- WARNING: Violent content and mature themes makes this game inappropriate for anyone under 17.
- Mob bosses need favours, gangs want you dead.
- Both narrative driven and nonlinear gameplay.
- A fully realized 3D city.
- Hundreds of characters and 50 plus vehicles.
Product description
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Ever fancied being a tooled-up hoodlum, living on the wrong side
of the law and mixing it up with street gangs in a war over turf,
drugs and cold, hard cash? Welcome to Grand Theft Auto 3. Big
brother of previous outings on the PSone and PC, GTA 3 has gone
fully 3-D to bring the fictitious environs of Liberty City to
life.
This PC version is even better looking than the PS2 one was,
with even more rtunity for flashy lighting effects, over the
top explosions and beautifully rendered mayhem. This is
silky-smooth stuff and the graphical details are truly awesome as
you'll see the first time you carjack a taxi and take off like a
lunatic, mowing down the innocent.
Sonically, GTA 3 cannot be beaten; in-car tunes are provided
from one of nine radio stations, each with its own distinct feel,
and the sounds of the city are all here too; walk around for a
while and you'll hear far-off sirens, motorists abusing
one another and general chit-chat as people go about their
business.
The game is very open-ended. Its major focus is the
mission-based goals--start out as a convict accidentally sprung
from jail and work your way up to become a shining light in one
of the city's controlling gangs. If that gets dull, hijack a cab,
car, ambulance or fire engine and carry out missions
suitable for your mode of transport, and if all else fails, find
the ludicrously dangerous-looking ramps and hit them hard for
some big air and big cash bonuses.
It has to be said that GTA 3 fully warrants its 18 certificate,
dealing as it does with mob warfare, indiscriminate murders, auto
crimes, prostitution and more. The language gets a little
"fruity" from time to time and you can't help but wince as you
watch innocents get in the way of a good firefight. At the end of
the day, though, this is a game and nothing more; thankfully,
it's a good game, a very, very good game in fact, so buy it now.
Or
.co.uk Review
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Ever fancied being a tooled-up hoodlum, living on the wrong side
of the law and mixing it up with street gangs in a war over turf,
drugs and cold, hard cash? Welcome to Grand Theft Auto 3. Big
brother of previous outings on the PSone and PC, GTA 3 has gone
fully 3-D to bring the fictitious environs of Liberty City to
life.
This PC version is even better looking than the PS2 one was,
with even more rtunity for flashy lighting effects, over the
top explosions and beautifully rendered mayhem. This is
silky-smooth stuff and the graphical details are truly awesome as
you'll see the first time you carjack a taxi and take off like a
lunatic, mowing down the innocent.
Sonically, GTA 3 cannot be beaten; in-car tunes are provided
from one of nine radio stations, each with its own distinct feel,
and the sounds of the city are all here too; walk around for a
while and you'll hear far-off sirens, motorists abusing
one another and general chit-chat as people go about their
business.
The game is very open-ended. Its major focus is the
mission-based goals--start out as a convict accidentally sprung
from jail and work your way up to become a shining light in one
of the city's controlling gangs. If that gets dull, hijack a cab,
car, ambulance or fire engine and carry out missions
suitable for your mode of transport, and if all else fails, find
the ludicrously dangerous-looking ramps and hit them hard for
some big air and big cash bonuses.
It has to be said that GTA 3 fully warrants its 18 certificate,
dealing as it does with mob warfare, indiscriminate murders, auto
crimes, prostitution and more. The language gets a little
"fruity" from time to time and you can't help but wince as you
watch innocents get in the way of a good firefight. At the end of
the day, though, this is a game and nothing more; thankfully,
it's a good game, a very, very good game in fact, so buy it now.
Or we'll send Luigi and the boys round.--Chris Russell