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"Cool Grand Theft thingies"

Now might not be the most appropriate time for a topic like this, but talking about games tends to take my mind of more important matters. Anyhoo, now that I own the lovely Grand Theft Auto 3 on PS2, I was wondering what nice little touches you have found in the game. Here are some I've found:

The pedestrians occasionally shout lines from Village People songs (listen carefully)
The door on the car doesn't shut if you drive off before you close it.
The Banshee in the show-room next to 8-Ball's place.
The massive slow-down jump moments.
When it gets dark, you can see your car turn its lights on.
People going into sex shops.
The radio stations are, I think, what make the game. Favourite by far is Chatterbox, I've parked and listened to it for several minutes on end. Genius.
The drive-by Uzi thing.

Any more I may have missed? A mate says you can bounce the Yardie cars, but I've not seen this yet. Enlighten me, chat-a-holics.

The radio stations have to be one of my favourite things- brilliant- i suggest you listen to "DJ Mike Hunt" who works on head radio, he's the funniest! I dont think there is one thing missing from this game. Its brilliant! Brilliant i tells ya!

On the stats screen when you press pause, on the top left it says a word and then a number. I was wondering what is the highest anyone has ever got, because I've managed to get mine up to "Capo"- anyone?

Not forgetting jumping on top of a moving car and moving around the roads on top while shooting at pedestrians. Classic.

I may be a bit slow but on GTA2 I realised that if you land on top of a car with another one it blows up.

"my friend joey sewed his hands together!"

You can change the camera view using the 'Select Button' Nothing Big I know, but if you keep pressing it on foot you can get the traditional 'top-down' view, and you can get this view in the car as well! - It's cool.

I've only just got my memory card (Cost Bloody Fortune) So I should be able to start playing properly - Don't know If I wan't to thouygh... :D

Bob wrote:
> loki wrote:
> Oh my God. Am I the only person in the world not to own GTA3?
> You're all
> obsessed. I hear about it all day in the office. Non-stop.
> It's driving me
> insane.


hehe. It IS worth buying a PS2 for this game.
> Thats what I did on sunday. I used to play the original GTA and that was fun but
> all that carnage in first person mode, could it get better?


I second that. I got one on Tuesday. GTA3 is great, the PS2 is great, my bank account is not so great.

But rationalise it like this...
A DVD player costs around £150 pounds, and a PS costs around £100

I'm just getting both combined with extras! See I'm coming out tops here!

But then again thats 260ish pounds I just spent.... :/

Mystique wrote:
> i still cant find the damn yardie cars!

Ok, if you look on the PS1 and PS2 forum we have about forty topics about GTA3 at present

You get the yardie cars on the second island. Most normally around Liberty Campus and on the long stretch of road which passes the police station on the second island (the one where the car park exits on too

They are normally a burgundy colour with a cream soft top

Try pressing the horn or moving the right analogue stick for a cheap thrill

Hope this helps

i still cant find the damn yardie cars!

Anyone played the 'Two-faced Tanner' mission yet? It's just a blatant slagging off of the Driver games. You have to kill a 'Driver' working for the mob, who is in fact, an undercover cop called Tanner. Sound familiar? He is a 'strangely animated' fellow who is 'useless out of his car', and must be eliminated. Needless to say, he looks exactly the same as the Driver character, has the same car and the same slightly camp walk. Brilliant, made me laugh out loud. Is there no end to this game's brilliance?