Grand Theft Auto III

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Game + box: the disc and its original case; the manual is not included. For the specifics, look to the photos — they're of this exact item. Discs are professionally resurfaced when they need it and tested before listing. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.

Item Description

Steal a car, flip the radio over to Flashback FM, and aim the hood at the far side of Liberty City with no particular plan. That simple freedom felt like a revolution in 2001, and Grand Theft Auto III is where it started. DMA Design, soon to become Rockstar North, took a series that had lived in a top-down view and rebuilt it as a fully 3D city that seemed to breathe: pedestrians bickering on the sidewalks, traffic snarling at intersections, and police who escalate from a lone patrol car to roadblocks, SWAT teams and eventually the army.

You play Claude, a silent career criminal shot and left for dead by his partner Catalina during a bank job. From the docks of Portland to the towers of Staunton Island and the suburbs of Shoreside Vale, he works his way through the Leone mafia, the Yakuza, the Colombian cartel and anyone else willing to pay, picking up jobs from payphones and shady contacts along the way. Bridges and tunnels open as the story advances, so the city keeps growing around you. The voice cast is stacked with film talent, including Michael Madsen, Joe Pantoliano, Frank Vincent and Kyle MacLachlan as the eccentric tycoon Donald Love.

The best moments are often unscripted. Hop into a taxi, ambulance, fire truck or police cruiser to start side missions, hunt for a hundred hidden packages, take on rampages, or just see how long you can survive a six-star manhunt. The radio stations, from the opera of Double Clef FM to Lazlow's call-in chaos on Chatterbox, gave Liberty City a personality and a sense of humor the series has carried ever since.

It is hard to overstate how much this game changed. Open-world crime games, and open-world action games in general, followed its blueprint for years, and it arrived on the PlayStation 2 first, months ahead of the PC and Xbox versions. Playing it on the PS2 is the chance to experience the moment the modern sandbox game was born, gritty, grey and wildly ambitious, on the hardware it was built for.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
2001
Publisher
Take-Two Interactive
Developer
DMA Design
Players
Single player
About the game

Featuring a fully 3-D living city, a combination of narrative driven and non-linear gameplay and a completely open environment, Grand Theft Auto III represents a huge leap forward in interactive entertainment. For the first time, players are put at the heart of their very own gangster movie, and let loose in a fully-realised 3 dimensional city, in which anything can happen and probably will. With a cast of hundreds, 50 plus vehicles, ranging from sports cars to ice cream trucks and from boats to buses, 3 hours of music, including opera, reggae, house, drum and bass, pop and disco, a huge array of street ready weapons and some of the seediest characters in video game history, Grand Theft Auto 3 is a sprawling epic which will show you that sometimes, crime can pay and sometimes it can pay you back. Available now for PlayStation2, Xbox, PC and Macintosh.

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