This is definitely the first 3D GTA alright. It's an okay time, sound track is cool, I like the visuals, and even though the vehicle physics are awful, I actually enjoy driving around listening to the music. The missions are nothing special and imo are only hard due to design choices (likely due to limitations at the time), so much so that I couldn't help but think about how easy some of them would be in a modern GTA. Story kept me engagedish, I guess, not enough to finish the game tho, more on that later. Cops are pretty fucking annoying and the way you have to lose them is pretty annoying, you have to memorize where things are yourself, or pull up a map on the side. I ended up just using cheats to make my life easier and lose them as soon as it got too much. At best missions are eh, at worst they're tedious and annoying.

Which is why I abandoned this title, my game tweaked out and crashed causing me to lose like 3 hours of progress, and with all the above in mind it was not worth it to me to go thru it again for more mediocre gameplay when there's 4 other 3D GTAs for me to go through.