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This Game ROCKS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Awesome! A totally immersive world, where you can do anything you want. Fit into civilization, or go wild. I suggest having a fast computer with good graphics and good sound. Missions are great, some hard, some are not so hard. A garage where you can save your car with your game. Great stunt opportunities as you learn your way around. I made $5000 on a unique stunt bonus. This is a violent game. My favorite thing to do is, walk out into traffic, Stop a car, give the driver a bird, steal his car, get right back out of his car, and shoot him in the arm. After he has run about a block away, I like to pull out my sniper rifle and take out my aggro on his head. The visuals are great. Blood shooting 6 feet in the air until the corpse falls to the ground. Knock off a leg and watch as he hobbles around for a minute before dying. This game is like a cross between Midtown Madness and Soldier of Fortune. High blood and gore factors.

Great as a stress reliever

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Wonderful game, one of the best I have ever played, a far, FAR step up from GTA2. Lets list the ways:

1. Fully realized simulated 3D city
2. Over 50 different vehicles from boats to sports cars
3. Tons of characters ...BR>4. More than one view (birds-eye view of GTA2 gave me a headache)
5. Lots of missions and side-quests you can do that seem fairly logical (except snipeing the Don of the Sicilian from a rooftop 20ft away from the nightclub he is in)
AND LOTS MORE

I do recomend this for PC though because it has advanced graphics, sound, you can play your own music, load your own skins, THERE WILL BE UPDATES TO FIX BUGS, ect ect.
I have to recomend this to gamers of all kinds because of its truley addictive gameplay,... There may be some parts that are not suitable for 10 year olds (i.e. you can pick up ladies of the night) but all-in-all its a must buy for all great gamers!

Violence in video games = good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: May 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Games like Grand Theft Auto 3 provide so much realty and entertainment that criminals feel stupid to commit crimes. So many kids and adults would much rather go home and play a good game like GTA3 rather than really shooting people up and stealing cars.

Violence is not corrupting todays society. Look back at the Romans. They were among the most gruesome people of the human race, but yet they did not have television or video games. They ruthlessly slaughtered each other strictly for entertainment purposes while we simply press controller buttons and giggle as polygonish figures on the screen fall to the ground. I dont know of any serial killers who played violent video games when they were kids, however many people who did grow up in the era with such wonders are now multi-millionaires.

Why do people even argue that fake violence is bad? It is preventing the real [thing]from happening...

Hmmmm, I don't know.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: July 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

To start, I give 4 stars. It's probably the best experience you can get out of a video game. It's totally fun, completely irreverent, outrageously complex, and hilarious to play. Why not 5 stars? It's not overwhelmingly entertaining. I'm just not captivated by the missions. They're short and not threaded together well.

I started playing about a week ago. I've killed pimps, run over Chinese food vendors, driven hookers to a policeman's ball, planted a bomb in a rival lord's car, and painted a rival gang leader's car pink. Each of these missions takes all of 3 minutes to complete if they're easy, and a painfully repetetive series of 3 minute attempts if they're difficult. I'm guessing that the play keeps going, I doubt if it keeps getting more interesting, and I really doubt that the plots weave a deeper storyline.

So this is probably the best game of 2001 and 2002, but it's not the end of video games. I think there could be a lot of ground to make up in the plot to keep someone like me engaged.

Time to take a stand

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 26
Date: January 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm no whiny "all this violence is bad" crackpot. However the people who designed this game crossed the line. A lot of us complain about the BS in the world and never do anything about it. Well you can do little things, like not pander to gaming companies who take a perfectly fun concept - stealin' cars and haulin' *ss and add such cheesy violence against women. I'm guessing the guys at 'Rockstar' don't get to go on many dates.

Look I've got a little sister, and I don't want the boys at her school growing up playing games like this. The only way Rockstar will take the woman bashing out of their games is if we don't buy them till they do. So yeah, I want to buy this game, but I've played it, and I know what it's about.

And I am voting with my dollars buy spending them elsewhere. When are you going to take a stand?

Stinks! Stinks Bad!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: January 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game must have been made for mindless teenagers, all it consists of is mindless violence with no plot or story, I think it stinks, to top it off it does not work at all on Windows 95 and works [poorly] on Windows 98, on XP its choppy and slow, the violence is crude and I think it sends a bad message to kids or anyone with a weak mind that plays it, I suggest getting Max Payne, and least in Max Payne although having some realistic violence is not as crude and badly produced as this monstrosity.

Buy the Playstation version!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: May 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Save your money and do not buy the pc version of this game. Sure GTA 3 is a great game and very fun to play, but only if you are playing it on the Playstation 2. The pc version does not run correctly. My computer surpasses the recommended requirements and the game ran slow and choppy. It ran this way even set on the lowest display settings. I was very disappointed. I was really looking forward to this game being released on pc since I do not on a PS2 and didn't want to spend 300 bucks on a console for one game. This game is still worthy of my 5 star rating, but buy the PS2 version.

What a game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: May 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you have ever played any of the other versions of GTA and like them, you will love this game. It is a 3rd person rpg inlike the other two GTA where there above view. But be fore you go crazy make sure you have on of these 3d cards:
3Dfx Interactive
3Dlabs
Asus
ATI
Aztech Labs
Canopus
Creative Labs
Diamond Multimedia
Elsa Technology
Guillemot
Hercules (see Guillemot)
I/O Magic
Jaton
Leadtek
Matrox
NVIDIA
Orchid (see Diamond MM)
SIII Incorporated
SiS
VIA Technologies
If not, your computer will lag the game. But one of the best games ever made, can't wait untill GTA 4 comes out.

Repititive but Unique

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game in regards to the unique nature in which you have to play the game and has come a long way since the original, but its very repetitive, you have to just drive you car sometimes slow, sometimes fast and kill people or drop people off, and that becomes very repetitive specially when you have well over 70 missions to do and they are overall the same.

Same thing, but on PC, with a few inhancements

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Betrayed, screwed over, and left to take the bum rap by the woman you once proudly called the love of your life, you're now seeking sweet, sweet revenge. No, it's not a game based on my first love, it's Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto 3; now back on the PC where it rightfully belongs...and it's going to rock your world all over again. GTA 3, more than any other game, set the tone for the direction that the gaming industry is headed in. This review will assume that you have not been living under a rock for the past year, and are somewhat familiar with Grand Theft Auto 3 in all it's goodness. To sum it up for those not in the know, (i.e., heathens) in GTA 3, you're a thug for hire, and you can do anything you want to. You can kill, you can maim, you can slaughter, and you can run people down, all at your convenience. You can pick up and pay prostitutes for "extra health", only to beat them down with a baseball bat and take your cash back once the deed is done. You can make extra money by trying your hand at being an ambulance driver, fireman, taxi driver, or bounty hunter, all of whose segments could easily have been packaged as a separate game on their lonesome. You can do all of this, and not even touch on the main quests, which requires that you work for various criminal organizations. But alas, even these can be done at your own pace, or not at all.
Fellow editor Sam Dornan did a superb job of explaining what makes GTA 3 so enthralling in his review of the PS2 version, so read that, or the listings of the countless magazines and websites that have named GTA 3 "Game of the Year" if you still need convincing. This review will focus mainly on how the PC version does the impossible: improves on it. The first notable improvement over the PS2 original is one that could not be helped due to the limitations of the console hardware. Though absolutely stunning on both platforms, it's on the PC that GTA 3 truly shines graphically, provided your system has the muscle for it. Vehicles and character models are much better detailed with higher poly counts. Remember the signs scattered around town that you couldn't read due to the blurred textures? Thanks to the increased resources of the PC platform, dedicated players can drive around looking for all the signs scattered around the city such as "Monica's fine cigars", and "24 hour orgy, free buffet". While the PS2 was limited in what it could do, the sky's the limit on the PC, with "sky" being a synonym for "your graphics card and CPU". GTA 3 adds a couple of features that take advantage of the PC's storage capabilities and, while relatively minor, these added bonuses definitely add to the overall experience. You can now make your own custom radio station by adding any music files you have on your computer to the "mp3" folder in the game directory. Modders can easily create custom skins by editing the main player skin in any commercial paint program. As of now, at least 100 skins are available on the web, ranging from Eminem to Spiderman. Sadly, the much-hyped modding tools are nowhere to be seen, at least straight out of the box. While custom soundtracks and skins are all well and good, the greatest improvement over the PS2 game, and what makes the PC version of GTA the definitive one, is the refined targeting system: in essence, you now aim/look with the mouse, and run with the keyboard. Think Max Payne, or any PC shooter, and you get the idea. You now have complete control over your character, and can pinpoint an enemy out of a crowd from a good distance away without a sniper rifle or M16, while an onscreen crosshair removes any guesswork as to where your bullets will land...as long as the physics aren't off (Don't expect a pistol shot to land as far as a sniper bullet). As if to prove this point, Rockstar toggled hit-specific damage on by default: if you hit an arm, the arm will fly off. Hit the head at the right angle with a high-powered weapon, it too will come off. Even with the "gore code" on, the console version never got this bloody. This new targeting system makes the game gorier than its console brethren, which provides yet another incentive to pick up the PC version, even if you've played the PS2 original. Perhaps the only flaw to be found in the game is the fact that it takes a while to get used to driving with a keyboard and mouse. But even that is relatively easy once you sit down and play for a while. GTA 3 truly remains "easy to learn, hard to master". Politicians, Christian groups, and parents alike have bashed GTA 3. But Rockstar Games has given them all the finger, and you should too, especially now that what some consider the greatest game ever created is that much closer to perfection. Just make sure your system's got what it takes, kid.

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