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Though now surpassed by its many sequels, GTA III is still a game with surprising depth, complexity and entertainment value. I was never interested in the original Grand Theft Auto products - I really don't like games played from a 'Top Down' perspective - but the third offering in the series introduced a true 3D environment (augmented by 'gunsight' and first person views when using certain weapons or manipulating the 'camera' angle to better see your location). For the first time, the player could drive or walk through a quite realistic city...Liberty City (based on New York)...and see other characters acting or interacting around the game's protagonist. Crooks and muggers swagger around, sometimes stalking and robbing victims or stealing cars (maybe even your own vehicle), whores stroll the streets and offer themselves to kerb crawlers, cops, workmen, business people, bums, tramps and all kinds of folks turn up as you explore. There are hidden places to find and sly, funny things to spot as you read signs or investigate business properties. Be warned, many of the jokes are rather 'dirty' and the in-game violence - though cartoonish - will offend some onlookers. GTA III has a credible main storyline - though it generally hinges on tasks handed out by criminal bosses, there is no sense of boring repetition because their requests usually keep the relationships between all the gangs in Liberty City bubbling and changing. You are not compelled to stick to the story missions, you can roam freely, steal vehicles, rob people, pick fights with law enforcement officers and generally choose your own mode of 'living'...will you be an honest, merciful citizen or a violent offender?...maybe you will just want to drive around and listen to the stations on your car radio? Never-ending side-missions allow you to make money and earn other rewards by transporting people in taxis, taking the sick and injured to hospital in ambulances, putting out fires in big, red firetrucks or killing off criminals in a variety of police or military vehicles...ranging from black & white police cruisers to tanks! There are 'Unique Jumps' - places where you can earn money by driving up and off ramps, bridges or other features. The PC version has better textures than the PS2 version (I haven't played GTA III on any of the other systems, so can only compare the two types I know from experience) - though the PC game can be tricky to configure on some types of processor (for example, my Athlon-chipped machines, though technically capable of running the game never gave anything like their true processing power to the task and one refused to show any of the 'Blue Markers' which mark access points for missions). Despite being an old game, it demands a lot of processing power and a good graphics card. PC users can modify aspects of the game (console users, of course, don't have such options) - the Internet offers all manner of free upgrades (new vehicles, redesigned weapons, customised revamps of the main protagonist...some guys have extensively altered just about everything in the game and exchanged each element for its 'real world' equivalent).Read full review
arrived on time. opened the case and it smelt like a 60-a-day smoker owned it before me.
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