I remember getting a ps2 as a kid, and my dad buying me grand theft auto 3. I was into cars at the time and he thought it was just a racing game, neglecting the 18+ rating. And I think that was the best thing he ever did.
I remember playing this at my cousins place and whenever his mom walked in we'd just stay in the car and drive around so she wouldn't realize how violent it was for the time.
@@snuff6387 no joke, I hadn’t been driving very long and after that first all-nighter the next time I got in the car I had very real urges to drive over sidewalks and generally just ignore driving conventions. Maybe I was just dumb 😂
i was also a freshman in high school. my best friend and i would skip school and play it at his house while his mom was at work. on the weekends i'd stay the night and we'd open his bedroom window, sneak outside and smoke weed, then sneak back inside and play gta iii all night. some of my favorite memories of my whole life.
GTA 3: most evolved GTA title compared to the previous version. GTA Vice City: best soundtracks and style and atmosphere GTA San Andreas: most expanded GTA with RPG elements and insane amount of content and details and little things to do, also the most polished gameplay out of the three.
@@Suumac_, The best story for sure. I would say GTA V (Story Mode) is the pinnacle. Most of the main story missions involve a shootout or a car chase. The story might be all over the place but it sure is fun.
I actually like unlocking the islands. That feeling was amazing back in the day. You felt like you were exploring a secret area when you first crossed the bridge.
20 years ago I was 9 years old and I can confirm that fact #9 is 100% accurate. Back then all I ever did was go around driving, shooting, and destroying everything. This time around I’ll finally try to actually do the first mission.
Same, because when I was young, I used to play GTA SA in the living room so my family can listen chracters cursing and mission was hella hard at that momment. And not the flying school or the wrong side of the track, but instead the first mission. Yeah, the one where you need to use bike to back to Grove Street
@@justlixian293 SA was the first one I actually played the missions but ya that first mission was annoying I think it was the first GTA to use a Bicycle.
flying the Dodo was easy. Start at the longest runway and keep it DOWN on the ground by pressing up on the stick for as long as possible. Once it reaches a certain speed, it wants to take off by its own. You must simply force it down to the runway to gain more speed.
@@sikliztailbunch I think you are confusing taking off with "flying". lol GETTING the dodo off the ground was the easy part. KEEPING it off the ground is where it became a nightmare.
@@RaptorNX01 I clearly don´t confuse that. With a little practice, you were able to fly around. I don´t say easily. The controls were definitely hard but it was totally possible to keep it in the air
@@sikliztailbunch with the tank you just had to use the flying car cheat, point your barrel backwards and shoot, you could fly long distances easily. From my memory it was 100 times easier to master, but perhaps that was just perception because seeing everything blow of behind you while you flew away in a tank? That’s what child dreams are made of right there!
Hope Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories can get a similar treatment, if these 3 turn out good. More people need to experience these underrated titles.
Out of the Trilogy, I played 3 the most, for the longest. Only one I actually completed and it was just fun to play with friends and pass the controller around. This package will probably last me till the holidays next year, no joke. I'm going to take my sweet time with each of them, planning on going for 100% with each game.
me too. there was absolutely nothing out there that was like this. a HUGE leap for videogames, an even bigger leap for mankind. damn now that i think about it, i think i might've spent more time on Vice city tho
I plan to do the same. The difference is, I’ve never played any of them. I was 4 when San Andreas came out. They were before my time and I never owned a ps2. But I’m so fucking excited to play these. I always felt like the HD GTA games felt ‘off’, like they were missing the point of what made them popular. This trilogy looks like the purest distillation of the GTA dna in the best way possible
I'm doing the same. I played the original versions, but now that achievements will be added, graphics are polished, and they are on the xbox one (I refused to buy the mobile port that was the 360 digital version) I'm finally gonna 100% all of them. Same thing I did with mafia trilogy.
Ive been literally waiting every single minute of every day until this comes out!!! Im stuck at home for health reasons and literally cannot wait!!! Im going to re-100% all 3 games!!
I was 12 years old when GTA 3 was first released - luckily my dad bought me a copy. I was absolutely obsessed and it set a high bar for my taste in videogames. Very few companies hit the quality of a good ol' Rockstar game!
Quality was abundant at that time with game developers adding as much content as possible before launch was a industry wide goal. Nowadays they strip every piece of content as they feel they can get away with and sell it in chunks. Along with lootboxes, microtransactions, season passes and multi-tiered price points. Anybody of the younger generation that thinks this is better than it used to be is insane.
rockstar is lazy and greedy now. We're not gonna see GTA6 until they bleed all the money they possibly can out of people still buying things in GTA 5 online
This is hands down the biggest turning point in gaming history for me. It was UNBELIEVABLE when it was released. Better than you could imagine a game to be!
Speaking of car bombs, one thing I did occasionally was add one to a car I was using because in this game, a specific NPC will sometimes steal your car like you do to everyone else. And it's so satisfying to watch them drive away and then detonate the bomb.
Street criminals 2 npc's One black guy with a red hoddie that look like a diablo and a red jack had a baby. One white guy with a black shirt and blue shorts in middle of late autmn. Funny thing is every bomb shop has different approach to bombs. In Portland bomb shop you prime it and it goes off only when somebody enters it. In staunton you prime it and it goes off on itself after around 5 seconds when you get out. In shoreside vale you get a detonator and you are completely in charge of the explosion.
Wow, this trilogy actually brings back memories. Like waiting in line at EB games for my preordered copy of San Andreas. I ran home with my copy faster than Charlie Bucket with the golden ticket.
Dude I had pre-ordered it from the Target right down the street from me... 13 years old... Man I remember that day like it was yesterday. Picking it up after school and playing non stop all night lol
People playing these games for the first time as this version will never know the struggle of having to find your way around the cities. Back then all Rockstar told us in the manuals was to keep your destination north and keep driving that way. LOL At least for GTA3 and Vice City cause I believe they put a waypoint system in SA.
when u finally realize that it all came together. the fact that @gameranx released these videos in the games story chronological order. VICE CITY, SAN ANDREAS, GTA 3
When I was a little kid my only friend that had a PC good enough to "run" GTA 3 invited us over to play it, and I remember all of us coming over to his house everyday after school to play it. We beat the whole game at like 2 FPS, not exaggerating it was like a slideshow, but we enjoyed it so much and it was so different from anything we ever played that we absolutely loved every minute of it.
Here's only one thing you need to know: we're less than three days away from release and t2/rockstar have not yet shown any actual gameplay from the definitive edition.
@@Daniel-pi5qd "prettier" can be subjective. I know some people don't care because it's a really tiny detail, but the missing zipper on Tommy's track suit and some other texture alterations in the published screenshots really bother me and don't bode well for the quality of the final product.
@@locolama I agree, my version of prettier for the game is really just the better lighting and how things are more clear, I’m really just buying it for the better shooting, as someone who could never get into gta vice city and couldn’t beat SA because of the controls this is a game changer as long as it truly is a “game changer”
Another fun thing to do is turn the turrets around on the tank and keep firing to gain speed, head for the bridge and hit the jump and you'll go flying
I remember being amazed and in awe when I first played GTA 3 shortly after its release. I remember building my vast criminal empire and flying the Hunter helicopter while rocking out to some of the best music from the 80s in Vice City. I remember being baffled by the size and complexity of San Andreas.... and now, so many years later... I'm eager to revisit all of that, with better graphics and game controls to boot!
Im so proud to have experienced this as a child back in the day, I honestly preferred the trilogy over the newer game’s due to how connected everything felt
GTAIII was my favorite out of the original trilogy. I still have my R* keychain from the special edition lockbox from the original PS2 launch. Been on my keychain for 20 years now!
I was blown away by this. There was some amazing jumps. Common practice, your on a mission.. Look a jump! Abandons mission and tries the jump with a variety of different cars.
Oh man I miss hanging with my friend and we would take turns seeing who could last the longest on 5 stars. (We were kids but now that I am grown i am sooo getting lit and bringing the mayhem)
When I played GTA3 when it came out and i was a kid. The plane was so much fun because i wasn't expecting it; it seemed on a very small scale revolutionary to an extent at the time, and i never thought about the garbage nature of it until later on when my babysitter at the time was showing me how to actually play the game.
They should actually bring back the island unlocking feature. It builds anticipation and is embedded into the story. I still remember how excited I felt on Portland, looking across to Staunton Island and imagining what more fun was in store. Every square foot matters in those classic GTAs and you're pushed to specific corners of the map for real reasons, forced to play in a new environment. In GTA V, the countryside is largely pointless. This is why many say San Andreas feels BIGGER even though it's obviously not.
@MR. CLAW! Agreed. GTA V was just too easy. Mostly, Rockstar fell in love with cool cutscenes. Yes, the story is fun. But in terms of actual mission gameplay, all the classic 3D GTA's have way better missions.
Didn't really get too much into III, think I only made it about halfway. I think mostly because the protagonist never talked. Your point about about the game focusing on blowing stuff up and it being a bit more arcade is true. That also reflects how GTA 1 and 2 were. I played a lot of GTA 2 and it is pretty much exactly how you described this game.
I had very little experience with this trilogy as a kid because I wasn’t allowed to have it back in the day. Still had all 3 though, however, I had to hide the fact that I played them so I couldn’t go beat them 100%. Just did gta 3 and vice city for the first time. Working on San Andreas now. Great games
GTA 3 is probably my favorite out of the entire franchise. I just had so much fun playing that game over and over again. It was unlike any other game I have ever played at that point of time. Just the nostalgia of it makes me want to buy the remaster so I can relive the memories. It will be like getting reacquainted with a long lost friend.
Very fond memories of playing these games. People who didn't play these back in the day will never know the struggle of trying to find all the hidden packages with only a tiny picture and vague location description in guide books.
Honestly I think the unlocking of the islands was a better way to address the overwhelming vastness of open worlds. It would have been better if the first and second islands continued a little further than they did with more missions after the third was unlocked. The third island was extremely lacking
The reason they left the main character nameless/voiceless is so that the player can use their own imagination as to his back story. We don’t learn he is called “Claude” until San Andreas
I was never allowed to play any of the OG GTA’s releasing in the trilogy. Granted I was mad young, I’ve only played IV and V so far! I am mad hyped to get to experience these games for the very first time. I hope these games live up to the hype
Although I'm looking forward to San Andreas the most because it's my favourite from the series I will say that GTA 3 might have the most improvements for it being the first of the 3D GTA Universe and the oldest. Kind of like Mass Effect 1 in the Legendary Edition.
I still have the physical copies for PS2. I remember how I felt looking at my GTA Online character on PS3 after playing for years on PS4 and don't want to do that again.
Those who never got to experience it at all.. Me: "and I took that personally." I had the game but I had no save card for my ps2 and the disk was a hand me down so there was a 20% chance for it to work for about 10 minutes before it crashed.
Ah yes, impromptu demo discs. I've had a few of those in my time. How far can you make it in the game before it freezes and you have to start all over?
I can't believe we're living in an age where Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic are all coming to a Nintendo console, and a portable one at that. And on the same day too! It's nothing short of incredible! These games were a huge part of my adolescent years, and I’ll soon be able to take them with me wherever I go!
I remember back in the day i was up in my friends house and he told me his older brother had just got a new ps2 and GTA3. I asked him could i see it ?? So we went down to his brothers room and my jaw just dropped when i seen this game playing 🤯 i saved up my wages over 2 weeks with work and went and bought a Ps2 and GTA3. This game made me buy the system and I've some great memories of playing it and Vice City with my friends and a few beers 🍻 and a few smokes 😉
i loved the driving in this game it was so satisfying i hope , it still is. also the radio in this one was my favorite. from commercials to reed and lazlow. the cooking show and everything else I've heard it all, i remember the shooting with the M4 and mini gun being so over the top and feeling so intense. i feel like the civilians in this one were the most lively with random shit happening if you just stood around. some missions were crazy hard because of the mechanics i loved about this game but very fun non the less
I don't know about the pedestrians being the most lively, I feel like San Andreas takes it for that one. Especially the random police chases you can come across with the pedestrians. I've seen some wild police chases on San Andreas lol.
When I first started playing this game I was 6-7, my older brothers had it on our pc and I loved doing the firefighter missions along with the ambulance and I spent hours watching the magnet put the cars into the crusher. I also use to go down to the subway and just roam in there because I didn’t know how to use the train lol now in 2023 I’m playing it on my iPhone and the game is still as fresh as I remember it being. Still very fun doing the basic things.
Now this is a game that I played a lot, a mean... A LOT! Cause back in these days I didn't had much games. But have being so long, that I barelly remember it. I remember NPCs saying "hey paisano!" for some reason. XD
Seeing as they've gone in and actually fully remade some assets in the game, changed up the controls and added in quality of life features such as a Weapon wheel and waypoints on the mini map. I hope they've also gone as far as to actually tweak the feel of the gameplay itself within the game. So not only make the control layout more modern, but made the gameplay itself feel more modern as well. I'm not asking for it to be exactly like GTAV. I'm simply asking that the gameplay is updated a bit so it is less annoying to go back to. Fact is, these games haven't aged well at all. GTA III and Vice City are in my opinion annoying to go back to. So if they could just make a bit more tight and responsive then that would go along way. Such as the actual aiming. I bet that we are getting free aiming in them this time around. But i hope it feels more responsive than it potentialy could feel. I'm aware these are old game. I'm not asking that they make them new. I know it's a remaster. But quality of life changes shouldn't be too much to ask for. They've gone far enough that i think it's a fiar thing to ask. I do hope we get some reviews out a day prior so i can know what i'm getting into before i buy it.
The game was hard. The missions were semi hard but what made it difficult to complete objectives was how when you mucked up a gang, they held long term grudges. Like, you couldn’t go the mafia area without goons pulling out shotguns and lighting your ass up. Which made it hard to to go to certain areas to collect the hidden packages if you didn’t clear them all the first time you visited. The packages had the perk of giving you weapons at your hideout so they were super useful. But once you go the second island, the first was virtually impossible to drive through without a whole tank.
I spent so much time trying to fly the dodo. I remember when I finally got it going and flew around for like 5 to 10 minutes straight. I was so excited when I got it to actually fly. there was a flying car cheat too. you could turn the turret around on the tank and shooting it like that would give you boost in the air. Best game ever. Also loved the sentinel xs. I think you could get it near salvitore's house. my memory is hazy not sure if all this is accurate or not its been a long time.
Oh man. My first GTA on the ps2 back in the early 2000s. I remember the chaos, the police chases, some of the fun missions, side mission, etc. and when I had nothing to do just pretend to be a pedestrian or put bombs in my vehicles and have the criminals steal it so they blow up. I had so much fun in this game
Honestly. I beat Vice City and III remastered before i saw any of these review videos. And i loved them. Nothing was really noticably wrong to me. Everything was playable and i had a good time. They took me back to my ps2 days. Everyone quit bitching so much. The games are almost 20 years old. I think they were easier to play then the original versions. In my opinion only fixes they need are the bridges in SA and the rain. Other then that. I really liked and enjoyed the definitive edition
Played gta 3 when i was 7.. installed using 2 discs...did not finish it coz it was really tough... finished ALL gta games during lockdown..now playing LA noire and Saints row..cant wait for this to come out
When I originally played GTA 3, I got to Shoreside Vale without doing the missions required to get there by using a cheat and jumping a tank over the missing bridge. Got into the stadium the same way.
Actually you kind of can get in an ambulance and start responding to hails from dispatch. However, I wouldn't recommend doing so. Your colleague probably won't appreciate it and you might get into a little bit of trouble.
My parents had a ps2 hidden behind the TV I didn't know about until 2002-3. I was 4th grade when I found it while exploring. Gta3 was in the system and that was that. From 4th-8th grade I played gta3 almost daily. Sometimes missions, sometimes chaos, sometimes using cheats to make my car invisible and fly and pretend it was the Ford Anglia from Harry Potter. God I can't wait to go back to liberty city.
I have some of the cheats memerized from the heart. R1 R2 L1 X Left Down Right Up Left Down Right Up. Is the one i used the most, there are variations of it for the guns also where u replace X with R2 or Square or something.. Its been awhile so my memory is foggy but the basis is there for multiple cheats with the same/similer input... Man im going to enjoy playing gta vice city and san andreas
Hey something I wish you or Jake would point out when making a video about stuff to get excited for GTA Trilogy is, we can now maybe make even better and more high quality assets and mods for them bcuz it's in Unreal Engine and with a modern engine the potential for the modding community is even greater for these games now.
I remember being a senior in hs when this game came out and going to a friend's house to play it after school.Still have 3,Vice City and San Andreas on my playstation 2. Ah the memories....🎮
Rise FM introduced me to Trance music and similar genres. I was a kid obsessed with that type of music- and I needed more! Still listening to trance and electronic music to this day🤗
For anyone new to this game. Finish the people’s missions in the order you get them for 100% as if you don’t you miss the missions and have to start over. Read walkthroughs :) also I don’t remember an in game map on ps2 I used the paper map in box
GTA 3 was my first ever Mature rated game. I think people tend to overlook GTA 3 in favor of San Andreas for best PS2 game, but honestly? GTA 3 was the most groundbreaking in terms of when it came out and how mindblowing it was at the time. It was something revolutionary. I remember using the dodo cheat and spawning a tank and aiming the turret backwards and flying all the way to Shoreside Vale for the first time ever that day. I also never bothered to play past the Leone family missions until like 5 years later. This was the absolute best game of the series. Honestly I really hope they let you go with the old school controls. I really miss using the X button for the gas, circle for the handbrake, and square for reverse. I honestly hate trigger gas/reverse.
GTA 3 pure nostalgia I was so young that I never ever beat the opening mission I just mobbed around constantly… till my parent’s realized what gta was lmaooo im finally going to beat the first mission :,]
When this game came out it was my dream come true. I was a sophomore in highschool and made a few bucks during the summer and saved up to buy a PS2 just for this game. Ended up having to buy clothes for school instead. This game changed gaming forever though. The soundtracks including hilarious talk radio, the mayhem, the crazy characters, diving into street, organized and corporate crime. Can't wait to visit again.
9 is spot on. With my friends, we would not even play the story. We would just see who can cause the most chaos and reach 6 stars (and how long we could survive)
I remember getting a ps2 as a kid, and my dad buying me grand theft auto 3. I was into cars at the time and he thought it was just a racing game, neglecting the 18+ rating. And I think that was the best thing he ever did.
this is very wholesome in a way.
When gta3 came out you could count on one hand the amount of 18+ rated games at the time
It was!!
my parents never checked what we play. they always complained for playing but never checked what we play
🤣 cool you popped your gaming cherry🤣 my first was gta san Andreas
I was a freshman in high school when this game came out and I pulled my first all-nighter playing it after I got it for Christmas.
I remember playing this at my cousins place and whenever his mom walked in we'd just stay in the car and drive around so she wouldn't realize how violent it was for the time.
@@snuff6387 no joke, I hadn’t been driving very long and after that first all-nighter the next time I got in the car I had very real urges to drive over sidewalks and generally just ignore driving conventions. Maybe I was just dumb 😂
I was barely born when this came out
i was also a freshman in high school. my best friend and i would skip school and play it at his house while his mom was at work. on the weekends i'd stay the night and we'd open his bedroom window, sneak outside and smoke weed, then sneak back inside and play gta iii all night. some of my favorite memories of my whole life.
@@anthonyfernandez82 Oh man, that’s cool. *turns to dust*
GTA 3: most evolved GTA title compared to the previous version.
GTA Vice City: best soundtracks and style and atmosphere
GTA San Andreas: most expanded GTA with RPG elements and insane amount of content and details and little things to do, also the most polished gameplay out of the three.
And then there's gta IV, the pinnacle of the franchise
San Andreas...can climb a fence and also not drown in the water.
@@Suumac_ I mean in terms of story telling yes
@@IllMatic97 in terms of everything
@@Suumac_, The best story for sure. I would say GTA V (Story Mode) is the pinnacle. Most of the main story missions involve a shootout or a car chase. The story might be all over the place but it sure is fun.
I actually like unlocking the islands. That feeling was amazing back in the day. You felt like you were exploring a secret area when you first crossed the bridge.
B- but shoreside Vale isn't an idland
20 years ago I was 9 years old and I can confirm that fact #9 is 100% accurate. Back then all I ever did was go around driving, shooting, and destroying everything. This time around I’ll finally try to actually do the first mission.
That's all I ever did in any of the trilogy's games.
Same, because when I was young, I used to play GTA SA in the living room so my family can listen chracters cursing and mission was hella hard at that momment. And not the flying school or the wrong side of the track, but instead the first mission. Yeah, the one where you need to use bike to back to Grove Street
@@justlixian293 SA was the first one I actually played the missions but ya that first mission was annoying I think it was the first GTA to use a Bicycle.
20 Years ago I was 7 years old when I played GTA 3
For real, I played the crap out of GTA 3 and I've still never been past the first island, lmao.
Claude voice actor was the best
Wow
Whoever doesnt agree with that is stupid
Man I never heard that one before…
One of my favorite quotes from Claude in GTA 3 was " " it nearly brought me to tears.
Only you seriously could've said that "ignorant statement", thanks.
Even the tank was easier to fly than the dodo!
I was thinking the same thing. lol I miss that mechanic.
flying the Dodo was easy. Start at the longest runway and keep it DOWN on the ground by pressing up on the stick for as long as possible. Once it reaches a certain speed, it wants to take off by its own. You must simply force it down to the runway to gain more speed.
@@sikliztailbunch I think you are confusing taking off with "flying". lol GETTING the dodo off the ground was the easy part. KEEPING it off the ground is where it became a nightmare.
@@RaptorNX01 I clearly don´t confuse that. With a little practice, you were able to fly around. I don´t say easily. The controls were definitely hard but it was totally possible to keep it in the air
@@sikliztailbunch with the tank you just had to use the flying car cheat, point your barrel backwards and shoot, you could fly long distances easily. From my memory it was 100 times easier to master, but perhaps that was just perception because seeing everything blow of behind you while you flew away in a tank? That’s what child dreams are made of right there!
Hope Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories can get a similar treatment, if these 3 turn out good. More people need to experience these underrated titles.
I liked vice city stories I hope so to that would be nice
They won't those are handheld games with auto aim.
Rockstar call this the definitive edition, and don't include Stories...
If they don't make them a DLC I'd be pissed off.
@@lalo38th41 🤦🏻♂️ my guy Vice City Stories was in Ps2. Do research first.
@@lalo38th41 you’re embarrassing yourself. Both Liberty and Vice City Stories were ported to the PS2.
Out of the Trilogy, I played 3 the most, for the longest.
Only one I actually completed and it was just fun to play with friends and pass the controller around.
This package will probably last me till the holidays next year, no joke.
I'm going to take my sweet time with each of them, planning on going for 100% with each game.
Real Talk…. GTA 3 revolutionised the GTA franchise.
me too. there was absolutely nothing out there that was like this. a HUGE leap for videogames, an even bigger leap for mankind. damn now that i think about it, i think i might've spent more time on Vice city tho
Good luck, brother!
I plan to do the same. The difference is, I’ve never played any of them. I was 4 when San Andreas came out. They were before my time and I never owned a ps2. But I’m so fucking excited to play these. I always felt like the HD GTA games felt ‘off’, like they were missing the point of what made them popular. This trilogy looks like the purest distillation of the GTA dna in the best way possible
I'm doing the same. I played the original versions, but now that achievements will be added, graphics are polished, and they are on the xbox one (I refused to buy the mobile port that was the 360 digital version) I'm finally gonna 100% all of them. Same thing I did with mafia trilogy.
Ive been literally waiting every single minute of every day until this comes out!!! Im stuck at home for health reasons and literally cannot wait!!! Im going to re-100% all 3 games!!
Enjoy my friend i chose to go for the handheld Switch version though i could’ve went for PS5 edition
@Goro Majima I like your name
I am super excited as well. I got a couple Xbox cards to pre order it and I can't stop thinking about it lol
Get better soon
stuck inside too as i have covid, can’t wait
I was 12 years old when GTA 3 was first released - luckily my dad bought me a copy. I was absolutely obsessed and it set a high bar for my taste in videogames. Very few companies hit the quality of a good ol' Rockstar game!
Im guessing he didn't care about the age rating? XD. So many kids play gta then actual adults
@@DarkRavenWolf50 If you know your kid and he's not highly influencable and knows clearly the difference between games/reality it's okay imo
Quality was abundant at that time with game developers adding as much content as possible before launch was a industry wide goal. Nowadays they strip every piece of content as they feel they can get away with and sell it in chunks. Along with lootboxes, microtransactions, season passes and multi-tiered price points. Anybody of the younger generation that thinks this is better than it used to be is insane.
rockstar is lazy and greedy now. We're not gonna see GTA6 until they bleed all the money they possibly can out of people still buying things in GTA 5 online
Back in 2001, 17 years old, me and 5 of my friends chillin around the PS2 in my lounge room taking turns going on rampages. Good times
Same cept 21 :-(
Lol I was 18.
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I was 17 or 18 as well. We did the same thing passing the controller around.
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gta 3 to me seems like it'll benefit the most out of this remaster.
Probably it has the most Radical Changes to it.
I just love gta sa as is, its remaster might be good or bad
Idk why but I’m most excited to try it
This is hands down the biggest turning point in gaming history for me.
It was UNBELIEVABLE when it was released. Better than you could imagine a game to be!
Spent many hours with old friends making memories with this one. Absolutely a classic game.
Speaking of car bombs, one thing I did occasionally was add one to a car I was using because in this game, a specific NPC will sometimes steal your car like you do to everyone else. And it's so satisfying to watch them drive away and then detonate the bomb.
Street criminals
2 npc's
One black guy with a red hoddie that look like a diablo and a red jack had a baby.
One white guy with a black shirt and blue shorts in middle of late autmn.
Funny thing is every bomb shop has different approach to bombs. In Portland bomb shop you prime it and it goes off only when somebody enters it. In staunton you prime it and it goes off on itself after around 5 seconds when you get out. In shoreside vale you get a detonator and you are completely in charge of the explosion.
The car thief is the guy in a black bandanna the other guy has a beanie
@@nickarias9771 still gotta admit he is a mix of a diablo and a red jack
Wow, this trilogy actually brings back memories. Like waiting in line at EB games for my preordered copy of San Andreas. I ran home with my copy faster than Charlie Bucket with the golden ticket.
Dude I had pre-ordered it from the Target right down the street from me... 13 years old... Man I remember that day like it was yesterday. Picking it up after school and playing non stop all night lol
People playing these games for the first time as this version will never know the struggle of having to find your way around the cities. Back then all Rockstar told us in the manuals was to keep your destination north and keep driving that way. LOL
At least for GTA3 and Vice City cause I believe they put a waypoint system in SA.
@MR. CLAW! It's been 20 years since GTA III came out...
Some mother's child just got out of college. Just saying.
@MR. CLAW! Chillpill dawg. Get out of your bubble.
@MR. CLAW! plenty of people. You are aware how massive this series is, yes?
There is no waypoint system in SA.
Well go somewhere where else then
when u finally realize that it all came together. the fact that @gameranx released these videos in the games story chronological order. VICE CITY, SAN ANDREAS, GTA 3
When I was a little kid my only friend that had a PC good enough to "run" GTA 3 invited us over to play it, and I remember all of us coming over to his house everyday after school to play it.
We beat the whole game at like 2 FPS, not exaggerating it was like a slideshow, but we enjoyed it so much and it was so different from anything we ever played that we absolutely loved every minute of it.
Here's only one thing you need to know: we're less than three days away from release and t2/rockstar have not yet shown any actual gameplay from the definitive edition.
To be fair, same games, just prettier, I’m getting them, but I would also like to see “how much better”
@@Daniel-pi5qd "prettier" can be subjective. I know some people don't care because it's a really tiny detail, but the missing zipper on Tommy's track suit and some other texture alterations in the published screenshots really bother me and don't bode well for the quality of the final product.
@@locolama I agree, my version of prettier for the game is really just the better lighting and how things are more clear, I’m really just buying it for the better shooting, as someone who could never get into gta vice city and couldn’t beat SA because of the controls this is a game changer as long as it truly is a “game changer”
I feel like this definitive edition is half assed and thats why they haven’t shown anything.
@@Mr.PR2000 Yeah, half-assed is probably the proper adjective to describe it. I still hope the rumours about cut music are not true.
All I can remember is the cheats and trying to get to the islands with a tank
Trying to run the tank into your garage and then once you did that I would use the tank boost where you just shot behind you and got a mini boost
Man. Making your tank fly by shooting backwards to give a boost over the broken bridge was like the first “exploit” I ever found out lmao
"Yep, I been drinkin' again!"
-Best random NPC line, ever.
What about "My mother's my sister!"?
@@kr0626 another classic, for sure!
"Join the YMCA"
Another fun thing to do is turn the turrets around on the tank and keep firing to gain speed, head for the bridge and hit the jump and you'll go flying
When this game came out, there was NOTHING like it. The graphics were insane.
I remember being amazed and in awe when I first played GTA 3 shortly after its release. I remember building my vast criminal empire and flying the Hunter helicopter while rocking out to some of the best music from the 80s in Vice City. I remember being baffled by the size and complexity of San Andreas.... and now, so many years later... I'm eager to revisit all of that, with better graphics and game controls to boot!
It is awesome
This and medal of honour frontline were my jam when i was a kid!
I have European Assault and Rising Sun, need to get a copy of Frontline
@@DCF530_ Definitely do it!
Im so proud to have experienced this as a child back in the day, I honestly preferred the trilogy over the newer game’s due to how connected everything felt
GTAIII was my favorite out of the original trilogy. I still have my R* keychain from the special edition lockbox from the original PS2 launch. Been on my keychain for 20 years now!
I was blown away by this. There was some amazing jumps. Common practice, your on a mission.. Look a jump! Abandons mission and tries the jump with a variety of different cars.
I remember playing this at my friend's house, getting toasted, trying to see who can survive 5 stars the longest... Good ol days
Oh man I miss hanging with my friend and we would take turns seeing who could last the longest on 5 stars. (We were kids but now that I am grown i am sooo getting lit and bringing the mayhem)
Excited to play these again. Haven't since elementary school. *Haven't played 3 since then
When I played GTA3 when it came out and i was a kid. The plane was so much fun because i wasn't expecting it; it seemed on a very small scale revolutionary to an extent at the time, and i never thought about the garbage nature of it until later on when my babysitter at the time was showing me how to actually play the game.
They should actually bring back the island unlocking feature. It builds anticipation and is embedded into the story. I still remember how excited I felt on Portland, looking across to Staunton Island and imagining what more fun was in store. Every square foot matters in those classic GTAs and you're pushed to specific corners of the map for real reasons, forced to play in a new environment. In GTA V, the countryside is largely pointless. This is why many say San Andreas feels BIGGER even though it's obviously not.
@MR. CLAW! Agreed. GTA V was just too easy. Mostly, Rockstar fell in love with cool cutscenes. Yes, the story is fun. But in terms of actual mission gameplay, all the classic 3D GTA's have way better missions.
This is my favorite GTA. The world is gritty and I loved the cars and tone.
"Ain't no thing but a chicken wing, with a big butt laying on yo lap" game radio
To date GTAIII is still my favorite out of the franchise, can’t wait to listen to Chatterbox and Rise FM all over again.
Didn't really get too much into III, think I only made it about halfway. I think mostly because the protagonist never talked.
Your point about about the game focusing on blowing stuff up and it being a bit more arcade is true. That also reflects how GTA 1 and 2 were. I played a lot of GTA 2 and it is pretty much exactly how you described this game.
This is honestly my favorite game to play out of the whole franchise🤷🏽♀️ Im really excited to play the definitive edition‼️🙌🏾❤️💕🥰
Same here :)
I had very little experience with this trilogy as a kid because I wasn’t allowed to have it back in the day. Still had all 3 though, however, I had to hide the fact that I played them so I couldn’t go beat them 100%. Just did gta 3 and vice city for the first time. Working on San Andreas now. Great games
GTA 3 is probably my favorite out of the entire franchise. I just had so much fun playing that game over and over again. It was unlike any other game I have ever played at that point of time. Just the nostalgia of it makes me want to buy the remaster so I can relive the memories. It will be like getting reacquainted with a long lost friend.
Very fond memories of playing these games. People who didn't play these back in the day will never know the struggle of trying to find all the hidden packages with only a tiny picture and vague location description in guide books.
Guide books just don't feel the same anymore or maybe it's the nostalgia that makes me feel that way
Back when I used the map I got with the case
i love how most of the people who have played this game are still gonna watch this video lmao
game comes out in like 3 days and we still haven't really seen much gameplay or anything what all the changes are made. all we got was a trailer
You and all the other cry babys stop whining, just wait for it to come out watch somebody post a video and decide if you're going to get it..
@@Twix2013PSN im not crying just saying its weird we haven't seen much of anything on it and it comes out in like 2 days or so
Honestly I think the unlocking of the islands was a better way to address the overwhelming vastness of open worlds. It would have been better if the first and second islands continued a little further than they did with more missions after the third was unlocked. The third island was extremely lacking
The reason they left the main character nameless/voiceless is so that the player can use their own imagination as to his back story. We don’t learn he is called “Claude” until San Andreas
I was never allowed to play any of the OG GTA’s releasing in the trilogy. Granted I was mad young, I’ve only played IV and V so far!
I am mad hyped to get to experience these games for the very first time. I hope these games live up to the hype
“Blame my mother, I do.”
-Tommy Vercetti
I was finally old enough for gta when gta 5 came out.
I'm 45 now and hopefully I will enjoy these older games.
This makes no sense
Gta 5 really does feel like that long now. Gta 6 ain't ever coming out bruh
Although I'm looking forward to San Andreas the most because it's my favourite from the series I will say that GTA 3 might have the most improvements for it being the first of the 3D GTA Universe and the oldest. Kind of like Mass Effect 1 in the Legendary Edition.
It's the most drastically upgraded of the three.
GTA was my childhood, so I will be playing all 3 games again. Can't wait to play San Andreas again 😍
I still have the physical copies for PS2. I remember how I felt looking at my GTA Online character on PS3 after playing for years on PS4 and don't want to do that again.
I have the PS2 trilogy
Islands are locked... until you turn on flying cars and shoot tank rounds at the ground which let's you fly over the bridge.. good memories
Those who never got to experience it at all..
Me: "and I took that personally." I had the game but I had no save card for my ps2 and the disk was a hand me down so there was a 20% chance for it to work for about 10 minutes before it crashed.
Ah yes, impromptu demo discs. I've had a few of those in my time. How far can you make it in the game before it freezes and you have to start all over?
I remember when my friends and me played. We would just take turns playing seeing how long we would last. Just playing around. We never did missions
I can't believe we're living in an age where Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic are all coming to a Nintendo console, and a portable one at that. And on the same day too! It's nothing short of incredible! These games were a huge part of my adolescent years, and I’ll soon be able to take them with me wherever I go!
I remember back in the day i was up in my friends house and he told me his older brother had just got a new ps2 and GTA3. I asked him could i see it ?? So we went down to his brothers room and my jaw just dropped when i seen this game playing 🤯 i saved up my wages over 2 weeks with work and went and bought a Ps2 and GTA3. This game made me buy the system and I've some great memories of playing it and Vice City with my friends and a few beers 🍻 and a few smokes 😉
i loved the driving in this game it was so satisfying i hope , it still is. also the radio in this one was my favorite. from commercials to reed and lazlow. the cooking show and everything else I've heard it all, i remember the shooting with the M4 and mini gun being so over the top and feeling so intense. i feel like the civilians in this one were the most lively with random shit happening if you just stood around. some missions were crazy hard because of the mechanics i loved about this game but very fun non the less
I don't know about the pedestrians being the most lively, I feel like San Andreas takes it for that one. Especially the random police chases you can come across with the pedestrians. I've seen some wild police chases on San Andreas lol.
When I first started playing this game I was 6-7, my older brothers had it on our pc and I loved doing the firefighter missions along with the ambulance and I spent hours watching the magnet put the cars into the crusher. I also use to go down to the subway and just roam in there because I didn’t know how to use the train lol now in 2023 I’m playing it on my iPhone and the game is still as fresh as I remember it being. Still very fun doing the basic things.
Now this is a game that I played a lot, a mean... A LOT! Cause back in these days I didn't had much games. But have being so long, that I barelly remember it. I remember NPCs saying "hey paisano!" for some reason. XD
I still have my Original PS2 and GTA 3, VC & SA And I still love'em All.
I loved mastering the dodo and glitching into skyscrapers 🤣
😅
I also remember squeezing as many cars as possible into the garage 😅
Wanna do flying cars? Active the gliding cars cheat the spawn the tank. Turn the cannon backwards and it’s enough momentum to keep the tank flying.
Seeing as they've gone in and actually fully remade some assets in the game, changed up the controls and added in quality of life features such as a Weapon wheel and waypoints on the mini map. I hope they've also gone as far as to actually tweak the feel of the gameplay itself within the game. So not only make the control layout more modern, but made the gameplay itself feel more modern as well. I'm not asking for it to be exactly like GTAV. I'm simply asking that the gameplay is updated a bit so it is less annoying to go back to. Fact is, these games haven't aged well at all. GTA III and Vice City are in my opinion annoying to go back to. So if they could just make a bit more tight and responsive then that would go along way. Such as the actual aiming. I bet that we are getting free aiming in them this time around. But i hope it feels more responsive than it potentialy could feel. I'm aware these are old game. I'm not asking that they make them new. I know it's a remaster. But quality of life changes shouldn't be too much to ask for. They've gone far enough that i think it's a fiar thing to ask. I do hope we get some reviews out a day prior so i can know what i'm getting into before i buy it.
The game was hard. The missions were semi hard but what made it difficult to complete objectives was how when you mucked up a gang, they held long term grudges. Like, you couldn’t go the mafia area without goons pulling out shotguns and lighting your ass up. Which made it hard to to go to certain areas to collect the hidden packages if you didn’t clear them all the first time you visited. The packages had the perk of giving you weapons at your hideout so they were super useful. But once you go the second island, the first was virtually impossible to drive through without a whole tank.
Man the anticipation is killing me
I spent so much time trying to fly the dodo. I remember when I finally got it going and flew around for like 5 to 10 minutes straight. I was so excited when I got it to actually fly. there was a flying car cheat too. you could turn the turret around on the tank and shooting it like that would give you boost in the air. Best game ever. Also loved the sentinel xs. I think you could get it near salvitore's house. my memory is hazy not sure if all this is accurate or not its been a long time.
Nice
Very nice
@@gameranxTV oh so nice
So glad you mentioned the Dodo. Shout out to anyone who got it to the garage for that side mission where you need it to build a car!
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I never completely finished gta3. I finished VC and SA, but since i was born in 2002, VC and SA are much much close to my heart
Oh man. My first GTA on the ps2 back in the early 2000s. I remember the chaos, the police chases, some of the fun missions, side mission, etc. and when I had nothing to do just pretend to be a pedestrian or put bombs in my vehicles and have the criminals steal it so they blow up. I had so much fun in this game
Honestly. I beat Vice City and III remastered before i saw any of these review videos. And i loved them. Nothing was really noticably wrong to me. Everything was playable and i had a good time. They took me back to my ps2 days. Everyone quit bitching so much. The games are almost 20 years old. I think they were easier to play then the original versions. In my opinion only fixes they need are the bridges in SA and the rain. Other then that. I really liked and enjoyed the definitive edition
Played gta 3 when i was 7.. installed using 2 discs...did not finish it coz it was really tough... finished ALL gta games during lockdown..now playing LA noire and Saints row..cant wait for this to come out
My favourite part about the GTA trilogy is the NPC idle dialogue it's hilarious at times and makes for some awesome non scripted moments
I want to play them again but most important, GTA Vice City is the only one of the trilogy i haven't play fully.
As a kid I played GTA 3, vice city and San Andreas way more than a kid should and to this day I could still go back and play it for hours
I'm one of those people who didn't play GTA 3 but played all the other GTA games. This for me is good chance to play it and I'm hyped!!
When I originally played GTA 3, I got to Shoreside Vale without doing the missions required to get there by using a cheat and jumping a tank over the missing bridge. Got into the stadium the same way.
Actually you kind of can get in an ambulance and start responding to hails from dispatch. However, I wouldn't recommend doing so. Your colleague probably won't appreciate it and you might get into a little bit of trouble.
I knew all the info mentioned in this video before clicking on it. I only came here to support my favorite gaming RUclips channel ❤️❤️❤️
My parents had a ps2 hidden behind the TV I didn't know about until 2002-3. I was 4th grade when I found it while exploring. Gta3 was in the system and that was that. From 4th-8th grade I played gta3 almost daily. Sometimes missions, sometimes chaos, sometimes using cheats to make my car invisible and fly and pretend it was the Ford Anglia from Harry Potter. God I can't wait to go back to liberty city.
My iPad, every day at Study Hall. I was in Junior High. I'm so excited for the Definitive Edition!
I have some of the cheats memerized from the heart.
R1 R2 L1 X Left Down Right Up Left Down Right Up. Is the one i used the most, there are variations of it for the guns also where u replace X with R2 or Square or something.. Its been awhile so my memory is foggy but the basis is there for multiple cheats with the same/similer input... Man im going to enjoy playing gta vice city and san andreas
For all the new players. Don't underestimate the taxi, it's the best handling car in the game and is super tough.
Hey something I wish you or Jake would point out when making a video about stuff to get excited for GTA Trilogy is, we can now maybe make even better and more high quality assets and mods for them bcuz it's in Unreal Engine and with a modern engine the potential for the modding community is even greater for these games now.
I remember being a senior in hs when this game came out and going to a friend's house to play it after school.Still have 3,Vice City and San Andreas on my playstation 2. Ah the memories....🎮
Same here but I bought them in 2018 when I bought a PS2, I'm now at almost 160 PS2 games, my favorite console ever.
This game was just TOO good. I miss being a young me with my PS2 and nothing but time
You can fly with the tank using the jump cheat and firing the cannon backwards, works pretty good
LMAO the Dodo was hilarious. I always ended up in the water trying to fly it.
Rise FM introduced me to Trance music and similar genres. I was a kid obsessed with that type of music- and I needed more! Still listening to trance and electronic music to this day🤗
Msx probably got me into dnb Nd djing lol
Calude looks like a chad now, as he should
Started playing the game in 2004 and I still play it sometimes even now, so I will have to get this trilogy 😁
For anyone new to this game.
Finish the people’s missions in the order you get them for 100% as if you don’t you miss the missions and have to start over. Read walkthroughs :)
also I don’t remember an in game map on ps2 I used the paper map in box
GTA 3 was my first ever Mature rated game. I think people tend to overlook GTA 3 in favor of San Andreas for best PS2 game, but honestly? GTA 3 was the most groundbreaking in terms of when it came out and how mindblowing it was at the time. It was something revolutionary. I remember using the dodo cheat and spawning a tank and aiming the turret backwards and flying all the way to Shoreside Vale for the first time ever that day. I also never bothered to play past the Leone family missions until like 5 years later. This was the absolute best game of the series. Honestly I really hope they let you go with the old school controls. I really miss using the X button for the gas, circle for the handbrake, and square for reverse. I honestly hate trigger gas/reverse.
GTA 3 pure nostalgia I was so young that I never ever beat the opening mission I just mobbed around constantly… till my parent’s realized what gta was lmaooo im finally going to beat the first mission :,]
When this game came out it was my dream come true. I was a sophomore in highschool and made a few bucks during the summer and saved up to buy a PS2 just for this game. Ended up having to buy clothes for school instead. This game changed gaming forever though. The soundtracks including hilarious talk radio, the mayhem, the crazy characters, diving into street, organized and corporate crime. Can't wait to visit again.
9 is spot on.
With my friends, we would not even play the story. We would just see who can cause the most chaos and reach 6 stars (and how long we could survive)
Remember completing vehicle missions can be helpful, ie: complete Ambulance(IIRC) missions for infinite stamina