Grand Theft Auto III
- All time rank:
- 64
- 2000s rank:
- 22
- 2001 rank:
- 4
- Developers:
- DMA Design , TransGaming Inc.
- Platforms:
- PC , PS2
- Year of release:
- 2001
- Genres:
- Action , Adventure , Open world , Racing , Sandbox , Shooter , Simulator
- IGDB Link:
- https://www.igdb.com/games/grand-theft-auto-iii
You've been betrayed and left for dead. Now you're taking revenge, unless the city gets you first. Mob bosses need a favor, crooked cops need help and street gangs want you dead. You'll have to rob, steal and kill just to stay out of serious trouble. Anything can happen out here.
Featuring a fully 3-D living city, a combination of narrative driven and non-linear gameplay and a completely open environment, Grand Theft Auto III represents a huge leap forward in interactive entertainment. For the first time, players are put at the heart of their very own gangster movie, and let loose in a fully-realised 3 dimensional city, in which anything can happen and probably will.
With a cast of hundreds, 50 plus vehicles, ranging from sports cars to ice cream trucks and from boats to buses, 3 hours of music, including opera, reggae, house, drum and bass, pop and disco, a huge array of street ready weapons and some of the seediest characters in video game history, Grand Theft Auto 3 is a sprawling epic which will show you that sometimes, crime can pay and sometimes it can pay you back. Available now for PlayStation2, Xbox, PC and Macintosh.
from IGDB.comAll Time Lists
Decade Lists
| Publication | List | Year | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNN | The top 10 video games of the past decade | 2010 | 1 |
| Complex | The 100 Best Video Games and PC Games From the 2000s | 2009 | 1 |
| Fellowship of the Screen | The Best Video Games of the 2000s | 2017 | 29 |
| WhatCulture | 25 Best Video Games Of The 2000s | 2019 | 1 |
| Wired | The 15 Most Influential Games of the Decade | 2009 | 2 |
Miscellaneous Lists
| Publication | List | Year | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edge | The 100 Greatest Games of Edge's Lifetime | 2023 | 18 |
| IGN | Best of the Decade | 2013 | 4 |
End of Year Lists
| Publication | List | Year | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ars Technica | Game.Ars: The GUGOYAs, 2003 edition (2002) | 2003 | 1 |
| Game Developers Choice Awards | GDCA Game of the Year 2001 | 2002 | 1 |
| Goomba Stomp | The Best Games of the 2000s (2001) | 2021 | 2 |
| IGN | Best of the Decade (2001) | 2013 | 1 |