It’s autumn and the twentieth anniversary of Grand Theft Auto III (October 22nd) is upon us. Sadly, or perhaps inevitably, there might not be many singing happy birthday.
With plenty of open world games to choose from on the PlayStation 2, narrowing down the list to just the 15 best is quite the difficult task.
Those games were pretty mid. In fact, I'm surprised they even put The Getaway: Black Monday. But they left out much better games like Way of the Samurai 1-2, Okami, Jak 2 or 3, Final Fantasy 12, Yakuza 1-2, or SSX 3.
Like the film or television industry, the world of gaming has seen its fair share of reboots over the years. While some of these video game reboots have had
A new Grand Theft Auto III comparison highlights the massive visual differences between the unofficial UE5 remake and the Definitive Edition
Wow, now thats UNREAL! Why do they try to hose us with re-releases when the community can do this with UE5?! Holy crap thats absolutely insane and puts T2 to absolute SHAME!
So yes it looks good but the thing is once you start building new assets and making significant changes like what's been done here it stops being gta 3.
In the example shots roads are so narrow they are essentially one way streets.
I'm not crapping on the work.this guy did it's fantastic but it's not gta 3.
This isn't a gta 3 remake in ue it's a fan game that uses gta 3 as inspiration if that's better or worse it's subjective.
Gta definitive wasn't great but that was more related to the ugly character models and bugs 1 was an attempt by gsg to leave a mark on the game the other was their lack of care.
Part of the charm of GTA is the semi cartoonish look it has. Making it too realistic doesn't fit the game.
Remove the main character walking and its another generic enviroment demo.
It's funny seeing the animation for some of these old games and seeing just how far ahead some developers were even tho they were coming off from PS1. Square Soft was doing some impressive visuals and animations early in the PS2 gen that most devs didn't reach until well into the generation
I've replayed a lot of old game in the last year and most of them aged horribly. I ended up selling half of my game collection because of this.
I'd rather play GTA 3 than almost any NES or SNES game, and the vast majority of people prefer games from the 6th gen (PS2/GC/Xbox/DC) to those gens. The PS2 is regularly voted as the best console ever, i.e. it gave people the most fun.
Journalists really over-exaggerate how badly many 3D games have aged while letting 2D games completely off the hook because they grew up in that era or get influenced by group think from older gamers running these websites. Just like 2D games, 3D games went through growing pains so when we're just talking about PS1/N64 games, it's understandable but it's a bias that drives me mad.
Most old 2D games look awful and garish if you similarly hold them to modern standards and their gameplay is easily surpassed by obscure indie games, let alone the more polished and famous ones.
I went on a cheat rampage a few years ago in GTA 3 and thought it held up pretty well. The car controls are still very fun and the auto-aim shooting controls are still easy to use. My criticisms of it now are the same as when I originally played it. Vice City addressed most of my criticisms.
Cant be that bad, RDR 2 and GTA 5 still control like a game from 20 years ago, and they sell like hot cakes....
I don't feel the same they aged but horribly?
Most open world games still couldn't meet the standard that GTA III set 20 years ago.
And I'm not talking about graphics.