Grand Theft Auto 3 (PS2)

This was the first generation GTA game which defined a generation of gamers. No other game like this had ever being created with the kind of graphics which this was showing off. It truly was amazing at its time. No one who owned a PS2 didnt have this game. It was the talk of the summer with every gamer and it also sparked up many different politicains views on the content which was displayed. But the less spoke of them the better. Two years later this was released for the xbox version. The storyline was compelling for it time. After a life time of small time jobs the character you play who is nameless commits a large bank job with his girlfriend and head of ...  Read the complete review

It’s so easy to make a game that’s controversial. Add guns, add violence and add as much criminal activity as possible. Slap on an 18 certificate and ‘Hey presto’ – instant loathing and worry from most parents and moral people everywhere. The clever part here is when you add intelligence, thought and include graphics and sound to make other games look a bit pathetic. So what now? Is it just about violence? Is it just making an 18 rated game for the sake of it? The answer to these questions and many more shall be answered in what I shall call: Grand Theft Auto 3 – Pathetic attempt to make violence cool or pure genius? ...  Read the complete review

· Introduction Finally Rockstar have made the transition from 2-D to 3-D with their hugely popular GTA series. At first I was a little sceptical whether they could pull it off, thankfully my skeptism has been proven otherwise. This game has managed to incorporate the best bits of games like Driver, Crazy Taxi and added them to the formula of the previous games in the series and then plunged the whole things into a world more akin to Shenmue. Never before has the feeling of being part of a real living world been replicated this well in a computer game. To say crime doesn't pay after playing this would be a crime itself. · Storyline You take the role ...  Read the complete review

GTA3 is a classic in every respect. Graphics, music, story and gameplay, it has it all. You basically play a silent assassin (Claude Speed) who robs a bank with two others. But just as he's about to hop in the getaway car the female member of the gang (Catalina) stops him in his tracks and guns him down. He has been betrayed, left for dead and thus conveniently the only one able to take the fall for the robbery. On the way to prison, the police van that Claude is in gets caught up in a little incident and you alongside another guy (8ball) decide to make a break for it. Throughout the game you take on multiple missions involving the mob, triads, crooked cops ...  Read the complete review

With the recent release of it's latest installment (Grand Theft Auto IV) available only on new consoles the XBOX 360 and PS3, Grand Theft Auto has established itself as one of the best-selling game franchises of all time!! Slated by it's critics and politicians all across the globe for it's violent themes of drugs, robbery and prostitution, the game has nonetheless proved itself continuouslly popular with kids and adults of all ages who buy the game in all it's formats and all it's various incarnations by the trolley-load. Grand Theft Auto 3 is the daddy of them all, released in 2001, and the game that saw the revoloutionary re-invention of a PS one title that had ...  Read the complete review