Grand Theft Auto 3 Comments by Gestalt
Review - Grand Theft Auto comes home to the PC; can it steal our hearts (and wallets) again?
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For the timed missions if your driving is a bit crap use the Stinger, it's nice and quick and the handling is the best of the sports cars even if it isn't the fastest.
I'm pretty sure the health does respawn but it takes ages, however there are plenty of them hidden away on each island so just learn where they are and it'll help and always wear armour, which is also scattered quite nicely around the three islands. If you complete a certain amount of ambulance missions a health pickup will appear at your home. Ambulances increase health by 20 points but will decrease your health to 100 if you've been enjoying the "freelance nurses" that walk around Liberty distributing health bonuses... Oh and remember to do the police vigilante missions too, for every 10 you get a police bribe at home, to the maximum of 6 when you've done 20 missions on each of the three islands.
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Moonbender
31/05/02 @ 00:25
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Not really. Cop cars are neither the fastest nor the most nimble cars in the game. I like Stingers the most, but the other sports cars all seem to be pretty awesome. Cop cars are pretty stable, though, which might be a reason to use em.
The siren is very cool, you just have to love how all the other cars actually break and try to make room for you, but I preferred to drive without it, since I found the other cars behaviour to be pretty difficult to predict, for instance if and which way they would drive to avoid you. BTW, I didn't know about the police bribe and health appearing at your hideout, that's pretty cool. Gotta try it right now. :) How many hidden packages did you find so far? I'm at 35 (without any walkthrough, of course) right now, I've got the pistol, the uzi and grenades at my hideout. |
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Out of interest, what tracks do you listen,if you do, on the MP3 player? I'm talking about songs that you think are ideally suited to causing destruction and chaos. A few that I have running are:
Sabotage - Beastie Boys Been caught stealing - Jane's Addiction I fought the law - The Clash Wonderful world - Louis Armstrong (this is great to produce that surreal atmosphere) Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols (there are so many you can pick, but this is probably the most fitting one) Ignite, Looking for action and Born to kill - The Damned Perseverance - Terrorvision
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Moonbender
31/05/02 @ 00:56
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LOL ... my mp3 subdir contains a couple of songs randomly pulled out of my main MP3 archive. The songs aren't anarchic at all, quite to the contrary actually - a couple of songs by Elton John, Sandstorm by Darude and Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm by the Crash Test Dummies. As I said, very random bunch.
If I had to choose a couple of songs that fit the mood, then Jimmy Eat World, Marilyn Manson and the Prodigy would be it. Neon Genesis theme songs would qualify as creating a surreal athmosphere. ;) |
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Yeah, I have a large collection of alsorts in my directory, but I thought I'd just name a few that really are neat during intense action. There's just something about hearing...
I've been caught stealing, once when I was five I enjoy stealing, its as simple as that Well its a simple fact When I want something, man, don't want to pay for it ...while driving a hijacked car. :) |
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"More safe houses or more flexible saving options would be nice"
The most annoying bit is the missions, as you can't save during a mission. That means that if you fail the mission, you not only have to repeat the entire thing over from scratch (which is fair enough), but you also have to monkey around driving out to see whichever gang boss it was to get the mission again and wait for the cutscene to load up, skip through it, wait for it to drop you back into the game... It's just plain annoying if you end up retrying the same mission several times. I want to be able to just jump right back in while I'm still worked up, not have to faff around driving a couple of miles across town just to get started. "the one where you have to go to all the phones" That one's a bit tricky - I made it on my first try, but only with literally one second left on the clock when I finally reached the end of the phone trail. All I can suggest is steal a fast car and park it so that it's facing in the right direction before you go to get the mission, so you can just hop in and screech off once the timer starts. "I get this huge urge to get out of my vehicle and give "bad" drivers a good slap" The funny thing is, some of the other drivers are just as bad as you. You'll sometimes see cars punting each other off the road, colliding at junctions, mounting the pavement and generally messing up. Staunton seems to be the worst for that - must be all the rich idiots with their Ferrari and Porsche substitutes. ;) |
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Bah - you're all an uncultured bunch. I always tune into the classical/opera radio station (been a while since I played it so can't remember the channel's name) - nothing like cruising liberty city to the strains of some diva belting it out, especially when the action is really getting hot as it makes it kind of surreal ;-)
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I like that enormous army surplus truck you can get from the arms dealer on the second island. Almost completely indestructable, cars just bounce off it! Excellent fun to just plough along a busy road sending cars flying in all directions. Helped me to finish many a difficult mission, that one - not fast, but the cops can't touch you! :-)
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->Blerk
I love that one too. I pick it up, and just bully everyone else by going in the opposite direction of the lane. I usually take the small bridge by the constructionsite, just to get to bob a few of them down down down. I specially like hitting Landstalkers with it, since they do some quality bounching. |
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A couple more that I have:
Caught by the Fuzz - Supergrass Crosstown Traffic - Hendrix Hendrix's one has some really great lyrics: You jump in front of my car when you, you know all the time Ninty miles an hour, girl, is the speed I drive You tell me it's alright, you don't mind a little pain You say you just want me to take you for a drive You're just like crosstown traffic So hard to get through to you Crosstown traffic I don't need to run over you Crosstown traffic All you do is slow me down And I'm tryin' to get on the other side of town I'm not the only soul who's accused of hit and run Tire tracks all across your back I can, I can see you had your fun But, darlin' can't you see my signals turn from green to red And with you I can see a traffic jam straight up ahead You're just like crosstown traffic So hard to get through to you Crosstown traffic I don't need to run over you Crosstown traffic All you do is slow me down And I got better things on the other side of town It is a fantastic track in its own right anyway... well, it is Hendrix. |
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I like that enormous army surplus truck you can get from the arms dealer on the second island.
The Barracks at full speed into oncoming traffic is lovely, just a pity it's as fragile as all the other vehicles when the Rhinos are on the streets... I specially like hitting Landstalkers with it, since they do some quality bounching. Hitting Landstalkers is just what they deserve, they're top heavy, unbalanced crap, one of the worst cars to be around when you really need to 'jack something to get away from the cops! |
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When do you actually gain the Rhino?
There are three non-cheating ways :- a) nick one from the army (the best way but v.dangerous) b) nick one from the army and complete the emergency vehicle crane requirements of one of each EV and you get the ability to pick one up from the docks anytime c) complete the game and the arms dealer's Rhino is unlocked and respawns. Until you hit the third island the army don't turn up, so there's no way to get one until you're quite far into the game. |
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"Hitting Landstalkers is just what they deserve, they're top heavy, unbalanced crap, one of the worst cars to be around when you really need to 'jack something to get away from the cops"
It's a pity really - the Landstalkers are pretty fast, fairly rugged and handle well, but as soon as you so much as tap it with another car it flips over and blows up. They must've modelled it on the Canyonero from The Simpsons. ;)
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The great escape (with the kindest germans ever in movie history) is my fav. movie with him.
The Great Escape is truly one of the best movies ever, now I've just to find some time to actually watch the recent DVD I bought of it! One thing that would add a certain McQueen influence to GTA would be whenever you're in a chase there should always be a green VW Beetle lurking nearby... :-)
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LaundroMat
31/05/02 @ 11:20
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Gestalt: The most annoying bit is the missions, as you can't save during a mission. I want to be able to just jump right back in while I'm still worked up, not have to faff around driving a couple of miles across town just to get started.
That's not a bad thing, imho. I guess only one times in three do I actually reach the same boss again, only because I can't withhold from trying to fool around with pedestrians, other drivers, the cops eventually etcetera (and have fun in the process). Surely makes the game last a lot longer. |
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Surely makes the game last a lot longer.
It's generally not too bad until you get to the second island and it starts sending you on missions to the first island. Get mission on island 2, drive to island 1, get killed, have to go all the way back to island 2 to get the mission again, then all the way back to island 1, get killed, shout, throw, swear. :-) |
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For the PC version, it should have been possible to save anywhere, at any time.
Wouldn't that have made a bit too easy? Perhaps they should have made auto save points every place where you can pick up a mission? So just before you pick a mission the game auto saves, thus saving you from needing to backtrack to find the mission again should you fail it. |
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Wouldn't that have made a bit too easy?
Yes it would, unless the mission is timed you can do pretty much anything to get a new car, health, weapons and armour so if things go bad just back off re-stock and then go back, hell you can even pay a visit to a freelance nurse if you want... Never be afraid to scarper. |
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"Perhaps they should have made auto save points every place where you can pick up a mission"
Yup. I like the idea of limited saves, but in GTA3 it's just bloody minded because you have to drive back and forth across town every time you fail a mission. If you could just auto-save outside the hot spot where you go in to meet the boss, that would save a lot of time and unnecessary frustration. |
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Well I figured out that pickups definately return, an dthat includes polic bribes. My next question is whether failed missions return, in particular the non gang related ones.
Yup. I like the idea of limited saves Well the current save system isn't great. I'm one of those players who will save every other minute if I can, but I like restricted saving because it adds more tension. |
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