10 Best Video Games Ever Made (Until You Played Them Again)
4. GTA III
GTA III changed everything about the gaming industry. In the same vein as more modern games like Undertale, you just kind of had to be there to truly feel the impact of Grand Theft Auto III. As it stands, you and I are still living in a world feeling the aftershocks of this game, the same way we're still feeling the aftershocks of Nirvana's "Nevermind" or even the first Star Wars.
This makes the fact that the game sorta blows today all the more sad.
In GTA III, you can see and feel the DNA of every open-world crime game to come in the following decades, but the game itself is just not there yet. Going from GTA V or even IV to this feels like taking about 500 steps back, with a cardboard cut-out silent protagonist, an open world that doesn't have a lot going on, and stiff combat.
One of the most important games ever made, it's a shame that the state it's in compared to later entries doesn't leave it open for revisiting. And double shame that the remake did it even dirtier.