Vulgar / excess
For my own reference. Style and substance are indivisible in play. Combustible games, unreal velocities, game worlds with a sickness that gets under your skin and infects you. Games that send you to hell or otherwise make you see god.
185 Games
There is a pure, uncut ugliness to Grand Theft Auto III that cannot be replicated. Where other titles in the series come automatically aware of their place in pop culture discourse, III is narrative, style, and motivation pared back to reveal an ultraviolent animating force.
