The Indescribable Vibe of GTA 3 

As much as this series has evolved over the years, giving the players even more interactive, more "realistic" and life like worlds to experience, I personally think that GTAIII and GTA Vice City are the best games in the series. While I do like San Andreas and all the games moving forward, there is just something misding from the later games. Maps kept getting bigger and bigger and as console technology evolved, the series got closer to realism, giving a lot less room for the players imagination. I do understand that GTA had to grow and evolve into bigger things, but bigger ain't always better and less can often be more.

I love the fact that I'm not the only person that plays gta 3 till this day...

Reminds me of the video “the gta 3 feeling” posted 11 months ago

I remembered when I was 6-9 years old during the PS1 and PS2 eras; my dad used to always bring those brownish burnt CD's that were actually PS1 and PS2 games with just the game titles hand written on them and no official gameboxes but just in a regular small plastic CD cases from a guy at his job that would sell them and every Saturday morning, I would be excited to wake up and run to the kitchen table to see if my dad bought a new game for me to play. Then 1 Saturday morning, I saw "Grand Theft Auto 3" and wondered what that meant at 8 years old in 2001. So I popped it into my PS2 and was truly amazed by it. I was so hooked that I didn't turn off my PS2 the whole day. And the funniest part was that I never completed the first mission because I was just running around, stealing cars, shooting and exploring the city 🤣 Then I went back to school and told my best friend about it and he said that I'm supposed to complete the first mission 😂 But man, I wish I could relive that 1st moment again and again. GTA 3 will always have a place in my heart because of the happy and good memories.

I always loved this game for its dark vibe, all the other gta games felt like they were more on the comedic side. You just watch the intro of this game with that mysterious music playing in the background, blowing up the bridge and then you are stuck on one side of the island, man!, you're hooked. And the fact that Claude doesn't speak in this game makes it even more intriguing for some odd reason. Great storyline, great characters, great soundtracks, love this game. P.S. good video brad.

Uncanny yet comforting vibes

The vibes, feelings, atmosphere and world III creates is second to none. I remember seeing my cousin first play it a couple months after release and just being blown away by how it looked. The trails, the gritty local, the really cool looking vehicles and the extremely loud guns. The 3D Generation of GTA is a trilogy that’s very hard to compare in any medium, it’s so finely crafted for what it was made for that it’s almost in a league of its own. Great content, you earned a Sub!

Simple yet effective. The opposite of a Michael Bay movie.

GTA2 also has a similar vibe, especially when you play in night mode

Great video. I loved gta 3. Vice city and 3 are my favorite gta games of all time

So nostalgic man reminds me of early 2000s good old days when I was in school. Took me almost four months to finish this game I wasn't aware of the cheats back then. The songs and the atmosphere are top notch.

I remwmbwr using the Subway three times, one after the airport mission just in time to escape from the cops

Once again I must mention that GTA 3 and Liberty City Stories simply have the best music on the in-game radio

One of my favorite video games ever

There's an apartment building with creepy crying in R*'s Bully too. Big lore game.

I remember getting this on launch day and being lost in its world for days

Lips and chatterbox fm were my go to stations. lazlow was in his prime. The calls were hilarious and weird. The songs on lips were amazing at the time. Bought the trilogy for my ps4 and ps5 just so I could play this game again 😂

One of my favourite games of all time.

You meet Darko in Manhunt though, kinda. Best survival horror ever.

What's really eerie is that this game was released 5 weeks after 9/11 ( not saying theres a connection). The atmosphere fit the time really well after the tragic event in NYC and it was a bittersweet feeling at 13 years old. Why? Cool that I played such a exciting game, but the events of 9/11 was still ingrained in our minds. San Andreas was dark because of how the gang and crack culture was at it's apex, and it was something that hit like wildfire. Both games to me, are legendary. Great video man.

I hate how this vibe was completely lost in the definitive edition

GTA 3 marks the unique spot in history of the series where it was already realistic looking but still had a lot of weird things from original 2D games. With the subdued color pallet and semi-responsive world, it becomes a bit of a liminal space in a good way, and it makes this game so unlike any other in the series.

My first exposure was GTA 2

Loved your video! There definitely is something very special about Gta 3, always have. But i can't start playing before taking a quick nostalgic whiff from the good old manual :)

I love this game so much and it comes down to the vibe and nostalgia. I like your commentary, very relaxing with the music aswell. This game is so interesting.

2:50 bro, that was deep

Simple and efficient at being video game, and i love it. Today, not that i hate that, i feel that there is just too much of everything in video games, from side activities, score systems, exploration being locked behind more missions, internet/being online and multiplayer being needed for some parts of game etc. GTA III during all these years stayed in that early 2000s cold/noir timeline which somehow, i have no idea how to describe this, felt enjoyable, warm and familiar. Like i knew that era personally, even tho i was just a kid who played a video game. Could be nostalgia, i truly cant explain it. Never forget.

I remember when the 3d era of GTA was in its peak (the newest being San Andreas) then there was the feeling of 80's gta being vice city and 90's gta being San Andreas and gta 3 being the contemporary representative, now 20 years later its a sort of time capsule for how life used to be in the late 90's early 2000's with the payphones and pager, the vehicle selection and the radio being very engraved in that era. Although the map was small it really gave that "big city" vibe to it and i did like how it wasn't just a NYC copy but it tried to more so copy the feeling of being in NYC in early 2000's. Also the gloomy weather and atmosphere gave it a feeling no other GTA had

I’ve been talking about this for years and I thought I was the only one. Finally others are talking about this

good to know we all have the same shared experience of trying to walk into the back of the school bus props i also remember figuring out that i couldnt get to the banshee at the dealership because there was glass that glass was impossible to notice on ps2 with the tv across the room, and i remember thinking it was an invisible wall before someone else told me i could punch it

There is something about the RE4 OG save music that always makes me feel like a kid again I’m 25 now but like I remember my 8th birthday was the day I found out about the beginning chainsaw guy with the shotgun house I always just ignored that and killed people until it was over with. Nostalgia at its finest and I played gta3 around the same time as a kid too so it was wild man..god I miss those times

I love seeing GTA III content. It's my personal favorite in the series.

I remember when i first played this in 2003 it was such a vibe and to this day i think about those vibes and playing it for hours. I might go as far to say it changed my perspective on gaming

I started with GTA3 as well, I loved exploring the map and the vibe is very different from any other GTA, I remember that tunnel too

I will be playing the OG GTA III until the day I die.

One of my all time favorite RU-vidrs talking about my one of my all time favorite franchises? Today is a good day 😂🔥

Beating the main missions on GTA 3's trilogy version for me was quite an enjoyable challenge, because the game is less punishing. But the OG version does have that unique feel to it. Also GTA LCS is the most fun for just going on rampages, because the character doesn't die so easily

I didn't think i'd play the whole game but I ended up really enjoying the radio stations and atmosphere of the city. I started playing it a few days ago and finished it just today for the first time.

I didn't know the lighthouse in GTA 3 was inaccessible since I never tried to go to it. It's accessible in LCS though.

Watching your channel's video for the very first time, i'm glad that i started with this one here!

Even though the sequels were better in many way's this game's atmosphere was insane for the time. I adore this world rockstar created. Thanks for the video, I've subbed

I finished the game without using cheats but I often used walkthroughs and guides to get through some of the tougher missions.

I never knew Aruba was a country when I was younger playing this so I always thought that NPC was just saying they were going to a ruba like it was a party or something from their culture so I'd be playing the game for hours hearing were going to Aruba and responding in my head yeah you go enjoy that ruba

Not sure if this makes sense but I've always loved the dark vibe of GTA 3 more so than the dark vibe of GTA 4, GTA 3's dark vibe felt like a dark yet cozy grey and blue, while GTA 4's was like grungy brown and yellow which ain't for me.

9:50 I bet they did these locked camera angles so you can’t see the dude that gives you missions (or other NPCs) is still just sitting there in the toilet all the time lol

You earned a sub! When it comes to GTA 3 - a lot of the inspiration, musically and visually, comes from hauntology. This "Fin de siècle" (end of cycle) really affected the cultural artistic consciousness. Rockstar got a lot of its inspiration from DnB, Trance, Trip Hop - and the PS1/2 aesthetics from games like Silent Hill or GTA which used Industrial motifs came from David Lynch films. If you want the aural equivelant of Grand Theft Auto 3, check Tricky's albums, particularly Maxinquaye and Pre-Millenium Tension. With this inspiration and ennui, we find this Post-Millenium World that failed to be a utopian future, and became a corporate dystopian hellhole. Grand Theft Auto 3 is a world where the future wasn't as cracked up as it used to be, and we are playing as a criminal just bathing in the chaos of a world that caused this. Pollution in the waters, products that kill consumers, Industrial areas next to suburban residential areas? Regardless if Claude kills Catalina, who has most of the city hooked on SPANK, the institutional issues that allowed this Cyberpunk hellhole to come to fruition still remain.

It's the nostalgia

GTA III is the best and worst GTA game of all time. Completely unforgettable and beautiful, creepy, somewhat janky sometimes. It's peak GTA.

6:50 they are possibly a Scottish couple arguing

You know what I feel like when sitting listening to ambient sounds then the look of most places is I am going to be jumped or trip and fall on a used condom oddly enough GTA III made a great dirty city that reminds me more of New York between the 70's and late 80's more than NYC in 90's or 2000's

Liberty City Stories has a disturbing atmosphere

One of my favorite games . I saw all the video . Hello from Italy ❤️

sounds like jimmy kimmel after a long night. good video

Great video, adding content, instead of reading of Wiki like so many.

I wish I had this game because it looks so fun I like the GTA and Saints Row series I used to play Saints Row on my 360 back in the day.

My Mother's my sister

There's always been something special about this game for me, the vibe, the atmos... And this isn't just nostalgia as I felt like this about the game when it was new. No other GTA game for me has captured this. Technically GTA IV should have captured this, it's dark, gritty, and I think foggy too. Yet for me it doesn't for some reason, I've just never liked the 'feel' of this game.

6:21 Those voices are pretty unsettling This game is still pretty fun but in my opinion still lacks the enjoyability of Vice City and San Andreas

Agreed!

Claude the psychopathic silent character. Also thoughts on GTA 4?

The overthinking or overlooked parts of little things in this video makes it feel like a drag.

gta 3 screams UGLYNESS, CRIME and depressing sh*T 😂 i love it it also was quite the most brutal gta games tbh. i mean we had dismemberment here. even the screams of people. Claude def throughout the campaign was a psychopath. and no, not some hollywood expression, he truly was. he fit all the worst psycho characteristics

Lmao I was abt to ask you if you high or restarted, but then I remembered I had my playback speed on 0.75 😅😂 GTA3 was such an atmospheric vibe

Darkel had a mission involving crashing the dodo plans in an attack and with the game coming out in October 2001 and based on New York they thought the better of that character and those missions

Still one of my favourite game. :) I like, and will like this game till the end.

Oh man! I haven't played this game in years! This and Vice City are my favorite in the series Unpopular opinion, I always thought San Andreas was overrated Really like your perspective here, I'm a long time viewer of your channel btw (since 2013ish)

The GTA Video Game 🎮 GTA Sanandreas has got a lot of Myths And Legends in it like Big Foot ! Also UFOS 🛸 Aliens 🛸👽 Clowns 🛸👽🤡 The Ghost 👻 Town Figure ! Also The Ring Girl/The TV 📺 Ghost 👻 ! Also The Woods 🪵 Creature ! Also The Killer Cowboy 🤠😎 ! Also Bears 🐻🐻‍❄️ Also Piggsy Leatherface Slenderman ! Also Ghost 👻 Cars 👻🚗😀😎 Also Ghost 👻 Trains 👻😀😎🚆 ! Also Ghost 👻 Ships 👻🚢/Ghost 👻 Boats 🚢♥✨😍❤ ! Also Ghost 👻 Planes Ghost 👻 Helicopters 👻🚁 Falling Black Dots Falling Lemmings/Falling Npcs CJ Mum's Ghost 👻 ! Also Ryders Ghost 👻 ! Also Red Fog 🌁😍 ! And also Big Smoke Ghost 👻 !

My most favourite GTA Video Games 🎮 Are GTA1 GTA London GTA2 GTA3 GTA Vice City 😀😎 GTA Sanandreas GTA Liberty 🗽 City Stories GTA Vice City Stories GTA4 🗽 Also GTA Episodes From Liberty 🗽 City Also GTA China Town 🇨🇳 Wars ! And also GTA5

best gta! 💯

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I loved gta 3. Never finished it because i never owned it. used to play at my cousins, When i was a kid. Sidenote : Are you ever gonna review wwe. Or you completely done with that ? Been watching since 2012 or 2013. Havent watched a video since you stopped making wwe reviews. I liked hearing breakdowns of the shows, Since i wasnt watching wwe at that time. It saved me from witnessing awful "wrasslin". I restarted watching wwe in late 2022. I think it has improved. And I would love to hear your take on the new product. The paul levesque era. I will for sure sub. Cant wait to check out more videos.

Always gave me sopranos vibss

Here is the thing GTA 3 is not a game that has aged well. But that happens the legend of Zelda Ocarina of time is another example. But something I find interesting is that GTA 5 somehow still feels like a game that was made today and that game came out over 10 years ago.

...which is even more epic in IV.

Got this and max payne together for our PC back in 2002, man what a treat that was and then few months later also got Mafia . Glad I skipped the ps2 version of Mafia that looked like dog crap.

3 imo has the best intro video of all GTA games. Like something out of a movie.

Ive been saying this for years

The Definitive edition really ruined that old vibe.

I want Rockstar to remake GTA 4 and 5 (and 6 if this happens far enough in the future) on a future console generation Not remaster, REMAKE, make the maps bigger (GTA 4 could have areas/states outside of LC) and more detailed and more buildings can be entered in free roam Then over the next few years Remake GTA 3, VC, and SA on the same maps, but remake the stories and missions to make sense within the new geography (Vice City could take place all across Leonida but is centered mostly around VC) so you can hop between GTA 3 and GTA 4, San Andreas and 5, etc Then they could go further, there was a GTA London way back in the day wasn’t there? Make a new story in London and then have a DLC that adapts whatever decent story you can swab from that game, never played it XD

What i like about gta 3 is how depressing liberty city looks, its dark and foggy, every person you work for is either corrupt or part of a gang, and every gang hates you, claude himself might be a silent protagonist with no personality but he's unpredictable and straight up evil he's only loyal to himself and will take any job without a second thought, even screwing over anyone that he worked with just to get his revenge

5:40, it's funny to hear you talk about how "fans linking these aspects of the game together" while bleating out disproven nonsense in the comments about Darkel. Self-awareness: -1.

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Another game like that is Bioshock 1

AGH YES, ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER GTA 3 APPRECIATION POST, STILL THO, NO ONE CAN BEAT JOYLESS, HE'S STILL UNDISPUTED , BUT NICE TRY BRO

GTA 3 is definitely a vibe alright.

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