I remember playing this at my cousins place and whenever his mom walked in we'd just stay in the car and drive around so she wouldn't realize how violent it was for the time.
@@snuff6387 no joke, I hadn’t been driving very long and after that first all-nighter the next time I got in the car I had very real urges to drive over sidewalks and generally just ignore driving conventions. Maybe I was just dumb 😂
i was also a freshman in high school. my best friend and i would skip school and play it at his house while his mom was at work. on the weekends i'd stay the night and we'd open his bedroom window, sneak outside and smoke weed, then sneak back inside and play gta iii all night. some of my favorite memories of my whole life.
I remember getting a ps2 as a kid, and my dad buying me grand theft auto 3. I was into cars at the time and he thought it was just a racing game, neglecting the 18+ rating. And I think that was the best thing he ever did.
I actually like unlocking the islands. That feeling was amazing back in the day. You felt like you were exploring a secret area when you first crossed the bridge.
GTA 3: most evolved GTA title compared to the previous version. GTA Vice City: best soundtracks and style and atmosphere GTA San Andreas: most expanded GTA with RPG elements and insane amount of content and details and little things to do, also the most polished gameplay out of the three.
@@Suumac_, The best story for sure. I would say GTA V (Story Mode) is the pinnacle. Most of the main story missions involve a shootout or a car chase. The story might be all over the place but it sure is fun.
20 years ago I was 9 years old and I can confirm that fact #9 is 100% accurate. Back then all I ever did was go around driving, shooting, and destroying everything. This time around I’ll finally try to actually do the first mission.
Same, because when I was young, I used to play GTA SA in the living room so my family can listen chracters cursing and mission was hella hard at that momment. And not the flying school or the wrong side of the track, but instead the first mission. Yeah, the one where you need to use bike to back to Grove Street
@@justlixian293 SA was the first one I actually played the missions but ya that first mission was annoying I think it was the first GTA to use a Bicycle.
Hope Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories can get a similar treatment, if these 3 turn out good. More people need to experience these underrated titles.
Out of the Trilogy, I played 3 the most, for the longest. Only one I actually completed and it was just fun to play with friends and pass the controller around. This package will probably last me till the holidays next year, no joke. I'm going to take my sweet time with each of them, planning on going for 100% with each game.
me too. there was absolutely nothing out there that was like this. a HUGE leap for videogames, an even bigger leap for mankind. damn now that i think about it, i think i might've spent more time on Vice city tho
I plan to do the same. The difference is, I’ve never played any of them. I was 4 when San Andreas came out. They were before my time and I never owned a ps2. But I’m so fucking excited to play these. I always felt like the HD GTA games felt ‘off’, like they were missing the point of what made them popular. This trilogy looks like the purest distillation of the GTA dna in the best way possible
I'm doing the same. I played the original versions, but now that achievements will be added, graphics are polished, and they are on the xbox one (I refused to buy the mobile port that was the 360 digital version) I'm finally gonna 100% all of them. Same thing I did with mafia trilogy.
flying the Dodo was easy. Start at the longest runway and keep it DOWN on the ground by pressing up on the stick for as long as possible. Once it reaches a certain speed, it wants to take off by its own. You must simply force it down to the runway to gain more speed.
@@sikliztailbunch I think you are confusing taking off with "flying". lol GETTING the dodo off the ground was the easy part. KEEPING it off the ground is where it became a nightmare.
@@RaptorNX01 I clearly don´t confuse that. With a little practice, you were able to fly around. I don´t say easily. The controls were definitely hard but it was totally possible to keep it in the air
@@sikliztailbunch with the tank you just had to use the flying car cheat, point your barrel backwards and shoot, you could fly long distances easily. From my memory it was 100 times easier to master, but perhaps that was just perception because seeing everything blow of behind you while you flew away in a tank? That’s what child dreams are made of right there!
I was 12 years old when GTA 3 was first released - luckily my dad bought me a copy. I was absolutely obsessed and it set a high bar for my taste in videogames. Very few companies hit the quality of a good ol' Rockstar game!
Quality was abundant at that time with game developers adding as much content as possible before launch was a industry wide goal. Nowadays they strip every piece of content as they feel they can get away with and sell it in chunks. Along with lootboxes, microtransactions, season passes and multi-tiered price points. Anybody of the younger generation that thinks this is better than it used to be is insane.
rockstar is lazy and greedy now. We're not gonna see GTA6 until they bleed all the money they possibly can out of people still buying things in GTA 5 online
Ive been literally waiting every single minute of every day until this comes out!!! Im stuck at home for health reasons and literally cannot wait!!! Im going to re-100% all 3 games!!
Speaking of car bombs, one thing I did occasionally was add one to a car I was using because in this game, a specific NPC will sometimes steal your car like you do to everyone else. And it's so satisfying to watch them drive away and then detonate the bomb.
Street criminals 2 npc's One black guy with a red hoddie that look like a diablo and a red jack had a baby. One white guy with a black shirt and blue shorts in middle of late autmn. Funny thing is every bomb shop has different approach to bombs. In Portland bomb shop you prime it and it goes off only when somebody enters it. In staunton you prime it and it goes off on itself after around 5 seconds when you get out. In shoreside vale you get a detonator and you are completely in charge of the explosion.
This is hands down the biggest turning point in gaming history for me. It was UNBELIEVABLE when it was released. Better than you could imagine a game to be!
Wow, this trilogy actually brings back memories. Like waiting in line at EB games for my preordered copy of San Andreas. I ran home with my copy faster than Charlie Bucket with the golden ticket.
Dude I had pre-ordered it from the Target right down the street from me... 13 years old... Man I remember that day like it was yesterday. Picking it up after school and playing non stop all night lol
People playing these games for the first time as this version will never know the struggle of having to find your way around the cities. Back then all Rockstar told us in the manuals was to keep your destination north and keep driving that way. LOL At least for GTA3 and Vice City cause I believe they put a waypoint system in SA.
Another fun thing to do is turn the turrets around on the tank and keep firing to gain speed, head for the bridge and hit the jump and you'll go flying
Here's only one thing you need to know: we're less than three days away from release and t2/rockstar have not yet shown any actual gameplay from the definitive edition.
@@Daniel-pi5qd "prettier" can be subjective. I know some people don't care because it's a really tiny detail, but the missing zipper on Tommy's track suit and some other texture alterations in the published screenshots really bother me and don't bode well for the quality of the final product.
@@locolama I agree, my version of prettier for the game is really just the better lighting and how things are more clear, I’m really just buying it for the better shooting, as someone who could never get into gta vice city and couldn’t beat SA because of the controls this is a game changer as long as it truly is a “game changer”
When I was a little kid my only friend that had a PC good enough to "run" GTA 3 invited us over to play it, and I remember all of us coming over to his house everyday after school to play it. We beat the whole game at like 2 FPS, not exaggerating it was like a slideshow, but we enjoyed it so much and it was so different from anything we ever played that we absolutely loved every minute of it.
when u finally realize that it all came together. the fact that @gameranx released these videos in the games story chronological order. VICE CITY, SAN ANDREAS, GTA 3
I remember being amazed and in awe when I first played GTA 3 shortly after its release. I remember building my vast criminal empire and flying the Hunter helicopter while rocking out to some of the best music from the 80s in Vice City. I remember being baffled by the size and complexity of San Andreas.... and now, so many years later... I'm eager to revisit all of that, with better graphics and game controls to boot!
GTAIII was my favorite out of the original trilogy. I still have my R* keychain from the special edition lockbox from the original PS2 launch. Been on my keychain for 20 years now!
Im so proud to have experienced this as a child back in the day, I honestly preferred the trilogy over the newer game’s due to how connected everything felt
When I played GTA3 when it came out and i was a kid. The plane was so much fun because i wasn't expecting it; it seemed on a very small scale revolutionary to an extent at the time, and i never thought about the garbage nature of it until later on when my babysitter at the time was showing me how to actually play the game.
Oh man I miss hanging with my friend and we would take turns seeing who could last the longest on 5 stars. (We were kids but now that I am grown i am sooo getting lit and bringing the mayhem)
I was blown away by this. There was some amazing jumps. Common practice, your on a mission.. Look a jump! Abandons mission and tries the jump with a variety of different cars.
GTA 3 is probably my favorite out of the entire franchise. I just had so much fun playing that game over and over again. It was unlike any other game I have ever played at that point of time. Just the nostalgia of it makes me want to buy the remaster so I can relive the memories. It will be like getting reacquainted with a long lost friend.
Although I'm looking forward to San Andreas the most because it's my favourite from the series I will say that GTA 3 might have the most improvements for it being the first of the 3D GTA Universe and the oldest. Kind of like Mass Effect 1 in the Legendary Edition.
They should actually bring back the island unlocking feature. It builds anticipation and is embedded into the story. I still remember how excited I felt on Portland, looking across to Staunton Island and imagining what more fun was in store. Every square foot matters in those classic GTAs and you're pushed to specific corners of the map for real reasons, forced to play in a new environment. In GTA V, the countryside is largely pointless. This is why many say San Andreas feels BIGGER even though it's obviously not.
@MR. CLAW! Agreed. GTA V was just too easy. Mostly, Rockstar fell in love with cool cutscenes. Yes, the story is fun. But in terms of actual mission gameplay, all the classic 3D GTA's have way better missions.
Didn't really get too much into III, think I only made it about halfway. I think mostly because the protagonist never talked. Your point about about the game focusing on blowing stuff up and it being a bit more arcade is true. That also reflects how GTA 1 and 2 were. I played a lot of GTA 2 and it is pretty much exactly how you described this game.
The reason they left the main character nameless/voiceless is so that the player can use their own imagination as to his back story. We don’t learn he is called “Claude” until San Andreas
Honestly I think the unlocking of the islands was a better way to address the overwhelming vastness of open worlds. It would have been better if the first and second islands continued a little further than they did with more missions after the third was unlocked. The third island was extremely lacking
I was never allowed to play any of the OG GTA’s releasing in the trilogy. Granted I was mad young, I’ve only played IV and V so far! I am mad hyped to get to experience these games for the very first time. I hope these games live up to the hype
I had very little experience with this trilogy as a kid because I wasn’t allowed to have it back in the day. Still had all 3 though, however, I had to hide the fact that I played them so I couldn’t go beat them 100%. Just did gta 3 and vice city for the first time. Working on San Andreas now. Great games
I still have the physical copies for PS2. I remember how I felt looking at my GTA Online character on PS3 after playing for years on PS4 and don't want to do that again.
Honestly. I beat Vice City and III remastered before i saw any of these review videos. And i loved them. Nothing was really noticably wrong to me. Everything was playable and i had a good time. They took me back to my ps2 days. Everyone quit bitching so much. The games are almost 20 years old. I think they were easier to play then the original versions. In my opinion only fixes they need are the bridges in SA and the rain. Other then that. I really liked and enjoyed the definitive edition
Those who never got to experience it at all.. Me: "and I took that personally." I had the game but I had no save card for my ps2 and the disk was a hand me down so there was a 20% chance for it to work for about 10 minutes before it crashed.
Ah yes, impromptu demo discs. I've had a few of those in my time. How far can you make it in the game before it freezes and you have to start all over?
i loved the driving in this game it was so satisfying i hope , it still is. also the radio in this one was my favorite. from commercials to reed and lazlow. the cooking show and everything else I've heard it all, i remember the shooting with the M4 and mini gun being so over the top and feeling so intense. i feel like the civilians in this one were the most lively with random shit happening if you just stood around. some missions were crazy hard because of the mechanics i loved about this game but very fun non the less
I don't know about the pedestrians being the most lively, I feel like San Andreas takes it for that one. Especially the random police chases you can come across with the pedestrians. I've seen some wild police chases on San Andreas lol.
Hey something I wish you or Jake would point out when making a video about stuff to get excited for GTA Trilogy is, we can now maybe make even better and more high quality assets and mods for them bcuz it's in Unreal Engine and with a modern engine the potential for the modding community is even greater for these games now.
Seeing as they've gone in and actually fully remade some assets in the game, changed up the controls and added in quality of life features such as a Weapon wheel and waypoints on the mini map. I hope they've also gone as far as to actually tweak the feel of the gameplay itself within the game. So not only make the control layout more modern, but made the gameplay itself feel more modern as well. I'm not asking for it to be exactly like GTAV. I'm simply asking that the gameplay is updated a bit so it is less annoying to go back to. Fact is, these games haven't aged well at all. GTA III and Vice City are in my opinion annoying to go back to. So if they could just make a bit more tight and responsive then that would go along way. Such as the actual aiming. I bet that we are getting free aiming in them this time around. But i hope it feels more responsive than it potentialy could feel. I'm aware these are old game. I'm not asking that they make them new. I know it's a remaster. But quality of life changes shouldn't be too much to ask for. They've gone far enough that i think it's a fiar thing to ask. I do hope we get some reviews out a day prior so i can know what i'm getting into before i buy it.
I remember back in the day i was up in my friends house and he told me his older brother had just got a new ps2 and GTA3. I asked him could i see it ?? So we went down to his brothers room and my jaw just dropped when i seen this game playing 🤯 i saved up my wages over 2 weeks with work and went and bought a Ps2 and GTA3. This game made me buy the system and I've some great memories of playing it and Vice City with my friends and a few beers 🍻 and a few smokes 😉
Very fond memories of playing these games. People who didn't play these back in the day will never know the struggle of trying to find all the hidden packages with only a tiny picture and vague location description in guide books.
Now this is a game that I played a lot, a mean... A LOT! Cause back in these days I didn't had much games. But have being so long, that I barelly remember it. I remember NPCs saying "hey paisano!" for some reason. XD
I can't believe we're living in an age where Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic are all coming to a Nintendo console, and a portable one at that. And on the same day too! It's nothing short of incredible! These games were a huge part of my adolescent years, and I’ll soon be able to take them with me wherever I go!
I spent so much time trying to fly the dodo. I remember when I finally got it going and flew around for like 5 to 10 minutes straight. I was so excited when I got it to actually fly. there was a flying car cheat too. you could turn the turret around on the tank and shooting it like that would give you boost in the air. Best game ever. Also loved the sentinel xs. I think you could get it near salvitore's house. my memory is hazy not sure if all this is accurate or not its been a long time.
Also, to anyone totally new to this game, it's often time worth it to complete a lot of bonus objectives/missions before continuing the main story. You can eventually get a bunch of weapons at your hideout, life and armor refills, etc., which will come in enormously handy for the story missions in the long term.
The game was hard. The missions were semi hard but what made it difficult to complete objectives was how when you mucked up a gang, they held long term grudges. Like, you couldn’t go the mafia area without goons pulling out shotguns and lighting your ass up. Which made it hard to to go to certain areas to collect the hidden packages if you didn’t clear them all the first time you visited. The packages had the perk of giving you weapons at your hideout so they were super useful. But once you go the second island, the first was virtually impossible to drive through without a whole tank.
Oh man. My first GTA on the ps2 back in the early 2000s. I remember the chaos, the police chases, some of the fun missions, side mission, etc. and when I had nothing to do just pretend to be a pedestrian or put bombs in my vehicles and have the criminals steal it so they blow up. I had so much fun in this game
My only concerns I have left about the remasters are how many licensed songs will actually return (considering Rockstar's established history of removing songs it had licensing problems with and the radio music are a big part of the gaming experience) and the gun sounds. Will the guns in san andreas still sound the same? Or did they bother adding new sounds?
Actually you kind of can get in an ambulance and start responding to hails from dispatch. However, I wouldn't recommend doing so. Your colleague probably won't appreciate it and you might get into a little bit of trouble.
For anyone new to this game. Finish the people’s missions in the order you get them for 100% as if you don’t you miss the missions and have to start over. Read walkthroughs :) also I don’t remember an in game map on ps2 I used the paper map in box
I haven't had much time to play video games this year, but I'm really looking forward playing all three of the definitive collection. I think it would be pretty awesome if Rockstar gave Liberty City Stories/Vice City stories the same treatment. I would totally buy and play those, for that great feeling of nostalgia.
I have some of the cheats memerized from the heart. R1 R2 L1 X Left Down Right Up Left Down Right Up. Is the one i used the most, there are variations of it for the guns also where u replace X with R2 or Square or something.. Its been awhile so my memory is foggy but the basis is there for multiple cheats with the same/similer input... Man im going to enjoy playing gta vice city and san andreas
When I first started playing this game I was 6-7, my older brothers had it on our pc and I loved doing the firefighter missions along with the ambulance and I spent hours watching the magnet put the cars into the crusher. I also use to go down to the subway and just roam in there because I didn’t know how to use the train lol now in 2023 I’m playing it on my iPhone and the game is still as fresh as I remember it being. Still very fun doing the basic things.
GTA 3 was my first ever Mature rated game. I think people tend to overlook GTA 3 in favor of San Andreas for best PS2 game, but honestly? GTA 3 was the most groundbreaking in terms of when it came out and how mindblowing it was at the time. It was something revolutionary. I remember using the dodo cheat and spawning a tank and aiming the turret backwards and flying all the way to Shoreside Vale for the first time ever that day. I also never bothered to play past the Leone family missions until like 5 years later. This was the absolute best game of the series. Honestly I really hope they let you go with the old school controls. I really miss using the X button for the gas, circle for the handbrake, and square for reverse. I honestly hate trigger gas/reverse.
Rise FM introduced me to Trance music and similar genres. I was a kid obsessed with that type of music- and I needed more! Still listening to trance and electronic music to this day🤗
3:33 flying the Dodo was easy. Start at the longest runway and keep it DOWN on the ground by pressing up on the stick for as long as possible. Once it reaches a certain speed, it wants to take off by its own. So gain more speed til the end of the runway and you can take off and fly around the city with a VERY sensible flight control
I'll admit that my memory has seen better days, but the only loading screens I remember in GTA 3 were related to missions. I kind of recall the game going into loading screens at a few points as you were advancing further into the storyline, but I can't picture the game loading when I was driving across bridges from one island to the next. Was this something that only happened the first time you gained access to a new island or was gameplay actually interrupted with a loading screen everytime you crossed from one island to the next?
I remember being a senior in hs when this game came out and going to a friend's house to play it after school.Still have 3,Vice City and San Andreas on my playstation 2. Ah the memories....🎮
When I originally played GTA 3, I got to Shoreside Vale without doing the missions required to get there by using a cheat and jumping a tank over the missing bridge. Got into the stadium the same way.
When this game came out it was my dream come true. I was a sophomore in highschool and made a few bucks during the summer and saved up to buy a PS2 just for this game. Ended up having to buy clothes for school instead. This game changed gaming forever though. The soundtracks including hilarious talk radio, the mayhem, the crazy characters, diving into street, organized and corporate crime. Can't wait to visit again.
Thank you for explaining the history and concept of the original GTA 3! I have the original edition on PS4, and lmao the missions are tough, and infuriating sometimes, but I still enjoy playing it. I never realized it was Rockstar's first 3d game of the series, explains why the mechanics and physics are a little more stiff compared to the San Andreas and Vice City.
Loved these games when I was 9 I had a refurbished PS2 that didn’t save so I would leave it on all night hoping no one would shut it off gonna be fun reliving these games and being able to save!