You know, I was going to go for the Platinum trophy on this, but honestly I just can't be bothered to try anymore. I put a lot of hours into this game in preparation for 100% but once I got to the vigilante missions, I just had to quit. None of the vehicles have enough health to last very long in these missions EXCEPT for the tank, which everywhere I looked online told me to wait until I unlocked it before doing them. Problem is, the tank is TOO SLOW to the point that it's near-impossible to catch up to anybody. You have one, maybe two shots to intercept the A.I. assuming you can predict where they're even going to drive to, otherwise you may as well kiss the Going Rogue trophy goodbye.
My one star rating is not just from the vigilante missions alone; if those were actually playable I would still only give this game a 1.5 out of 5. Truthfully, I respect what the original GTA 3 did for video games, it was a pretty big achievement at the time of its release, but it has aged so SO poorly. The fact that this remaster was the prime opportunity to fix a lot of the issues that were in the original game and Rockstar could not be bothered to fix hardly any of them is just baffling to me. No checkpoints, archaic gunplay, extremely unbalanced damage output on most of the weapons, poor character animations--it's just a shame that none of these were given time to be corrected. This game could've been so much more if they had actually put the time and care into it that it needed, but instead it's just this lackluster product that was shoved out in time for a holiday release. This gets a 1 out of 5 stars not because it's a bad game, but because it's a TERRIBLE remaster.
Oh, I guess I should mention--the ONE thing that they did fix from the original game was the glitch that made the vigilante missions playable, so that's just the icing on top of the cake. I honestly regret doing the RC missions, Off-Road challenges, collecting all 100 packages, the vehicle import lists, the paramedic mission, the firetruck missions, 100 taxi fares, every rampage, the payphone missions, and every single story mission in the required order for 100% completion when the last thing on my list (e.g. vigilante missions) is just impossible to complete. So incredibly frustrating, I am not satisfied with this experience and I hope Rockstar fixes this game so that some day vigilante will actually be fun to play.
My one star rating is not just from the vigilante missions alone; if those were actually playable I would still only give this game a 1.5 out of 5. Truthfully, I respect what the original GTA 3 did for video games, it was a pretty big achievement at the time of its release, but it has aged so SO poorly. The fact that this remaster was the prime opportunity to fix a lot of the issues that were in the original game and Rockstar could not be bothered to fix hardly any of them is just baffling to me. No checkpoints, archaic gunplay, extremely unbalanced damage output on most of the weapons, poor character animations--it's just a shame that none of these were given time to be corrected. This game could've been so much more if they had actually put the time and care into it that it needed, but instead it's just this lackluster product that was shoved out in time for a holiday release. This gets a 1 out of 5 stars not because it's a bad game, but because it's a TERRIBLE remaster.
Oh, I guess I should mention--the ONE thing that they did fix from the original game was the glitch that made the vigilante missions playable, so that's just the icing on top of the cake. I honestly regret doing the RC missions, Off-Road challenges, collecting all 100 packages, the vehicle import lists, the paramedic mission, the firetruck missions, 100 taxi fares, every rampage, the payphone missions, and every single story mission in the required order for 100% completion when the last thing on my list (e.g. vigilante missions) is just impossible to complete. So incredibly frustrating, I am not satisfied with this experience and I hope Rockstar fixes this game so that some day vigilante will actually be fun to play.