K, I’ve been doing a replay of GTAs III, VC, and SA, as i one bought the iOS 3-pack once upon a time ago. I never had a PS 2 because my brother had one and I hated him, but I remember many hundreds of hours of running over hookers when I have a booze and coke phase about 20 years ago… and lived in Florida. It made sense, and that game was fun as fuck!
Well, I just beat it for real (actually playing the game, not just engaging in a bloodbath), and I tried to play GTA 3. Wow. That game is shit compared to VC. Storylines, gameplay, missions, etc. GTA III blows compared to VC.
I’m moving on to San Andreas, hoping it will be better.
I had a similar feeling when replaying 3, VC and SA a couple years ago. I thoroughly enjoyed SA and VC, but 3 just had a kinda… depressing atmosphere? I don’t know how to best describe it, I guess it’s due to the main character never talking and thus having very little personality. Claude basically does whatever he’s told by whatever person he’s working for at the time, at some point there’s a falling out and Claude leaves everyone dead in his wake. When I play VC and SA, I get the feeling of playing in a world that is alive, where the main character makes friends, but in 3 after the story was finished I had a hard time thinking of any characters that were still alive. I still think 3 was impressive from a technological standpoint.
Of course, I might be remembering this wrong since it’s been some time, and there’s also some nostalgia since I played SA and VC when I was young, but not 3.