Grand Theft Auto 3 (PC)

Advantages: Good graphics and freedom to do whatever you want
Disadvantages: No real car names.

Welcome to the 21st century; well perhaps not as you don’t see many people running down pedestrians and shooting gang members everyday but GTA 3 has all you want to create havoc. Due to the big hit of GTA on the Playstation, (and some trouble in the papers for being too violent) it managed to be a great game, from the bird’s eye view to the gta 3 multiple views like 3rd person the gta series has changed the way gamers think. Again like the GTA3 ...
...members like the mafia for example, stealing cars and simply plain killing people. There is actually a plot that develops and reasons why all these gangs are constantly trying to kill you. Also, the leaders of the gangs have different personalities and voices that are quite realistic and make the game more enjoyable to play. Throughout the three Islands in Liberty City (the city in which you play the game) cars are needed to get around, this therefore ... Read review

Advantages: A lot of fun, great graphics and sound
Disadvantages: Will be societies ultimate ruin (according to the Daily Mail, lol)

...first do these things. Grand Theft Auto 3, the third game in the series, which they tried to ban, is the first game in the crime series to be in full 3D. The main plot of the game is that you are a wannabe gangster making your way up the crime scene by doing jobs for gangsters that are much higher up the hierarchy than you. In order to complete the jobs, you have to complete objectives such as, going on massacres, stealing cars, rigging cars up ...
...picking up pages of a 'Specialist' Porn magazine whilst driving in a Van for one Mexican gangster…. The games missions are nothing if not varied. WHAT OPPOSITION DOES A GANGSTER HAVE? You don't get the whole City to yourself you know. Along with all the ordinary pedestrians and drivers, there are people who don't like you very much and who take great pleasure in trying to kill you whenever you go near them or in their territory. These include, the ... Read review

Advantages: Great fun, get to drive a tank :) and cool radio stations
Disadvantages: Crap character, high system specs and gets very difficult

The original GTA was a huge hit on the playstation. Gamers loved it for its wanton violence, and the feeling of freedom gained from roaming around a living city complete with pedestrians, traffic and police. This was a game where you felt as though you could do whatever you wanted. If you wanted a car, you stole it. If you wanted to kill unarmed pedestrians, you could. If you felt like driving around slowly, stopping at red lights and obeying traffic ...
...its success was that it made the gamer feel as though they were in control, rather than following a set path. Then came GTA II, which was not a bad game and yet never enjoyed the success of its predecessor. This was probably because it made few improvements on the first game, and introduced the gang respect system, which in practical terms meant lots of driving about, trying to earn enough respect to actually qualify for missions: a truly idiotic ... Read review

Advantages: Expansive and engrossing world where pretty much anything goes...
Disadvantages: audio

...would have to be the Grand Theft Auto series from Rockstar. Not only does the series allow for car theft, rioting and violent killings, it encourages it also! However this was far less effective in GTA1 and 2, purely everything everything was seen from above rather than in a 3rd person perspective due to the fully bird's eye camera view given with 2D rendering. All this is changed now, as for GTA3 and onwards, the gameplay is in a complete 3rd person ...
...is immediately put into the heart of the action in Liberty City. After a jail break, both you and a partner are required to get into some street clothes and hit the town. Almost straight away the whole gangster theme begins, with job offerings and tasks a plenty. The job offerings are not required, infact you go about them in your own free will, but if you want to make any meaningful progress in the game your best choice is to complete them. The ... Read review

Advantages: Great game play, highly addictive
Disadvantages: Some areas could have had more reason to be there

...When the original GTA ( Grand Theft Auto ) came out I turned my nose up at it like a cat who has been used to being fed Kitekat being suddenly confronted with Kwik Saves own brand of cat food. When the second incarnation ( okay that wasn’t meant either … in-car-nation … damn what’s happening to me today ) of GTA hit the shelves I did a great job of pretending that it didn’t exist even though my friends raved on and on and on about it. =[ Note to ...
...abuse !! ]= When the third GTA game was released I pretended to be deaf so I couldn’t hear them go on about it and when that didn’t work I faked my own death ( you should have been there … it was a lovely funeral !! ). Then a couple of months back I was sitting in my other room. A friend was crashing at mine and he had his PC with him. We chatted as he played GTA and during our conversation in which I had to explain my sudden, though not unexpected ... Read review

Advantages: Gameplay, characters, music, longevity, I could go on and on!
Disadvantages: None at all

...It's raining, you have to walk twenty minutes back home and you've had a stressful day - just your average day in this thing we call life right? Well if all of that's getting you down, how about a doing a good ol' fashioned drive by? Steal a police car? What about mowing down some drug pushers with a low-rider, destroying the product and blowing up their factory? If any of you have done these things in real life, you're probably reading this from prison. However, a much safer and legal way to do these things is to experience the overwhelming carnage and realistic sub-culture that is Gta: San Andreas. In brief, San Andreas is the 3rd and probably last reincarnation of the original Grand Theft Auto series (for non next-generation consoles) that was a cult hit on the PC. Whereas the jump to 3D for the Playstation 2 wowed everybody in Grand... Read review

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Advantages: Great all-round game that's almost perfect.
Disadvantages: It ends.

...For those who have played GTA3 on the PC: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is a lesson in how to take a game which is already bordering on genius and improving it. If you enjoyed GTA3, then you will love Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Go and buy it now. No excuses. For those who have not played GTA3 on the PC: Vice City is a game played in the third person perspective (rather like Tomb Raider). In this game, you play an ex-convict called Tommy Vercetti (voiced by Ray Liotta) who is just out of prison and has been sent to Vice City (i.e. Miami) by his 'boss' to expand their operation down there. However, your very first drug deal is ambushed by persons unknown and only you, your lawyer and one of the other people with whom you were dealing manage to escape. You're obviously annoyed at being taken in, your boss in Liberty City wants his... Read review

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Advantages: Violent and good fun
Disadvantages: Not for those under 18

...Grand Theft Auto we have all played one version or another be it on Playstation or PC but GTA3 has got to be the best game that I have ever played and it would take something pretty special to change that view. What with all the real life violence going on at the moment the press seem to have missed their oppertunity to really lay into the creators of this game for it's high level of violence. Good is what I say because this game is a real boy's toy and for all those destructive minded ladies out there,but be warned don't buy this for anyone unless their over 18 because violent is not a strong enough word. It has hit No1 in nearly all known games charts and is set to stay there for a long time to come. You start the game with nothing at all as in all the previous series and no job is to small for you to except you can even steal... Read review

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