GTA 3‘s plot, such as it is, channels classic crime stories like Goodfellas and The Sopranos and boasts a wide cast of larger than life characters. The gameplay is satisfying and arcade-y, with an immediacy that newer GTA games have lost a bit in their trend towards realism. Cruising down the street in a stolen sports car, royalty free music blaring and your Uzi rattling, is every bit as enjoyable as it was in 2001. The missions are simplistic, the side-activities are crude, and you’re only given a limited set of weapons and tools with which to approach them.īut GTA 3’s relatively small scope doesn’t prevent it from being a tonne of fun. 2013’s Grand Theft Auto V opens with a bombastic bank robbery and car chase straight out of a Michael Mann movie GTA 3’s first proper quest tasks you with giving a sex worker a lift home. In many ways, the game seems downright quaint when seen through modern eyes. It’s certainly eye-opening to replay GTA 3 in 2021, when games are still building upon the blueprint it laid out. I couldn’t help but wonder: does Grand Theft Auto 3 hold up? GTA 3 is often overshadowed by its sequels, but I wanted to go back to where it all started. It was the bleak, mean streets of Liberty City, a twisted mirror image of New York at the turn of the century. As the games downloaded to my PS5, it wasn’t the neon glitz of Vice City or the vastness of San Andreas that first called to me.
A game that offered you freedom, or something like it.Ģ0 years later, Rockstar and port studio Grove Street Games have released Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition. A game that let you go wherever you wanted, whenever you wanted, in whoever’s car you wanted. It’s funny that an open world crime game was ever a novelty, but GTA 3 really was a landmark event. Grand Theft Auto 3 was something of a holy grail to me back then a game I had to go my friend Alex’s house to play in secrecy, knowing full well I wouldn’t be allowed to own it myself for years to come.Įven at that young age, I had a sense of how truly groundbreaking Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto 3 was. I grew up in a relatively strict Catholic household, the kind where my Irish grandad would give nine-year-old me sips of his beer one day and where my dad would pre-screen X-Men to see if he thought I could handle it the next (he didn’t). Touting visual enhancements, performance upgrades and gameplay tweaks, this collection of remasters purports to offer the ultimate way to experience these classic games. Grand Theft Auto 3: The Definitive Edition is part of the new Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition collection available on all current platforms.
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