How Grand Theft Auto III Made an Impact Grand Theft Auto III was very influential on the appearance of gaming. This game’s storyline and all its blood, strong language, and violence are entirely focused on adult consumers. The pause menu contained a page called the status page, which showed how many things you have completed throughout a significantly complex map. This game included another very interesting feature that involved radios stations in cars that continuously re-played set soundtracks. Fairly well known actors voiced the secondary characters (GamesRadar Staff). The consumers were also a part of Grand Theft Auto III’s impact on the appearance of gaming by constructing mods (GamesRadar Staff). Although stealing cars was already incorporated …show more content…
Using the voices of well-known actors is more common today than it was then and this particular game could have helped contribute to that. For example, Ice Cube’s voice is used when playing Call of Duty: Ghost’s multiplayer. Another great example would be the extremely famous actor Liam Neeson, who voices an important character in the popular role-playing game Fallout 3 (Danko). Grand Theft Auto III’s creators were treating the game as if it were a movie (GamesRadar Staff). They didn’t just pick any actors that were available nor did they try and enlist famous actors for the reputation (GamesRadar Staff). They found actors that would’ve played and perfectly fit the role if it were a movie because a video game with a campaign is essentially an interactive movie (GamesRadar …show more content…
However Grand Theft Auto III opened up the world even more than previous open-world games, which made it somewhat unique. Grand Theft Auto III’s sandbox type play really enforced one of Pistol’s lines from The Merry Wives of Windsor in which he says, “Why, then the world's mine oyster. Which I with sword will open.” Of course, in the previous Grand Theft Auto’s there was always stealing cars involved, but in the 3rd version of the game there is so much more. Grand Theft Auto III’s sandbox way of play set a prototype for other sandbox type games (GamesRadar Staff). The act of being able to sprint, jump, and climb seem simple concepts, but in reality they are a faster, more efficient, way to do things in a game (GamesRadar Staff). This game has help include sprinting in most of today’s on-foot type games. Without the ability to sprint, how could Call of Duty be a fast paced first-person shooter? How would you be able to get that unfair advantage over your opponent if you could not “Halo jump” or climb to high ground to ambush the enemy. It wouldn’t because you would be limited to walking speed on a map which was just a flat plane, which might be safer, but who cares about safety when you’re running around, hurdling barriers, shooting people, and blowing things up. From these examples one could see how this game helped other game developers in the development of their