[senor_huevos_benedicto]

Well I just played the game for the first time today. It must've been really special at the time, even now I'm still impressed by the feel of the city, and the gameplay back 10 years ago would have been revolutionary.

[Miamivicecity]

QUOTE (senor_huevos_benedicto @ Sunday, Feb 5 2012, 00:22)

Well I just played the game for the first time today. It must've been really special at the time, even now I'm still impressed by the feel of the city, and the gameplay back 10 years ago would have been revolutionary.

Better late than never.

Anyway yeah back in the day it was really mind blowing. I never played a game like it before. I remember the first time I beat up peds with the baseball bat. It gave me a guilty pleasure lol.

Back in 2001 (Well early 2002 for me) it was like nothing else.

[Jericho176]

I do remember that... It was the summer of 2003 or so. It was a rainy day. I was at a Playstation club where you pay 1 cash for 1 hour of play and so on. I played Vice City like all the time there, but this day I decided to try GTA III.
I still remember the bridge, Claude in prison outfit, the fire, the rainy weather, the basketball court under the bridge, and cops killing me over and over again. I liked the game as much as Vice City, but couldn't really play it. I was about 13 years old at the time.
Later they shut down the club and I never saw GTA III until 2008.

I became a huge fan of GTA in 2008 starting from San Andreas and going through Vice City.
My PC had problems running GTA III though, so instead I played GTA Liberty City (the Vice City mod) just for the fun of it. But the mod itself was messed up as I downloaded it from a torrent site. Claude had a very sh*tty model and the game itself had no missions, had Vice City cops, had Vice City gangs, had Vice City anims and so on.
I eventually learned how to mod and edit the most basic stuff such as the ones I mentioned above. I found the actual GTA III cop model, a few actual GTA III gangs, GTA III anims and even the GTA III thugs for VC, and a proper Claude model... I put them all in the game, but I was still new to the mod tools, the game files and everything so it took me some time to figure all this out and how it works.

Being a huge New York admirer, I was very happy that I finally had something that looks like GTA III. The only thing you can do on it is troll the cops, stunt or search for hidden packages. I liked it that way since I don't really like mods with missions or mods in general. So basically I learned the whole city from this piece of mod and the whereabouts of 92 hidden packages, some hidden weapons and so on. It was funny when I found out that there is a package in the air above the bridge as I crashed numerous helicopters just to get it, I still remember that moment I actually still keep it on a CD.

So yeah, I played this thing for about year and I finally managed to play the REAL GTA III in 2009 when I got a new computer. You can say the first time I really played the game was then rather than 2003. I loved that game even more than Vice City and San Andreas, the atmosphere and everything was awesome. Since then I have completed GTA III numerous times, and still play it occasionally.

P.S. Sorry for the huge post

This post has been edited by Jericho176 on Sunday, Feb 12 2012, 09:15

[SLeek]

It was in 2004, I think. I played GTA III for the first time in my birthday. My sister had bought a HP NX9010 and let GTA III installed to it. I loved the game from the first time I played it. The brightest memorys, what I remember right now, are discovering a Taxi in the Portland savehouse, while the weather was so gorgeaously sunny and driving down the hill near Easy Credit Autos with Stallion.

[GTAisAwesome2.0]

It was around 2008 when i got into GTA. I own an old refurbished PS2 and I decided to try GTA III because i liked True Crime. When I popped in GTA III for the first time, i fell in love. It had a dark gloomy atmosphere, and I was surprised that a game could capture such essence. Every time I would kill someone, I would feel guilty, but then when it became habit, I got a weird rush. I suck at GTA so i cheat constantly. I remember felling like i would never get to Stanton Island. I would use the flying car cheat and fly off the bridge trying so hard to make it across. When i finally did, I would ride around sight seeing. Now, I own the entire GTA III era games, and i still suck.

[E28]

At a frieinds house I played some kind of game, we went were free roaming and had endless fun stealing coaches from this coach depot. At the time I didn't know what game it was. When I saw GTA 3 on the app store just after Christmas, I looked at my £15 pound iTunes voucher, and bought it in a heartbeat. And while cruising Portland in a stolen Mafia Sentinel, I came across the very same coach depot. And I realised that that game, was GTA 3.

Today, GTA 3 is quite frankly one of the best games I have ever played.

This post has been edited by E28 on Tuesday, Feb 21 2012, 21:59

[finn4life]

I swear i posted in this topic.

I was playing III on my Galaxy S II just the other day (I had to restart the game because my first SGS2 broke) and i watched the first cutscene, and i felt like i was 10 years old again, it was crazy, the nostalgia was epic.
I remember when i first started, the noise of the cars, and the music, and the city, it was all so real! I did the first mission, then i just drove around doing what there was to do, i tried taxi missions, running cars off the road, jumps, everything you name it! It was a fast learning curve, i had never played anything like it.
The radio, the sounds, the things the peds say, it all goes together so well! I spent so so so so so many hours on that game, certainly more than any game now, even all my MP hours on Black ops.
I have spent whole weekends playing GTA III in the last 9- 10 years.

Man this reminiscing, it reminds me of San Andreas and VC so much as well....ahh the good times.

[LifeLessGT]

The torq Kuruma was my favorite car, Still is.
MSX FM, Rise FM,
Also I remember when trying to pass the destroyed bridge with a Banshee that was near 8-Ball's, that was covered in a glass showroom.
So much happned when I was 6 years old.
Now I have it all in the palm of my hand (:

This post has been edited by LifeLessGT on Saturday, Mar 3 2012, 13:13

[RatedRony]

GTA 3 was like my first ''REAL GAME'' that i really played... in 2005 when i got my first pc at the time i was like 11 or 12 years old friend gave me the discs! the biggest OMFG moment was when i shot pedestrian in head with sniper! i almost died

[gtaIII48]

I wasn't very good but I played alot and its pretty fun

[irganc]

Before I played it, my brother told me about it and I imagined as wery realistic game with a lot of options. I even saw game in the dream before I saw it in real life.

When I got gta3 on pc it was perfect and looked like in dreams and imaginations.

I was bad at driving and mose controls, because I had pc for firs time. Before that, played games only on NES or SEGA in 2d, so seeing 3d game was amazing and when I saw all the options, it was just undescribeable.

It's worlds best game even now, because nothing can repeat those feelings an memories, what gta3 create.

[Buffalo Soldier]

I only properly played GTA III in November 2011 - I mean I've played it before years ago, but not the whole story.

And I'm having a GTA Marathon and I'm now beginning GTA IV again, but right now I'm listening to Rise FM on YouTube, and even that creates nostalgia for the game and I only finished it 5 or 6 Months ago - it's not the best GTA game but you just know how big of an impact it had.

[Iain2001]

I bought GTA3 in November 2001, and loved the game right from the first moment I started playing it. It was brilliant the way you could tackle a mission anyway you wanted to, then just driving round listening to the brilliant Radio stations.

A fantastic game in a fantastic year for games.

[GTAction99]

I first played GTA III the day it came out for XBOX, I remember being at my cousins house and saying "This game is ssooo coool!" infact, I remember exactly what I was doing, I was at the place where you get the banshee, and then I remeber changing out the banshee for a diablo stallion, the stallion was found right next to the gas station that is located right next to the old car dealership where the banshee can be found.

I also want to let people know that GTA III was my first GTA!