We talked about the Grand Theft Auto III in his time

Grand Theft Auto III - one of the most important in the history of video games. She regularly gets into lists of projects, most of all affected the industry, and Time magazine even includedThe 50 Best Video Games of All Time it in the top of the best games of all time. GTA III made the game popular in the open world, and developers from Rockstar turned into a real rock star. Without it, there would be no such series as Watch Dogs, Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Just Cause and Red Dead Redemption.

What the press say about the game

When the game came out in 2001, almost all critics have realized that before them - a historically important project. There was almost no media that would put GTA III assessment is less than 9 points out of 10. Thus, the "Gambling" appreciatedGrand Theft Auto III - The Verdict Action 9.5 points out of 10, and the publication AG.ruReview of the game Grand Theft Auto III It puts it a rating of 95%.

Reviewers primarily celebrated an unprecedented degree of freedom.

Absolute freedom is intoxicating and causes sometimes make the most absurd actions: steal from parking trucks trucks, beat showcases supermarkets and in fits of inexplicable delight to shoot up into the sky from a laptop grenade launcher.

Matthew Coombe, author of "gambling"

Despite the impressive by the standards of 2001 size of the city, Rockstar managed to make it authentic. In the streets people walk (and different - depending on the area) and drive cars. The police chasing criminals, gang sort things out. As I notedGrand Theft Auto III journalist 3DNews, the game developer could create an amazingly detailed picture of a living city.

GTA III also surprised interactivity and amount of detail: if you knock off the hydrant will whip out his water, and for the crippled man will come sooner. It drew the attention of many critics: the reviewer "gambling" encouraged readers to "think creatively, think of yourself" homework ", to organize your personal fight club." A journalist praised HonestGamersGrand Theft Auto III (PlayStation 2) review developers for the ingenuity and thoughtfulness of the world.

One of the innovations was also a radio. Nine stations, each with a dozen tracks, advertising, talkative DJs, talk show. As it is written in the "gambling", "Liberty City - a city of endless radio."

The game is important for the industry

Let GTA III and created the genre of action in an open world (it can be attributed even The Legend of Zelda, which appeared 15 years earlier), but the game has shown that it can be fully three-dimensional, incredibly realistic and complete opportunities.

Before that there was no projects that could without any restrictions to navigate through a huge three-dimensional city, sit in any car, engage in fights with passers-by, a taxi driver or install a bomb in cars. For people who are used to the full-line 3D games, Liberty City was really the epitome of freedom.

The novelty was the absence of any transition between driving and walking: the hero just getting into his car, he could stop and get out at any time. This created an additional degree of freedom and allowed to use the car tactically: hide him from bullets or blocking the path of the fleeing enemy.

Full radio was not there in the games before GTA III. As it turned out, it works great on a dive, helping players to believe in the reality of the world shown. Madness going on in Liberty City, perfectly combined with the madness on the local radio. That there is even advertising device, causes a person to do physical exercises in a dream with the help of electrical impulses, or drugs, not allowed to sleep for days.

In addition, the action Rockstar Games popularize gangster themed video games. Now it seems strange, but games of criminals before almost was not, except for a part of the previous series and franchise Driver. Thanks to GTA III theme became fashionable - there were, for example, a series of True Crime, and Saint's Row - and remains so to this day. In 2016 alone, out in the open world action games Watch Dogs 2 and Just Cause 3, the protagonists of which are constantly breaking the law.

Along with the popularity of gangster themes emerged and fashion for more adult themes. In GTA III was rated 18+ and developers took advantage of them, not only to show the violence, but also to tell a story that would be understandable and interesting to adults. Characters were prescribed characters and the main character and then made questionable morally actions.

It was not like a common while scenes in which characters often were clearly divided into good and bad. the protagonist himself acted only based on their interests and do things like that to call him a hero can not be positive.

But perhaps the most important achievement of GTA III - is that the game Rockstar Games has given confidence in their ideas and abilities. After 17 years, the studio has become one of the richest companies in the world and has created a lot of games, almost all of which one way or another affect the industry. Do not be a Grand Theft Auto III, it would not be, and that Rockstar, which we know today.

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