Grand Theft Auto III
Tags: neo noir

Plot synopsis:
While robbing a bank in Liberty City, ambitious criminal Claude is shot and betrayed by his girlfriend and accomplice Catalina (Cynthia Farrell). Although he survives the wound, Claude is arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison. While being transported in a prison van, Claude and fellow prisoner 8-Ball (Guru) are inadvertently freed after an attack on the police convoy, and escape to a safehouse. 8-Ball later introduces Claude to the Leone Mafia crime family; Sex Club 7 owner Luigi Goterelli (Joe Pantoliano), Don Salvatore Leone (Frank Vincent), his Capo Toni Cipriani (Michael Madsen), and the Don's son Joey Leone (Michael Rapaport). During work for the family, Claude finds himself fighting the Colombians, who are being led by Catalina in proliferating a new drug. Meanwhile, Salvatore's trophy wife Maria (Debi Mazar) begins to take a liking to Claude. Salvatore grows suspicious and betrays Claude into luring him to a death trap, but Maria saves him just in time and they both flee.
Claude then begins working for the city's Yakuza and its leader Asuka Kasen (Lianna Pai), Maria's close friend, who has Claude assassinate Salvatore and get his revenge. This cuts off all of Claude's ties with the Leone family, who are now against him. Claude's work leads him to allying himself with other criminal sources, such as corrupt police detective Ray Machowski (Robert Loggia), an enemy of the Cartel. Claude later saves him from Internal Affairs and the CIA by helping him flee to Vice City. Claude also meets charismatic media mogul Donald Love (Kyle MacLachlan), who maintains a huge media front. In an effort to start a war between the Yakuza and Cartel, Claude and Love organise the death of Asuka's brother Kenji Kasen (Les Mau) and blame the Cartel. Later, Love asks Claude to rescue a man who was kidnapped by the Cartel in the prison truck that Claude was in. While on an errand, Claude finally confronts Catalina, who narrowly escapes. Asuka abducts Catalina's partner Miguel (Al Espinosa), believing him to have knowledge of her brother's death.
With the war with the Cartel intensifying, Asuka and Maria learn of Claude's history with Catalina and order him to attack many Cartel operations. Eventually, his exploits attract the attention of Catalina. As a result, the Cartel kidnap Maria, murder Asuka and Miguel, and demand Claude to pay a $500,000 ransom in exchange for Maria's release. When Claude confronts Catalina, she attempts to have him killed, but he escapes. In the resulting firefight, Catalina attempts to flee in a helicopter and makes a final attempt on Claude's life. After killing the remaining Cartel members and rescuing Maria, Claude shoots down the helicopter, effectively killing Catalina. As they are leaving the scene, Maria complains to Claude about the kidnapping, particularly the state of her clothes and nails. During the credits, a gunshot is heard, and Maria's voice is silenced.

Review: Grand Theft Auto 3 is a violent, no holds barred (with cheats of course), racist and audacious video game.
To put it simply, Grand Theft Auto 3 is one of the very best video games, or any form of entertainment for that matter, ever made.
Well it may not be for everyone, due to the violent content, grammar, and sex, but hey it is a satire of everyday life, but mostly depicting a grimy, rough city, supposedly this is supposed to be New York, where you control a nameless(we shall learn his name in GTA:SA!) and speechless gangster who's been wronged by the gang he worked for, now he goes freelance in the Pulp Fiction-esquire environment of Liberty City, where you work for different gang factions, just to do their dirty work.
In the game Grand Theft Auto 3, your character is a man who has been betrayed, and left for dead by a partner in crime in Liberty City, where the only dirty word is hope.
Some people say this game is too violent, and after all I heard, when I played it the first time I expected tons of gore.
It's simply one of the greatest game experiences I've ever had, and it is extremely addictive (thank goodness I'm not someone who can play games and lose track of time, I would probably still think it's the day I bought the game).
Anyone who wants to experience this same feeling of a virtual 3-D world of sleek, stylish cars at your hands, taking out jobs for the mafia, and so many other fun things in this game, please play it.
And although you can choose how to fight them, you basically have to follow the whole level, the same way everyone else who plays the game does, left here, right there, watch out for that guy who pops out of the corner in 30 seconds, etc.) You can really explore Liberty City the way you want to.
Don't get me wrong the 2D versions was really fun but I'm sure that everyone who played it realised that the first attempt at sandbox innovation needed something more.Then after fading away for a few years I heard on the internet about GTA III.
A fun, entertaining tongue-in-cheek game, Grand theft Auto is likely to be your cup of tea..
My apologies to all for the first sentimental paragraph but I felt like I want to mention that due to the fact that GTA3 is more than 15 years old game now.
It was first (or one of) fully open world game in 3D - no more square boxes watched from the sky, you saw 3D models of people walking on the street, you could steal any car you want and of course - the legendary teenage approach back then was "you can get a hooker, have sex with her and then kill her with a baseball bat to get your money back"!!!
Some people played arcades, some played strategies, others preferred adventures - but everyone was playing GTA3.Nowadays, graphics and options might not be appealing anymore but me and all my friends will never forget Asuka whipping her peons, Toni Cipriani and his mother (we never saw), mechanic 8 Ball, Diablos - the lamest gang with the best car, Jamaican gang with their shitty lowriders and Columbians with jungle-like hats and boots in pick up trucks.
Left for dead by his girlfriend Catalina(she'll be our Saturday morning cartoon villain; the few occasions where you see her after that point, interest spikes) as they were running away from a just-completed robbery, Claude(nameless until his San Andreas cameo, and voiceless, yet still subtly somewhat characterized - he has attitude, nobody owns him) is then freed by his explosives-knowledgeable friend 8-Ball(...take one guess at his ethnicity), and, determined to get back the $70.000 that he stole fair and square, starts to work his way from the bottom to the top of organized crime in Liberty City(this universe's version of NY) - you will make enemies, your loyalties will have to be flexible, and you may just get doublecrossed.There is more story, albeit this is not propelled forward by it, and, especially with the ending, it does show that not that much was built onto this vague, as well as uncomplicated, base.
Some missions are fun, but I don't like being forced to do one, especially in the beginning of the game.Two- It's just not as fun as San Andreas and GTA 4.
Rated M for Violence,Language and Sexual Content.The Grand Theft Auto series started in 1998 with GTA1 and then the sequel,GTA2 in 1999.The first two games of the series were not very popular.But in 2001 GTA3 was a huge success and was very popular.It became one of the highest selling PS2 games.Is the game good?
Definitely.In 2001 when I played it at a friends house it was excellent.You were able to drive around a huge city and do almost anything.Not to mention the great storyline the game had.Of course now with GTA Vice City and San Andreas,this game does not seem AS good anymore but its still good.Of course the soundtrack isn't great compared to GTA Vice City and San Andreas but at least Flashback has the classic songs from Scarface on it(not all of the songs though).In this game you play a mute man who'se name is not said in the game but In San Andreas we find out it is Claude.Anyway you are betrayed by your girlfriend while robbing a bank.But on the way to prison something happens and you and a partner escape.From there you start doing missions for the mob and gain respect while taking revenge on your ex-girlfriend.GTA3 is almost impossible to find for the PC.I suggest buying a PS2 and getting the game.You wont regret it and the game will still seem good even if you have played the other GTA's before it.I just started the game but I heard this is the hardest one in the series.10/10.
I just finished playing Grand Theft Auto 3 for the second time, focusing on not using any cheats and getting 100%.
I know it sounds hyperbolic, but for me, the Grand Theft Auto games are really some of the best video games of all time, and number three is the one that started the excellence.What makes it so great is a combination of a few things.
It happens to be to my tastes, so I love it even more.All of the above is so brilliant that I have to wonder why after Grand Theft Auto 3, not every game is developed with a free roaming world and all of those other features.
It's as significant as the transition from text-based games, like the old Infocom titles, to graphics-based games, once computers gained enough power and memory to handle it.And as excellent as Grand Theft Auto 3 is, there are many areas that could be improved upon, especially as power and memory increase more in computers and gaming consoles.
As systems allow, the standard for new games should resemble a combination of Grand Theft Auto-styled worlds and sim games, where small decisions and actions have branching, complicated effects, including leading to different missions and outcomes.
As I said, I love the content of Grand Theft Auto and similar crime/violence games, but there's a lot else I'd love, too.
During the course of the game, I could interact with all kinds of things in all kinds of locations--like people, stores, minigames that involve skiing, and white water rafting and on and on, and some things that I do, some decisions that I make, might end up completely changing the goal of the game and the missions that I can follow.The above idea would take an incredible amount of computing power, an incredible amount of research and resources and programming hours and money, of course, but these are the kinds of goals we should be shooting for down the road, developing more complex free-roaming games on our way to get there.
The kinds of games I'd like to see will only be feasible with that approach, where future developers can incorporate and expand on previous developers' work.The Grand Theft Auto games should just be the beginning of this direction, not considered the ultimate expression of the direction that therefore we shouldn't copy and instead go back to games where you must play mission to mission by the numbers with players' characters in small, confined spaces with only a limited set of actions and interactions possible.
In some ways I like it better than Vice City, but then many improvements were made in the game play of Vice City.
Not only that, it is a HUGE improvement over Grand Theft Auto and GTA 2, which were very difficult games, which had horrible graphics and gameplay.
"Grand Theft Auto 3" is definitely the best game to come out for the PS2 since "Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty." The game takes place in Liberty City, where you take on the role of a low-life crook who wants to rise to the top of the criminal underworld.
When you steal anyone of these vehicles, you can drive someone to the hospital(ambulance), put out a fire(fire truck), drive people places(taxi), or even kill criminals(police car/FBI car/tank.) This game is truly excellent.
The only things that will probably keep me away from playing this game is when I have to go eat dinner or I find something better to play which is not likely to happen for a long time.
10/10 P.S.: A few words of advice about "Grand Theft Auto 3": To people who get a police wanted level of six, which is the highest in the game and that is when the military starts to chase you.
It is a pretty good idea not to get into a regular car afterwards.When you are getting chased by the military, it is a good idea to take cover some place because when you're in plain view of the soldiers, they will try to shoot at you.There is an "increased gore" code that when activated will cause people's limbs to be blown off when you shoot at them.You really should not go into gangland territories that you have already surpassed in the game because when you do, they will shoot at you.Always be on the look out for cops because as soon as you commit a crime, they're on you until you're dead or busted..
Like pretty much everyone else back in the day, I fell in love with the sandbox variety of "Grand Theft Auto III".
This game is like no other GTA game I've ever played, and it is definitely the best one out of all of them.
The game series Grand Theft Auto is amazing because of its freedom or Liberty.
Murder, rob, steal cars (or Grand Theft Auto), do missions, heck' you can even work as a cab driver, policeman, fireman or ambulance driver.
I would highly recommend it.You play as the "silent" (he doesn't say a single word through the hole story) character Claude (you find out his name in the 6th installment in the Grand Theft Auto series).
This is definitely my favourite PS2 game of all time the best things were the cars,the weapons and abilities I even this to San Andreas because of the better cars,graphics,and the Purple Nines gang is just awesome,they are totally my favourite and everything about them was great like their vans,their Purple outfits,their quotes and their territory and every time I play this wonderful game, I enter the change character cheat again and again until i get to run around as a Purple Nine and do fun things like fly to secret areas such as Donald Loves garden on the top of Love Media and see how fast i can drive the Infernus AKA Lamborghini Diablo and go into Saint Marks and see if I can get out alive its just wonderful!
They hate Grand Theft Auto for demeaning satirical stereotypes of females and say "Violence and Sex is wrong", yet, the feminazis would love the play games where they would be butch girls raping and castrating men.
There is a lot of controversy surrounding the game almost every week, people seem that every time some crack-headed teen steals a car they have to put the blame on someone and that someone is Grand theft auto 3.
The Good: It has a nice story that is fun to expierence, it has great value towards it, the cars are cool to drive in this game, going on rampages can be fun at points, and all the actors who do the voices of the characters do a good job.
The Bad: The graphics suck, it can get broing if you play it a lot, not as good as Vice City, if you don't use cheat codes then it'll be hard for you to enjoy this game, it's not that fun just to kill people over and over, the ending is horrible, and some other mistakes ruin what everyone calls the best game ever..
Grand Theft Auto 3 i think is another fantastic game to play.
The depth of the game, the flexibility, the side missions, and graphics and gore, the acting (voices), and the over-all package make this one of the all-time greats.
This has got to be the best video game ever.The features this game has is just to good for other games to beat,Its a real living city where you can just do about anything in it,Kill people,jack people's car's,ride boats,it has gangs,3 island's which make up the city,the city is called Liberty City which is supposed to be New York,Each Island represents a part of New York,Portland is the first island you live on which is Queens,Staunton Island is the second island which is Manhattan and the thrid island is Shoreside Vale which is New Jersey.
I mean this game has everything youll expect from a city,Guns which are the best thing about the game u can either buy them or take them off the floor which dead police or dead gangsters left.It has its missions which i wont tell you about.So people who havent got it,Pick up your copy from your nearest games shop.Rating 9/10.
With about 60 missions, 3 massive citys, freedom to do whatever you want and numerous other things this game will last even the most avid fan a long time.
It is unlike any other game, where you work for the forces labeled as "bad" (gangs) and bend the laws of the forces of "good" (cops), where you are the antihero.GTA3 is a carefully woven plot that is easy to follow yet complex at times.
The three islands are full of detail and are also very large, that you might find yourself constantly getting lost.GTA3 is a revolutionary game, as it is like an interactive movie where you must play to unfold the rest of the plot full of double crossing, assassination, and constant fighting.
"GTA3" takes all the best parts of a good gangster movie (mafia ties, betrayal, endless bloodshed) adds a lot of humor elements, mixes it all with great sound and graphics, and slaps it all in the best PS2 game available.
Although extremely violent and bloody, Grand Theft Auto 3 is one of those games that you actually feel you're a part of.
When I have a bad day, it's nice to play GTAIII and take out my frustrations on the unsuspecting citizens of Liberty City.This game is fun if you already have a developed sense of right and wrong.
Crashing into cars is not just extremely fun, but a great way (aside from killing people and stealing from them) to earn enough money to buy weapons if you don't want to use codes.
I recommend GTA3 to absolutely anyone who can stand a bit of violence and profanity and wants to have the most fun a video game can provide..
Some are timed missions, some are simple tasks, others are best explained by the game itself.You can steal any car you lay your hands on and sell them.
I still like GTA's layout better than 3's due to its ONE city mentality.Anyways, this excellent adult game to play for those guys/gals over 18 years old.
It is the most fun I've had playing a game for a long time.
Grand Theft Auto 3 has got to be the best violent game ever.
For example: steal a taxi cab and you can pick up pedestrians and take them where ever they want, my favorite was the fire truck, you steal a fire truck and you can actually go to a burning building and put out a fire, its really cool.I recommend GTA3 whether you are getting the Xbox or the PS2 version its all up to you, but either way you may be possibly seeing and playing the best violent game ever made..
First up, I have what's good about it, and what's bad.Good:  It lead to Grand Theft Auto Vice City, one of the best games ever.Bad:  The fact that this junk exists.
I was lucky enough that my parents didn't give a care what video games I played as long as I stayed out of their hair.Story GTA 3 is set in Liberty City – the filthiest city in America!
The good: It started a revolution of bringing the ps2 to it's potential, nice free roaming and a compelling storyline which is better than most films.The bad: The main character has no voice acting.GTA3 was a revolution for games.
A good, fun, and a long lasting game to play overall and well worth the money..
Grand Theft Auto 3 is by far the first game of its kind I played.