11 Influential Video Games That Have Aged Horribly

Few games are more iconic than Grand Theft Auto III.

Introducing audiences to the concept of open-world, sandbox gameplay alone was enough to cement GTA III's place in history, but many also look back fondly on the hours of their childhood spent aimlessly mowing down pedestrians.

Taking the GTA franchise into the third dimension, GTA III marked a change in the series by taking a more narrative-heavy approach, something which the series is still doing today.

The problem though, is that in the years since its 2001 release, GTA III has aged horribly. While the most obvious way that this is the case would be visually, that's also the most understandable, with the capabilities of consoles having come a remarkably long way in that short space of time.

The worst offender is actually the game's lack of depth. Now the novelty of committing crimes in 3D has worn off, it's hard to ignore how paper-thin the game's characters are, and there's little emotional weight carried by anything in the game, especially when compared to the colourful and memorable characters introduced to us in Vice City just one short year later.

Though GTA III marked the first 3D game in the series, playing it today reveals it to be still a little too 2-dimensional.