Headscratchers / Grand Theft Auto III

• So a bomb goes off at the very start of the game. You steal a car and drive yourself and another fugitive away from the bomb site. Where the hell are the cops?? If you so much as ding a cop car, you've got a one-star wanted level. How did this major explosion, big enough to damage the Callahan Bridge, fail to attract a swarm of cops? Okay, maybe it takes a bit of time for the cops to get there - shouldn't there be a time limit to get to safety? I know it's the first mission and thus is supposed to be easy, but it confounds the internal logic of the game.
  • Look closely as the player drives down the Callahan Bridge, a pair of LCPD police cars respond to the distress signal and will drive up the bridge, obviously too late to save the convoy. However, these units do nothing more.
• Why is it that the Mafia, Triads, and Cartel can tell that it's you no matter what car you are driving and shoot at you, but the police are fooled when you pull into a Pay N Spray with them watching? The police really MUST be the stupidest people in GTA.
  • Probably another Rockstar logic that recurs in their later games. Given the cops could chase you anywhere, though, it must really annoying to have their attention all the time.
  • Note also that you can push the burnt-out husk of a vehicle into a garage, let the door close and reopen, and it will be instantly healed to mint condition. The mechanics and logic are not very realistic, so just roll with it.
• Why does your car disappear during the cutscenes before the final mission at Catalina's mansion (not in mobile - whatever vehicle you have will be still outside)? It would be nice if you had access to the arsenal you get from Ray after his last mission, plus the bullet-proof "Patriot". But unless you have the foresight to save that until after Catalina kills Asuka and kidnaps Maria, it's useless.
  • Yeah, it's too bad. But there are guides for each game to aid in the storage of X-proof vehicles, so those are recommended to aid one's foresight.