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totally violent

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 107
Date: December 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is way to violent. Why would it be so much fun to hurt someone. they say it's not for kids but I see many kids playing these games.Why do you think there's so much violence and other things like that in this world. It's partly because of these kinds of vidio games

Where's The Plot?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 24
Date: November 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I know there is a lot of hype for this game. The new GTAIII Vice City is supposed to be another hit with newer cars and things of that nature. But Aside from all the killing and blowing up stuff, is there really anything else that captures the immagination in this game? I've seen friends play this over and over again saying how great it is. So I get it and play it. After 20 min of missions of killing things and blowing stuff up with practically no sense of purpose and any form of variety in the missions, I had to uninstall this game. Its horrible!!! If you love games where its mindless killing (filled with great codes I should add), then go for it. But If you need a plot with an actual challenge that stimulates the mind, then you might want to go another route.

Junk

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 16
Date: July 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is proof that all Rockstar games did was rush the PS2 version to the PC without giving any thought to compatibility issues. I would pay money to see anyone at Rockstar games get GTA3 to run smoothly on a system with a PIII 450 processor, 96 megs of ram and a 16 meg video card. It cant be done. However those are the specs Rockstar issues on the box as the minimum required, and that is an indictment of Rockstar Games. This game cant run smoothly on any system, regardless of the specs. Rockstar never tested this game period. The options menu is a joke. You cant control the number of channels your sound card uses. You cant control the color-depth or filtering methods. You cant control lighting quality, you cant control anything that would make GTA3 run smoothly on your system. You can turn the trails off, however you'll still see trails in the game - i.e - it does not work. Way to go Rockstar. The only thing you can do is elect to play this game at 640 by 480 by 16 resolution, and the game still lags and suffers from slow FPS. That is simply unacceptable. Rockstar's answer to all the choppy play and slowdowns was to issue a patch which allows you to play all audio from the hard drive vs the CD drive; allowing for a small increase in speed, and I do mean SMALL INCREASE. However, get this, you have to do all the work. You have to manually copy all your audio files from the CD to the hard drive. GTA3 should still be in production, pending release sometime in the Fall 2002 or Winter of 2003. This would have allowed its programmers time to adequately tune the game for PC.., instead of handing out a box of trash.

Take my advice stay away from this game until Rockstar gets it right

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?

This game Stinks (6 year old reviewer)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 89
Date: April 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Man, when I got this game from my folks for the PS2, I thought, "Finally, a game that does not have Bert and Ernie's face on the cover. But then I put it into my PS2, and the game came on. Two horribly rendered fools in orange jumpsuits come out of a car and claim that they have just escaped from jail. "Come on," I think, "even I can beat those wimps up. And I could draw better bad guys than that too, looked like some six year old drew it." So then we drive down to some fools joint in the middle of town, and I get work. The first mission was so simple, it made playing Elmo's World seem like fun. Then I had to steal some fat dude's car and plant an explosive device in it. I ALMOST laughed when the man got out of the resturant and blew up in his car, but the graphics were so terrible that I puked instead. For older gamers looking for "fun" game, this definately isn't it. After driving around town for an hour, and gathering up your "Hoes" into a fishvan, you'll get sick of it, unless the terrible graphics killed you first, and then you'll drive your "happy" fishvan into off of a very tall building. But wait, after you've just ended your life in a heap of burning fish oil, and all that's left of you is a smelly crater, you're back alive? Yes friends, no matter how many times you kill yourself, you just keep coming back like it's Groundhog's Day. There is no end to the inhumanity. I am all for violence, don't get me wrong, but this game just isn't fun. There is only so many times that blowing stuff up can be fun, and when the graphics are of such low quality, the number of times is drastically reduced (to about -1)....

a game base on Criminals? come on?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 87
Date: April 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

...and people think steal cars is fun... besides the graphics are not all that, good controls, good plot(for creating criminals), boring dark enviroment. So, this is a game focus on mature audience right? so, does mature people really likes violence and crime, then it should be for inmature audiences only.

Is our culture in decline? This game suggests an answer.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 20
Date: January 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

About 25 years ago, director David Cronenberg was asked if he thought his grandchildren would enjoy his movies. He replied, "I doubt if I will even recognize my grandchildren as human beings." He was referring to the speed with which communication technologies were changing our values. The popularity of Grand Theft Auto underscores his prescience. This game bears out the notion that innocence is a thing of the past in our culture, even for children. (And PLEASE don't tell me this game isn't directed at adolescent boys.) Violence has a place in entertainment if it's depicted honestly, not gratuitously as it is in GTA-3. Those who suggest that pandering to the darkest male adolescent fantasies has no consequences probably think gansta rap is harmless self-expression, too. I suggest they read the newspapers.

NO MULTIPLAYER!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 14
Date: May 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

That's right people, no multiplayer, which makes me wonder why we waited so long to get it on PC. I'm sure the singleplayer is fine, but, frankly, I don't care. The multiplayer game in GTA2 was so great, and it looks as though GTA2 is still the best multiplayer carjacking killing-spree out there.

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!

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.

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