Grand Theft Auto III turns 10

iMuse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1r3CYEyUgI

Hard to believe its been 10 years, I can still remember playing it for the first time and been amazed. Vice city was a much better game but this started it all. Anyone else have fond memories of playing it?

AnamGlas

Anyone else use that hover cheat to clear the bridge with a tank?

Icyseanfitz

youd think now would be a great time to announce the new gta its been so long since 4

iMuse

Good Interview Here with Dan Houser, One of the brothers behind the GTA games

DarkJager

iMuse wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1r3CYEyUgI

Hard to believe its been 10 years, I can still remember playing it for the first time and been amazed. Vice city was a much better game but this started it all. Anyone else have fond memories of playing it?

I remember the sheer excitement of even reading it's manual and looking at the map on the bus home after buying it. Loaded it up and was just blown away by it, it must have robbed 2 straight days of my life. An all time fav of mine only outdone by Vice City and the even better San Andreas.

Asmodean

Oh you b**tard I now officialy feel ancient I have3 many, many happy memories of this! Coming in from school in the evenings and just spending hours getting stuck in. Ah simpler times.

super_furry

I had a Dreamcast and hadn't seen a single reason why I should own a PS2. Then spend 20 minutes playing GTAIII on my brother's machine and bought one the next day.

krudler

first game I bought with my ps2, along with Tony Hawks 3 (another awesome game) and Smackdown Just Bring It, ahhh, that was a fun evening,remember it liek yesterday.

chin_grin

Ten years? Jaysus. It's been ten years since they (bravely) ditched the classic top-down view and went third person.

It stopped me from playing it to be honest.

Potential-Monke

Got an email about that, was kinda hoping it was an announcement of GTA 5 or a HD re-release of 3, Vice CIty and San Andreas. I would give a testicle to have Vice City done in HD.

I do remember picking this up on launch, and like Asmodean, reading the booklet and looking at the map on the way home, dreaming what it was going to be like when i first loaded it up, laughing at the extremely well put together "manual", and picking my jaw off the floor when i first started it. I can't recount how many hours i spent just driving around in the Patriot at full speed and crashing/launching!!! Oh good times.

dreamers75

Jaysis i had to double check it was 10 years

Only came out on PC 2 years ago tho :pac:

Jerichoholic

krudler wrote: »

first game I bought with my ps2, along with Tony Hawks 3 (another awesome game) and Smackdown Just Bring It, ahhh, that was a fun evening,remember it liek yesterday.

Weird, they are the exact same games I bought along with it.

B0X

dreamers75 wrote: »

Only came out on PC 2 years ago tho :pac:

Maybe on Mac? Came out 9 years ago on PC!

Gi joe!

Whichever way you look at it GTA 3 changed the gaming landscape for the better.

It was also amazing how little hype there was in the run-up to the release.
I remember reading a preview in a magazine, couldn't have been more than 10 lines. The writer speculated that while it was very ambitious that it probably wouldn't work and that he wasn't holding out much hope for it.

I'd say he ate his words.

dreamers75

B0X wrote: »

Maybe on Mac? Came out 9 years ago on PC!

:pac: <<<

Took fooking ages to come out on PC at the time.

Krusader

chin_grin wrote: »

Ten years? Jaysus. It's been ten years since they (bravely) ditched the classic top-down view and went third person.

It stopped me from playing it to be honest.

Best part was the Gouranga bonus for running all over the Hare Krishnas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn7NzBrxYtw

J. Marston

I played that game so much, I can remember large parts of the map straight off the top of my head. Brilliant game.

Twilightning

I'm pretty sure I spent a large portion of my gametime with this sitting in the menu and listening to Chatterbox FM. Oh Lazlow.

Dyr

Kjah turned me onto the scientist "dancing vampires laugh"..i remember standing down around some abandoned part of the docks with papers blowing past and the sound of the city behind and thinking how awesome this game is...a whole city created

Zero-Cool

GTA 3>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>GTA 4

TheTosh

Michael Hunt is a legend

Glico Man

Crosáidí wrote: »

Best part was the Gouranga bonus for running all over the Hare Krishnas

Or running over the Elvis impersonators from GTA 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNHK01hQpe4

Retr0gamer

I remember this game came out of absolutely no where. There was no hype, everyone thought it would be average. The PS2 at the time was a trainwreck with not even one good game on it and Zone of the Enders becoming one of the best selling games on the system due to a MGS2 demo. It was laughable. GTA3 came out of no where and made me take notice. It was a genuinely new experience, nothing else quite like it. When DMC rolled out a few weeks later I knew I had to have a PS2.

And the muppets at Edge gave one of the most innovative and influential games of the decade a 7/10 :rolleyes:

jeddie20

This was brilliant, remember playing it at a friends house and couldnt believe it! Told my brother about it and got a PS2 with it as soon as we could, even my father couldnt bevieve how real it looked at the time! Can still remember the map, and driving over the dam in the blue gangster jeep, cant remember who they were tho :P or the sentinel's car that you picked up at their house, and the Diablo with the flames on the side and who can forget trying to fly the dodo eh! Ah good times, think its time to have a look for it B-)

tallaghtmick

Ill never forget pissing myself laughing at the mission where you beat the ho's with the baseball bat i'd never seen anything like that before.

J. Marston

jeddie20 wrote: »

This was brilliant, remember playing it at a friends house and couldnt believe it! Told my brother about it and got a PS2 with it as soon as we could, even my father couldnt bevieve how real it looked at the time! Can still remember the map, and driving over the dam in the blue gangster jeep, cant remember who they were tho :P or the sentinel's car that you picked up at their house, and the Diablo with the flames on the side and who can forget trying to fly the dodo eh! Ah good times, think its time to have a look for it B-)

That fúckin' plane :mad:.

qz

I didn't have a PS2 when GTA III and Vice City were first out but my mate did. I used to sleep over in his and wake up 'accidentally' at around 6am to play it. The skin under my nails started to get red raw cause I'd be using the joysticks on the controller so much!

Josey Wales

I remember when this game came out I bought a PS2 so I could play it. I was totally blown away by it. I had always wanted to play a game that you could freely roam around in a city that looked realistic. This was the first game to achieve that.

I remember spending hours trying to fly the Dodo plane but never quite mastering it. I remember driving the tank around everywhere destroying as many cars as I could.

Penn

J. Marston wrote: »

That fúckin' plane :mad:.

It was awesome when you learnt to fly it though. I got into the football stadium, onto the top of Kenji's Casino and around to the Ghost Town around the back of Shoreside Vale.

Best bit of that game for me was going to the car park in the centre of Staunton Island. Standing on the roof using cheats to cause mayhem below by refilling health (due to police helicopters) and weapons. Then, I'd have a fast car and jump off the top of the car park and see how long I could last in just a car against the Army.

Or another of my favourite memories was searching for Hidden Packages. There was a big alley with car parking across from Donald Love's apartment where there was always a Banshee. Looking for hidden packages, I thought there might be one behind a wall I couldn't get to, so after about half an hour of carefully jumping and walking slowly over thin walls to try and get into this area, I finally got in. This is the site I was greeted with:



I laughed about that for weeks

Chairman Meow

Gi joe! wrote: »

Whichever way you look at it GTA 3 changed the gaming landscape for the better.

It was also amazing how little hype there was in the run-up to the release.
I remember reading a preview in a magazine, couldn't have been more than 10 lines. The writer speculated that while it was very ambitious that it probably wouldn't work and that he wasn't holding out much hope for it.

I'd say he ate his words.

Previews and reviews in general were lukewarm. Edge gave it a ****ing SIX!
I mean come on.
I loved GTA 1, so i was totally hyped for 3, even tho i knew nothing about it really. I had one copy of OPSM2, with a preview, and i spent aged poring over that preview. Ran out and bought the game on launch day, and promptly had my mind blown.
To me its still the best, and most important GTA game, and possibly one of the most important games of the last 10 years. All the other GTA's jsut added bells and whistles, but GTA 3 changed the game completely.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

****ing amazing game at the time though I haven't played it in manys the year

my favourite thing about it was being able to throw your own mp3s into the music folder and making your own radio station. yeah I could have just run winamp in the background, but that wouldnt have been as fun

god... so many hours sunk into that game. kinda scared to install it again in case it looks truly awful