GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition - 20 Things It DOESN'T TELL YOU 

0:00 INTRO 0:24 CHEATS 01:29 GTA 3 Stuff 6:11 GTA: VICE CITY Stuff 11:26 GTA: SAN ANDREAS Stuff

"This is the first time a lot of you will be playing these games" - cue Matt Damon aging

The best way to get rich in San Andreas is to raise your gambling skill till you can bet 1 million dollars, then go to the casino and put a million on green at the roulette table, if it doesn’t land green, reload and try again, the payout is 32:1 so when you do land it youll have 32 million. Much more money than you’ll ever need.

2:37 I actually like it when they locked parts of the map before u can progress. Feels like there's something to look forward to.

The feeling of discovering a new city arriving to San fierro, and then another city arriving to las Ventura's was mind-blowing. This has never happened in GTA again

"Killing cracks dealers is free money" a fellow Boondock Saints fan

It's been 20 years since I played GTA3 and I still remember that Banshee behind the glass and how it was one of the best cars in the game.

When you start a new game of GTA3, the first thing you should do is 100 taxi fares. Trust me. The Borgnine taxi you get as a reward is BOSS!

3:37 The Yakuza never turn on you, it's the triads that become hostile after those missions

This video feels like a grandpa showing the kids how stuff was done in their time... gosh, the memories about typing hella fast to activate a cheat xD

I used to call the crack dealers in GTA:SA ATM's, because they were on nearly every street corner, and always had cash & a pistol. Killing them also increased you respect, allowing you to run with more members of Grove Street in group. Also, if you sneak up behind the dealers and pop a head shot, your weapons proficiency in that weapon will go up drastically. It's a great way to earn money, respect, and weapons handling while cleaning up the streets around the Grove of drug dealers.

Having to unlock certain parts of the map was actually a ton of fun for me. Helped me focus my exploration and narrow down what needed to be done.

You can do the vigilante mode infinitely with a tank. Instead of using the cannon as a weapon, use it as a thruster and ram the vehicles. You'll notice you'll never fail after a couple levels.

There was was always a kid in middle school who seemed to know everything about GTA. Now that I am an adult, and never had the chance to play these games (strict parents), watching a video like this gives me that same energy. 😃 Cool to know the need-to-know.

I love how he's like I'll avoid spoilers during the unlocking Islands one then immediately goes into the Leone family turning on you 🤣

These games literally taught me how to read maps.

I love that the title is “20 things it doesn’t tell you” and the majority are secrets that you’re supposed to discover yourself.

Do all the jobs before you unlock other islands. It makes it significantly easier to finish the game with extra health and armor

I'm not going to read cheats off my phone I'm gonna write them down for nostalgia

The Banshee maybe the fastest vehicle available on the first island but it’s definitely not the best. The extra speed is only necessary for the race mission given from the phone guy. The Mafia sentinel is a much better all round vehicle. A little faster than most standard cars on the first island and seems to be able to take more of a beating than the banshee.

A small correction : 3:33 it will be Triads not Yakuza who will be hostile to the player after these missions. In fact the Yakuza never becomes hostile to player at any point throughout the story along with Southside Hoods.

One thing : Rockstar forgot the bridge texture on San Andreas...

Here's a cool one, in Vice City there's posters around the map that actually feature gta online characters in them. Plus Solomon Richards movie poster from gta 5.

What I'm missing here for Vice City is the trick to get to the other island without cheating, before you can officially reaching them (didn't buy definitive edition yet, but will test if it works in it). As a teenager, I found a way to do it :) Here is how: Even though the gate of the dockyard is closed at the beginning, there are boats in it. You can get past through the gate by pushing a vehicle (ambulance car is the best because it has a big surface) into the water at the gate of the dockyard. When you push a car into the water, it floats for a while and it will eventually sink, but before that happening you can actually step on it. Using this you can get past through the gate, you can jump in a nice boat and you can reach the other island, and if you already finished the side jobs (vigilante, paramedic, pizza) you have enough money to buy the flat with a helipad on top (at north). This way: * You can collect all the hidden packages * You can get a tank from the army base

Me playing gta VC as a child ... I thought I finished the game but 12 years later I played it again and found the true ending 😂

tbh Gta series did a great job at seeing your progression. it's so satisfying to see yourself beginning with nothing and becoming everything. what I'm trying to say is i highly recommend don't ruin it for yourself with cheats and hidden better guns. anyway, hope you guys enjoy it!

The worst part about this trilogy remaster is the missing music that's a huge part of my memories for these games

This hit me in the nostalgias. One of my fave things on my replays is see how much I could build up my characters after the first save opens up in the story, minus cheats and try to Max out weapon selection and stats as much as possible before going onto the story. GTA3SA has some of the best early game build ups.

The one about betting on the horse with the highest odds is the one I used when I first played the game. If my horse lost, then I would reload the game until it won the race. Can't remember how many times it took until it worked but it was worthwhile. Much better than the roulette.

gameranx: admits some people will be playing for the first time gameranx: literally spoiling the game 3 minutes into the video

Seeing the banshee still spawning in the car lot brought me joy

Nice to show new and returning players who have forgotten about these things. I was expecting a video talking about things they took out, but again this is nice!

You tell us things that original game told us YEARS ago. Thanks!

This brings back memories of when body armor was useful in GTA.

2:16 ahh I remember when I first played GTA 3 back in the day on the ps2 I would ALWAYS go get that banshee every time 😂 ahh such nostalgia

Number 17 is incorrect. The Triads and the Yakuza are two different gangs. You will only do missions for the Yakuza, and they are one of the few gangs that will remain friendly throughout the game. The Triads will not give any missions, so there aren't any missions that would disappear once the Triads (not the Yakuza) turn hostile after "the pick-up" or "trial by fire". What will happen is that the remaining missions of Luigi and Joey will disappear after unlocking Staunton Island.

This is actually a really good video, lots of strong points that make the game less difficult, it can be a 8/10 or a 10/10 depending on how you go for these

One tip I think is missing, is about weapon mastering in SA. I remember that you can shoot the tires of cars and it counts towards the mastering. Since shooting tires doesn't make the car blow up, you can quickly and safely master every kind of weapon doing that method.

Something the game certainly didn't tell me was how Rockstar was going to take away the games I paid for the day after they released because of how they messed up the PC versions.

I didn't realize just how much I'd forgotten about these games! can't wait

at this point the hydra, jetpack, health, weaponpack3 and flying cars ist just pure muscle memory from my childhood

A tip I can give you for first time GTA 3 players, a lot of people think the Banshee in the showroom is the only “fast or good” vehicle. However it’s very fragile and doesn’t have a lot of grip. I suggest you grab a taxi and do 100 fares (doesn’t have to be in a row). You get to know the neighborhood and you only need to drive people around on the first island. If you do it later in the game gangs will shoot at you and you will need to travel between islands. For completing the 100 taxi fares, you will get a Borgnine (a modded dark red cabbie). The Borgnine is AWD, quite fast and is also sturdy. I suggest to also use it in the Turismo race from El Burro, I just did and completed the race in 170 seconds from the first time easily!

The Best part about this trilogy is that you can ping the map in 3 and vice city unlike the old games. I swear i used to get lost in gta3 all the time 😆

Never had a problem with areas being locked off…..there was always more than enough to do and watching an area you can’t yet access gave me motivation to carry on

I've replayed all of these countless times and yet these games feel so good to play through every time.

Those stairs where the body armour is in Vice City must be one of my most visited locations in my gaming history. Glad you mentioned it here.

I learned a lot I didn't know previously thanks for the tips im definitely going to use these especially for san andreas

Also a tip: If you want to get hidden packages in Little Haiti, do it before finishing Umberto Robina's final mission (Trojan Voodoo) because the Haitians will be hostile to you after you blew out their drugs factory, similar to how the Leone in GTA 3 became hostile after finishing Sayonara Salvatore or the Yakuza became hostile after Trial By Fire. And also, during Messing With the Man, you can shoot on broken cars to increase your Chaos meter.

“Easy Money” hell no I’m winning my money at the Low Rider Hydraulics comps.

What I do on every character after starting the first mission in SA, I drive to Montgomery, do the paramedic missions to get max health at the very beginning because I find it easier than the ones in LS. Then i make a save and go to the betting shop and bet all my money on the horse with 1/12 odds and keep loading a new save until I win once because finishing paramedic gives you like 30k so the amount you win from betting on the horse will set you up for basically the whole game

I don't think I ever played past the first few missions in GTA3. That was the first major sandbox game, and we all just ran around beating hookers with bats, and blowing up police cars with RPGs. Vice City was when the story was actually interesting and worth playing through.

Not to mention there's a Desert Eagle somewhere in south of Los Santos where the beach meets the industrial area. It's in this corner right beside a motorway. That pistol's got good damage and there's a decent amount of ammo

Doing all the tagging missions in San Andreas is similar to the hidden packages in Vice City and is VERY helpful if you plan on doing your play through without cheats. Completing all of them will unlock a bunch of weapons that can be found inside your moms crib on Grove Street, and you will have a never ending arsenal and ammo at your disposal. And the horse betting in San Andreas, always bet on Skittery Trotts, that’s my boy

I wish they did a remake of Scarface

wow i have played gta sa 3 times and never knew any of this, it's just that like my favorite movies T2 and Aliens every time i watch or in this case play i'm always engaged in the story and characters so much so that everything else falls to the wayside it's my favorite game of all time and i think it's a masterpiece.

I remember getting the tank in vice city and getting to level 90 or something on vigilante. Freakin hilarious. The payout for each level at that point was absurd. Don't know if you can do that in the new edition...

“Vigil-auntie” missions sound cool!

I don't remember what it takes to make it available, but I'd argue that the car lot is the most fruitful property. So long as you aren't garbage at racing, the top tier races are by far the biggest cash cow. The only drawback is that they require a buy in, so it's essentially betting on yourself. Also, I've always enjoyed the car collection missions from gta 3 and vc

I remember my older sister buying Vice City and San Andreas cause my mom wouldn’t when I was a kid 😂

This video is bringing back a rush of memories from my teenage years

In the Vigilante missions, the VCPD Cheetah is really fast and can be resprayed at pay n spray in order to lose your wanted level. However, you need to get a 3 star wanted level for it to appear.

Reminder for everyone who wants the full 'Definitive Edition' to acquire the games on PC, as there are a bunch of removed features, including some of the most iconic songs from each game (we're talking Billie Jean in Vice City level iconic). Eventually modders will patch these back in, so we can receive the full experience these games provided on their launches.

In vice city, they have an achievement called take the cannoli where you get the god father criminal rating. There's videos that show stupidly long ways to get this, instead, just use the fire truck glitch in the mansion for about 2 hours and you'll have almost 100 mill and that'll earn you the rating.

I had a blast doing Vice City vigilante on the PS2 version. The VCPD Cheetah is resprayable and fast enough to drop by Ammu-Nation if you run out of SMG ammo during a pursuit.

04:13 "paramedic truck"... I think you mean ambulance 🤣

1 thing Rockstar forgot is making sure their launcher can handle all the traffic on pc

For Vice City: Find all the hidden packages first, then grab a Hunter. Start the vigilante side mission and keep going after level 12. As you climb the levels you begin to earn 100k every few seconds as you wipe out the same 3 vehicles w/ unlimited rockets over and over again. You’ll have 150 armor and millions in 15 minutes without using cheats and losing achievements.

San Andreas is forever an award winning classic in my eyes. Vice City was great but it was overshadowed by what SA had to offer.

3:34 "The Yakuza will turn on you..." I think you got something mixed up here. Those missions turn the TRIADS (the Chinese mafia) against you. The Triads never even gave you missions in the first place. The Yakuza (the Japanese mafia) remain neutral through the game, they will only attack Claude if the player shoots or carjacks them.

"the festivities have commenced" best euphemism for seks, ever.

Wow there are things I never knew from the original(s). 😜 thank you 🙏🏽

Small little trick for SA, and possibly III and VC, is that vehicles with side missions like Vigilante and Paramedic will repair slightly between levels, and even gain durability above 100%, as long as you don’t leave the vehicle. On average it’s between 20-30% durability. In other words, don’t fret over superficial scratches and dents. Source: playing with mods that give real-time attribute numeric values.

Playing this trilogy again is going to bring back all the jr high/ high school year nostalgia PS2 feels.

Why does CJ look better fully muscled up on the on ps2 than in the remastered version? It looks really bad to me honestly

You can do the betting trick on the Roulette tables in the casinos as well. Save the game. Bet it all on black. Win big and double your money or load the game and keep doing it until you do.

№18 You don't need to unlock the other islands to get tto them there are several glitches to reach them. The Yakuza never turn against you that would be the Triad although not hostile at first they will shoot at you after Tony Cipriani missions and El Burro's missions .

I don’t really care if other people don’t like this remaster, I’m having an amazing time. The nostalgia was more than enough for me to buy it

Hearing "This might be your first time playing these" makes me feel beyond old

Parts of San Andreas were blocked off but I was able to travel the whole map on the train. Got a 4 star wanted level but I could bypass the invisible walls.

3:09 Actually with practice you can get from Portland to Staunton by jumping the tube part of the bridge. Oddly enough once you've cleared this hurdle you can travel the the third island.

Bonus: You cannot play them because Rockstar's servers are down

The whole aspect of the entire city turning against you in GTA 3 is what especially made it ridiculously the hardest one in the franchise

So helpful! Thank you 🙏

I remember using the flying cars cheat to get to the rest of the map and fighting off the cops for as long as I could

Not even 20 minutes in gta3 and a cop crashed me through the map.

The cheat code thing was the first thing I did, my god I still remember so many of them 🙃

I never forgot the stuff I learned about these games from my childhood. However, anything past the 1st islands is considered new to me. GTA 3 came out on my 7th birthday and my uncle was the one who done all the missions. I mostly drove poorly. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

The lighting and shadow effects look so good, it almost looks like a ps4 game but with a cartoony effect to it

In San Andreas, after the mission "Tagging up Turf", I always spend some time and hunt down all the graffiti spots. As once completed you'll get a variety of weapons at CJs House, which are very helpful early on!

I think the Cuban gang was the most hostile in GTA 3

I don’t know why people are upset about the apparent bugs that have occurred. The originals were a mess and it was fun as hell. So far I’m enjoying the replay so much.

Just want to something about No.6 is that skinny CJ has the longest stamina duration, runs faster, and can climb fences higher out of all 3 body shapes. Also if CJ become too fat, some characters will make fun of him and this also prevent him from starting a certain mission.

Should have mentioned the special vehicles you can acquire (if they still have them hopefully). Diaz's silver Admiral was a God tier car in the classic version of VC. Impervious to all damage (except the tank) and can be acquired by just failing "Guardian Angels" when the bike chase starts.

wish they told me that the Rockstar Games Launcher would be "down for maintenance" at the day of release so that I didn't have to wake up

Getting all the spray tags results in molotovs, sawd off shotgun, AK47, and something else spawning in the kitchen of cjs house on grove street. (Been a while.) Kinda tedious to get the all but its extremely helpful early on, and even all throughout the game.

Played all of these when I was a kid back in the early 2000. Can’t wait to try Dan Andreas. My brother and I would always do 2 player and cheats. Explode everything.

you mentioned that the pizza delivery missions in vice city are new; they were in the original game too!

It doesn't tell you that you need a PS5 for a stable framerate, everything less won't cut it.

The burglary mission is stupidly easy to do in one night because of this glitch. You just have to find to houses to break into near each other, (usually the 2 blue ones where the van spawns can be broken into.) Then just alternate between the the 2 houses, as entering a different interior respawns anything you've stolen earlier.

Oh seeing these games brings back so many memories, can't wait to play them again