20th anniversary of GTA 3 - This is awesome

Today is the 20th anniversary of GTA 3. Yes, Grand Theft Auto III was released 20 years ago today, this game changed the open-world genre forever. One of the first and biggest 3D open-world titles to ever debut on PlayStation 2 and the original Xbox in year 2001. I could not play this game at that time. But, later I enjoyed GTA 3 a lot.

Rockstar masterpiece is one of the first games we will be able to enjoy in three generations. It was released in 2013 on PS3, Xbox 360, we were able to play it again a year later on PS4, Xbox One and PC, and in 2022 it will arrive on PS5 and Xbox Series X).

Rockstar also has to be praised. How the move from a 2D development in top-down perspective (that's what Grand Theft Auto, GTA 2 and GTA London were like) to a 3D development made open-world adventures establish themselves as a genre in their own right, revolutionizing the market. Sales increased sevenfold (GTA 2 sold two million units, and GTA III hit 14) and it was the highest rated game of the year, a 97 according to Metacritic.

20th anniversary of GTA 3 - This is awesome

The first GTA broke the mold for a change in focus; for the first time it allowed the player to be "the bad guy" in the story. By breaking the law, driving around the city from an aerial perspective was much more fun. Liberty City, dubbed "the worst place in America" was a living city, in which the player had infinite possibilities.

In addition to the top 80 missions, there were taxi driver or ambulance driver jobs, changes in the weather, three very different districts, and different radio stations with licensed themes that could be heard in the car.

According to Aaron Garbut, Head of Development at Rockstar North "Going to 3D completely changed the immersive experience, because suddenly you were inside the world, not on it. This greatly changed the way we had to approach the creation of the game. . " For the last 22 years, he's worked at Rockstar North on the Grand Theft Auto (GTA), Max Payne, and Red Dead Video game series.