GTA 3

 GRAND THEFT AUTO-THIRD EDITION

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🎮 Grand Theft Auto III (GTA 3) – Full Overview

📅 Release Information

• Release Date:

  • PlayStation 2: October 22, 2001

  • PC (Windows): May 20, 2002

  • Xbox: October 31, 2003

• Developer: DMA Design (renamed Rockstar North during development)

• Publisher: Rockstar Games

• Engine: RenderWare

• Perspective: 3D third-person (first 3D game in the series)

  
  
  

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🌆 Setting and Story

🏙️ Setting: Liberty City

• A fictional city based on New York City

• Divided into three islands:

  1. Portland – industrial/slum area

  2. Staunton Island – urban/business district

  3. Shoreside Vale – suburban/wealthy area

🧍‍♂️ Protagonist

• Claude (unnamed in-game)

• A silent, unnamed criminal betrayed by his girlfriend during a bank heist and left for dead.

• Seeks revenge by climbing the criminal underworld.

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🕹️ Gameplay Features

✅ Major Innovations

• First fully 3D open-world GTA game

• Third-person perspective

• Dynamic weather and day-night cycle

• Non-linear mission structure

• Introduced many core features:

  • Carjacking any vehicle

  • Driving taxis, ambulances, police cars for side missions

  • Weapon variety (guns, grenades, melee)

  • Radio stations with talk shows and music

  • Police wanted level system

🔫 Weapons and Combat

• Pistols, shotguns, SMGs, sniper rifles, rocket launchers

• Melee combat (bat, fists)

• Drive-by shooting possible

🚗 Vehicles

• Wide range of drivable cars, boats, and emergency vehicles

• Realistic physics (for its time)

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📀 PC System Requirements (2002)

💻 Minimum Requirements

• OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP

• CPU: Pentium III 450 MHz

• RAM: 96 MB

• GPU: 16 MB Direct3D Video Card

• Storage: 500 MB free disk space

• Sound: DirectX 8.1 compatible

💻 Recommended Requirements

• CPU: Pentium III 700 MHz or higher

• RAM: 128 MB

• GPU: 32 MB or better

• Storage: 1 GB free space

✅ Modern Systems: Runs fine on Windows 10/11 using compatibility mode or enhanced editions (modded or Steam version).

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📻 Soundtrack & Radio Stations

• 9 in-game radio stations, including:

  • Chatterbox FM (talk radio)

  • Flashback 95.6 (80s hits)

  • Rise FM (trance)

  • Game’s original soundtrack by Craig Conner

• DJ personalities, fictional ads, and humorous content became iconic.

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🔥 Impact and Legacy

• GTA III was a massive commercial and critical success, selling 15+ million copies.

• Widely credited with revolutionizing open-world games.

• Inspired other major franchises (e.g., Assassin’s Creed, Watch Dogs, Saints Row).

• Brought GTA into mainstream pop culture.

• Won multiple Game of the Year awards.

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🧠 Fun Facts

• Claude, the main character, appears in GTA: San Andreas as a cameo.

• Liberty City in GTA III was reimagined in GTA Liberty City Stories and GTA IV.

• Game faced controversies for violence, crime themes, and language.

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