no Half-Life. Even though it isnt a very attractive game, and the sys reqs technically should not be that high. You need, at least the recommended requirements, but to really enjoy it and play at 60+ fps at 1024 X 768 X 32, you need (A) P4 CPU (B) Top-of-the-line Geforce 3 [ this is a somewhat unsuccessful PS2 to PC port, so you dont really need to get a Geforce 4 Ti 4600 for it if you dont have one) (C) 256 Megabytes of RandomAccessMemory. With this harware you should get far better picture quality and frame rates than the PS2.

Major disappointment after installing this game!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: July 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

PLEASE READ PREVIOUS REVIEWS ON MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS!!

I couldn't wait to run out and buy this game after reading all the GTA3 reviews for the PS2, but I should have waited until I read the PC version reviews. First of all I thought I had the recommended requirements with a PIII 700mhz, 256ram, and an ATI Radeon 32ram video card... NOT! Once you start loading the game it runs a system precheck for minimum requirements, this went ok.. The installation went without a hitch (the intro video/sound worked fine) but when I got to the sound test (you can preplay/select the radio stations) it sounded like an old 33&1/3 LP scratched record! But this was only the beginning of my troubles... once I got all the settings selected and started the game, it turned out to be nothing more than a kalidescope of images that looked like broken glass..oh boy! I ran the sys info & diag. like they recommended and sent it to their help site, but all they suggested was to minamize my game settings and check for current drivers which I had already tried, DUH!

When I bought this ATI Radeon video card last year it was the top of the line and wasn't cheap, so now I'm supposed to go out and buy a faster one with more memory just to play this game, NO WAY! MY advice is that if you are not a serious gamer (and I'm not), just invest in a PS2 and play the game on that system, otherwise go ahead and upgrade your video/sound cards if you really want this game to run like it's supposed to.. (this is the first game that I haven't been able to run on my system)

Oh, and one final comment, just for fun I thought I would try loading this on my little Emachine I bought in '98, a 333mhz with a Cyrix processor, 128ram, and an 8meg video card just to see if the sound or any of the video would work.. the sound worked fine and the video did too until the processor couldn't keep up and finally froze the screen.. go figure!

Awsome game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Grand Theft Auto 3 is the best game i ever played.I just can't wait intill it comes out for PC even thow i think the controlls for it will be kinda of weird but if they made it so you could use a joystick/gamepad then that would turn out great i would also like to see the game turn out as good as the one for PS2 this is a must buy game when it comes out also probley the most popular seeling game for 2002..

iNmature audiences

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

well seeing how this is for iNmature audiences i feel that this game is for anyway looking for a good time playing a fun game. It can literally takes months to master, and its never ever gets old. i do have one question, are you going to be able to play it over LAN ?

Maybe the best video game of all time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It's been a while since a video game took over my life. The last time (besides every year for a while after the new Madden comes out) was Goldeneye. Although Perfect Dark was a very cool game, it didn't hit me the way the original Goldeneye did. Until I had finished Goldeneye as a 00 Agent, I did little else except maintain a subsistence diet.

Grand Theft Auto III has done it again. I dream about this game. I think about it all day at work (like right now as I write this). My wife has accepted that until it's over I will not be myself.

Liberty City reminds me of when I first played Super Mario 64. Finally a world in which you could do anything, except now instead of bouncing on the heads of little fantasy animals (which IS fun), I'm driving a fast car and letting the bodies pile up (which is REALLY fun).

In terms of innovation, I think it still may come down to the three games I've mentioned for best all time (so far), but since this is the most recent, I may have to give it the edge.

If you are a gamer, this game will NOT disappoint.

Disturbing, violent, sadistic, and loads of fun...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Have you ever wanted to be the bad guy in a good crime saga? Here's your chance. "Grand Theft Auto 3" is for the people who've always wanted to make somebody "an offer they can't refuse".

During a bank robbery an unnamed man is shot and left for dead by his partner. He survives and is tried and convicted for the robbery. While he's being transported across town the convoy is ambushed, giving our hero and an associate of his the opportunity to escape. The story continues from here as our hero works his way up the underworld food chain, all the while awaiting an opportunity to take revenge on his former partner.

The locale is Liberty City, consisting of three separate districts/islands: Portland, Staunton, and Shoreside Vale. You begin in Portland and the other two islands are unlocked as you progress. Each island has a number of bosses for which you'll run all kinds of errands, ranging from driving a hooker around town to you and your fellow escapee sinking a cargo ship. There are also numerous side missions with which you can occupy your time. Along the way you'll have many choices in terms of cars and weaponry to get the various jobs done, as well as objects to collect that will make future missions easier and/or save you some time.

The gameplay ranges from ridiculously easy to moderately difficult. With most of the missions, it's simply a matter of using the right strategies and getting good at evading the cops. It also helps to memorize important locations, as they won't always appear on the map during the missions.

In my opinion, it's the side missions that can get difficult. Not so much the few races, which aren't too bad once you get used to driving, but things like the obstacle courses can get mighty frustrating. So frustrating, in fact, that I only bothered to complete two of them.

Some of the more entertaining side missions are the vehicle-specific ones. Tying for easiest is the Taxi. For anyone who's ever played "Crazy Taxi", this one should be a cinch. The other easy one is the Fire Truck, where you drive around the city dousing various burning vehicles. More difficult, and possibly the most annoying, is the Police Car(or another law enforcement vehicle, including the Tank). It would seem a simple task to chase down criminals, force them out of their cars and kill them, but the Police Car has terrible handling. Traction is weak, making it way too easy to lose control. Add to that its tendency to flip over and you have a recipe for aggravation. The hardest vehicle, though without approaching the Police Car's annoyance factor, is the ambulance. You have to pick up and deliver people to the local hospital. Sounds easy, but each hit you take(from a vehicle or other object) takes a bit off your time. The ambulance also has what none of the other vehicle missions do: levels; twelve, to be exact. Here's how it works: each level has a corresponding number of people to be delivered, but the ambulance only carries three. Running out of time is the least of your worries, though. Since all levels have to be completed in one run it gets incredibly tough because there's no way to repair the ambulance during the mission; in other words, you have to deliver a total of 78 people without damaging the ambulance to the point where it catches fire and explodes. Easier said than done, believe me.

When it comes to vehicles, GTA3 has just about anything you could want. There are huge vans, pickups, hummers, roadsters, and more and they all handle exactly as you'd expect. Later in the game you'll also gain access to an airplane which is nearly impossible to pilot, and a tank. Boats are used in a few missions, as well.

You won't find yourself lacking in the weapons department, either. From a simple baseball bat to a flamethrower and a rocket launcher you'll have more than enough to complete the missions or simply wreak havoc on the city. I had a great deal of fun perching myself at the edge of a building and picking off pedestrians with the sniper rifle. All you have to worry about then are helicopters, which can be readily dealt with using the rocket launcher. Or you can run around the city lobbing grenades into groups of people or firing rockets into a busy intersection and see how long you can survive on foot. The possibilities for random mayhem are practically endless.

On the technical front, graphics are superb with hi-resolution textures covering the massive cities working together with dynamic lighting to create the most realistic environment I've ever seen in a game. Sounds pack the appropriate punch and the game even allows you to substitute its music with your own MP3s. AI is great, though still lacking in at least one area: character movement is still decided in two dimensions. For example, I can stand atop the Staunton parking garage and the cops will simply mill about on the lower floor rather than walk up the ramps to reach me. I bet it could be done through predefined routes, but I can only imagine the code would be hideously complex. As an easier example, though, how hard would it be to make those cops jump over a short fence rather than just run into it like idiots?

One complaint before closing: those "Welcome to -----" messages as you travel between islands need to go, pronto. When you're driving high speed through a tunnel the sudden interruption is not only annoying, but throws off your timing. Instead, just print it to the screen as is done when you go between counties.

All in all, this is easily the most entertaining and realistic game I've played in years. Though it hardly qualifies as wholesome family entertainment, teens and/or anyone who's not offended by profanity, sexual innuendo, and graphic violence should derive a great deal of pleasure from this adventure into the worst side of humanity. Just do everyone a favor and leave the homicidal tendencies behind when you exit the game. :-)

Best. Game. Ever.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It's all about the immersion of it all. When I first got the game, before I even started doing the missions, I just drove around in cars, looked at stuff, explored, and beat people up. Who hasn't wanted at some point to beat a nameless pedestrian senseless with a bat? It's that sort of mentality that makes this game great. It's the real world. You drive around, and you can listen to all sorts of radio stations. My favorite is the talk radio station Chatterbox with your host Lazlow. The missions were great, and there seems to be an endless variety of ways you can approach the game. Rack up some money driving a taxi cab! Extinguish some fires! Then go back and kill your Mafia boss. Whatever you want, you can do it. After finishing all the story missions, I'm back where I started, still exploring, looking for secret packages, listening to the radio, and beating people up.

Unbelievably Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

At my age and comfort level it is unlikely that I will ever find myself in the position of being chased by three police cars and a helicopter while doing about 130mph down the freeway, and with rock and roll blasting in my ears. It probably isn't going to happen. But thanks to this delightful, challenging and often hilarious game, I now have a general idea of how, er, exciting this type of activity might be.

My goodness, this game is a blast. The premise is that you are a small-time hoodlum in the baddest part of the baddest town in the bad ole US of A. Your job is to become the baddest of the bad. For me, this took a little getting used to. At the beginning for example, I would actually wait for pedestrians to cross the street and even stopped at red lights. It didn't take long to throw those law-abiding inclinations out the window. Those kinds of notions need to be tossed right out.

You start off doing small jobs for small bosses, and as you become more successful, bigger jobs for bigger bosses. The first few missions are simply to drive people places, which is good, because it allows you to learn to drive (and steal) cars, and to become familiar with the city. (Plus, it helps to know that all of the cars are different in their speed, the way they handle, and in their destructibility.) As time goes by, your jobs encompass more complex entrepreneurial pursuits such as stealing things; high-jacking armored cars; whacking enemies with guns, grenades, cars and flamethrowers; blowing things up; and, eventually, double-crossing everyone. To complicate matters, you have to deal with the police, who, corrupt as they are, still can't abide the mayhem you are required to cause and come after you big time. By far, they are your most dangerous enemy, which, I know, sounds awful, but remember: you are a BAD guy.

The missions are varied and routinely lead into heart-pounding, tense excitement. Most require skill with cars and weapons, but there is a real cerebral element also. There is usually more than one solution, and you have to think. For example, in one of the missions, you have to knock off a mafia chief. First, you have to get to his area in a limited amount of time Once there, you have about a five second window of opportunity to get him: he comes out of a building, is surrounded by armed goons, and immediately gets into a bulletproof car. What to do? Eventually, I got him with a sniper rifle from a storefront. But on another try I tossed a grenade at him from a roof across the street. Another time I let him get in his car and attempted to run him off the road, but this was unsuccessful. This was not as easy as it sounds. I think I had to replay it about twenty times--usually the goons got me--before getting him.

And that's another great thing. Although many of these missions are very difficult, you never have to get stuck on one while waiting for your brain to kick in. There are so many other things to do. Steal a police car and run a vigilante mission, for example. Or an ambulance mission. Or taxi, or fire. Or drive around and look for hidden packages. All of these are very fun, and even better, after running a certain amount of them, give you big advantages in either health, weapons, or money. In fact, I would recommend doing these side missions first: you will be much better equipped to face the more difficult boss missions.

The look of the game is really amazing. It is a full, functioning, large, bustling city, with everything in it a city should have. Elevated trains, subways, (both of which you can ride), tunnels, bridges, you name it. You look up sometimes and see the moon, or in the distance, a jet taking off. I walked up to the top of a large hill in Shoreside Vale and looked across the river at the other boroughs, and oh my goodness, the whole thing was laid out before me, stunning and realistically beautiful.

And the tone of the game is right, too. Yes, it's a little violent, but cartoonishly so, and often with tongue placed firmly in cheek. There's really no way anybody should be offended by this. I mean, c'mon: citizens armed with pistols and baseball bats roam the streets, the police are brazenly corrupt, your chances of being run over by an ambulance are better than your being saved by one, and your reward for running a certain amount of fire missions is . . . a flamethrower. The end of the game, you walking away--briefly--with your prattling girlfriend, is an absolute classic, and again brought the familiar grin to my face.

There are eight radio stations to choose from while you're driving around. Some of the music is okay, but what is really hilarious is the commentary and commercials in between. I especially love the talk radio guy, Lazlow, and his nut-case guests, who regularly threaten to tear the tongue out of his head, or make him intimately acquainted with what the inside of his brains look like. It is really funny stuff, and it must have been an absolute riot creating it. The amount of attention they paid to this--a minor aspect of the game--is very telling.

This game is a blast, an absolute, unqualified blast, and as fun as anything out there. You can even keep playing after all the missions are done, but, sadly, after getting my wanted level to six, stealing a tank, and realizing that there was nothing anybody could do about it, I knew I had reached the end. But, I guess there's another one out there. God help me.

steal shoot steal shoot

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

the game is a blast from the start.but some of the missions are hard to complete and if u fail you have to start that mission all over again so it isnt that fun in that aspect.anyway the game is overall fun you can steal ANY car and shoot or kill ANYONE you want to. + there are mini missions to do like picking up people in taxis and taking them to thier desired location and taking injured people to the hospital. The gameplay is very repetitive because you do the same thing over and over and over. that gets very old after a while. I recommend this game to everyone.but keep this game away from little kids or they may become violent

Awesome.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is just incredible. It lets you free and it never gets old. Graphics and sound are incredible as well. The only draw back is the saving system, but dont let that scare you. Grand Theft Auto 3 allows you to play like you were a free man from everything, which makes the game outstanding. This game is an instant classic and is currently my favorite game today.The violence isnt nearly as bad as they make it sound either!(All you mom's, make you childs holiday AND BUY IT.) Well what are you waiting for and BUY IT. Trust me on this one, you WONT REGRET IT!

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