Really Really Good Game!
Ok so it was coming up to christmas about four to five years ago, and i decided to ask my nan to buy me a plsyatstion 2 game for christmas as i was also getting a ps2. I cant remember what the game was but it had nothing to do with GTA. At that time i didnt know a thing about GTA i just thought it was another one of those average games that gets boring after a bit of time. Anyway she ordered the game i wanted but getting closer to christmas, she recieved a phonecall telling her the game had been delayed everywhere until february of the next year and so she had to tell me. I looked back in the catalogue which she ordered her christmas gifts from and couldnt see any decent looking games. GTA3 was there but i didnt know if it was good or bad, i had no idea what it was about. Id heard and seen about it on television advertisements and in a magazine (i didnt bother reading the article id just looked at the few screenshots), and therefore got a brief idea of what it looked like. Finally, i decided to choose that game. Leading up to christmas i wasnt that fussed about my nans gift as i didnt really want GTA3 that much. Christmas came and i opened all my gifts which included my ps2 and a few games for it including GTA3. I went upstairs to my room, set it all up and stuck one of my ps2 games in to try it out (not GTA3) and started playing and it was an amazing experience. After playing for 10 minutes i got bored and decided to play another game. My next choice of game was GTA3 as i was very curious as to what it was. So i placed it in the disc tray, booted it up and the theme tune came on with the intro credits. I thought hmmm looks good so far, and so i waited and watched it all and then waited for it to get past the loading screen. Then it started. I skipped past the intro cutscene and decided to drive out from the bridge and get out of the car that 8-ball was in. Then i went exploring!. I was so amazed because it was nothing like id ever played before! and to me it was like a miracle game because there was so much freedom in it as you could just roam around the city and go wherever you liked on foot or in stolen vehicles. From the minute of first playing it, i knew that i would be playing this game a lot more!
I have been a massive GTA fan ever since that day and i couldnt wait to get my hands on Vice City as soon as i knew it was on the shelves. And same goes for san andreas, i spent about an hour a day just not being able to take my eyes off the official GTASA flash website leading up to the games release date.
GTA3 has to be the best GTA game out on the ps2, not because of its features or anything like that, but simply because it was extremely suprising to all gamers on release because nothing as big as this game had ever been released before it came out and therefore it was something different for everyone to play. The gameplay was a big suprise to everyone!
As for the storyline, its brilliant with all the mafia and the yakuza and the cartel, its all just simply amazing!
Although it does not have as many features as VC and SA, gamers will still respect this game and play it a lot because of the actual game itself and the very addictive gameplay/story within.
Overall, all i can say is go out and buy this game if you dont already have it, which you probably do have it but then again if you dont, go buy it!
Highly Reccomended.