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Hey can you look at my messages I just wanted to say that I played gta 3 on on the trilogy. I know I’m part of the problem, but I never played it. I was born in 07 in idk I only heard about the games till gta 5 so I grew with gta 5 and gta 3 is a good game I appreciate it but Ik rockstar did all ogs Dirty
I always told myself the reason Claude couldn’t talk was because Catalina shot him in the throat/chest at the bank and lost his ability to talk due to the damage✌️😎
He doesn't talk because he's still the best gta protagonist by far... he didn't need to talk, he just shot mafarkers. I like to think Claude was known as a straight up psycho and him not talking was his gimmick like.. his guns do the talking.
@@thegamingprozone1941 i can’t remember mate but i played Gta3 first and made my little opinion before i’d played San Andreas or maybe i wouldn’t have thought of the gunshot theory
I can relate to the Latino parents thing. My mom and dad bought GTA 3, VC and San Andreas for the whole family to play. They simply told us not do do anything in the game in real life, and that was that. My mom taught us the hooker health trick lmfao. We all turned out ok.
You gotta keep it real too tho. I think graphics back then were so cartoony that a lot of violence just seemed so ridiculous and over the top. My parents let me play violent video games but I remember them commenting on how ridiculous the graphics looked. I know for a fact my parents wouldn’t have let me play gta 5 tho or especially a game like MK11, which has photorealistic graphics and depicts extreme levels of gore. Like intestines being ripped out and other organs. Granted GTA3 was super ahead of its time, it still looked incredibly cartoony even by those standards back then. It just looked like a well polished game compared to other games, but regardless, there was no real “life-like” looking game up until like 10-15 years ago. So, my point is that it didn’t feel so “extreme” letting your kids play it because the game still felt like a cartoon, albeit a violent one but a cartoon nevertheless. I wouldn’t let my kid play GTA3 back in the day but I get why kids were playing it is my TLDR.
@@jambi5096 I watched movies like Platoon, Full metal Jacket, The thing, the hills have eyes, and the original evil dead with them, among others. Their viewpoint was if they thought it was too much for me, I'd tell them to turn it off or something. I have two younger brothers born in 2005 and 2006 (I myself was born in 1999) and they played GTA v around the same age I was playing GTA SA, Manhunt and GTA 4. They didn't have an issue with it. My mom and dad watched my youngest brother massacre people in Los Santos in GTA V and wanted to go on a rampage too because it looked so realistic to them. Both of them hogged the PlayStation from us kids for like 6 hours. It was always amusing when we went to GameStop and bought mature games. The clerk would look at my dad and be like: "This game is rated M for blood and gore, strong language, nudity, sexual themes, gambling, strong drug use, explicit lyrics, tobacco use, and will probably cause your kid to develop PTSD." My dad: "eh, they see worse stuff on TV and the internet."
@@jambi5096 100% my girlfriend was upset at me for killinh people in red dead 2 because its so realistic. looked at me like i was crazy, but its a game cmon.
@@jambi5096 Neah, your argument is dumb. In Romania parents have no problem letting children play games like MK11 or other violent video games...you do violent things in games to blow off steam and not do them in real life.
Facts bro. My mom was the same. She let me play anything and watch everything. I never wanted to do a real drive by lol. Shit let you see how the world really is
My mom bought me all 3 main 3D titles and even watched me play. She also told me one thing every time I left the house: "Be smart, and be aware of your surroundings." I guess we grew up different.
I have a vivid memory of being about 6 years old playing GTA III on my friend's PS2 and him not having a memory card so we played the intro everytime we would play. I still have that intro completely memorized to this day. I remember asking my dad what a "Red Light District" was haha
This is my all-time favorite game. I completed it so many times in my life that i cant even remember the exact number of playthroughs. I know that every other GTA after III is plain better than it, but III has some kind of charm i just cant explain. Thank you for this great review and for giving some love to the game everybody heard, saw a gameplay or played, but not many liked.
The charm of GTA III to me is the tone and atmosphere. Liberty City is a grimy, edgy place that's infested with crime and gangs. A city full of criminals, lunatics, and scumbags. Yet the game also has this wacky feel where the gangs are cartoon tier stereotypes, squish noises play when you run over pedestrians, and dozens of police cruisers willingly crash into walls and each other just to stop a mute psychopath who has no motivation besides revenge. Its a game with a dark and violent setting, but it doesn't take itself that seriously. Future games take themselves more seriously, so when something really wacky happens (like breaking into Area 69) I kinda get taken out of the moment. When something really wacky happens in GTA III its just another day in "the worst place in America."
GTA3, to me, represents the technological advancement of entertainment in general. But with gaming, creating a living world/atmosphere became mandatory. Like there are two types of games: Games before and After GTA3.
My parents knew how violent and mature GTA was, they just didnt care very much. Though, even when they really hated Postal 2, they never stopped us from playing it. The end result was that i eventually got tired of blood and violence and didnt think of mature stuff as enticing or "above" G-rated experiences, and i wasnt embarassed of playing "baby games". Some days id pop the cops in vice city or pee in peoples mouths in postal2, some days id play Freddi fish and help grandma find her treasure chest. I enjoyed having variety in my viddy games
I recently found another way to complete the Curly Bob mission. Simply drive a taxi yourself and Curly will enter your vehicle so just drive him to the location he goes to
Of course, if you collected all the hidden packages, the final mission is easy. You can just make a quick detour down to your safehouse and pick up all the weapons you need.
i relate so hard but for gta 4. the game crazy employee was telling my father 'the game has NUDITY BLOOD AND VIOLEEEENCEE" and my latino father was like "si" best summer ever full of gta 4. amazing video and quality. instant sub
You learn the city pretty well if you start out (as soon as you are free to save) by stealing a cab and doing the 100 cab missions. It also leaves you with a lot a lot of cash for guns. If you want hax, do the ambulance missions and firefighter missions to get a heart and flamethrower at the hideout. This all before doing Luigi's second mission. Finally, do El Burro Burro's missions (phone booth) before you get in deep with the Italians or the race becomes impossible. Bonus: As soon as ammunation is available to you, buy grenades and automatics and do the vigilante missions to get bribes at the hideout. If you do all of this before you meet Salvatore, the game is MUCH easier.
I'll never forget going to some friend of a friend's house to smoke weed and play GTA 3. I was blown away by all the stuff you can do and we just kept pushing the controller and the weed and it was awesome.
I was 11 myself when this game came out. My mom's brothers are about 7-9 years older than and spent a lot of time with them since I had no brothers. That's how I heard about this game, they would play it alot. I played this with them along with my other cousins. Take turns playing "War" just who survives the longest. Claim particular vehicles as our own and saying "don't drive my car". Laughing together staying up all night. No internet really, no cell phones, no social media. What a good time to have experienced. This game is our Nostalgia for our age group at that time.
I remember going over to my grandparents house when I was 7 and my uncle had this game. He was home from college and I remember starting this up and loving it. My parents got it for me a few weeks later.
This game was actually my first ps2 game I ever owned. I was only 6 lmao but it quickly became one of my all time favorites. Fantastic analysis! This was also my first video of yours and I’m impressed. Thank you!
I remember playing GTA 1 & 2 on my Gameboy colour, but loading in and listening to that intro for this game still gives me fucking tingles to this day.
The amount of love I have for this game already is crazy. Since there’s no in game map except the mini map. I went online and printed one out! Now I’m using that and it feels so damn cool! Plus I’m actually learning locations in Liberty City. Especially Portland because of all the vehicle missions. LOVE this game!
the new generation just dont realise how revolutionary gta3 was back in the day. I never struggled with the gameplay mechanics. Nor with the driving. It was a great game with great music.
I don’t care how old this game is even when it turns 50 I’ll remember this as one of the best games of all time, revolutionary and outstanding at the time we all thought graphics would never get any better
Eh, no. Metal Gear Solid 2 came out around the same time for PS2 and that blew GTA III out of the water, graphically. GTA III's graphics were not great for 2001. All the 3D era GTA games look like high res N64 games. Ugly textures and characters with no fingers (except Vice City Stories - they finally figured out in 2006 what fingers were), etc. The detail in the environment was good, but not the raw graphics.
The lack of gps is really good. It teaches you to actually learn the roads and different ways of navigating. I remember finding the middle island super hard to figure out how to get to certain flyover. But I had to interact with it rather than just following a minimap
El Burro was kinda cool, he was in GTA 1, but in the city of San Andreas instead of Liberty City. But since each series of games are basically reboots, it's a different San Andreas/Vice City/Liberty City and El Burro. Although El Burro looks and acts the same in both games, it's still him split into two. I like how in that mission where Salvatore sets you up you can get in and out without dying....you'll lose a bit of health but you can do it. You can miss out on Kenji missions if you kill him too early. Espresso 2 go is easy, you needn't bother with a map. Just drive around and find all coffee stands beforehand, there's only 9 of them. Then start destroying them one by one through the islands, timer won't start until you destroy one of them. If anyone still has trouble with the map at that point, that's on them. The shops aren't too far apart.
Of course if you REALLY wanted to 100% complete this game you'd figure out the screwed-up broken mechanics of flying the Dodo plane and fly off the map to the cosmetic-only area where the opening cutscene takes place. 😁
This was my first gta ever the music is so nostalgic 😊 and like you I was to young for the game and had to sneak it around because every time my mom found it she would throw it out but I kept buying it from my freinds so she eventually was like screw it
Found your video for GTA IV (my absolute favourite in the series) and thought it was mega! So I clicked on this one with no doubt I'd enjoy it. One of the easiest subscribes I've ever done! Can't wait for a Vice City and San Andreas retrospective!
You will do great as a youtuber. I enjoyed your commentary. Brought back some memories, playing this game(my favourite of the series). Keep up the good work
Drove nothing but the Mafia sentinel and listened to classical radio.. oh apart from the barracks ol where I nicked it drove it out onto the road turned right instantly mounted the pavement and drove down to the lights mowing down every university student on the path(LC cockerills rule) then drove back on the opposite side path I remember having over 60,000 kills
I still have copies of Vice City & San Andreas for the PS2. I did get GTA 3 for the PS3 from PSN, but despite the game being the same as the PS2 version, it does suffer with some minor visual glitches. I might get GTA 3 for the PS2 someday in the future, but what I have seen from the gameplay on RU-vid of GTA 3, it really seems like the hardest GTA to beat. The only GTA games I managed to beat were San Andreas, Liberty City Stories & IV. San Andreas being the longest to beat it's story for me due to techincal problems. Felt so much joy after finally beating the story mode for San Andreas. It really sucks that the Definitve Edition ended up being crappy, because I would have loved to play the old GTA games on Switch.
@@pa.encema2821 I actually beat Vice City last night. I would have beaten it sooner, but that retarted racing mission against the guy who has abandonment issues or something held my progress a bit back. That mission sucks major ass.
Actually if you show up in a cab to the Curly Bob mission, he'll get in your taxi, you can take him to his destination and you won't have to follow him.
Wtf I've played the game 20 times and I had no clue you can do that lol The mission is super easy as it is but I will still probably do it that way from now on lol
Interestingly, Salvatore's betrayal of Claude makes sense when you account for just how royally ripped off he was by CJ when he put trust in him in 1992 San Andreas. You can even see some of this paranoia in 1998 Liberty City when he has his weapon drawn on Tony. CJ pretty much ruined his ability to trust most people. It wasn't just Maria, Salvatore is just ready to take out any loose ends at a moment's notice.
I first played GTA 3 in high school, a friend let me try it at his house and then I had to get it. Where I lived Game Stop wasn't too prominent, there were a lot of mom-and-pop type electronic stores that also sold video games, and they would just sell you any game without the need of a parent, I was like 14 at the time. I took it home and just played the heck out of it. I've never 100% completed GTA 3, but I have 100% finished GTA Vice City and San Andreas a couple times. I'll soon be watching your retrospectives on those.
This was a great video, thanks for avoiding the lure of playing the remasters as I know they do have QoL features that would have made a play through less of a pain. I also love that you shared all the voice actors, been a long time fan of the game since release and didn't know most of the actors who lent their voices to the game. Only thing that nearly stopped me watching was the continual mispronounciation of Asuka beyond the initial joke, in certain anime it's pronounced that way, in GTA III it's not, so that started to grate after a while. Also I'm glad you kept your avatar just to the intro of the video, it's probably just me but I find it a little cringe, pretty overdone at this point on RU-vid too. Otherwise a thoroughly enjoyable watch.
Most wont agree but for me gta 3 is the best gta. Playing this on launch as a 14 year old is one of my fondest gaming memories. Still my favourite liberty city aswell
I normally played vice city before this game on consoles and i remember when this game was still new and even seeing screenshots blew me away, the fact it was open world and 3d and I really wanted a ps2 at that time
I played this when I was 6, all I did was try to drive and follow all traffic laws. Every other car game up until then required you to race around and do crazy things, with the original PS1 Driver game excluded, but I also put a solid 100 hours in that game doing the same. I never beat the game until 10 years later, after I had already beat GTA Liberty and Vice City Stories on the PSP.
eehhhh i got the gta definitive edition..and with no regrets because i cant deal with having to go back to a mission marker just to restart the missions..the ability to restart a mission instantly is a god send..
25:11 I played gta 3 with a controller, and the sniper controls were so bad that I just picked up one of the secret armor pick ups on Portland, got an uzi, and ran on the ship and gunned everyone down.
Still my fave in the entire franchise this was the ground floor of where gaming is today! Anyone who says otherwise is an idiot and wasn’t here… One of most controversial games of all time outside of State of Emergency and Man Hunt (both rockstar)
I don't know why it's so trendy to shit on the DE. It's not bad at all. AND yes, I did play it unlike 90% of people who say dumb blanket shit like the graphics are bad.
This was the first game I beat when I was nine to ten years old 5th grade. I had a cool baby sitter. I don’t know how I did it. I hated doing 8 ball boat mission and the timing missions. Even when killing Kenji Kasen I was so mad. I remembering playing the game with no memory card. When I finally got my own ps2 in 6th grade. My mom was working a sprint and Payless shoes. She bought me a memory card. That memory card I still have and ps2 slim. I only played gta games and any rock star game that my mom bought me. Last time I beat this was around 2007. While I was waiting for gta 4 to come out. I beat all the 3D gta games while waiting for gta 4. Now I’m 29 years old I can’t play this game anymore. I can get buy with VC and San. But I loved the darkness the rain the fog this game had. I was born in California up north area of Yosemite. Lots of tree farm and rain and fog lol. Every time a GTA game had rain I loved it. Something felt odd with gta 5 rain and radio music in my opinion. Out of all of the gat game 5 is my least favorite. I had a good time with it same with the online. But Pushing my RU-vid channel more on this in the future.
Regarding the in game map, remember that you had a map in the case, which I'd often get out to plan routes for missions and stuff. Particularly that coffee stand one!
Hey, man, what you said about the camera is not correct? Yes they did not use the right analog stick For directional support, but if you hold down the L1 button, the camera will automatically go behind you. Thus, aiming is much better and combat isn't as clunky.
You’re parents were the opposite of mine. They wouldn’t let us play M games and wanted us to go outside instead of staying in. Funny to see cultural differences and how they affect childhood.
The GTA 3 definitive edition had almost zero problems when it was released, most people who bought Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition had played first GTA 3 before playing Vice City or San Andreas and didn't even realise that the other two had any bugs. it's a shame that most people who at the time criticised the definitive edition hadn't even played the game. The first time I played the original GTA 3 on PS2 I was in my 30s and I've completed it many times. As somebody who has experienced the original and the Definitive Edition, I highly recommend buying the definitive edition as the advantages to the new version outweigh the older version.
true, I see it as,"Have some more renderware trash, or have some unreal engine renderware trash, it doesn't matter which trash you partake in enjoying." People act like the Definitive Edition is bad and maybe it is, but what it is a remake of is just as bad. There's no better versions as the games are flawed in ways that can't really be fixed without a full on dedicated remake.
@@channel45853 Sure, I guess that would be really nice, but even so I'm sure rockstar is not what it used to be to be able to carry out a dedicated remake. Out of all the GTA games I hate mostly GTA 5 for many many reasons. So I don't have high hopes for GTA 6. Even games with stunning graphics isn't enough to hook a gamer to go ahead and buy the game, there are so many factors to take into consideration and just graphics isn't cutting it anymore.
I remember playing gta 3 on ps2 and completed it without cheats but then a few months ago I replayed the game again and for awhile I think it's still fun despite the wonky controls however the game had a huge tendency of punishing you by locking you out of 100% game completion if you don't do side missions or skip a set of missions specifically the kenji missions
I accidently asked for Driver 2 instead of GTA 3 because I was like 7. So I never really played GTA 3. I started with San Andreas. This is going to count as my playthrough.
Leone won't spot you on that rooftop if you stand behind the mini wall/pavement thing you stepped onto. That mission is the easiest lol. Also killing kenji is easy: just drive onto the ramp so you jump off the parking lot.
real talk latino parents don't give a fuck about what games kids play lol. at least not at that time. i was playing all adult rated games including GTA3 and Vice City lol. Of course as long as we didn't do anything we did in the games.
31:10-In order to beat this mission, i had to spawn a bunch of tanks in front of his hideout so he couldnt get it! I tried with the cars, but eventually he would just bust through them.
The radio in this game is extremely good it's mostly original music made for the game unlike most GTA games starting with Vice City I find a lot of original songs in the game to be just as memorable as the licensed music in future games and a lot of songs on Head Radio and Lips 106 still get stuck in my head every now and then
First time I rented GTA 1 we played it on a projection screen. There was no going back as far as video games were concerned. All other games just seemed like toys after that.
Gaming as a whole was a bit of a joke back then tho... games weren't made with budgets in the hundreds of millions like they are today. GTA VI is going to be a work of art to be remembered 😊
For me it was GTA 2, loved the concepts but that auto camera drove me nuts. I did try 1 and London but 2 was better. 3 was an off the shelf buy with no reviews and I thought the back cover pictures were cut scenes. So all I was thinking it was going to be like 2. after the first cut scene I didn't think it was 3D and did nothing for about 10 seconds before I realised it was the game and then I feel in love driving in the fog filled streets of Liberty to my first safe house.
Guy can shoot up an entire neighbourhood, commit random acts of terrorism and mass killings, can get riddled with bullets, blasted by explosions, run over by vehicles all without ever making so much as a noise. If Trevor is the unstable psychopath then Claude is silent and calm psychopath and Claude has no problems betraying people on a dime either. At least Trevor cares about loyalty and his friends.
Nice retrospective of one of my favorite games of all time. GTAIII is still my favorite GTA. I was 13 when this game released and my older brother bought it after my cousin told him about it. He didn’t play it much but I got hooked. For the longest time I didn’t have a memory card so I remember having to play it in one sitting to beat the game. So by doing that I learned that you can skip some of Luigi, Joey, and Kenji missions to progress through the game faster. I remember how shocked I was when I discovered the Marty Chonks missions. I definitely got creative with some of the missions like the Chunky Lee Chong one by planting the car bomb or camping at Salvatore’s mansion and blocking the garage and pushing his car off the cliff and when he got out he was shooting a M16 at me. I’ve played GTAIII the most so I can definitely tell when they made changes as they rereleased it. For instance the Under Surveillance mission. The PS2 version says the Mafia is spying on you but the PC says it’s the FBI watching them, even tho it’s Mafia goons. I could talk about this game all day.
Epic! I played this game for hours too! I grew up with Vice City but this game... Just wow. I just finished it for 3 times but open world kills me. I know it to every-single-little-f*cking polygon. And I'm not even kidding. EVERY POLYGON. Like the autopark at near of the Love's skyscraper (too many people doesn't even knows an autopark exists there. (I'm not talking about the one we killed Kenji.)) At the top floor there are blocks which have plants in it. I know those blocks are very little bit over from the ground.
There’s no in-game map because it came WITH the game. a physical, fold out, map. And a manual. In fact, all gta’s and most open world games had PHYSICAL maps. Until like 2010 or later.
I would sit and study that thing for hours, getting to know the city like the back of my hand. That made me know this map much more in depth than following the GPS in the later games.
