2.5/5 ★ – Oxsila's review of Grand Theft Auto III - The Definitive Edition.

The game is absolutely abysmal. All it has going for it is it's impact in gaming. Actually playing it in this day and age is pure torture: Each radio station only plays about 3 songs each. The driving is awful. The car hit detection is insanely dated. If you want to try and ram a car off the road for a mission, good luck. When your car is on fire, you have virtually 1 millisecond to get out of the car to escape. But wait there's more. Your car has to have completed stopped before you can exit the vehicle. I could go on and on and on about how awful the game has aged. I tried. I tried so hard to enjoy this game and feel the nostalgia others feel - I got about 50+ missions in but I just can't. I had to stop at the escort mission where there are nonstop cartel cars chasing you in a tunnel. Yet another mission which is only made difficult by the insanely dated car hit detection and mechanics. The missions if equipped with modern movement etc can all be done in legitimately 30 seconds. There is practically no story. You just see a guy speak in a cutscene for a few seconds before your guy just walks out. The missions just consist of "go here kill him", "go here kill him", "go here kill him." Over and over and over. I was waiting to see the revolutionary story that the game was supposed to tell which would save the fact that the gameplay has aged horribly. But nope. If you are someone who had never played this and was interested in the remaster, oh good lord, save yourself lol. Vice City and San Andreas are perfectly fine games. But GTA 3 has aged badly in thousands of ways. PS (who's genius idea was it to have the player run out of stamina virtually 3 seconds after sprinting?) like seriously? You might aswell not have added sprint XD