Grand Theft Auto 3 - 21 Years Later

[@fuzzyslippersyt]

Thanks for all the attention on this video guys! Best performing video I've had on the channel! Check out my other content here: kzbin.info/aero/PLqMAkDql48WKHyVgbx383UZwFvXfn3h9q

[@skullcrusher783]

Hey can you look at my messages I just wanted to say that I played gta 3 on on the trilogy. I know I’m part of the problem, but I never played it. I was born in 07 in idk I only heard about the games till gta 5 so I grew with gta 5 and gta 3 is a good game I appreciate it but Ik rockstar did all ogs Dirty

[@themanwithnoname4385]

I can relate to the Latino parents thing. My mom and dad bought GTA 3, VC and San Andreas for the whole family to play. They simply told us not do do anything in the game in real life, and that was that. My mom taught us the hooker health trick lmfao. We all turned out ok.

[@britishwordplay4335]

Cool parents

[@jambi5096]

You gotta keep it real too tho. I think graphics back then were so cartoony that a lot of violence just seemed so ridiculous and over the top. My parents let me play violent video games but I remember them commenting on how ridiculous the graphics looked. I know for a fact my parents wouldn’t have let me play gta 5 tho or especially a game like MK11, which has photorealistic graphics and depicts extreme levels of gore. Like intestines being ripped out and other organs. Granted GTA3 was super ahead of its time, it still looked incredibly cartoony even by those standards back then. It just looked like a well polished game compared to other games, but regardless, there was no real “life-like” looking game up until like 10-15 years ago. So, my point is that it didn’t feel so “extreme” letting your kids play it because the game still felt like a cartoon, albeit a violent one but a cartoon nevertheless. I wouldn’t let my kid play GTA3 back in the day but I get why kids were playing it is my TLDR.

[@themanwithnoname4385]

@@jambi5096 I watched movies like Platoon, Full metal Jacket, The thing, the hills have eyes, and the original evil dead with them, among others. Their viewpoint was if they thought it was too much for me, I'd tell them to turn it off or something. I have two younger brothers born in 2005 and 2006 (I myself was born in 1999) and they played GTA v around the same age I was playing GTA SA, Manhunt and GTA 4. They didn't have an issue with it. My mom and dad watched my youngest brother massacre people in Los Santos in GTA V and wanted to go on a rampage too because it looked so realistic to them. Both of them hogged the PlayStation from us kids for like 6 hours. It was always amusing when we went to GameStop and bought mature games. The clerk would look at my dad and be like: "This game is rated M for blood and gore, strong language, nudity, sexual themes, gambling, strong drug use, explicit lyrics, tobacco use, and will probably cause your kid to develop PTSD." My dad: "eh, they see worse stuff on TV and the internet."

[@Truekingr6]

@@jambi5096 100% my girlfriend was upset at me for killinh people in red dead 2 because its so realistic. looked at me like i was crazy, but its a game cmon.

[@thegreatreaper8840]

@@jambi5096 Neah, your argument is dumb. In Romania parents have no problem letting children play games like MK11 or other violent video games...you do violent things in games to blow off steam and not do them in real life.

[@TheClassifiedMan]

I always told myself the reason Claude couldn’t talk was because Catalina shot him in the throat/chest at the bank and lost his ability to talk due to the damage✌️😎

[@Moa_Preston_Hexx]

Vote to make this cannon? I say yes

[@thegamingprozone1941]

But wasn't he mute in San Andreas? Which is before 3

[@falconmclenny7284]

He doesn't talk because he's still the best gta protagonist by far... he didn't need to talk, he just shot mafarkers. I like to think Claude was known as a straight up psycho and him not talking was his gimmick like.. his guns do the talking.

[@TheClassifiedMan]

@@Moa_Preston_Hexx thank you mate it’s always been the reason for me makes the most sense to me👌

[@TheClassifiedMan]

@@thegamingprozone1941 i can’t remember mate but i played Gta3 first and made my little opinion before i’d played San Andreas or maybe i wouldn’t have thought of the gunshot theory

[@kitzkaz3238]

The intro song to GTA3 is peak.

[@offthetop1993]

Facts bro. My mom was the same. She let me play anything and watch everything. I never wanted to do a real drive by lol. Shit let you see how the world really is

[@RT-qd8yl]

My mom bought me all 3 main 3D titles and even watched me play. She also told me one thing every time I left the house: "Be smart, and be aware of your surroundings." I guess we grew up different.

[@Jinn-y2u]

@@RT-qd8yl being born in 1990 yeah we had way more freedom than kids now

[@natalie03996]

I know a place on the edge of the Red Light District where we can lay low. but my hands are all messed up so you better drive, brother.

[@tbc9096]

I really wish 8-Ball would’ve been in the second half of the game.

[@markevans7244]

GTA 3 really was a revolution. I remember playing a demo of GTA 1 back in '97 and was hooked. GTA in 3D was just mind blowing back then.

[@jordan_roadhouse4798]

Completely agree. Growing up with the GTA1/2s then this one happened it was mindblowingly good!

[@WiseOwl_1408]

Was a VERY big deal.

[@mattwingo89]

First time I rented GTA 1 we played it on a projection screen. There was no going back as far as video games were concerned. All other games just seemed like toys after that.

[@Generationalwealth94]

Gaming as a whole was a bit of a joke back then tho... games weren't made with budgets in the hundreds of millions like they are today. GTA VI is going to be a work of art to be remembered 😊

[@vandalcreed]

For me it was GTA 2, loved the concepts but that auto camera drove me nuts. I did try 1 and London but 2 was better. 3 was an off the shelf buy with no reviews and I thought the back cover pictures were cut scenes. So all I was thinking it was going to be like 2. after the first cut scene I didn't think it was 3D and did nothing for about 10 seconds before I realised it was the game and then I feel in love driving in the fog filled streets of Liberty to my first safe house.

[@Smarties.]

The radio in this game is extremely good it's mostly original music made for the game unlike most GTA games starting with Vice City I find a lot of original songs in the game to be just as memorable as the licensed music in future games and a lot of songs on Head Radio and Lips 106 still get stuck in my head every now and then

[@falconmclenny7284]

Msx fm is the business...

[@sunshineandbandicoots8587]

Can NOT forget about Chatterbox

[@jdgustofwinddance.7748]

The techno station alone is legendary.

[@greenhowie]

@@falconmclenny7284 MSX FM was more influential on my development than discovering weed. It's good shit.

[@falconmclenny7284]

@@greenhowie liberty's finest, turn up the dial. Onto the stage big ups to your crew, MSX fm is passing through.

[@andrewfisher9038]

If you bring a taxi to the trailing mission, Curly might enter. You have to park in a specific spot. Then you an objective to drive him to the docks.

[@WinstonBuford]

cool!

[@noc8218]

I kind of like Claude being totally silent. Gives him some creepy psycho feeling

[@readlater8962]

Guy can shoot up an entire neighbourhood, commit random acts of terrorism and mass killings, can get riddled with bullets, blasted by explosions, run over by vehicles all without ever making so much as a noise. If Trevor is the unstable psychopath then Claude is silent and calm psychopath and Claude has no problems betraying people on a dime either. At least Trevor cares about loyalty and his friends.

[@FrankieTeardrop1998]

He's like Michael Myers

[@aboutsoundandvision]

I have a vivid memory of being about 6 years old playing GTA III on my friend's PS2 and him not having a memory card so we played the intro everytime we would play. I still have that intro completely memorized to this day. I remember asking my dad what a "Red Light District" was haha

[@JAYDOG1337A]

I was 5 when it came out, but I was still smart enough to know red light district "obviously" meant that they sell red lights there.

[@aboutsoundandvision]

@@JAYDOG1337A Of course!

[@tatsupazuzu]

Felt

[@PerishingPurplePulsar]

Lil late but do you remember his response/reaction? If I were in his shoes I'd prolly be to busy laughing my ass off to explain haha

[@koolkat8639]

“but my hands are all messed up, so you better drive brotha”

[@6vitamin]

There’s no in-game map because it came WITH the game. a physical, fold out, map. And a manual. In fact, all gta’s and most open world games had PHYSICAL maps. Until like 2010 or later.

[@usmcvet0313]

I would sit and study that thing for hours, getting to know the city like the back of my hand. That made me know this map much more in depth than following the GPS in the later games.

[@RPKGameVids]

There's just something so special about this game.

[@rimaq_]

My lore is that since they all know Claude is mute/won't talk back they just leave notes to cut to the chase. Not like he'll reply or ask anything else and if he won't do it he would just leave the note or throw it away

[@avace917]

For the Curly Bob mission, you can actually pick him up in a Taxi and take him to the docks without having to follow him or deal with the spook meter

[@willznuts]

Umm I never knew this lol

[@avace917]

@@willznuts I didn't either until I saw somebody do it in a walkthrough

[@pa.encema2821]

I miss the creative ways to do missions in GTA 3 or Vice City. Now its spoonfed for all

[@mauricehamilton4025]

I tried that in D.E it doesn't work

[@avace917]

@@mauricehamilton4025 weird. I definitely saw it in a video of a play through

[@tobsmonster2]

I adore that little jazz jingle always playing in/around Salvatore's mansion, it's very fitting. Good job on the video, was great :)

[@nekipeh7373]

This is my all-time favorite game. I completed it so many times in my life that i cant even remember the exact number of playthroughs. I know that every other GTA after III is plain better than it, but III has some kind of charm i just cant explain. Thank you for this great review and for giving some love to the game everybody heard, saw a gameplay or played, but not many liked.

[@MobiusLeader007]

The charm of GTA III to me is the tone and atmosphere. Liberty City is a grimy, edgy place that's infested with crime and gangs. A city full of criminals, lunatics, and scumbags. Yet the game also has this wacky feel where the gangs are cartoon tier stereotypes, squish noises play when you run over pedestrians, and dozens of police cruisers willingly crash into walls and each other just to stop a mute psychopath who has no motivation besides revenge. Its a game with a dark and violent setting, but it doesn't take itself that seriously. Future games take themselves more seriously, so when something really wacky happens (like breaking into Area 69) I kinda get taken out of the moment. When something really wacky happens in GTA III its just another day in "the worst place in America."

[@SemajRaff]

GTA3, to me, represents the technological advancement of entertainment in general. But with gaming, creating a living world/atmosphere became mandatory. Like there are two types of games: Games before and After GTA3.

[@trapez77]

The other gta games are not better than 3

[@z0tl410]

@@trapez77 San Andreas wayyyy better

[@trapez77]

@@z0tl410 bigger? yes. More content? yes. Better? No

[@KOTEBANAROT]

My parents knew how violent and mature GTA was, they just didnt care very much. Though, even when they really hated Postal 2, they never stopped us from playing it. The end result was that i eventually got tired of blood and violence and didnt think of mature stuff as enticing or "above" G-rated experiences, and i wasnt embarassed of playing "baby games". Some days id pop the cops in vice city or pee in peoples mouths in postal2, some days id play Freddi fish and help grandma find her treasure chest. I enjoyed having variety in my viddy games

[@TheBlackScatPack]

Nice retrospective of one of my favorite games of all time. GTAIII is still my favorite GTA. I was 13 when this game released and my older brother bought it after my cousin told him about it. He didn’t play it much but I got hooked. For the longest time I didn’t have a memory card so I remember having to play it in one sitting to beat the game. So by doing that I learned that you can skip some of Luigi, Joey, and Kenji missions to progress through the game faster. I remember how shocked I was when I discovered the Marty Chonks missions. I definitely got creative with some of the missions like the Chunky Lee Chong one by planting the car bomb or camping at Salvatore’s mansion and blocking the garage and pushing his car off the cliff and when he got out he was shooting a M16 at me. I’ve played GTAIII the most so I can definitely tell when they made changes as they rereleased it. For instance the Under Surveillance mission. The PS2 version says the Mafia is spying on you but the PC says it’s the FBI watching them, even tho it’s Mafia goons. I could talk about this game all day.

[@Allahiki]

Epic! I played this game for hours too! I grew up with Vice City but this game... Just wow. I just finished it for 3 times but open world kills me. I know it to every-single-little-f*cking polygon. And I'm not even kidding. EVERY POLYGON. Like the autopark at near of the Love's skyscraper (too many people doesn't even knows an autopark exists there. (I'm not talking about the one we killed Kenji.)) At the top floor there are blocks which have plants in it. I know those blocks are very little bit over from the ground.

[@rammos9171]

Had great times with GTA III during the winter break of 2001.

[@laflame5806]

As someone born in 2000 i remember it like it was yesterday.

[@cameronmaugh4223]

This should have more views. You have a good review style that is refreshingly thorough, you don't just lean on comedy the whole time like everyone else seems to.

[@ToadyEN]

I agree, keep up the quality content and they’ll come’

[@cameronmaugh4223]

@Felipe Lemos Only thing he is missing is cut content.

[@slavitdeezer]

Sounds like every other gamer channel. Obnoxious and condescending the entire time.

[@jimmybalzac6021]

Odd way to say FuzzySlippers isn't funny

[@rafaelzavros4391]

I recently found another way to complete the Curly Bob mission. Simply drive a taxi yourself and Curly will enter your vehicle so just drive him to the location he goes to

[@ColePrediger]

I got this game for Christmas and didn't leave my house for days. I enjoyed GTA 1 and 2 but this game was just insane back in the day.

[@nrrork]

Of course, if you collected all the hidden packages, the final mission is easy. You can just make a quick detour down to your safehouse and pick up all the weapons you need.

[@matthewpotter8491]

That intro music is so nostalgic to me. Takes me back to my childhood and playing at my friends house after school, then realising how good it was and having to go out and get a copy myself. This is the landmark instalment in the series for me. An absolute game changer which laid the foundations for GTA today. Whilst not my favourite in the series (that honour goes to vice city) I absolutely love this game. Going from the 2D top down view of previous GTAs to this 3D world blew my mind. For the time, I found the detail incredible! Thanks for a great video man. Loving these retro look backs.

[@YSL8704]

Everyone who played this as a kid when it first came out feel old as hell now.

[@Zoomer3989]

would love to see similar retrospectives for Vice City, San Andreas, LCS, and VCS. All great games

[@JenkemJohannes69]

you sound either unemployed or it*lian to be honest

[@JohnWTolbert]

You learn the city pretty well if you start out (as soon as you are free to save) by stealing a cab and doing the 100 cab missions. It also leaves you with a lot a lot of cash for guns. If you want hax, do the ambulance missions and firefighter missions to get a heart and flamethrower at the hideout. This all before doing Luigi's second mission. Finally, do El Burro Burro's missions (phone booth) before you get in deep with the Italians or the race becomes impossible. Bonus: As soon as ammunation is available to you, buy grenades and automatics and do the vigilante missions to get bribes at the hideout. If you do all of this before you meet Salvatore, the game is MUCH easier.

[@pa.encema2821]

I skipped the whole Burro's missions cause I killed Salvatore before

[@hundkebab2433]

@@pa.encema2821 that's the 100% completion down the toilet

[@PhoenixEnforcer101]

I found this game in my dad's cd case one day when I was spending the night along with metal gear solid 2. To say I played the hell out of both of them is an understatement

[@fredosupremetheamericandre6577]

Nice way to bring up Neon Genesis Evangelion regarding pronouncing Asuka's name! (Although I was also expecting either a Tekken reference or mentioning the wrestler Asuka there.) Honestly, I just love the reference-heavy way you review games.

[@yerk55]

There is target-switching. After you're locked on a target, the shoulder buttons will switch to the next closest target.

[@Gameprojordan]

It's still clunky af though

[@StarFighter2K22]

24:30 "And Catalina rewards him with spank. And then I reward him with death!" I cracked up lol

[@Cambo52317]

GTA3 is the goat. So many childhood memories this game has made ❤

[@ShadowsJpop]

About the map: Another thing that put me off with it is that there's no indication about if the objective is above or below you. This makes things a lot harder in the third island.

[@fuzzyslippersyt]

Totally agree, I failed the mission where you meet Ray the first time because I thought the payphone was underground.

[@ShadowsJpop]

@@frankgrimes7388 If it wasn't a problem it wouldn't get fixed months later in the next entry, Vice City.

[@avace917]

The lack of an in game map that you mention several times wasn't an issue for those of us who weren't used to having one when this came out. I STILL remember where everything is in this game

[@sorry1108]

Man my reply is late buuuuut, yeah you had a map, GTA 3 came with a paper map in the box

[@avace917]

@@sorry1108 facts. I'm talking about having one that would tell you where you're supposed to go during missions. Trial and error

[@BlossomField91]

I know Portland and Staunton Island like the back of my hand, Shoreside Vale not so much, I think it's because it was the least interesting part of the map besides the airport. I remember where everything in Vice City is. In GTA San Andreas, I only know Los Santos, I never bothered exploring the other cities. By the time GTA SA came out, the novelty of exploring open world cities had worn off for me. I know even less about the maps in GTA IV and V.

[@tatsupazuzu]

Gta 3 was so huge and fun for a young me. I'd play for hours and not even realize it till the sun started coming up

[@formzino]

Firs time I played it was at my friend's house. Kept hammering in the weapons and armour chests then going on rampages. Next thing I know it's 7am

[@mindofwaves4470]

Your videos are great! I've watched a lot of your most recent ones and am checking more. I think you are quite fair in your analyses, you give credit where it's due and state your bias when necessary, it's well researched and the structure is stellar. They feel very authentic and wholesome. Thanks for being a time machine back to these nostalgic times!

[@eoinm5758]

Your dad was a good parent bro

[@seibetsu]

What. So random

[@wunsen95]

how old are you? I'm 27 and not sure why my mum bought this for my PC when i was like 7, I do have an older sibling that had GTA london for the PSX but still :D replayed the ps2 trilogy about 2 years ago now, and gotta say 3 was my favorite despite the dated controls.. Liberty City oozes atmosphere man. Loving the vids, watched the GTA ones in reverse order so this is the finale 👍

[@PrimmsHoodCinema]

10:29 Michael Rappaport! Allstar! 😭😭😭😭

[@YokozunaNumber1]

Your dad is awesome. Anyone who would call your dad a "bad parent" for buying you this game can get run over by a Mr. Whoopee truck. My parents always encouraged my siblings and I to embrace movies, books, and games that inspired imagination and creativity. The kids whose parents restricted their access to games had the most lifeless and dull existences. I'm 41 now, and my kids and I are looking forward to going back to Vice City when "VI" comes out. I can't wait.

[@RajahHindustani]

There is a age restriction on movies and games for a reason.

[@mergieismoronic]

@@RajahHindustani you know the age ratings are just recommendations, and there’s no weight to the “games cause violence” accusations, right?

[@Kazako83]

⁠@@mergieismoronicthey don’t cause violence but they legitimately can negatively affect your development if given to you at the wrong age. It’s not going to make you a murderer but exposure to violent and especially hypers*xual media as a youth is correlated with developmental disorders found in certain Serial Killers.

[@lullebulle2]

There is one person i have to thank for my childhood, or two infact. The first one is my cousin from Finland, i remember i was like 8 or something and we visit them, he let me try GTA2 for the first time, never played any computer game before that. After that week i was hooked, and he let me have the disc to take home, I had a computer because my grandmother worked in the hospital, and when they upgraded systems we got to but one cheap, at this point in time there wasnt like everyone had a computer either so i was blessed. The second one is my uncle, he gifted me my GTA 3 and my ps2 on cristmas, i was so fucking happy and i have played every single rockstar game since. i LOVE ROCKSTAR AND GTA

[@A_k_p_07]

I use to think Claude was always talking but I never realized it.

[@DeadMusicChannel]

An easier way to pass the final Ray mission, I discovered, was to take the subway tunnels. No cops spawn down there, and other than the rare subway train, there's no traffic.

[@Kupomasters57]

Can we all agree that claude is mr slick? Like how He got away With EVERYTHING he did is beyond me.

[@riccardomallardo7779]

5:55 "Side character in his own game" is exactly what I like in gta 3, in vice city and san andreas the world is yours to take, you buy properties, build gangs and conquer turfs, everything revolves around the protagonist and his ego. In gta 3 you're part of something bigger, the main story is the columbian cartel threatening the underwold's balance with a new drug, the triads sell it and now feels powerful enough to challemge the mafia, the yakuza doesn't want the yardies to sell it because otherwise they get too strong and the southside hoods split in two factions because they can't agree on wether to sell it or not. This is much bigger than Claude and his little revenge against his ex, in Ray's last mission he says that the CIA is involved with the spank business as well, do we find out how and why? No, because we are just a small fish in a huge criminal ocean, why would we find out? We are just mercenaries stuck in a warzone, the events that happen around us is much more important than us.

[@wow-0-why-1]

I remember when I played this for the first time, I was like....this isn't suppose to exist yet?!?

[@ShadeATV]

Chatterbox is the best radio station in the game no cap

[@MSmith-cf5ke]

Listening to these reviews while driving cross country is great. Keep it up!

[@bpdmf2798]

I'll never forget going to some friend of a friend's house to smoke weed and play GTA 3. I was blown away by all the stuff you can do and we just kept pushing the controller and the weed and it was awesome.

[@dansmith1661]

This and Vice City are important for allowing creative ways to do missions. Every game after tightly packs your missions to follow a script and doesn't tolerate roaming around.

[@piperian3962]

The original trilogy went on sale before it was delisted, I got it on my PC for practically nothing! I remember seeing my cousin pop it in the PS2 as a child. I had been playing a Need For Speed game at the time and was obsessed with evading police. Being able to run from the police in an open world was mind blowing. I’m actually still not over it.

[@viejos1000]

I remember I discovered gta after my N64 stopped working and my parents got me a PS1 wish crash bandicoot which was awesome but one day I went to EB games and saw Grand Theft Auto which I didn’t know what it meant but what got me was the big bold letter on flames and the 90s coo car on the front cover which was great. One day I went to my cousin’s house and saw that they were playing gta 3 on the PS2 and at the time I didn’t know both the game or console was out! They were still selling the ps1 and didn’t know what the ps2 was till I saw it that day at my cousin’s. I was born in 1996 so I was in playing at the end of the N64 era and sorta in between of the ps1-ps2 era

[@Oamiano]

The amount of love I have for this game already is crazy. Since there’s no in game map except the mini map. I went online and printed one out! Now I’m using that and it feels so damn cool! Plus I’m actually learning locations in Liberty City. Especially Portland because of all the vehicle missions. LOVE this game!

[@Truekingr6]

i relate so hard but for gta 4. the game crazy employee was telling my father 'the game has NUDITY BLOOD AND VIOLEEEENCEE" and my latino father was like "si" best summer ever full of gta 4. amazing video and quality. instant sub

[@Grarnir]

This was the first gta I ever played, and it was on iPad of all platforms.. this and vice city

[@DeviIInADress]

Christmas 2001 I woke up to a PlayStation 2 and GTA3, I was a few weeks away from turning 8 LOL. It was my most played game until San Andreas came out a few years later, so many fun memories!

[@xNachtmahRx]

I remember getting stuck at the mission where you have to drive through all cities within a time limit and find certain places without a marker or something...I should get back and finally finish it after 22 or so years

[@ShadowMan64572]

The idea is to ''cruise around'' the city as the game says and find the targets initially which makes the markers appear, then start destroying them which triggers the time limit.

[@YungStinkyWinky]

Fantastic retrospective on one of my all-time favourites that I grew up playing! Subscribed!

[@seejayfranklin]

Kids today will never understand how incredible the commercial for this game was on TV. Gave me chills everytime.

[@samuraiska320]

I was 11 myself when this game came out. My mom's brothers are about 7-9 years older than and spent a lot of time with them since I had no brothers. That's how I heard about this game, they would play it alot. I played this with them along with my other cousins. Take turns playing "War" just who survives the longest. Claim particular vehicles as our own and saying "don't drive my car". Laughing together staying up all night. No internet really, no cell phones, no social media. What a good time to have experienced. This game is our Nostalgia for our age group at that time.

[@socialxperiment3162]

That snipe mission was the reason I put down GTA III for a long while before I tried playing it again. The bane of my existence

[@Mikebuster]

I remember buying this on release day and being totally blown away. I had been playing GTA since the start so I was all over the game magazines and online for info about GTA3. It cannot be understated what a huge shift in gaming this was. a shame what rockstar have become.

[@britishwordplay4335]

Literally

[@ichwohnedort]

how old are you now?

[@MadLadCheese101]

I found out about this game and the GTA series as a real young kid. My parents brought GTA 3 on PS2 for me when i was about 6 maybe 5 years old. It was one of my very first PS2 games. Later on they brought me an xbox 360 and GTA 4 for my 10th birthday

[@videogamesare1]

The random clips you put from movies is hilarious

[@poppytoad911]

23:34 There's an alternative way to do that mission by stealing a cab and picking up Bob.

[@britishwordplay4335]

The day it got released I got this game and it blew my mind. Showed how great the franchise can become (before the microtransactions).

[@PacoRobbins]

I remember going over to my grandparents house when I was 7 and my uncle had this game. He was home from college and I remember starting this up and loving it. My parents got it for me a few weeks later.

[@nrrork]

I was 18 when this came out. Kinda perfect, just in time to not worry about M rating. But they still carded me when I bought GTA V. I was 30 goddamn years old, and despite what older people insist, I didn't take it as a compliment that I had to prove I wasn't some zit-faced brat anymore just because some corporate asshole at Meijer was scared of his own shadow. It's not like booze where it's illegal to sell to a minor. This was 100% self-imposed by the retailer.

[@fluxcapacitor510]

This game brings back some of the best memories of my entire life. I sat around with two buddies and play this game obsessively for days and weeks on end. We were 16 and played this game 24/7 after one of the guys dad left him home alone for what ended up being over a year. So day after day, him and our other friend (who has since passed away) and me sat around and played this game all day at nauseum. We smoked, sometimes drank and occasionally stopped for food just long enough for the police sirens to stop ringing in our heads before we were back at it. Damn I'll cherish those memories and this game for the rest of my life.

[@sauce2097]

12:34 I remember being able to switch targets with the L2 and R2 buttons while locking onto someone.

[@pa.encema2821]

I had no issue with the lock

[@DanteKenchi]

the new generation just dont realise how revolutionary gta3 was back in the day. I never struggled with the gameplay mechanics. Nor with the driving. It was a great game with great music.

[@Blahblahblah94]

Looooove your videos man. Don’t worry you’ll pick up soon! Your content is S tier

[@dragonviper83]

Just recently got into this game and now I have a new coworker who just so happens to be a man of few words, is hilariously efficient and kinda looks like claude...take from that what you will

[@Gamesta100]

2 weeks ago I was playing San Andreas with my friends daughter who is 9. She also plays GTA5. It's fine for parents to decide they don't want kids to play these kinds of games but kids playing them doesn't mean they're going to grow up and become criminals. If they do it's because they weren't mentally intelligent enough to separate fiction from reality and that is the parents fault for not teaching them. I play the main PS2 trilogy once a year. The mission where you grab the car with the body in the trunk, if you have grenades when you start the mission the mission becomes super easy. Throw a grenade at one car and then go on the roof of the building where the cars can't reach you and throw more grenades off to the side of the building until you blow up the 2nd car. Future games explain why Salvatore had Claude killed out of paranoia. So while it may not have made sense when the game released, it makes total sense now after playing both SA and LCS. Phil wasn't retconned. In VC and VCS it was made to show that Phil likes to make crap up. Even in Vice City one character says "I doubt he's ever been in the service" The easy way to beat the mission where you kill Keni on PS2 is to grab a rocket launcher and a bunch of ammo and go the level below the enemies and launch rockets at the roof (floor to the enemies). Damage will go through the level and blow up cars and kill enemies. The mission in the construction site where you kill the Columbians can be made easier with a flamethrower because you can stand in front of the wall and have the flamethrower go through the walls and kill the enemies.

[@thomascrowley9122]

One of those most influential games of all time

[@cruelwraith2games926]

Thank God my parents did not care about video games like that I got to play whatever I wanted

[@AdaptiveApeHybrid]

Bout to start binge watching your vids, they're great dude

[@memelord6335]

You know that one comment in the beginning of this video plus another you made I believe in your Vice City Stories video where you also flat-out said your parents were bad at parenting in regards to letting you watch a certain movie, I thought it was only the most recent generation with that problem, I'm not that much younger than you but I am younger than you and was raised in a very similar way just based off of the small comparisons I can make with the little information you shared in your videos, and I think I can confidently say your parents were far from bad parents for letting you play GTA and for letting you watch that one mobster movie, you obviously grew up just fine hell your a father yourself and presumably doing a very good job at it , trust me I never met them before but I can confidently say your parents are probably some of the best up there, not as good as my parents but I think you get the point LOL😂

[@hassandabo6288]

Gta 3 was my first GTA on the ps2

[@DeadPixel1105]

When doing the Espresso-2-Go mission, do NOT attack any of the espresso stands. Before you attack any of them, drive around the entire city and make their locations pop up on the radar. Do this FIRST. Then when all of their locations are marked on the radar/map, you begin attacking them. The timer doesn't start until you attack. So you have all the time in the world to drive around the city, locate each stand, and mark them on your map. The timer begins once you take out the first stand - but since all the rest are already marked on your map, you won't be driving around aimlessly searching for the next one. This is how I've been doing the mission for years and years. It removes all difficulty from the mission. What was once one of the most frustrating missions in the game is now a piece of cake.

[@tence_6965]

If i only knew this strategy as a 9 year old kid playing this on OG PS2 then. 🤣

[@DeadPixel1105]

@@tence_6965 Better late than never. If you still play through the 3D era GTA games occasionally, you can do this from now on 👍

[@Xegethra]

El Burro was kinda cool, he was in GTA 1, but in the city of San Andreas instead of Liberty City. But since each series of games are basically reboots, it's a different San Andreas/Vice City/Liberty City and El Burro. Although El Burro looks and acts the same in both games, it's still him split into two. I like how in that mission where Salvatore sets you up you can get in and out without dying....you'll lose a bit of health but you can do it. You can miss out on Kenji missions if you kill him too early. Espresso 2 go is easy, you needn't bother with a map. Just drive around and find all coffee stands beforehand, there's only 9 of them. Then start destroying them one by one through the islands, timer won't start until you destroy one of them. If anyone still has trouble with the map at that point, that's on them. The shops aren't too far apart.

[@napnemeanix]

Nostalgia 😌 I still have my original and greatest hits version for GTA 3 PS2 😌

[@angelogio8229]

Don't forget that Maria calls in on a radio talkshow to talk about her new eeeh love.. who is silent and never talks.. funny shit..

[@johnmoore3504]

I read this elsewhere but at the start they have a 2 seat sports car for the get-a-way vehicle. Well the crew was 3 people so someone wasn't going to make it, thus Claude was setup from the start.... poor guy, yet he never complains ;) I remember the shock of walking out of the safe house for the first time and realizing this whole little world was inside my PS2. The NPCs talk trash to each other, cars stop for red lights, honk horns, the wind blew papers around, it would start raining randomly, fog rolls in. GTA was an simulated open world but it felt like a real place. This game was so different because you can fully enjoy it without actually playing the missions and just doing random side quests or crazy stupid things. Once we learned you could fly the Dodo it nearly broke the early internet.

[@Domina7ion]

The lack of gps is really good. It teaches you to actually learn the roads and different ways of navigating. I remember finding the middle island super hard to figure out how to get to certain flyover. But I had to interact with it rather than just following a minimap

[@pa.encema2821]

Now GTA 5 makes it too easy with GPS

[@Corrado-Junior-Soprano]

Another top notch video man, I can’t wait to watch this channel grow.

[@Oli-nf4jw]

I don’t care how old this game is even when it turns 50 I’ll remember this as one of the best games of all time, revolutionary and outstanding at the time we all thought graphics would never get any better

[@BlossomField91]

Eh, no. Metal Gear Solid 2 came out around the same time for PS2 and that blew GTA III out of the water, graphically. GTA III's graphics were not great for 2001. All the 3D era GTA games look like high res N64 games. Ugly textures and characters with no fingers (except Vice City Stories - they finally figured out in 2006 what fingers were), etc. The detail in the environment was good, but not the raw graphics.

[@mattsmith5421]

Drove nothing but the Mafia sentinel and listened to classical radio.. oh apart from the barracks ol where I nicked it drove it out onto the road turned right instantly mounted the pavement and drove down to the lights mowing down every university student on the path(LC cockerills rule) then drove back on the opposite side path I remember having over 60,000 kills

[@AliC202]

I enjoy your work. Just want to say, something I really appreciate is you giving the straight character descriptions and not pausing your video for 20 minutes to explain how offended you are a character is described in a way that could be offensive, just focusing on the topic at hand. You're a rare breed these days.

[@MrFunnyHandsInYourPants]

Nice video! Claude was also the name for the player in the previous installment, GTA2.

[@Planetdune]

I never had issues with shooting in these games, that said I do use Mouse and Keyboard so nothing needs to "auto lock". And the mouse gives you full camera control as well.

[@cloudscapemysterio]

Never watched ya stuff before I think the algorithm gonna bless this one. I subbed 😃

[@voxlvalyx]

I never realized until now that Marty Chonks sounds like Meaty Chunks. Fitting name for a dog food company owner.

[@w0lf6pack]

17:50 So important to do these sidemissions as soon as it's available. If you do the payphone missions after the bridge that connects portland to staunton island is fixed then "Big'n'Veiny" in particular becomes near impossible to complete. Because practically all of Portland became your enemy by then and everyone that owns a gun shoots at the van you need to drive for that particular mission. And that van is slow as fuck.

[@hyperbolic3833]

If I remember correctly you got a paper map in the box with GTA 3 instead of an in game one

[@pa.encema2821]

I memorized it

[@BabaTym_]

How do you only have 2K subs? You make better videos than most million+ KZbinrs I’ve seen

[@michaeljbuckley]

Randomly came across one of your videos. Seems well put together and I like your narration style. Keep up the good work.

[@beatlesguy]

My parents bought my PS2 with Vice City and the guide bundled together at Costco. It was the best Christmas!

[@Tails7212]

GTA 3 literally ushered in the next generation.. couldn't believe my eyes at the lighting when I booted it up for the first time