Third-Person View

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The Third-Person View in Grand Theft Auto III, the first game in 3-D of the saga.

A Third-Person View (3rd Person) is a camera angle which shows the player's body from behind, instead of looking as if through their eyes. This is in contrast to a First-Person View where the camera only sees the players arms and weapon. Both views usually contain a HUD.

A 3rd-person view is available in all 3D GTA games - the GTA III Era and GTA IV Era. This excludes the top-down games in the GTA 1 Era, Grand Theft Auto 2, Grand Theft Auto Advance and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. GTA Chinatown Wars may have a more early style of game play, but it has a fully rotatable camera which is not present in any other Grand Theft Auto game.

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• Top-Down or 2-D view in Grand Theft Auto.

  Top-Down or 2-D view in Grand Theft Auto.

• 2-D view in Grand Theft Auto 2, GTA unlike 1, this sample type graphics with a 3D style, only with top-down view.

  2-D view in Grand Theft Auto 2, GTA unlike 1, this sample type graphics with a 3D style, only with top-down view.

• The graphics 3-D of GTA IV, with a style much different that of GTA III Era Games.

  The graphics 3-D of GTA IV, with a style much different that of GTA III Era Games.

• The graphics of GTA: Chinatown Wars, style 3D yet 2D.

  The graphics of GTA: Chinatown Wars, style 3D yet 2D.