Summary
One highly dedicated modder has shared an impressive concept video demonstrating what aGrand Theft Auto 3remake powered by Unreal Engine 5 could look like. Their footage subsequently made the rounds on social media, prompting some fans to publicly reiterate their desire for a realGrand Theft Auto 3remake.
Since its April 2022 debut,Unreal Engine 5 has been used for a variety ofGrand Theft Autoremake concepts. Its popularity in this niche ostensibly stems from a combination of factors, including the vast graphical capabilities that it offers out of the box and the fact it is entirely free to use for hobbyists.
In another testament to that trend, YouTuber Flames Per Second has recently put together a concept envisioning what aGTA 3Unreal Engine 5 remake could look like. The 11-minute video shows a stunning recreation of Liberty City using some of the latest and greatest rendering technology that Epic’s popular engine supports. The demo includes overviews of many iconicGTA 3locations, including East Monroe Avenue, the center of the Bedford Point financial district that serves as the game’s equivalent of NYC’s Times Square.
FPS’s GTA 3 Unreal Engine 5 Concept Is a Heavily Modded Version of GTA 5
Elaborating on their creative process, Flames Per Second revealed that this impressive concept is essentially a heavilymodded version ofGrand Theft Auto 5under the hood. The author didn’t make it from scratch, but has instead relied on some existing community projects. Chief among those is Liberty City V Remix, which incorporates theGTA 3map intoGTA 5. Flames Per Second also made use of two projects by prolific modder DoctorMike, one to add a detailed Claude model to the game, and another to help elevate the concept’s production values through the use of specular maps.
The vehicles featured in the video come from the Project FromThePast mod. Since none of this community content was originally made for Unreal Engine 5, Flames Per Second had to port it to Epic’s engine. How long this ambitious undertaking took is unclear.
The YouTuber is far from the first content creator to have envisioned Rockstar’s hit 2001 game using Unreal Engine 5. While some past attempts at doing so adopted a similar approach in that they used a moddedGTA 5as the base, at least one knownGTA 3Unreal Engine 5 concept was made natively, although it wasn’t playable. As is often the case with such projects, Flames Per Second’s latest video has inspired renewed calls among the fandom for Rockstar to finally treatGTA 3to a proper remake.
Grand Theft Auto 3
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Experience the epic open world adventure that started it all updated for a new generation with across-the-board enhancements including brilliant new lighting and environmental upgrades, with high-resolution textures, increased draw distance, Grand Theft Auto V-style controls and targeting, and much more, bringing these beloved worlds to life with all new levels of detail. It all starts in Liberty City. With revolutionary freedom to go anywhere and jack anyone, Grand Theft Auto III puts the center of the criminal underworld at your fingertips, if you have enough guts to take it.
