Second update: 4 Jan, 2019 @ 05:57AM
I just finished this game for the third time ever. I have been constantly playing this game for four years now and absolutely adore it. It still is my most favourite game of all time. I haven't actually tried for the platinum trophy on PS4 and didn't even know it was a year and a half ago when I last finished the game. Its funny how it was almost a year ago when I wrote the review for this. Around that time I was nowhere near as good at anything to do with having accurate aim but during it I was playing games that helped me alot with my accuracy so even though back then this game was somewhat challenging, now it feels like a walk in the park. I still love it though. Going to complete this game for the fourth time on the Original Xbox someday. Finishing this game was a great way to start the year off. After 4 years of play on 5 different platforms I can be absolutely certain that I can fly the dodo better than any ordinary plane. I'll try to remember to update all of you when I complete the Original Xbox version, when another day comes.

Originally Posted: 31 Jan, 2018 @ 3:41am:
I absolutely adore this game, it is my most favourite game of all time. Ignore the amount of time on my Steam counter as I probably have between 700-1300hours in this game. For the past 4 years I have played this on Android, PS2,PC and Xbox. On PC I used to have this pirated but as the R* bundle is only 80 cent on HumbleBundle, I bought this.

I remember always wanting to play GTA as a child, so 11 year old me got a GTA Advance ROM and emulated that on a GBA emulator. Of course, that didn't satisfy my open world 3D sandbox needs. Like anyone else I had a phone and I saw four GTA games to choose between. I chose Grand Theft Auto III because I thought Vice City and San Andreas were spin offs and III was the main game.
However, being 11 years old bought its problems and even if I wasn't, I didn't have a payment method. So I pirated GTA III, and enjoyed the hell out of the game.
Of course a couple years later I bought GTA III on Android, and actually bothered to complete it this time. But lets get back to 11 year old me. I absolutely adored GTA III, its open world enviorment, its map, story, characters. I loved it. This was all on a small screen with touch controls though and of course I eventually heard of the Dodo and Ghost Town etc. I wanted to be successful at flying the dodo and my goal was to see Ghost Town in its 2001 polygonal glory. I knew a friend who had GTA III on the PS2. The same year I bought a PS2 with Shadow The Hedgehog (which for some reason I actually enjoyed at the time) but that game didn't matter once I had my sights on GTA III. So we did a trade. He got the hedgehog game and I got sandbox driving 2001 simulator. I flew the Dodo and saw the easter eggs on the mini-map but still had no success with Ghost Town. Something unfortunate prevented me.

I lost the disc.

I used to hide the disc under my matress because as I was 11 I wasn't allowed such violent games. One day I looked and it wasn't there. I still wonder where it has gone to this day. Fast foward a couple months to the point we're in 2015 and I buy a PC. Its a small compact office PC but of course in this era you can run DOOM on a printer so why not run GTA III on this. I had no internet at the time and used mobile data so I downloaded a cracked version of GTA III for PC off Tesco's Wifi (yes, tesco) along with a beta for Sonic Xtreme which only just surfaced around the time. I got home, installed GTA III and my journey to PC gaming started there. I got into modding GTA III. I downloaded the Liberty Unleashed mod which enabled multiplayer and of course made friends there. One of which flew me to Ghost Town. I played Liberty Unleashed for nearly 2 years. I ended up getting distracted from single player. All this time and I still hadn't completed GTA III's campaign. So in late 2016 I bought the Android version off the Play Store (this time with a payment method, tesco got Play Store cards in stock) and you're damn right if you guessed that I completed the game this time.

Its now May 23rd, 2017.
16:19:19AM.
I finished the first mission of GTA III, "Luigi's Girls" on my Playstation 4.
In February of that year, I was able to use my PS4 as I got a monitor which accepted HDMI inputs, the PS4 which I bought in August or September of 2016. This was around the time I started not playing GTA III as much due to GTA V consuming me. I was obsessed with the game. But that didn't stop me completing GTA III a second time.
On May 28th, 2017 at 19:40:49PM I completed the last mission of GTA III on my PS4. The next goal was platinum.

But that story is for another day.

Second update: 4 Jan, 2019 @ 05:57AM I just finished this game for the third time ever. I have been constantly playing this game for four years now and absolutely adore it. It still is my most favourite game of all time. I haven't actually tried for the platinum trophy on PS4 and didn't even know it was a year and a half ago when I last finished the game. Its funny how it was almost a year ago when I wrote the review for this. Around that time I was nowhere near as good at anything to do with having accurate aim but during it I was playing games that helped me alot with my accuracy so even though back then this game was somewhat challenging, now it feels like a walk in the park. I still love it though. Going to complete this game for the fourth time on the Original Xbox someday. Finishing this game was a great way to start the year off. After 4 years of play on 5 different platforms I can be absolutely certain that I can fly the dodo better than any ordinary plane. I'll try to remember to update all of you when I complete the Original Xbox version, when another day comes. Originally Posted: 31 Jan, 2018 @ 3:41am: I absolutely adore this game, it is my most favourite game of all time. Ignore the amount of time on my Steam counter as I probably have between 700-1300hours in this game. For the past 4 years I have played this on Android, PS2,PC and Xbox. On PC I used to have this pirated but as the R* bundle is only 80 cent on HumbleBundle, I bought this. I remember always wanting to play GTA as a child, so 11 year old me got a GTA Advance ROM and emulated that on a GBA emulator. Of course, that didn't satisfy my open world 3D sandbox needs. Like anyone else I had a phone and I saw four GTA games to choose between. I chose Grand Theft Auto III because I thought Vice City and San Andreas were spin offs and III was the main game. However, being 11 years old bought its problems and even if I wasn't, I didn't have a payment method. So I pirated GTA III, and enjoyed the hell out of the game. Of course a couple years later I bought GTA III on Android, and actually bothered to complete it this time. But lets get back to 11 year old me. I absolutely adored GTA III, its open world enviorment, its map, story, characters. I loved it. This was all on a small screen with touch controls though and of course I eventually heard of the Dodo and Ghost Town etc. I wanted to be successful at flying the dodo and my goal was to see Ghost Town in its 2001 polygonal glory. I knew a friend who had GTA III on the PS2. The same year I bought a PS2 with Shadow The Hedgehog (which for some reason I actually enjoyed at the time) but that game didn't matter once I had my sights on GTA III. So we did a trade. He got the hedgehog game and I got sandbox driving 2001 simulator. I flew the Dodo and saw the easter eggs on the mini-map but still had no success with Ghost Town. Something unfortunate prevented me. I lost the disc. I used to hide the disc under my matress because as I was 11 I wasn't allowed such violent games. One day I looked and it wasn't there. I still wonder where it has gone to this day. Fast foward a couple months to the point we're in 2015 and I buy a PC. Its a small compact office PC but of course in this era you can run DOOM on a printer so why not run GTA III on this. I had no internet at the time and used mobile data so I downloaded a cracked version of GTA III for PC off Tesco's Wifi (yes, tesco) along with a beta for Sonic Xtreme which only just surfaced around the time. I got home, installed GTA III and my journey to PC gaming started there. I got into modding GTA III. I downloaded the Liberty Unleashed mod which enabled multiplayer and of course made friends there. One of which flew me to Ghost Town. I played Liberty Unleashed for nearly 2 years. I ended up getting distracted from single player. All this time and I still hadn't completed GTA III's campaign. So in late 2016 I bought the Android version off the Play Store (this time with a payment method, tesco got Play Store cards in stock) and you're damn right if you guessed that I completed the game this time. Its now May 23rd, 2017. 16:19:19AM. I finished the first mission of GTA III, "Luigi's Girls" on my Playstation 4. In February of that year, I was able to use my PS4 as I got a monitor which accepted HDMI inputs, the PS4 which I bought in August or September of 2016. This was around the time I started not playing GTA III as much due to GTA V consuming me. I was obsessed with the game. But that didn't stop me completing GTA III a second time. On May 28th, 2017 at 19:40:49PM I completed the last mission of GTA III on my PS4. The next goal was platinum. But that story is for another day.