The player follows an unnamed criminal (revealed to be named Claude from internal files in GTA San Andreas) as he arrives in Liberty City with his girlfriend, Catalina, and an unnamed accomplice who commits a robbery at the Liberty City Bank. You'll have to rob, steal and kill just to stay out of serious trouble. Mob bosses need a favor, crooked cops need help and street gangs want you dead. Now you're taking revenge, unless the city gets you first. This new perspective has been praised as being a key reason for the success of the series, alongside the new control scheme, both of which have been used in subsequent games.

GTA III was the first GTA game to use the third-person over-the-shoulder 3D perspective in gameplay, with the camera located behind and above the player character, as opposed to the top-down perspective primarily used in its predecessors ( GTA 1, GTA London 1969, GTA London 1961 and GTA 2). In September of 2012, Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto III on the Playstation Network as part of the PS2 Classics lineup. To celebrate 10 years since the release of GTA III, a mobile version was released in December 15, 2011. On August 18, 2011, GTA III was released for the Mac App Store. The game was originally released for the PS2 on October 2001, the PC on May 2002, and the Xbox on November 2003. It was developed for the PlayStation 2 and PC by DMA Design (now Rockstar North), with the Xbox version by Rockstar Vienna, and all published by Rockstar Games. GTA III introduced many familiar features to the GTA series, including the 3D perspective, and turned the series into a huge success. Grand Theft Auto III (also known as GTA III or GTA 3) is the fifth game of the Grand Theft Auto series and the start of both the GTA III Era and the 3D Universe.

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