III Web

III Web is a browser build of the PC version of Grand Theft Auto III, hosted by Quenq, which describes it as the full game. It runs on re3, the community's reverse-engineered engine for the game, compiled to WebAssembly. Assets stream in as you play, so there is nothing to download or install, and the player adds a save manager, a mod manager and on-screen touch controls.

How to play

1. Open the page and choose Play Game. The first load can take a while; then click to start.
2. In Save Manager, download your .b save files as backups or upload saves from the PC or PS2 versions.
3. In Mod Manager, upload .dff, .txd, .col or image files to replace vehicle, weapon, character and building models, textures or the player skin. A new skin is picked under Esc, Options, Player Setup. CLEO scripts, ENB and HUD replacements aren't supported.
4. On touch screens, the Cheats button opens the device keyboard so you can type cheat codes.

What you need

• Browser: Chrome, Brave, Edge, Firefox or Safari on PC, Mac or Chromebook, with hardware acceleration turned on (in Chrome: Settings, System, "Use graphics acceleration when available").
• Input: an Xbox, PlayStation or generic USB gamepad connected before launch, or on-screen touch controls on phones and touchscreen laptops.
• Files: none.

Good to know

• Saves are kept in your browser's storage, so clearing site data deletes them. Download backups from Save Manager.
• Take-Two sent DMCA notices over re3 and reVC in 2021 and sued people behind them; in 2023 it dismissed its claims against the four named defendants.
• The original game was developed by DMA Design and published by Rockstar Games: PlayStation 2 in 2001, Windows in 2002.