What is Grand Theft Auto III for PowerPC (Alpha version)?

Grand Theft Auto III is a 2001 action-adventure game developed by DMA Design and published by Rockstar Games. It is the first main entry in the Grand Theft Auto series since 1999's Grand Theft Auto 2. Set within the fictional Liberty City (loosely based on New York City), the story follows a silent protagonist, Claude, who, after being betrayed and left for dead by his girlfriend during a robbery, embarks on a quest for revenge that leads him to become entangled in a world of crime, drugs, gang warfare, and corruption. The game is played from a third-person perspective and its world is navigated on foot or by vehicle. The open world design lets players freely roam Liberty City, consisting of three main islands.

This Alpha build was created from the reverse-engineered GTA 3 source available on github.
It is by no means complete and not yet fully playable so community feedback is very much appreciated.

Known bugs:
• Keyboard controls aren't saved and default to "unbound" after a restart - select "restore defaults" to get the default control scheme.
• Saving the game causes a crash
• The mouse cursor isn't captured by the game window so turning 360 degrees isn't possible atm.
• In-game audio is low quality and has distortions
• The game is highly unoptimized and performance is especially bad on low-end Macs running Tiger.
• Graphics glitch out massively under Tiger/OGL 1.x.

Running this under Mac OS X Leopard on a Dual G4 setup with 1,25 Ghz or more is highly recommended.

UPDATE 17.07.2021:

Alpha 0.2 has been released, which includes the following bugfixes:

• Mouse is now captured by the game but turning counter-clockwise still doesn't work properly.
• Slight performance improvement due to updated SDL2 dylib
• All remaining graphics glitches on OS X Leopard should be resolved now

Feedback is very much appreciated.

UPDATE 07.01.2022:

Uploaded a 0.3 Alpha build of an Intel version of the game which runs pretty much flawless on 10.5.8 Intel Macs. To run it on later OS X releases you have to replace the included libSDL2.0.0.dylib located in the Frameworks folder with a compatible version of your choice.

A PPC build is most likely to be uploaded soon as well.

Download Grand Theft Auto III for PowerPC (Alpha version) for Mac

Architecture

OSX Universal Binary

System Requirements

From Mac OS 10.4

Compatibility notes

Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger (Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard recommended)