I've been on ZONE for three long years now and thanks to a combination of bad luck, lack of time and a reviews editor who refuses to give me anything that might be half-decent to review, I've never given 90 per cent to a game before. Look forward to it in the next version, but for now don't let it put you off one of the best gaming experiences of all time.Īnd I don't use words like that lightly. And expecting a real MMORPG version of GTA III in addition to the single-player game was never going to happen. The naysayers might have been appeased with the ability to race around the city but most of us got bored of Midtown Madness a couple of years back. If you've played the game you can see sense in that. Despite persistent rumours, Rockstar told us it never had any intention of tacking a multiplayer option onto what it sees as a quintessentially single-player experience. Bad news first though: there's no multiplayer. Yep, Grand Theft Auto III is finally here, despite a long and torturous wait that involved thumb-twiddling, persuading my partner that buying a PlayStation 2 would be a sound investment, blagging a copy from Take 2 and half-completing the game before phoning Take 2 on a daily basis enquiring where the hell the PC version was.