Should I buy GTA3?

kinetic · Dec 29, 2002, 01:52 PM

I've held off buying GTA3 due mainly to the buggy nature of the game. Have the latest patches cured the bugs? What makes it such a great game anyway?

***craig5320*** · Dec 29, 2002, 02:07 PM

It's a great game, I've never experienced any bugs with it, If you have a monster PC there should be no problem, and if i recall you won that competition thingy didn't you?

so your sorted, buy it! go buy it now! then buy Vice City when that's released!

digitalwanderer · Dec 29, 2002, 03:49 PM

What kind of viddy card do you have again? GTA3 really seems to prefer nVidia over ATI, this really might be one you want to "try before you buy" just to make sure it works ok.

URWORSTENEMY · Dec 29, 2002, 03:54 PM

GTA3 is an excellent game for all ages. Its a must have for ne serious gamer

kinetic · Dec 29, 2002, 05:13 PM

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Originally posted by digitalwanderer
What kind of viddy card do you have again? GTA3 really seems to prefer nVidia over ATI, this really might be one you want to "try before you buy" just to make sure it works ok.

I've a GF4 Ti4200, this one http://www.hexus.net/review.php?review=425 best value GF4 around IMHO.

digitalwanderer · Dec 29, 2002, 05:52 PM

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Originally posted by kinetic
I've a GF4 Ti4200, this one http://www.hexus.net/review.php?review=425 best value GF4 around IMHO.

Yeah, your rig should rock-n-roll with GTA3. You're going to love it!

DriveEuro · Dec 29, 2002, 07:47 PM

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Originally posted by URWORSTENEMY
GTA3 is an excellent game for all ages. Its a must have for ne serious gamer

Grand Theft Auto 3 good for all ages? Killing people. Running them over in cars. Picking up hookers? Running jobs for the mafia. Yeah....sounds good for all ages....

digitalwanderer · Dec 29, 2002, 08:06 PM

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Originally posted by DriveEuro
Grand Theft Auto 3 good for all ages? Killing people. Running them over in cars. Picking up hookers? Running jobs for the mafia. Yeah....sounds good for all ages....

...it's my 3 year old daughter's and 5 year old son's favorite game to watch me play. They HOUND me to play it for them!

One problem, I agree with your entire assessment of why it ain't a game for kids to play.....

....so I end up playing GTA3 for them, but without killing or hurting anyone. Do you have ANY idea of how hard it is to play GTA3 for a half-hour without hurting someone or stealing a car?!?!

DriveEuro · Dec 29, 2002, 09:02 PM

Oh yeah I know. It hard for me to even drive a car and not ram into someone intentionally. It is one of those games were you can't play it without having fun. You HAVE to mess something up to have fun.

digitalwanderer · Dec 29, 2002, 09:25 PM

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Originally posted by DriveEuro
Oh yeah I know. It hard for me to even drive a car and not ram into someone intentionally. It is one of those games were you can't play it without having fun. You HAVE to mess something up to have fun.

Tell me about it!

I can't even remember the last time I actually played a mission, I just fire it up and make me own fun.

If you ever find yourself a tad annoyed that they made all the cars so slow and boring, get yourself a copy of the car stat editing program and have some fun juicing 'em up.

I'm still working on my ultimate GTA3 combo mod. Some replacement cars, about 5-6 mods, and a custom handling file. It's probably a work-in-progress that I'll never think is good enough to actually post, but it's a hell of a lot of fun to play with and goof around with!

Here, if you want you can just download me current version of handling.cfg. All you have to do to make it work is rename or backup your original "handling.cfg" that you'll find in your "G:\GTAIII\data\" folder (or whatever letter should go in front for your particular install

) to something else and stick mine in. That's it.

Fire up GTA3 and hang on!!!!

(Oh, and the usual disclaimers about mucking around with things that the gamemakers never intended for you to muck around with...but if it causes you grief just delete it and rename your original file back to "handling.cfg" and it'll all be honky-dorey.

)

Vampyromaniac · Dec 30, 2002, 01:52 AM

I think you mean "hunky-dorey" right...?

digitalwanderer · Dec 30, 2002, 02:01 AM

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Originally posted by Vampyromaniac
I think you mean "hunky-dorey" right...?

Nah, I felt it was much more accurate in my case to use "honky-dorey" instead. I'm much more honky than hunky.

ToshiroOC · Dec 30, 2002, 02:26 AM

Interesting - thanks Digi! I never really bothered to look around in my GTA3 folder for that sort of stuff to hack up, though i did put all of my MP3's in there... just in case I can't find it right off of the bat after I'm done posting, do you have the link for that GTA3 modding program? Thanks!

digitalwanderer · Dec 30, 2002, 02:41 AM

Easy, no problem, and me great pleasure to have a chance to pimp an excellent GTA3 mod site one more time.

GTA3 Headquarters

A really sweet site, it's just starting to hit it's stride and get some really nice selections of mods & custom cars to add to GTA3. It also supplies all it's mods/custom cars in a self-installing form where all you have to do is click on the installer and point it at your GTA3 directory. (A real big plus for me since I'd rather focus me attentions at playing GTA3 than learning how to merge textures in it and such.

)

I went entirely nuts and replaced almost every 'boring' car I could with something cool from their modded cars section, then tweaked them to insane levels.

One of me faves is K.I.T.T. , which is pretty insanely sweet on it's default install.

Go nuts, it' fun.

ToshiroOC · Dec 30, 2002, 07:05 AM

:drools: I'm driving back home tommorow, the second I get home I'm going to just download this stuff like totally crazy and have a blast! WHEEEEEEEE! Again, thanks man. I get the feeling that this is going to absorb my time until my new years party (which won't be on new years). Invite my friends over, and borrow a projector from my mother's business (don't ask - long story, but its perfectly ok) and project some major 8 person HALO onto a 16' wall

URWORSTENEMY · Dec 30, 2002, 05:18 PM

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Originally posted by digitalwanderer
...it's my 3 year old daughter's and 5 year old son's favorite game to watch me play. They HOUND me to play it for them!

....so I end up playing GTA3 for them!

my 3 year old and 8 year old sons also rate it as one of their best games
the game is only violent if u want it to be!
put it on 'free ride', steer away from the pedestrians and keep ur fists 2 yourself
and it remains just an excellent driving game for all ages!!!

~~Optimummind~~ · Dec 31, 2002, 09:03 AM

Check out my ride~

zakrocz · Jan 2, 2003, 09:56 PM

I guess the driving part of the game is where the real fun is, shame you need a monster PC to run it. On my amd 1.2ghz tbird, rad 8500, 256 ram it was NOT an enjoyable drive.

The actual gameplay imho is very shallow and basic. I took it back to GAME and got my money back.

The so called living, breathing city claims are as far fetched as they come.

Using your own mp3s was a nice touch.

DMA done a similar game for the N64 a few years back called Body Harvest, that game was awesome.

reno · Jan 4, 2003, 04:51 AM

Yeah...I really have no drive to play this game...BUT it's a good game to just start up and drive around running people over in...which I haven't had an "instant pick up fun" game in a long time.

Dec 29, 2002, 01:52 PM	#1
kinetic DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Manchester England Posts: 2,559 Rep Power: 0	Should I buy GTA3? I've held off buying GTA3 due mainly to the buggy nature of the game. Have the latest patches cured the bugs? What makes it such a great game anyway?

Dec 29, 2002, 02:07 PM	#2
*craig5320* HH Administrator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 8,565 Rep Power: 445 System Specs	It's a great game, I've never experienced any bugs with it, If you have a monster PC there should be no problem, and if i recall you won that competition thingy didn't you? so your sorted, buy it! go buy it now! then buy Vice City when that's released! __________________ HardwareHeaven on Facebook

Dec 29, 2002, 03:49 PM	#3
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,619 Rep Power: 0	Question What kind of viddy card do you have again? GTA3 really seems to prefer nVidia over ATI, this really might be one you want to "try before you buy" just to make sure it works ok. __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

Dec 29, 2002, 03:54 PM	#4
URWORSTENEMY nme Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Behind You!! Posts: 389 Rep Power: 0	GTA3 GTA3 is an excellent game for all ages. Its a must have for ne serious gamer

Dec 29, 2002, 09:02 PM	#9
DriveEuro HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Gurnee Illinois Posts: 4,677 Rep Power: 0	Oh yeah I know. It hard for me to even drive a car and not ram into someone intentionally. It is one of those games were you can't play it without having fun. You HAVE to mess something up to have fun. __________________ [color=orange]ASUS P4P800 Deluxe [color=black]-[/color] 2.4C --> 3300mhz [color=black]-[/color] Mushkin PC3200 at 220 5-2-2-2 (cpu limited) [color=black]-[/color] BBAti 9800Pro at 430/375 [/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]01[/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]03[/color] 16001200 12801024

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Dec 30, 2002, 02:26 AM	#13
ToshiroOC Unbiased. Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 4,812 Rep Power: 0	Interesting - thanks Digi! I never really bothered to look around in my GTA3 folder for that sort of stuff to hack up, though i did put all of my MP3's in there... just in case I can't find it right off of the bat after I'm done posting, do you have the link for that GTA3 modding program? Thanks! __________________ [img][/img] [color=White]Peace be with you, Joe.[/color] Driverheaven Staff Member (Supermoderator)

Dec 30, 2002, 02:41 AM	#14
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,619 Rep Power: 0	Sure. Easy, no problem, and me great pleasure to have a chance to pimp an excellent GTA3 mod site one more time. GTA3 Headquarters A really sweet site, it's just starting to hit it's stride and get some really nice selections of mods & custom cars to add to GTA3. It also supplies all it's mods/custom cars in a self-installing form where all you have to do is click on the installer and point it at your GTA3 directory. (A real big plus for me since I'd rather focus me attentions at playing GTA3 than learning how to merge textures in it and such. ) I went entirely nuts and replaced almost every 'boring' car I could with something cool from their modded cars section, then tweaked them to insane levels. One of me faves is K.I.T.T. , which is pretty insanely sweet on it's default install. Go nuts, it' fun. __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

Dec 30, 2002, 07:05 AM	#15
ToshiroOC Unbiased. Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 4,812 Rep Power: 0	:drools: I'm driving back home tommorow, the second I get home I'm going to just download this stuff like totally crazy and have a blast! WHEEEEEEEE! Again, thanks man. I get the feeling that this is going to absorb my time until my new years party (which won't be on new years). Invite my friends over, and borrow a projector from my mother's business (don't ask - long story, but its perfectly ok) and project some major 8 person HALO onto a 16' wall __________________ [img][/img] [color=White]Peace be with you, Joe.[/color] Driverheaven Staff Member (Supermoderator)

Dec 31, 2002, 09:03 AM	#17
~~Optimummind~~ Banned Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Orange, California Posts: 632 Rep Power: 0	My new rides in Liberty City!! Check out my ride~

Jan 2, 2003, 09:56 PM	#18
zakrocz DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: UK Posts: 10 Rep Power: 0	I guess the driving part of the game is where the real fun is, shame you need a monster PC to run it. On my amd 1.2ghz tbird, rad 8500, 256 ram it was NOT an enjoyable drive. The actual gameplay imho is very shallow and basic. I took it back to GAME and got my money back. The so called living, breathing city claims are as far fetched as they come. Using your own mp3s was a nice touch. DMA done a similar game for the N64 a few years back called Body Harvest, that game was awesome.

Jan 4, 2003, 04:51 AM	#19
reno Painlord of Ichor Join Date: May 2002 Location: bloinkin! Posts: 1,610 Rep Power: 0	fg Yeah...I really have no drive to play this game...BUT it's a good game to just start up and drive around running people over in...which I haven't had an "instant pick up fun" game in a long time.