Grand Theft Auto III

Background

It was supposed to be the last job you and Vinnie would do for the mob. After this, you'd both have enough money to escape this vicious circle, and Liberty City, for good. Then Vinnie's getaway car went up in a ball of flames along with all the cash. Suddenly every cop in the city is chasing you down. You'll get out of Liberty City all right, but not before you find Vinnie's murderers and turn the tables on whomever it is that's out to get you.

Gameplay

Crime does pay. The hugely successful, highly controversial Grand Theft Auto franchise moves into 3 dimensions in the dark and seedy underworld of Liberty City. With the freedom to go anywhere and jack anyone, Grand Theft Auto 3 puts the dark, intriguing and ruthless world of crime at your fingertips, if you have enough guts to take it.

Featuring a fully 3-D living city, a combination of narrative driven and non-linear gameplay and a completely open environment, the game represents a huge leap forward in interactive entertainment. For the first time, players are put at the heart of their very own gangster movie, and let loose in a fully-realised 3 dimensional city, in which anything can happen and probably will.

With a cast of hundreds, 50 plus vehicles, ranging from sports cars to ice cream trucks and from boats to buses, 3 hours of music, including opera, reggae, house, drum and bass, pop and disco, a huge array of street ready weapons and someof the seediest characters in video game history, Grand Theft Auto 3 is a sprawling epic which will show you that sometimes, crime can payand sometimes it can pay you back.

Features

• New Liberty City, which is divided into 3 islands, complete with stores, people, cars
  
  
• Rampage missions, package finding, drag races, and other side-missions
  
  
• Several missions from several unique bosses
  
  
• Several different weapons including a baseball bat, flamethrower, and a 9 mm
  
  
• Several vehicles besides cars that can be highjacked including tanks, huge police trucks known as "Enforcers," and others
  
  
• All new taxi, vigilante, and fire-fighting missions

International release dates:
Europe: Jan 2, 04
Japan: Jul 29, 04
Australia: Jan 4, 04

Official URL

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