Big game on a Small Screen

If you want a really fun game with a zany story that looks great, plays well & very importantly is easy on your phones battery, GTA III is an easy game to be able to recommend. Very customizable controls for your touchscreen in the settings, with nice updated graphics make the hours of content very accessible & worth the price. I enjoy seeing big console experiences become playable on mobile because they’re impressive to see them but many games are unoptimized & drain battery life. On my iPhone 8 I can easily play this on a full charge for a couple hours unlike many other games that require a portable battery to stay running for over 40 minutes. The driving is amazing, and these are the car controls games like Fortnite try to emulate. The radio brings life to the map and just taking in the scenes of the world is always a great time. While it’s cool there is a new version of the classic GTAs up, I still think these old ones are the better value if you want to emulate the original experience. Get the newer ones when you want to have a fresh perspective on the classics.

Great Way to play on M1 (with controller)

Of course GTA III is a classic game, so I won't waste time on the quality anymore than to say: this is the game that all of the later GTA games are built on, you can get lost messing around for hours, or play the engaging story mode. On my MacBook Air M1 the experience is seamless. Paring a dualshock 4 takes seconds, and just works as soon as you launch the game. The default contol scheme is fine, but you cannot change it. I wish you could change the button mapping, but it works and is more than adequate to enjoy the game. The game looks great on the MacBook Air's gorgeous screen and I am sure it looks even better on the new MacBook Pros. It runs without any hiccups, and is an awesome way to bring GTA III with you places. One final minor gripe is that apple music opens everytime the game launches. It's cool that you can play your own music (I think I have admittely not tried it), but it is annoying because if you want to use the in game music, you have to close apple music every launch. Overall with a dualshock 4 (or another bluetooth enabled controller), the experience is pretty seamless and you can get up and running and playing this classic game in minutes.

Classic

There once was an awesome review I spent probably 30 mins typing. Then I hit cancel instead of send. *palm to the forehead* ...almost drops phone and swipes on screen nearly deleting this.. #epicfail This game is a classic piece of moving art. If you don't like it, Don't play it. If you only game on your phone and this is your first time, don't download; You're not worthy. Pros: Enhanced graphics. from original PS2 and PC versions. (Lighting slightly off on mobile version) Smooth frame rate. I originally played this on my iPod 4th gen with Retina display 32 gb and was greatly impressed by how smooth the game ran. (Of course, once support of devices with iOS 6.0 stopped, the game became choppier) it runs like a charm on my iPhone SE as of now. Thrilling Storyline. I'm sure you've played this before, if you haven't. Don't download it, remember??? You're not worthy!! (Haha) Easy Controls. Sure it may be slightly complex at times. ("Look at me contradicting the title of this next segment!" 😅) What do you expect? Your fingers are covering up most of the screen...be thankful we live in a time that you can play, what was once a home console video game, on your cell phone!! (Greedy chumps) To sum it all up. 5 stars, great game. If you want to hi jack cars on your phone without going to jail. This games for you!!

Pretty nice port of a revolutionary game

My only complaints are that once I got to the third island, my game would constantly freeze for a few seconds, and it ruined my immersion a lot. It got worse the longer you played the game. I’m currently on an iPad Air 2 running the latest iOS as of writing this review. There’s also a few texture bugs where sometimes things would turn into weird gray squares, but they're nothing game breaking. Gun controls could be better as well, but they’re enjoyable for the most part. The game gets a bit repetitive the more you play it too. But besides all that, it’s a solid and fun game. Interesting story and characters, nice soundtrack (although there’s only 4-5 songs per station), decent graphics for a mobile game, fun gameplay, and plenty of things to do besides missions. Be warned, though. The game has definitely showed it’s age. Overall a solid purchase and I’m happy. I just finished the main story and got everything I wanted to do done. Go ahead and buy it! I think it’s worth it.

Really, really fun game

I’m not the best at video games but I was still able to get through this game pretty well. The story doesn’t really throw you for a loop but it’s still entertaining to follow. The missions aren’t super hard but not too easy either. The final mission I had a hard time getting through, but rightfully so. In my opinion they’re near perfect difficulty wise, at least for someone who doesn’t play video games very much. Every once in a while it gets a bit laggy but clearing other apps and restarting the device usually fixes it right up. Once finishing the game, all the cars, boats, weapons and the fun to fly dodo plane, keep the game entertaining. I recently finished the game but have still found myself coming back to drive around or start a police chase in a tank. Amazing game, highly recommend!

Buggy

This game is good, but like other users have noted, once you reach the second island, the game becomes extremely laggy. The maps don’t load properly, and what gets me frustrated the most, is how the car you’re driving always pulls to the right. Aiming controls aren’t good, and it’s hard to pan the camera around corners which consistently gets me killed in some missions. Currently, I’m on the mission ‘Decoy’ with Donald Love. The objective is to divert the cops attention for about two and a half minutes in an armored truck. Around the 30 second mark on the timer, the game freezes and restarts itself. I have tried to complete the mission about ten times now and the same thing happens every time. This has kept me from progressing in the game. I’ve tried everything to remedy this and nothing has worked. What a bummer since I literally bought every GTA game on iOS. I’m playing on a new 10.5 iPad Pro. There should be no excuse for this. Please fix this!!!

Disapointing

After finishing GTA San Andreas on iPhone I decided to buy GTA III. Dont even know where to begin. This game is so inferior to San Andreas. Map is small, Can’t adjust camera the way you want it, also can’t adjust the screen using your fingers, can’t swim which is by far the best thing in the game, saving game does not replenish health, good options are nothing like San Andreas, can’t put maneuver well in this game, can’t tap on a person to aim when you want to shoot them, the rain is horrible when driving, horse betting was available right away in San Andreas, can’t train stats like you can in San Andreas, the 3d doesn’t even make the game better, weapons you can find in San Andreas and body armor is way better, less expensive in San Andreas for body spray for vehicles, clothing stores, tattoo shops I mean everything is better in San Andreas. Story mode is better in San Andreas. You get to meet a lot of great characters and the missions are so much better. GTA III is just not worth my time, ill restart San Andreas and play again any day over this game.

Worth it.

This game is a classic and is totally worth the purchase. No other installment has been able to replicate the feeling of GTA 3. The soundtrack is incredible, the visuals are dark and stunning, and the voice acting is top notch with performances by Frank Vincent , Goodfellas (1990), Joe Pantoliano, The Matrix (1999), and Michael Madsen, Reservoir Dogs (1992). For a title released in 2001 that set the standard for future 3rd person gameplay, the amount of attention paid to narrative structure is just as impressive. The controls can be a bit cumbersome at times but what else can you expect on a touch device. Playing this game after swearing by San Andreas as the best pre GTA 4 installment for years, I have to say that GTA 3 will still give San Andreas a run for its money any day.

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