RecommendedSteam player
Now if only Rockstar could just remaster the first Red Dead RedemptionShow moreShow less
0.1 hours at review310 people found this helpful
Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition
Liberty City's open world and the freedom to steal vehicles give Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition its distinct appeal. The price at 
Steam is $59.99; factor in that the Steam PC edition is single-player and offers full controller support when deciding whether this version suits your plans. At $59.99 from Steam, the confirmed interface languages are Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese-Brazil, Russian, and Spanish-Latin America, which helps you judge the language fit.
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01About Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition
Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition opens up Liberty City, where freedom to roam and steal vehicles frames a journey through the criminal underworld. Steam player reviews: 65% positive from 7,708 reviews. Released January 19, 2023.
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Developer
Rockstar Games
Publisher
Rockstar Games
Lowest recorded in 36 months
No reliable history availableLanguage support
| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simplified Chinese | Yes | Yes | — |
| Traditional Chinese | Yes | Yes | — |
| English | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
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| French | Yes | Yes | — |
| Italian | Yes | Yes | — |
| German | Yes | Yes | — |
| Spanish | Yes | Yes | — |
| Japanese | Yes | Yes | — |
| Korean | Yes | Yes | — |
| Polish | Yes | Yes | — |
| Portuguese-Brazil | Yes | Yes | — |
| Russian | Yes | Yes | — |
| Spanish-Latin America | Yes | Yes | — |
Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-22
02Before you buy
Play and control
The Steam PC version is single-player and has full controller support.
Language
English has full audio; other supported languages provide subtitles. The interface includes English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
03Frequently asked questions
Where does Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition take place?
It takes place in Liberty City, an open world where you can travel freely and steal vehicles.
What upgrades are described?
The description names new lighting and environmental upgrades, high-resolution textures, increased draw distance, and Grand Theft Auto V-style controls and targeting.
Who developed the Steam PC version?
Rockstar Games developed the game, adapted by Grove Street Games.
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviewsSelected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
Not recommendedSteam player
It's the EXACT same version that was last updated in october last year and even that update was literally nothingShow moreShow less
0.2 hours at review630 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
You did good back there kid, real good. 100% Completion without issue. A few bugs here and there but mainly due to frame rate issues, which could all be fixed by switching to 30 frames per second and back again. The graphics aren't the nicest to look at but they're not the worst either. Overall, I enjoyed the Definitive Edition just as much as any playthrough of the original on consoles and PC.Show moreShow less
50 hours at review198 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Sorry Rockstar Games. But that's not how you make a remaster of a good game. Hundreds of bugs that the originals didn't have, censorship that doesn't make sense in this saga. Graphically it even looks worse than the originals like the rain effect, poor physics and performance. If you want to reminisce these games don't give your money to Rockstar and play the original versions, or better yet, play them on the PS2 version.Show moreShow less
0.4 hours at review530 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Every GTA fan must play this gameShow moreShow less
51.1 hours at review130 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
They literally did not patch anything since October. But achievements work - if you're in for that (like me). Performance is still all over the place. 3080 gets 50-140 fps?Show moreShow less
0.4 hours at review463 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
I'm not sure why people keep complaining with the definitive edition of these games. Sure it did had a rough launch with a lot of bugs and performance issues but I believe it's not the case anymore; do people actually play these games at all? I finished this game without a single bug or anything game breaking. It's runs solid and it's still the same fun GTA I used to play since childhood albeit with a new coat of paint. Don't read or watch too much from the internet; try it out first and play the damn game will ya?Show moreShow less
37 hours at review90 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
My fellow GTA players, As we all know, Rockstar Games has been aggressively cracking down on mods in order to compel people to purchase Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition. After almost two decades since the release of the three games, has Rockstar Games suddenly remembered that mods are a copyright infringement? No, they have done this to force players to purchase three games that are outdated and full of bugs! Who in their right mind would pay $60 for three games that are outdated and full of bugs? And let’s not forget about the Rockstar Games Launcher, a substandard software that is plagued with glitches and only permits reinstallation. It is 100 times more frightening than EA's Origin! If you encounter any issues, can you contact Rockstar Games customer service? Unfortunately, there is no assistance available, and you cannot even locate contact information on their website. My fellow players, we deserve better from Rockstar Games. We deserve to play without interruptions and have access to the mods we choose. It is time to let Rockstar Games know that their actions are unacceptable. We must unite and fight for our right to play the game we love. We are GTA players, united we stand for our right to play! Thank you, and God bless.Show moreShow less
2.4 hours at review307 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
2001: Mindblowing 2023: Freaking hilarious If you're a newcomer, don't bother. I don't think this is enjoyable without nostalgia. This game has aged in a very unique manner. I completed the remaster before it came to Steam, hence the lack of Steam playtime, but I have now 100%'d it. I have huge nostalgia for this game - the original was the first game that I bought on Steam, with my first ever paycheck. The trick to enjoying it is not to approach it as a modern GTA game, but as an arcade game. This game is a *stepping stone* towards what people now think of GTA, which I feel was more or less birthed in Vice City. I had been playing GTA2 beforehand, in which cash might as well be renamed "points", and GTA III has a lot of leftover design from the 2D top-down games, even down to requiring enough money (points) to progress in the story. There is little else to do with your money besides buy weapons, but with hidden packages and dropped enemy ammo, there's no real need to go to the shop apart from in certain missions. The remaster for this particular GTA isn't that bad, at least not anymore anyway, and on sale. A AAA developer releases an unfinished product?! Whatever next?! I think the cartoony aesthetic fits the PS2 era graphics, and the game was always janky - it has a tank that can fly if you time the recoil from the gun right. The character models were always intentionally weird af. I can't help but think that much of the remaster criticism is actually misdirected criticism of the game itself - adapting to some of the BS design is just part of the experience of playing a game from 2001. The remaster has a map and GPS, which is a QoL addition so huge that it makes the game properly playable for me now, or at least as playable GTA III can be. Journalists and YouTubers gotta get their clicks I guess. The suits at Rockstar / Take-Two can go to hell for destroying the modding scene, not renewing music licenses and removing the original game from Steam though. If you enjoy this game, check out Postal 2. It's got a similar sense of humour and attitude with the frankly charming jank along with it. Use the -d12 launch option / command line argument for increased performance. PCMR.Show moreShow less
0.2 hours at review64 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
This is the worst game launch and remaster I've ever seen. You may think that's hyperbole with all of the garbage releases in recent years (Halo: MCC, Assassin's Creed: Unity, Cyberpunk 2077, etc.), but I'm totally sincere. Here's a long list of everything I can think of that this game does poorly, as well as the mistakes made by Rockstar and co. themselves. -Playstation players got unintended early access, meanwhile PC players had to wait days to play it after a few hours after launch with no explanation of why or when it would come back until the day before it finally did. Why? They left assets in the game code they didn't want public. Not just a few things, but a ton. If that doesn't speak to how amateur this project is, I don't know what does. -The game released in an inexcusably abysmal state: -This game is chock full of bugs. -The atmospheres of these games are ruined. Instead of GTA III's distinctly moody vibe, served by its blue tone and unusual soundscape, you have an ugly, grey, bland and overly dark visual backed by extremely muffled audio that sounds significantly worse than the original PC release. Instead of SA's sunny, orange hue, you have a generic artstyle. VC suffers from many of the problems found in the other two games, but it always had a vivid, larger than life aesthetic, and so the cartoony models and exaggerated colours don't look totally out of place. -As a general statement about the artstyles of these games, they look too cartoony. This now seems to be purposeful, unlike the original games which only looked cartoony as a result of their limited technology and not due to an intended style. Now that we have better tech, there's no reason outside of budget and developmental constraints that they shouldn't look as realistic as they were originally intended to be. Colours are too vivid and the lighting gives everything a plastic, glossy look (characters look like action figures). -Ambient occlusion is too strong, making the games look ridiculously dark at times - especially in cutscenes. Turning it off however makes the game look flat and outdated. -Misaligned and ill fitting textures everywhere. -Performance is dreadful. Why does a game from 2001, which looks worse in many areas than its original release, run significantly worse than brand new games built from the ground up released in 2023? -"Improved combat" is a lie. The auto aim isn't even as snappy as the controller input (GInput) mod for the original versions of the games. The only thing they did to improve it was allow you to move while firing some weapons and add a weapon wheel. Wow. Incredible. -Missing music from the original games - a lot of it. Hardly "definitive", is it? You're a multi-billion dollar company. You make more in a year from GTA: Online than most game developers and publishers ever see. I'm certain you could've afforded to re-license some songs, cheapskates... just as I'm sure you could've afforded to hire more than some mobile developers to remaster the games that got you where you are today. -Censorship: GTA III, and to a lesser extent, GTA VC's heavy dismemberment, made killing so satisfying. Now there are just occasional decapitations. Why? -Rockstar exclusive for a year with no announcement that it would come to any other platform until it randomly appeared a week or so ago on Steam. Why? They didn't want people waiting to purchase it on Steam. They wanted us to buy it on the Rockstar Game Launcher. Exclusives suck as is, but most publishers at least tell players ahead of time they they're limited exclusives. Rockstar didn't want to do this. -Misspellings everywhere due to AI upscaling. These should've been impossible to miss. -Again the audio is horrendous. Why does everything sound so muffled? -III and particularly VC have the worst AI I've ever seen in video games, regardless of era. Unbelievably, they're even WORSE now. -Broken collision and geometry. Fall through maps, hit invisible fences, etc. -The occasional clunkiness of the original games' movement hasn't been resolved. -Minor but still noticeable and offensive changes to gameplay - both done on purpose and things overlooked. -AI upscaled textures are the bane of modern modding and game development, from a consumer's point of view. I have no idea why anyone thinks these look good. I've yet to see a single example of upscaled textures, outside of ultra low resolution pixel art that looks like anything other than a grainy, fake mess. This game's full of them. -The radar now has a GPS for mission objectives that you can't turn off. This is a nice addition as an option, but the maps are small enough so as to not warrant it for me personally, and so I'd rather be able to use the minimap to plan my route myself on the fly without being guided the whole way through. It's a difficult thing to ignore. Honestly, this is one of my biggest gripes with this release even though I appreciate what they were trying to do. Is it really that hard to just add an option to disable it, though? GTA IV and V have this option. -A full year later and almost nothing has changed. It's been a year since we've had a sizeable update. -No separate sensitivity settings for vehicles and on-foot. -Rockstar and Grove Street Games were dismissive in attitude towards their massive failure, adding further insult to injury. The fake apologies were late, too. -You can't buy the games separately... despite launching and downloading them separately. Why? Because Rockstar knows nostalgia is a powerful tool and that people will pay the full price of admission for even one of these games. People can rightfully bag 343i all they want, but when they re-released the Halo games on Steam, they didn't force you to buy all of them at once. They allowed you to buy each of the six games contained by themselves, paying only $11AUD for each. THAT's good customer service and business practise. What Rockstar have done here is spit in your face. -Even for 3 remastered games, regardless of how well they released, $90AUD is a lot to charge. -Camera modes are weird. They're either too close or too far. No in between. I don't have this problem with the originals or other Rockstar games. -Auto view centering is really annoying. Please let us turn it off. -Even the desktop/Steam icons look ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dreadful. -The price is much higher in some regions because Rockstar are idiots. -Some achievements are mission specific, and given that you can't replay individual missions, if you miss it the first time then you have to restart the entire game just to get to the point where you can earn the achievement again. Some of these are "secret" achievements, too. The developers realise these are incredibly long games, right? -The difficulty of these games have been decreased in specific missions for the sake of bad players. I'm a complete and utter moron and so I bought these on Steam (I refunded them on Rockstar when I bought them on launch). I love these games so much and even if they're inferior versions, having an excuse to replay them by getting all the achievements was incentive enough for me to buy them at half price. I'm also delusional enough to hold onto hope that they may be fixed one day. In other words, I'm a total sucker, and that's exactly how these companies get away with treating us like crap: because suckers like me will still buy them despite causing a fuss. This negative review won't do anything to prevent this garbage collection from being a top seller, and why bother to fix it when despite being upset about it, I'm still going to buy all future GTA titles? They don't have any reason to. I don't really know what point I'm trying to make... I just want to acknowledge the irony of me paying for these pieces of crap while complaining that they're pieces of crap. It isn't lost on me and I am part of the problem. Hopefully you won't be and you'll either pirate this ♥♥♥♥ or just play something more worth your time.Show moreShow less
0.2 hours at review150 people found this helpful
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