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About This Game

The sprawling crime epic that changed open-world games forever.
Welcome to Liberty City. Where it all began.

The critically acclaimed blockbuster Grand Theft Auto III brings to life the dark and seedy underworld of Liberty City. With a massive and diverse open world, a wild cast of characters from every walk of life and the freedom to explore at will, Grand Theft Auto III puts the dark, intriguing and ruthless world of crime at your fingertips.

With stellar voice acting, a darkly comic storyline, a stunning soundtrack and revolutionary open-world gameplay, Grand Theft Auto III is the game that defined the open world genre for a generation.

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Mac OS X

Minimum:

OS: Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP
Processor: Pentium III® 450 MHz CPU
Memory: 96 MB RAM
Graphics: 16 MB Direct 3D Video Card
DirectX Version: Microsoft DirectX® 8.1
Hard Drive: 500 MB uncompressed free hard disk space
Sound Card:Fully DirectX compatible Sound Card

Recommended:

Processor: 700 MHz CPU
Memory: 128 MB RAM
Graphics: 32 MB Direct3D Video Card

OS: Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or higher
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor or better
Memory: 1GB of RAM
Hard Disk Space: 1.5GB of free hard disk space
Video Card: ATI X1600, NVIDIA 7300GT, Intel X3100 integrated graphics chip, or better
Additional: This game will NOT run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems (PowerMac)

Other Requirements: Software installations required including DirectX.
Partner Requirements: Please check the terms of service of this site before purchasing this software.
You must accept the license available online at rockstargames.com/eula. Non-transferable access to special features such as exclusive, unlockable, downloadable or online content, services, or functions may require single-use serial code, additional fee and/or online account registration (13+). Access to special features may require internet connection, may not be available to all users, and may, upon 30 days notice, be terminated, modified, or offered under different terms.
The content of this videogame is purely fictional, and is not intended to represent or depict any actual event, person, or entity. The makers and publishers of this videogame do not in any way endorse, condone or encourage engaging in any conduct depicted in this videogame. Unauthorized copying, reverse engineering, transmission, public performance, rental, pay for play, or circumvention of copy protection is strictly prohibited. Rockstar Games 622 Broadway, New York, NY 10012 ©1999-2013 Rockstar Games, Inc. Rockstar Games, the Rockstar Games , Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto III, Take-Two Interactive and their respective logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. in the U.S.A. and/or foreign countries. The ratings icon(s) and all other marks and trademarks are properties of their respective owners. All Rights Reserved.

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Øysteinberg Aestheticsucc

26 products in account

2 reviews

Posted: September 11

My childhood game
still you can feel the liberty city's fogy and depressive atmosphere
10/10 would go back 2005 again

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Rob.Fag.24 | kickback.com

80 products in account

55 reviews

Posted: September 24

This is a great game with a great storyline, however you may have problems (Like I Did) where there were invisible text, DONT WORRY! If you watch this video it wil fix it!

Btw, this game is awesome and it had decent graphics for the time!

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Skuflence

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49 reviews

Posted: October 1

Claude is shot and betrayed by his girlfriend. Although he survives the wound, Claude is arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison. While being transported in a prison van, Claude is freed after an attack on the police convoy, escapes to a safehouse and tries to make a new start in the Liberty City while also dealing with his past.

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Autism Incarnate

87 products in account

2 reviews

Posted: September 22

The first thing you should know about Gta III is that it didn't age well, other games later in the seris have better mechanics and story.

However as someone who hasen't played this game way back when, it's still really enjoyable.

The Silent Patch is needed to run on windows 10 and widescreen support is really lame and messes up your croshair as well as the combat system being total ♥♥♥, however its the atmosphere that really caputred me, from the radio stations to driving around Liberty City.

The story isn't as complex and well thoughtout as other games, but the setup is really awesome.

You are a criminal who was just betrayed by your girlfriend and left for dead during a bank robbery. When you were being transferd to prison, the van was intervented by the Columbian Cartel who then blew up the bridge you were on after getting a certain inmate who is important later in the story. There were only two survivors of the explosion, you and a fellow inmate nicknamed 8-Ball. The rest of the story is basiclly Errand Boy: The Game, but has some good moments here and there.

Definatly worth a sale purchese.

EDIT: There is also a widescreen patch as well.

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EmemzY (TR)

51 products in account

14 reviews

Posted: September 23

Grand Theft Auto's first Third-Person-Game with a memorable map --> Liberty City!

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world war 3: lean

152 products in account

62 reviews

Posted: September 27

one of the only games i can relate to anymore... and my speedrun pops off ♥♥♥♥♥

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FudoAkira

329 products in account

118 reviews

Posted: September 25

Check out PCGW for an essential patch. Otherwise, this game is still as awesome as it was over 10 years ago! Truly a classic with great art, atmosphere, and controls. (A note - I was having problems with my gamepad, so I went back to keyboard only. Apparently the easiest way to use a controller is map the keyboard and then use Joy2key or something similar).

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DEL TλCO®

238 products in account

2 reviews

Posted: September 24

In my personal opinon, I feel that Rockstar and Steam shouldn't have the right to sell such a broken product without even as little as a warning about how bad this version of the game is. And if you're running Windows 10 like I am? HA! Good luck...cause you're gonna need it. I got this game to run better by setting up a PS2 emulator for my PC and playing it that way. WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY for an otherwise AMAZING experence.

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UngratefulDead12

5 products in account

1 review

Posted: September 23

50 mins in and wont run tried fixing it but got annoyed and said no dont get it not worth the headache

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103 reviews

Posted: September 15

GTA 3 is a classic and I would love to recommed this game, but there is one problem, you might have a hard time getting the game to work on a modern PC. I get it, the game is old, but if Rockstar wants to take my money for the old game, then they should at least patch it to work on modern pc's. If you turn frame rate limit off, most likely you will run into problems. If you have transparency problems, download the file below and copy the content into your GTA III directory.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1IQhcL6aChua2U0dXZZb2lmOE0/view

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Posted: October 10

Like all Rockstar games it has a new problem everytime you try to play it and for me i couldn't resolve it so it was a waste of money.

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Posted: October 9

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Posted: October 9

For some reason the game menus are broken and i cant play normally. Just the menu buttons and stuff like that are invisible and the game performs kinda poorly i think. The game is great if there wouldnt be that problem

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Posted: October 8

Hard Game, Amazing Story, Amazing Characters, Amazing Map, and the protaganist doesn't say a word! 9/10

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Posted: October 7

My childhood game, the missions with a timer is so annoying; but the game is fun to play.

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Posted: October 7

Silent protagonist, nice story, and pleasant driving. Aiming and shooting with weapon are not so good, aiming is not smooth, shooting mostly misses it's target with a mouse(probably because there is no free aim in the console version). Minor bugs but nothing game breaking.

Just as I remember it: great for its time and still worth the time. And there's just something painful but satisfying about not having a full map which forces you to learn the roads and how to get around, that being said the map is not that big. Oh, and you get shot on most of the map by the other gangs the more you do the main missions, making it difficult to move around freely later in the game.

p.s. Works great on a Z3735F(Windows 10 Laptop) with Intel HD Graphics(Bay Trail) on maximum settings(~40fps on average) at 1366x768.

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Posted: October 7

Finished it in almost 12 hours. Great game, but I don't recommend the Steam version despite it's mess of PC port problems. Better off to play the console version instead.

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Posted: October 5

So here we go folks, my next review and this one is close to me as I prepare the daunting task of reviewing a game that is one of my top 10 games of all time. If you haven't guessed by the title, yes it is Grand Theft Auto III. Enjoy!

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Pros:

-Very Solid Story.

-Character Design was good for its time period.

-A very sizable Map with a big sense of open world first of its kind.

-Tony Cipriani, one of the best characters ever.

-A very nice Soundtrack in form of Radio Stations.

-The Missions are for the most part enjoyable to do.

-Tony Cipriani, one of the best characters ever.

-Sound Effects, while simple in there execution, are memorable.

-Some of the most memorable Quotes you will hear in video games.

-Did I mention Tony Cipiriani? I probably did.

Cons:

-Bikes are not in the game mostly because of budget reasons?

-Some stuff got cut that would have been awesome in the game.

-Nothing to do with Money except buying weapons.

-There are some major bugs in the game especially with the Replay Function.

Pros/Cons depending on the player:

-No Steam Achievements.

-No Steam Trading Cards.

-Some of the side missions like the Taxi Fares and Rampages can be tricky if not annoying to do.

Read the full review at:

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/TheZeronShow/discussions/10/343788552530419934/

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Points Score:

1 - Not Recommended

2 – Recommended at High Discount!

3 - Recommended at Slight Discount!

4 – HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

5 - Must Buy!

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Posted: October 2

Menu text on Windows 10 is invisible. Have to use third party fixes to make the game playable.

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Posted: October 2

Running on modern hardware, this game is borderline unplayable. I know that it's a landmark in gaming or whatever, but I only managed to play for a few hours before giving up altogether. If you get it in a bundle, you could install it to marvel at how far we've come (particularly regarding driving physics), but that's about it.

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