GTA III Nostalgia

[Filip 420]

I do agree. I really can't choose which intro is the 'best', but GTA III definitely has a great one. I love hearing that amazing opening credit music.

 

 

I mean, me too, but its music makes me crazy and it's old-fashioned, gangsta, classic, etc.

 

 

GTA intros are cool in general.

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[Indy007 42]

I love the GTA intros! To be honest, I'd say GTA III is my favorite intro. The music is awesome! I recently found it and put it on my iPod. Great tune! Especially when driving through the city.

[B Dawg 10,242]

Haha when I first had the game, save files wouldn't load, and back then I didn't have an internet for the patch. So it was basically causing chaos, having fun with the cheats, flying with the tank to the other islands, or trying to do as many missions in one playthrough.

[polaris23 885]

My fondest memory of GTAIII has to be experiencing and exploring all the greatest glitches in the game, such as:

 

Figuring out how to get inside buildings (in particular, Joe's Garage or anywhere else that featured a unique interior) using a car and a Speed Up Gameplay code.

 

Looking for a so-called Purple Esperanto.

 

The mystery of the Seven Lifts

 

Finding the "You Know You Weren't Supposed To Be Able To Get Here" sign - genius.

 

Seeing Ray text us via beeper "See you in Miami!" and knowing that VICE CITY was going to be the next game in the series, and seriously being so excited for it.

 

And the best one, finding out that the game's first cutscene's location is hidden behind Shoreside Vale, dubbed "Ghost Town" - and all the Dodo flight/Tank flying that it took to get to it because it was immensely fascinating. Looking back at it, it's still so great, yet so small (compared to things like SA's hidden Liberty City and now V's North Yankton) but it started all the huge, hard-to-reach places and glitches that I love GTA for now.

Edited April 26, 2014 by polaris23

[wardswagg 0]

I remember the first day playing this as a kid in 2003 at ny cousin house man what a experience that was the. Graphics was so i was hook to this game. It amazes me playing it then came 2013 i bought all of them gta 3. Vice city and san andreas while already having the next gen gta games bruh. Lol my lilttle brother be sneaking on it lol im only 22 right now still got alot of years to have fun and hwy hey college and basketball haha the thing is with me is once i play gta 3 i couldnt put the controller down. It was dam amazing especially when u have that awsome cousin who brings dominos pizza bruh lol that was the life. Lol i still has all of them for ps2 and ipad2. Can u beleive it. Its amazing these games are still good haha

[Packing_Heat 73]

GTA3 is forever.

[wardswagg 0]

Soo at the time of 2003. I had true cime la as a kid bruh my cousin lets me play gta 3 for a short while lol. Soo thats when i got true crime la man it was awesome plus i felt like this was my own gta lol one day my cousin came. To our house and saw me playing it dude said how u get that and bruh u good ay true crime lol i was like yup lol then he said imma buy gta 3 for u i was like really then he said yeah. I was soo excited that when i first got it all i wanted to do was drive and at the time in 2003 i was a bad driver compare to true crime la lol but once i got use to it i started working on the guns and eventually the mission now imma be honest as a kid i could never beat the hard mission in the traid turf china town . then came 2004 omg. Gta vice city man i love it lol. But never bought it till 2009. By now i already has experience. U can probably guess how that went along with gta sa

[crashoverride93 120]

I can get all 8 hookers in fuzball using the sentinel parked near the spot where you rigged the forellies car with 55 seconds to spare.

[cryptorelic 1,003]

Grand Theft Auto III was the first game of the series i was getting into on PlayStation 2 in November 2001, got it for my birthday.

It was clearly the most amazing game available. I was 11 years old and got stuck at the mission where Salvador was trying to kill Claude.

I was constantly running into his setup trap, i didn't really bother reading what the top right pager said.

 

I just believed it was a game bug, and stopped trying. Found my way over to Staunton Island with a tricky jump on the destroyed bridge.

To access Shoreside Vale i was typing the "cars can fly" cheat in and nicely flow over the left out part on the bridge.

 

It didn't take long until some friends told me how to do the Salvador mission, and check, got it done.

Next mission i would stuck was to protect that convoy on it's way to Shoreside Vale from Staunton Island, many attempts, got it working after some days.

 

The probably most annoying mission on such a young age was Coffee 2 Go because i didn't realize i can drive around and the dots appear on my radar before shooting the first.

 

 

Awww, such great childhood memories. Rainy days, no school, Grand Theft Auto III.

Edited February 29, 2016 by DoubledRelic696

[Evil empire 2,661]

Driving in Chinatown with a reasonably fast car like the kuruma with the triads behaving friendly and listening to

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Seeing a group of hostile gangsters close to a wall, shoot them with the bazooka and see their limbs flying in the air.

 

Doing the firefighter mission, hit the cars to make them fly away or turn them upside down and see the explosion with pedestrians' limbs flying in the air.

 

Playing the taxi mission and earning something like 50000$ fastly and while having fun.

Edited September 12, 2019 by Evil empire

[Western Gunslinger 1,809]

My best memory is: Going to Portland Harbor, dump a car, and watch everybody falls into the waters , and then grabs a Baseball Bat and punch everyone there to steal their money

 

Such good memories....

[Jack Lupino 659]

1. The pedestrian and gang member quotes: Most memorable and funniest ever-

"Somebody call a medic"

"I am going to aruba!"

"In the navy!"

"You can sail the seven seas!"

"You want the chainsaw gringo?"

 

2. The chatterbox fm one of the best radio talkshow station in gta

 

3. The way the character Claude flips off to drivers of other cars

 

4. Salvatores mansion and the italian music that plays inside his house

 

5. The Banshee inside glasshouse in Portland

 

6. Riding in the subway(which is absent in later games until 4)

[NumberNineLarge 37]

1. Watching the trailer

 

2. Doing favors for Luigi and Salvatore

 

3. Changing into street clothes in Give Me Liberty

 

4. Taking down the Triads

[stef_92 931]

1. Asuka trying her chili oil on Miguel

[universetwisters 33,873]

Being like 7 years old and coming home from church on a sunday with my parents and then running to my room and turning my PS2 on to aimlessly drive around Portland and make up my own adventures in my head while listening to LIPS 106

[GrudgefromSanAndreas 754]

Liberty City's atmosphere in this game kinda reminds me of Gotham City

[Algonquin Assassin 49,682]

Being like 7 years old and coming home from church on a sunday with my parents and then running to my room and turning my PS2 on to aimlessly drive around Portland and make up my own adventures in my head while listening to LIPS 106

A 7 year old universetwisters playing GTA III would be a sight to behold. Parents everywhere would be flipping their sh*t that violent video games corrupt youth and turns them into psycho killers.

[Mr.ClaudeFan 99]

The day I discovered the tank cheat was the day I became a man

[Paisan™ 651]

During the mission 'Luigi's Girls' where you have to pick up Misty from the Hospital, An 8 year old me used to get in a car and drive her down to the docks and start random fights with people, because Misty is one of those aggressive AI that attacks anyone that punches, kicks, or shoots the Protagonist, like Mercedes in GTA VC. Anyways, I'd spend the whole time around the docks just beating people up with Misty...Those were the days...

[Lioshenka 1,019]

 

Being like 7 years old and coming home from church on a sunday with my parents and then running to my room and turning my PS2 on to aimlessly drive around Portland and make up my own adventures in my head while listening to LIPS 106

A 7 year old universetwisters playing GTA III would be a sight to behold. Parents everywhere would be flipping their sh*t that violent video games corrupt youth and turns them into psycho killers.

 

 

My 4yo brother enjoyed driving around Los Santos and turned out OK

[universetwisters 33,873]

 

Being like 7 years old and coming home from church on a sunday with my parents and then running to my room and turning my PS2 on to aimlessly drive around Portland and make up my own adventures in my head while listening to LIPS 106

A 7 year old universetwisters playing GTA III would be a sight to behold. Parents everywhere would be flipping their sh*t that violent video games corrupt youth and turns them into psycho killers.

I mean in hindsight, comparing GTA 3 to GTA 5 or any other modern game is like comparing the telletubbies to a snuff movie. But then again, there wasn't that hindsight back then.

[Jack Lupino 659]

GTA 3 is actually the most violent gta game.

From limbs and heads falling off,blood fountain,the sound when people get run over by car(Screeeech! Khrrrrr!!) to using of middle fingers infront of drivers.

This game taught me all evil things in life

[Evil empire 2,661]

I'll never get tired of the gore mod. Severing the arms, legs, shooting my enemies with a RPG only to leave a human trunk are pleasures my other GTA's don't offer.

 

I love the atmosphere in the streets when I do gang wars with the screams, everybody attacking me on sight, it's a delight, nearly as great as the San Andreas gang wars.

[Becko 3]

GTA III is the game I'm constantly coming back to when I want to replay one of the games from the series. Funny thing is, I think Vice City is probably objectively better, but there's something really special about III that draws me in every time.

[stef_92 931]

I'll never get tired of the gore mod. Severing the arms, legs, shooting my enemies with a RPG only to leave a human trunk are pleasures my other GTA's don't offer.

 

I love the atmosphere in the streets when I do gang wars with the screams, everybody attacking me on sight, it's a delight, nearly as great as the San Andreas gang wars.

Gore mod? This thing is by default. Well, unless you live in Australia or Germany. But even if you do, there is a cheat NASTYLIMBS (not sure if it was the same) tha enables this. However on Xbox and Mobile you don't have this due to the skinned geometry. Edited February 4, 2018 by stef_92

[Evil empire 2,661]

 

I'll never get tired of the gore mod. Severing the arms, legs, shooting my enemies with a RPG only to leave a human trunk are pleasures my other GTA's don't offer.

 

I love the atmosphere in the streets when I do gang wars with the screams, everybody attacking me on sight, it's a delight, nearly as great as the San Andreas gang wars.

Gore mod? This thing is by default. Well, unless you live in Australia or Germany. But even if you do, there is a cheat NASTYLIMBS (not sure if it was the same) tha enables this. However on Xbox and Mobile you don't have this due to the skinned geometry.

 

By default the french version is censored.

[Yinepi 1,447]

Driving around doing drive-bys in a teal Kuruma with Marilyn Manson's "mOBSCENE" on the user radio. Ah good old angst riddled teen me.

[DownInThePMs 2,324]

It hits a sweet spot between the demented aesthetic of the older GTA games from the 2D Universe and the "3D-ness" of the newer games. It also has really badass female characters that play important roles in the main storyline.

Edited September 12, 2019 by DownInTheHole

[Beato_dim 734]

I played through it during my first summer holidays in university, back in 2011. Was surprised to find out that 'Espresso-2-Go' is considered hard as I didn't really remember it as such; however, I did have a tough time beating 'S.A.M.'.

[Max.pain 1,743]

missions are very very nostalgic. i feel that classic dirty crime stories in them, just like in gta 4.