GTA 3, 23 Years Later... (2024)

Now players never seen such a big gaming upgrade. Like back then from gta 2 to gta3. PlayStation1 to PlayStation2 is biggest jump gaming era.

This is the most mind-blowing game that I've played in terms of when I first played it. Yes, it's aged the worst out of the mainline GTA games but when this first came out, nothing like it

GTA3 Greatest game ever. Who needs the PS5 Pro 🤣🤣

Gta3 had the most darkest atmosphere. It gave off horror elements. The fog at times was very thick and made things feel eerie.

One of the most important GTA or probably *THE* most important, this game carried the gaming industry and changed it in a big different direction and inspired other open world crime games.

“ I see nothing but good things for you my boy”

GTA3 was jaw-dropping when it came-out. Us gamers couldn't believe what we were playing. I still remember the rainy Friday afternoon in which my mother text me that she had successfully picked-up the game from the store and had it waiting for me when I returned home from school. Phones were still new at that time and I smuggled mine into school especially. If you were there at the time, you know, they were special days. This game will always be in my top three.

People now just do not understand how incredible this game was at the time. Not just the graphics but the ability to go anywhere.
You just had to be there.

This was one of the best. Spent so much time playing this with my brothers miss those days

Wow, talk about timing. Just picked this game up again for PS2 today. Gotta stick to the classics, forget these remasters.

The nostalgia.....the cover, the way the plastic smelt when i opened it, maaaaaaaan🎁

I remember being 8 years old, my older brother was begging our mom to get a PS2 with GTA 3 so we went to blockbuster drove home and WOW… we fought a lot for the controller it was so bad we stole the fat tv and PS2 once in awhile back and forth to our rooms 😂

I still play GTA 3 from time to time on the PS3, along with the other 3D GTAs.

I'm surprised you didn't mention the music in GTA 3. That opening track ... and even though the radio stations were short, repeating after just an hour, the music was so original compared to all the other GTAs. Also, I'd argue that the writing for the adverts & Chatterbox is still funnier than anything that came after it in the franchise.

Man I played this so much as a kid. Mostly just racing around aimlessly and starting shit with pedestrians lol

Im 22 years old, and coming from gta 4 and gta 5. This game feels diffrent. Still playing the game with my PS2 slim.

I remember my dad having to be in the room while me and my sister were playing and we were only allowed to drive the cars 😂

I remember being 8-9 years old and my older brother had this game. It was so amazing to drive around the city. I spent hours just driving around, trying to follow the traffic rules 😂

After 3 years only pc competitive multiplayer gaming from 1999-2002 this was the game where i started 2 enjoy singleplayer again.
I loved it so much. Only watching GTA3 puts me into the mental state you mentioned.
Such awesome memorys ❤️
Thanks Rockstar Games

The one thing I can say I love about the older GTA games was the difficulty and true freedom on how you complete the mission. Once Rockstar Games became more narrative driven, the mission design got more linear to fit the story. Also a bit of handholding with checkpoints and quick restart points. The only modern equivalent is in GTA Online in some cases where the story is just there as a backdrop for the radiant missions.
If you failed a mission in the original GTA 3, VC and SA - you lost your weapons and you had to travel back to the mission location to restart it. It was a challenge for sure.

For me, Vice City was the most mind blowing gaming experience at 10 years old in 2002. I remember seeing all the commercials on tv with the song “I ran”. GTA 3 felt like a step below Vice City.

I think hands down love gta 3 so simple and classic

GTA III: Tokyo Drift

I've got so much nostalgia with this game. First ever GTA game I owned.

Finished it this year on my ps2. It was still a great game.

I always loved the dark New York vibe of Liberty City. But holy sh*t you're right, it's a pretty hard game lol

They need to bring back MSX radio!

This game has much more replay value than games from today

I started replaying this on PS2 last week!

In my opinion i played gta 1 first then 2 gta 4, and sa, gta 3 and vice sity, then vice city history so i think the early gta 1,2,london and 3 are the most complete, gta san andreas is good but just for the nostalgia of th e west coast 90s ghetto thing.

This game was part of my childhood.

I love this channel man, keep it going ❤
Love from Sweden

Still the best decision Take2/Rockstar could have ever made. Zooming the camer down and right behind the protagonist. Don't get me wrong, I loved the first couple of GTA games but GTA 3 was revolutionary.

This was hard when I 1st played it because there wasn't a map and the mafia would blow up your car with one shot but now it's much easy and know my way around the map the ambulance mission was hard because the vehicle flips over easy

It's crazy I only started playing gta trilogy again cause of the update and then the other day your ps2 unboxing video popped up on my recommendations and then found this one after subbing to u everything you said was so true had to turn the sensitivity almost down to 1 just so I could turn without flipping my car like 300 times I just finished San andreas now I'm on gta3 nd vice city nd I then I'm gunna play gta4 which I got last week

GTA 3 was my favorite. I remember being a kid and not doing homework because I was playing this game all the time. Everybody talks about Vice City but I never really liked that game. GTA 3 and GTA 4 were my favorite.

Nobody now can truly understand the shock of this game when it was released. It truly is a cultural icon. It jump started more advances in games and created controversies.

I love this game. The start of it all. Very challenging at times but man it felt so good beating it. Loved the story, loved the characters, everything was just amazing.

This game will be always special to me i couldn't play the game when it first released because i was born in 2003 but when my father bought me a pc in early 2010's it had pre installed PS1 and PS2 games on it one of them was GTA 3
In that time i did'nt even know this series was poplar because i had no knowlage in gaming
So when i first play it my jaw dropped . The intro alone , made my mind explode , seeing the bridge getting destroyed and roaming in liberty city was an amazing experince

Lol. I don't think I ever played this game. I was just around people who did play it and remember bits of it being played. It was crazy for the time, for sure.

This is my favorite game(not just when it comes to Rockstar). I still play it.

I don't know that I've laughed harder at a line on this channel than, "You want to put your monitor... in the Sharpshooter!"

I don't know if alot of people realized this as a kid. The easiest way to win those street races is to actually drive slowly, not too slow tho, just enough speed to not lose visual of your opponents. Then you will see them tear each other apart and you can jus swoop in and go in first for the rest of the race.

How many times have I got myself staring at the game cover at times and salute it with a nod like a old, trustworthy friend. I pop the disc into the PS2, grab myself some snacks and soda before I venture to Portland, Staunton Island and Shoreside Vale.

I was a little late to GTA III and when I did play it I wasn't quite as enthralled with it as others were at that time. It was Vice City which hooked me, then I also think I picked up San Andreas in the release window. Bought GTA IV on release day but didn't end up jumping into it 'til a year afterwards. Also didn't end up playing GTAV until 2019. Awesome series, but I think Vice City and San Andreas are the only two which I experienced somewhat concurrently with the broad gaming populace.
In the age of remakes, if there's anything which could use a ground-up remake it's Vice City/Vice City Stories 👍

I lost the last bit of whatever shit I had left the first time I saw the trailer for this game as a kid. I couldn’t focus on anything and when I finally got the game it was all I could think about. It’s one of my favorites of the franchise on a sentimental level.

The graphic was not the Best But i enjoyed the story and it had the liberty City nostalgie

Yeah, I enjoyed this video a little bit. I played GTA3 for the first time in 2002 and I was around 12 years old I guess. The very first time I played the game I got up to the Toni missions, and in one mission the game froze and I never saved the game. Had to restart the game from scratch, that was a piss take.

It was a hard game. But a cool game.

GTA 3 was revolutionary for this type of genre, but GTA 4 really did something special by pushing the boundaries of what physics could be capable of during that era of GEN 7.

Vivid memories of playing this classic in the night when my infant daughter woke up she used to lie on my chest sleeping while i played this.
She is now 16 years old 😮

So many great memories playing gta 3 when I was 11 . Rockstar has fallen so far from its prime

In my opinion it does not hold up anymore but the game is so iconic and nostalgic that I still think it can be called one of the greatest of all time.

My favorite part of this game is it has Sean P on the music 🎵

Lol the timed missions in gta 3 were a different level of frustration

If you haven’t played spec ops the line on ps3 you have to play it great story and gameplay

I actually played it on release both on PC and PS2, and yes, aiming on PS2 is a lot harder then aiming on PC with my mouse but I did it ok and today I prefer playing it with controller...

I knew this map better than my own neighbourhood

Dude I swear to god you look exactly like *aiden Pearce*

the hardest gta has ever got in the series after 3 was gta online heist on hard it feels like their assault rifles are m60s with the minigun rate of fire attacked. i think gta games need to be harder but not cheap, max payne 3 was a perfect balance of that difficulty, if you stood around or took cover too much the NPC would 1 hit head shot max and if you rushed and played like a zombie then you would dint instantly so you had to go not too fast but not too slow and move around. gta needs to be like that for missions but easy in free roam. think of it when was the last time you actually had to be quick to kill someone in gta? basically almost never but when you fight players in gta online in TDM you have to be as quick as spiderman or you die in 1 shot and i think single player needs that type of lingo to make the NPC less campy and predictable. gta online almost balances it out on hard but they camp too much and combine that with aimbot it just forces you to abuse tear gas and fire so less campy would be perfect but the same type of team work they do. i think the last hardest free roam game i ever played was saints row 1.

There’s a lock on button for aiming! R1 on PS2 I believe.

For what sony did with the ps1 to ps2 ,and R* with the leap from the first 2 to the 3rd game.

This game older than me, it’s better than me too

I never played this on the PS2 back in the day but on the PC, and as you might imagine, aiming was never a problem. However, I recently tried it on the emulator with a controller, and I have to agree, the aiming is atrocious - fun game though.

the definitive editions have auto save and also checkpoints so you dont have to drive all the way back if you fail a mission .

its crazy to think my ps2 still works after all these years

One of my favourite video games. 😎

This is why I enjoy definitive edition cause controls have been updated, its the only reason to play it that way lol

This game was " rage quit auto". However, because it was a compelling story I always came back. It's sad to see the elongated production times of modern games don't lead to better games. Even GTA5 though technically superior was less compelling to me and has turned into a psychopathic gaming casino. I may play this again but I need a nap first.

FIRST! Grettings from México Sr!

I'm still at the last mission on GTA 3, died 10 times so far 😂 Its not easy to aim with invert controller hehe

Still my favorite game of all time

The game that made me buy a PS2 👍

still love this game

Liberty city stories next my guy!

Not sure if A.I Eminem or Giovanni Ribisi

It's not that hard tho. Speaking from the experience

It aged terribly. Lol

Your forgetting to mention about your friends bringing over their memory card to play the game

Me not doing the mission and just blowing up cars and entering cheat codes

Amazing game

You are funny sir lol

Love the review but my guy, you didn't learn the controls!! In the beginning where you pick up the free gun behind ammunation, you're supposed to go through a demo of how to aim!! The game's aiming is basically you hit R1 to aim, and R2/L2 to tab between targets. It's not a free aim like gat 4 or 5, it's tab targeting between enemies.

I am eleven years old, and I'm trying to NOT have one hundred completion, but need to have infinite sprint

Bro looks like Nico Belic

1:22 GTA 4 was extremely repetitive too

Any opinion of the definitive edition?

GTA3/4 are my least fav. Vice & SA is what started the series IMO. I think the backdrop of NYC just doesn’t wrk bcuz it’s too concrete & steel. Being half city half open space makes gameplay enjoyable + the soundtracks in both those games are legendary

Does he know how to lock on to enemies?

This game makes me wanna cooka da pizza

it’s weird to comment on a video this new.

This game was boss when came out vice city san Andrea's better but this was 1st gta that had wow factor ok not aged well but brilliant in 2001 👍

Playing through this game for the first time is probably my happiest gaming memory. It didn't feel too hard either as it was all we had. This game had aged pretty poorly all the way back when San Andreas had released. Now it feels almost unplayable. One thing I miss is getting a clear mission from an "employer" and actually getting paid a lot for them. It's been increasingly about personal drama since Vice City.

Hard to aim? 3, Vice City and San Andreas all have auto aim automatically turned on. Also, every GTA game is really hard, I've never made it off of the first island in any game, let alone beat it. I'm 34 and I never beat a video game until Assassin's Creed came out. Games have always been too hard, where have you been?

Tekken 2 and 3

Hard to find a game that’s not very good on the ps2?!?!

You sound like Jordan Peterson

I was like 7 playing this on ps2 so a kid could do it but with modern brain this game is unbearable without modern controls and features

The GTA Remastered Trilogy was a joke and a terrible version to introduce to young gamers or people that has never played them before. The remastered version is censor, they butcher the colors, character models and physics. Also missing music. Yet they call it the "Definitive Edition" 😂😂😂😂

I bought this game for 1.99 in 2014 and played it for 5 minutes. I need to return to it someday.