Oh I guess I get to post here now. I just bought my first ever GTA games when they were on sale for the thanksgiving/black friday/cyber monday steam sale. Already played 12 hours out of GTA III. Pretty simple game, but somehow incredibly addicting so far.
Oh yeah GTA III I 100%ed it recently on the Xbox. Good game, but it's like one of the blandest in the series.
It's really basic gameplay wise, doesn't have any character or personality and they forgeted up the controls in the console ports. There's no way to strafe, control the camera or aim your gun in the PS2 and Xbox versions even though they could've easily implemented it through the various unused buttons and right brown townog stick. It's an idiotic design choice and makes the gunplay super bad, especially during rampages. Also forget the paramedic mission, I'm pretty sure I died inside when I played it.