The version of GRAND THEFT AUTO 3 you might not know EXISTS (1.40) 

"I designed the PS2" 🧢 😎 👕 👖

23 years later and we still discover new things about this goated game...

In the mission, big and veiny on the PS2 version if you go into first person mode and look inside the dirty magazines, you will see an alternate cover

You can still reach 100% completion you just have to do the paramedic and the firefighter missions on every island. And the most obvious difference is the blue cop car in the intro of the game.

It's a good thing that they went back and did an adjustment to the leones from having shotguns and pistols to just uzis and pistols in the Big 'N Veiny mission in 1.60, since they are absurdly powerful outside of missions.

I think the change at 15:00 was done because Catalina doesn't actually give Maria back, nor had any intention of doing so. I don't think it was censorship.

I know 1,40 is quite rare but it’s still possible to come by if you’re lucky and just keep looking online by private sellers. I spent around an hour by just going through the different auctions by zooming in on the disc to check if the # wasn’t present and it was around 2% of the discs. And the good thing about the UK is that you can tell it easily tell by the disc, but on EU copies it might be harder because some copies look the same like 1,60 and the only way to tell is to buy it and put it inside your PC and open the file to see if it’s 1,40 or 1,60 so that’s a good thing to keep in mind. The fun thing was that when I bought the 1,40 disc the seller got surprised it got bought because there were other auctions for much cheaper and they still had the MAP in the box. If only he knew 😂

5:32 in case you are wondering what the triad said, it's "and the winner by knockout is" took me years to figure it out haha

You're incorrect about the building in Chinatown. It wasn't there was a smaller building. There originally wasn't a building there at all but a road that connected Chinatown to Hepburn heights. There was originally a main drag that ran all the way down Portland from the Callahan Bridge to the crusher. (which is where the "Go to the bank off the main drag" line comes from in the bank job mission for Joey Leone). According to a former Rockstar developer they had to rearrange the buildings and add the alleyway in to slow the player down because if the player drove a fast car down it they would start noticing the buildings struggling to load in quickly enough. They said they fixed these streaming asset issues by the time they made GTA San Andreas where they no longer had this issue.

I completed 1.40 once and I was surprised at the end being stuck at 98%. The other things I noticed I was the Bomb Da Base cutscene counting as a mission, the camera in the stunt jump, the mention of terrorists in Kingdom Come and Catalina's dialogue at the end. I thought the I designed the PS2 guy was in every version and I discovered the absence of the checkpoint sounds much later. Overall, would not recommend this build as outside of Catalina's extra line, the PS2 guy and the new Dodo flight path, there is nothing particularly interesting and it's just more buggy.

15:22 ....and they still didn't correct the word "pequeñito"

Wow, I had a cracked version on PC many, many years ago - until watching this video I never knew I was playing the 1.4 version!!!!!!

Its good day when MattJ release video.

I swear to god i had a copy of this version as a kid in Australia but it got lost over time

9:00 nah, it wasn't removed because they didn't want to offend the actual PS2 designer, but because the voiceline was a placeholder only intended to be used for testing. This is common among all video games, they simply forgot to remove the placeholder voiceline in version 1.4

I have this version of the game, I love playing earlier versions of PS2 games because they tend to have a lot of stuff not cut out from them

2:34 The latter one isn't Italian though, it's a German promo release. Only Germany had the "GTA III" logo on the cover, in the intro and on PC in the main menu as well.

3:20 - GTA's Ambulance in a nutshell.

Damn right it changed 0:44 the original would never let anyone fly the Dodo

I do remember having this version of the game on my PS2. Especially when it came to the Mafia being armed with shotguns post Sayonara Salvatore.

Any other THPS videos coming out soon my friend? Love the content / details as always. Alex,

the crane in car crusher is different in 1.40

I'm shocked you did not mention the changed intro. The introduction credit role, when you hear the iconic piano music playing in the background, they will show police cars in their original color, blue. Rather than police cars in their original color, blue, rather than black.

This is brilliant, thanx MattJ for this upload 💪🔥

I have the 1.40 PAL version but as an .ISO for my PS2 emulator (PCSX2), I also noticed the car crusher crane in Portland is scripted differently and will rise up beyond the crane arm and takes much longer to crush a car compared to the 1.60 version which I have the physical disk of. I made a video covering this on my channel - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-guP1ylffI8s.html

Amazing video. Absolutely love when people do deep dives into these games! I also appreciate the mention of Vadim M which is another wonderful channel!

Cool stuff🔥

Man keep this up, you get different kind of viewers and i enjoyed the video, pls more of the gta series or probably twisted metal series

Thank you for making me realize I was playing 1.40 version first when it came out! :)

I was blessed with 1.40 back in a day

Did not know about this version, its great to know. thanks great video.

great video

I've heard that there are some stealth versions of v1.60 as discs which lack the sign "#", surefire way to know which variant one has is to check it with a PC, opening the "SYSTEM" -file to Notepad (I wonder if that was done on those promos seen briefly). It tells what revision it is. I have both v1.40 and v1.60, the first one as "/EURO" disc, since I'm not in the UK. I recall the other v1.60 is "/UK#" and the other is just "#" - two of these are Finnish packagings. This is because there's 3 different map designs with the game. Also the v1.40 normal completion is accurately around 98.7%. Because the game expects you to do two more things (calculate the ratio between expectations and what there is brings you 154/156 if I recall this right). Doing the ambulance missions over and over, this can be achieved as that objective point is never disabled after completing it. With this, you can actually get even more than 100% in v1.40 though. (Also why are people in these comments saying Firefighter has to be done only once somewhere, it has to be done once on each island to reach 100%, dammit.)

Another great video from this British RU-vidr

I just had a look on ebay for the 1.40 version and couldn't find one. I'm guessing there are some on ebay but the sellers are not aware of it and so have not stated that it's the 1.40 version.

great video!

Great video, Matt.

Sure we are in an era of some games looking amazing, gameplay smoother than ever, higher FPS etc but I still find myself going back to gta 3 😌 just something about it that keeps me coming back since I was a lil kid fr

I heard I designed the PS2 on the PC version 1.60 back in the day and recently

Afaik both versions have this issue, where the police cars in the intro still had their original color scheme (the blue one) instead of their current one (the black one).

Wake up babe new gt…a lore just dropped

underrated video!

Great! I gave you a sub bacause of GTA content so I'm very pleased!

Ok so I’ve just checked my disk and the serial number says SLES-50330-P For context, I do have the platinum version of the game

Was 1.40 any different with the Mafia snipers in the highrise mission? The PS2 version didn't despawn them, so I would get shot at after finishing the mission.

So I've had the 1.40 version all along, without me realizing it's rarer that the other versions? 😂 Lucky me I guess

Great video loved gta3 great memories

I immediately checked which version I have - turns out I have the SLES-50330/Euro Is this version different?

So you are telling me i played the 1.40 version without knowing?Thats hilarious

Ok… I see that move…

this channel seems familiar. cool!

I like watching videos about GTA III but I don’t really like playing … GTA III.

Great, now i want to own the 1.4 version.

14:56 Why is that cut!?

Another thing, there is a DUMMY file on the disc. When opened with a program called PSound, you'll find that it's a copy of HEAD RADIO. No idea if it's any different, but it wasn't on my American copy.

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Bro went from GT2 to GTA3

Best one yet 5/7

RU-vid Recommended I’ve heard about this

i have the version that still says "DMA design." in the intro but it's not PAL

Gta 3 is classic

3:17 lmfao

Are you going to dump ISOs of your beta prototypes or just continue to ignore comments? We know you read them so you might as well respond.

Yep I had the 1.4

Apparently I've only played 1.40

Narrated by Les Dennis.

i have 1.4, og

I wouldn't call the dodo going through the building a bug, things will naturally do that when there is no collision model there. It's by design. The collision for that building doesn't extend that high because they don't expect you to go there.

You have a buttery voice my guy 🤤🤤🤤

holy shit mattj talking about something other than the same 3 things in gran turismo

The earlier australian versions (not the "platinum" ones), are of 1.4. So if you were looking for it, that is another way to get it easier, though getting the ISO of 1.4 is pretty easy too, of course.

I see absolutely no reason to play the 1.4 version. Just a buggier version of the final release.

Ah yes Claude mute speed

Loving this upload mate, been a minute since we’ve seen some old school GTA content, hope you’re doing well