GTA 3 (GTA III)

Introduction:

            GTA 3 was released in October 2001. It was developed by DMA Design and published by Rockstar Games. This action-adventure game is the third game in GTA (Grand Theft Auto) game series. It was developed from RenderWare game engine. Leslie Benzies is the producer of this game and the story of this game was written by Dan Houser, James Worrall and Paul Kurowski. Also, this game is an open-world game and has a single-player option. However, GTA 3 was released for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Android, iOS and Fire OS.

            It was much improved than GTA 1 and GTA 2. Various types of weapons and vehicles had included in this video game and the player's walking skills, vehicles’s sounds had greatly improved. However, GTA 3 was the bestselling video game in 2001. To date, it has sold 14.5 million copies. In November 2021, Rockstar released the remastered version of GTA 3 called GTA 3 The Definitive Edition. 

Story:

            This story begins in 2001. This story is about the Liberty City area of ​​America. Our character’s name is Claude. One day Claude and his girlfriend Catalina successfully rob a bank. But while they are escaping from there, Catalina betrays Claude. There Catalina shoots him and runs away with the cash. However, Claude is able to save his life and he is caught by the police. The court sentences him to 10 years in prison. For that, he is taken to the Liberty City Jail in Portland. There was a member who was important to the Colombian Cartel in this vehicle. Because of this, the Colombian Cartel plans to save that prisoner. There they attack the car carrying the prisoners on the Callahan Bridge and rescue the person they want. So, Claude and another prisoner named 8-Ball manage to escape that place.

            After that, 8-Ball introduces Claude to Luigi Goterelli who is his friend. Luigi is an owner of a nightclub in this city. From then on, Claude decides to work under him. There he meets Joey Leone. He is the son of Salvatore Leone, the leader of the Leone family. And Joey had his own garage. While Claude is working with Joey, he is able to meet Toni Cipriani, a member of the Leone family. Toni was often at her mother's restaurant.

            One day when Claude and Toni go to the restaurant, Toni wants to extort money from a shop. But there they are attacked by the Triads mafia gang. However, they manage to escape that place. Enraged by the incident, Toni plans to destroy the Triads mafia gang. He decides to assign this task to Claude. After that, Claude destroys the headquarters of the Triads mafia gang with the help of 8-Ball.

            But before that, Toni, Luigi and Joey are taken to safety at Salvatore Leone's house by Claude. There he is able to meet Salvatore and his wife Maria. Since then, Claude has to work under him. Meanwhile, one day Maria says to Salvatore that she loves Claude. Enraged by the incident, Salvatore plans to kill Claude. So, one day Salvatore orders Claude to destroy a car with dead bodies. But before going there, Maria is able to warn him that it is a trap. Then she asks him to come and meet her.

            After Claude goes to meet Maria, she introduces Asuka Kasen, who is the co-leader of the Yakuza mafia gang. Asuka agrees to give protection to Claude and Maria. But before that, Asuka tells Claude to kill Salvatore to prove his loyalty. So, Claude accepts that task and he kills Salvatore Leon near Luigi's nightclub. Meanwhile, he is able to meet the leader of the Yakuza mafia gang, Kenji Kasen. He is also the brother of Asuka.

            While working with Kenji and Asuka, Claude meets a businessman named Donald Love. His plan is to start a war between the Colombian Cartel and the Yakuza and buys lands in Liberty City cheaply. So, Donald says Claude to kill Kenji, the leader of the Yakuza gang. Then he goes in a Colombian cartel truck and kills Kenji. Thinking that this is the work of the Colombian Cartel, Asuka decides to take revenge on them. Meanwhile, Donald's plane carrying illegal goods is intercepted by the police. Claude is assigned the responsibility of bringing back the goods in there. But before he gets there, Claude learns that the Colombian Cartel had stolen the goods there. So, he decides to attack a nearby Colombian Cartel building. There he meets Catalina and her new partner, Miguel. As soon as Miguel gives Claude the necessary supplies, Catalina shoots Miguel and runs away. At that moment, Asuka arrives and thanks Claude for catching Miguel. Then Claude leaves from there to deliver Donald's goods to him.

            Later, Claude learns that Catalina killed Asuka and Miguel and kidnapped Maria. Catalina tells him to come to her with $500,000 if he wants to save Maria. Although Claude takes with the money, Catalina betrays him again. Because of this, Claude has to kill her. At last, he kills Catalina and saves Maria’s life.      

Minimum System Requirements:

• CPU                         - Pentium 3 @ 450MH_Z
• RAM                        - 96MB
• Video Memory      - 16MB
• OS                           - Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP / 7 / 10
• Hard Drive Space - 500MB