ClassicsJun 8, 2026
GTA HD Universe vs 3D Universe, Explained
The HD universe GTA games and the 3D universe GTA games are separate continuities. Here is what divides them and where every title fits in the canon.
GTA Intel Newswire Team 5 min read
Every GTA 3 story, guide and update from GTA Intel.
The HD universe GTA games and the 3D universe GTA games are separate continuities. Here is what divides them and where every title fits in the canon.
Three different Grand Theft Auto protagonists worked for Salvatore Leone at three different points in his life. Toni Cipriani in 1998. CJ in 1992. Claude in 2001. The Leone don is the single connective thread holding the 3D-era timeline together, and Frank Vincent's voice is the reason it works.
Liberty City has been Rockstar's go-to fictional New York since 2001. But the GTA III version and the GTA IV version are different cities sharing a name, in different fictional universes, with rebuilt geography and different mafia families. Here's the full mapping.
Nine playable mainline GTA leads, one ranking, plenty to argue about. CJ at the top. Niko right behind. The GTA V trio splits in places that will start fights. And the two we can't rank yet.
Five mainline Grand Theft Auto games, two decades of sales records, and one game that isn't out yet. The whole series by the numbers — documented history, plus where GTA 6 is projected to land.
Coming back to GTA III in 2026? Here's the full story — Claude's revenge arc, the gang chart, the betrayals, and how 2001's Liberty City set up everything that followed.
GTA 3 Definitive Edition vs original: the lighting rework, weapon wheel, GPS, checkpoint saves, achievements, the rough 2021 launch, and what the remaster did not cut.
A GTA 3 beginner guide to the 2001 original: learn the islands, save at hideouts, grab hidden packages, use Pay n Spray, and survive Liberty City.
How to fly the Dodo in GTA 3: where the clipped-wing plane spawns at Francis International Airport, the takeoff trick, and every rare vehicle in Liberty City.
GTA 3 import export explained: the Portland crane and Shoreside Vale garage wish-lists, where to find every requested car, the cash rewards, and the 100% rule.
A guide to the GTA 3 characters: Toni Cipriani, the Leone family, 8-Ball, Donald Love, Ray Machowski and the Hollywood voice cast behind Liberty City.
GTA 3 rampages: there are exactly 20 across Liberty City, all required for 100%. Here is where every rampage hides, plus tips for the 2-minute kill and destroy runs.
All GTA 3 weapons explained: the full roster from fists to the rocket launcher, what Ammu-Nation sells, and the hideout spawns that hand you heavy firepower.
How to make money in GTA 3 fast: the taxi, vigilante, ambulance and firefighter side missions, Import/Export crane payouts, rampages and mission cash.
GTA 3 hidden packages explained: where all 100 are split across the three islands, the staged weapon and armor rewards at each hideout, and the cash totals.
GTA 3 100 percent completion explained: every story mission, 100 hidden packages, 20 rampages, 20 stunt jumps, the side jobs, and the exact reward.
Twenty-five years after release, Grand Theft Auto III remains the foundational text of the modern open-world genre. Here's what it invented, what it perfected, and what every GTA since owes it.
GTA III's three named women — Catalina, Asuka Kasen, Maria Latore — drive most of the campaign's actual plot. Here's how each one reshapes the story.
Every Grand Theft Auto III cheat that still works in 2026 — typed text codes on PC, button combos on PlayStation and Xbox. Plus what each one breaks.
Claude is the only fully-silent protagonist in mainline Grand Theft Auto. Here's what we know about him — name, history, what GTA III tells you and what GTA San Andreas later confirmed.
Twenty-five years on, these are the GTA III missions every fan still remembers — bank heists, betrayals, the dam finale, and the boat ride that introduced 8-Ball.
Banshee, Stinger, Patriot, Cartel Cruiser — the vehicles that defined Grand Theft Auto III in 2001, before customisation, before BMX bikes, before motorcycles.
Portland, Staunton Island, Shoreside Vale — the three islands of GTA III's Liberty City split the campaign into three distinct acts. Here's what defines each.
Liberty City's seven gangs in 2001 — who runs what, who's allied with whom, and how the campaign rewrites the entire balance of power by the end.
Nine in-game radio stations and the talk-radio masterpiece Chatterbox FM — every Grand Theft Auto III station, ranked, with the standout tracks worth seeking out.