This is definitely the first 3D GTA alright. It's an okay time, sound track is cool, I like the visuals, and even though the vehicle physics are awful, I actually enjoy driving around listening to the music. The missions are nothing special and imo are only hard due to design choices (likely due to limitations at the time), so much so that I couldn't help but think about how easy some of them would be in a modern GTA. Story kept me engagedish, I guess, not enough to finish the game tho, more on that later. Cops are pretty fucking annoying and the way you have to lose them is pretty annoying, you have to memorize where things are yourself, or pull up a map on the side. I ended up just using cheats to make my life easier and lose them as soon as it got too much. At best missions are eh, at worst they're tedious and annoying.

Which is why I abandoned this title, my game tweaked out and crashed causing me to lose like 3 hours of progress, and with all the above in mind it was not worth it to me to go thru it again for more mediocre gameplay when there's 4 other 3D GTAs for me to go through.

Атмосфера и простота. Достаточно только два этих простых факта - чтобы продолжать бесконечно любить эту игру. Думал, что кроме ностальгических чувств - больше эмоций GTA III у меня не вызовет. Но игра, даже спустя 20 с чем то лет продолжает меня баловать своим откровенным безумным контентом, в сравнении с последующими частями Великого Автоугонщика их не так уж много, но даже и с таким малым количеством игра всё также меня умилительно впечатляет. Как приятно вновь вернуться в Либерти Сити 3D эпохи, сесть в машину и первым делом включить радиостанцию Flashback FM и переслушивать саундтрек к фильму Брайана Де Пальмы Scarface. Весь наигранный опыт из детства так и остался у меня неизменным - по прежнему помню наизусть район Красных Фонарей, где находится особняк Сальваторе Леоне и т.д. Спокойно катаюсь по знакомым или уже можно сказать по родным улицам - без карты и всякого навигатора.

my god, what a pain

That GTA 3 was revolutionary, It changed open world games forever, It opened doors never imagined by Rockstar Games and bla bla bla

I decided to replay this game this year, 22 years after its release
Yeah man
I don't want to come at this game aggressively because I understand that it is from another era, and honestly there are worse

But beating this game was hell, lots of resolution problems
Crashes due to very high resolution
Gameplay ended up being completely dated, driving missions are simply terrible, just like the shooting ones
I had a lot of bugs too, NPCs simply becoming almost immortal in missions or even giving Ik on the Cloud

The story is not memorable at all and not even its characters are

Compared to others in its franchise, GTA 3 fell behind

I've been messing around with this game for many years and I only now decided to play through the whole story. Actually doing the missions makes you realize something; This game has aged like milk. Many of the controls and mechanics actively hinder you, making many of the missions feel like the enemy is the game itself, leading to many frustrating restarts. It's understandable to a degree given not only how old this game is, but that it's the first 3D game in the series, but still, I can imagine a lot of this was just as irritating back then as it is today, and it feels like even Vice City, a game that came out like a year after this, is such a big improvement in many areas.

That said, I wouldn't say this game sucks. It's still worth experiencing if you have the patience, even if you don't end up finishing the story, of which is still a decent one.