The Sad thing is the mod had a really cool concept. The Leones having a civil war after Salvatore's death, you having to navigate a liberty city underworld ravaged by Claude's misadventures in 01 sounds great and in the hands of a good writer it can still be.
@@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658 exactly! Woulda been a fantastic concept if done correctly, instead we just get random tasks to fulfill before getting back to the main plot at hand.
The most batshit insane GTA mod ever made.Also I love how the japanese characters have chinese names and the G Man from Half Life appears halfway trough
I always find it interesting that GTA's Liberty City titles (that being III and IV) always had snow mods. Though it makes sense, given their Northeast setting.
Add to that the hidden snowy weather in Liberty City Stories, only available in one of the car dealership side missions, and the bit of Portland that we see in San Andreas is also covered in snow
A huge shout-out and thank you for 8:08 and onwards. It means the world for me as a Finn and a a Max Payne fan 🇫🇮 So rarely people get this or notice it when they spea about this mod! THANK YOU ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Man this mod makes me wish for more devs to have games set during winter, like Mafia 2 is the only game that kinda does this and that was for only a part of the game
@@nickrustyson8124 daily reminder that I STILL need to play the Mafia games someday, thank you! Lol also Spiderman Miles Morales was a good snowy game!
Witcher 3 doesn’t take place in winter per se but does very nice snow when it shows upin certain parts of the map. Makes you wanna curl up by the fire and play Gwent :)
I remember stumbling across this mod a few years back on pc and honestly i like the changes they put to the map and the extra change clothes feature, i threw in the towel because of one mission where you had to destroy 9 mail boxes under a short time limit.
Yeah that mission was ass. Found that the only way you could get the mailboxes was to either ram em at full speed, or hit them face first. But that patch woulda been helpful if I noticed it lol
There is a different winter mod to this one that I played few years ago, and that was GTA 3 Snow City. It's just regular GTA 3 but it takes place at winter and it has a lot of cool changes. Like new locations, changed weapons, clothes, looks for pedestrians, new(ish) look for Claude and a lot more. Even some new hidden missions that you have to find. And the vehicles handling was changed too. It also has flyable helicopters and planes, but the story is the standard GTA 3 story. So maybe you can check out that mod too if you already didn't.
Some facts! -That tail mission was actually 10 minutes in older version -This mod is also available on Android (based on older version. Not the Ultimate one)
Great video! I love the cinematic / aerial shots of the game and the way you structured your video, it felt very logical and made the video very interesting 😄😄 My favorite moment when playing this mod was, after having played through the whole thing, me not being able to finish it because the final mission did not show up. Definitely did not annoy me, not in the slightest 🙂 I bet your channel will do awesome in 2025, just like it did in 2024. Can't wait for more! ✌❤
People like the nostalgia.. it reminds them that there used to be snow in winter and white christmas... it brings back that spirit. And also it does give Max Payne vibes
I remember downloading winter mod some 20 years ago from GTA Inside. It was a german site and the mod was called Schneemod :) It just retextured a lot of stuff and made driving pretty miserable. This looks exactly like that mod from 2003 xD
Ya know, as cheesy as this mod is at times, just learning about such a robust and, in some ways ambitious project like this, I'm kiiiinda temped to go for it :D The GTA III nostalgia has been hitting me like a truck lately and this is perfect timing for me :3
Anyway I want to mention that the base of this mod (interiors, winter, new island and...) are from other mods! Like GTA 3 Snow City, GTA LC Twenty Ten and more. And I think it is mentioned in gtaforum, trailer and other places
I'm referring to the scene sround 15:04. Wait, but didn't Asuka Kasen die in GTA 3? As someone who played GTA LCS a lot, it saddens me to see Toni betrayal honestly
Will Ben update the whole story? I wish these mods developed a bit more the character personally, like the camp talks you can have in RDR2 or dating in San Andreas or something like that, not everything has to be run and gun
He plans on making certain changes to the script to make things make a bit more sense, but changing the whole story would be a huge undertaking, and could go against the original vision by Beginit. And I definitely agree with that, more mods should focus a bit on player interactivity with the world and NPCs. Everytime I play GTA IV with mods I usually add the one that gives Niko the ability to talk to NPC's, even if it is very basic.
Even if something like camp talks are a possibility with III's version of Renderware Engine, it would still be a very daunting task to implement them with the same complexity as RDR2.
Can you do the mafia 1 Prequel mod rise and fall? It seems to have a cool concept where it explores the Salieri and Morello friendship that was hinted out in the original game and remake. And seems to have period accurate 1900s-1920s cars as well as some changes in the map with street gangs
The story would've probably been better if was separated in three acts: you go after Toni in the first, who goes into hiding, and you seize back the mafia; act 2 has Luigi and Mickey plotting against you and you having a war with most of the gangs, making the mafia more strained; last act is you seeing the mafia in shambles, changing your mentality into being a businessman instead of a gangster, having Toni come back with a vengeance and finishing everything right there and then: cutting ties with the Leone mafia (which it's more or less what Joey wanted in GTA III: distance from the mafia and his father), taking revenge against Toni and all of that making you feel... empty.... cold... but, yet, free from the chains of war that his family has bound you to
@@Impulse-iv2pp I haven't played Sindacco Chronicles, so I'm unsure. However I went to look at the synopsis and the setting is 1998. You sure that this happens with Joey, Toni and the rest of Leone members, or do you mean this happens with the new characters they brought?
I'm just curious, as far as the bad, are these things you find bad or things Ben finds bad? I've not seen or played the mod myself yet. But I do know Ben's levels of critique are often quite high, in some cases understandably. But A few times I'd say if the developer included a towel to soak up all the tears it could make for an easier watch. Even though I will say Ben has enough experience to make something truly exceptional. And your Voice acting was very good, that would be a nice addition.
All my opinions here. I intentionally skipped any of Ben's playthroughs of the mod so I could go into FW blind. I'm looking forward to seeing if Ben addresses a lot of what I brought up. Hoping that Ben goes the VO route with the mod cause I'd love to help!
While I like this mod and while I do believe that after the death of Salvatore, there's a huge chance that the Leones were divided into two section - one half following Joey, while the other one following Toni. I don't believe that Toni would do such a sneaky move on Joey or that he would kill him in the first place - well, unless it's really the only way. For Salvatore's sake, after he would win against Joey in a Leone Family Civil War - which he most likely would, since he got more experience in this type of life than Joey - , I do believe that he would just let the kid go. Leave town and never come back.
hey, did you get a widescreen fix working on the rehamstered version? whenever i try to install it, the game crashes when the menus should appear. also i cannot move my camera around when in a car (have you installed that mod seperately)? this is my first time modding gta 3 and it's an absolute nightmare lol, pls help
In the original edit, it was a Harry Styles cover of Sledgehammer, originally by Peter Gabriel. Took it out in my last editing sesh to avoid copyright with a song from Yakuza 0 that suspiciously sounds like David Bowie's Let's Dance for the intro. But kept the Quena noise from Sledgehammer, since the mod's intro in-game uses the song.
@@BladeOpotato Haha, that's awesome. I was expecting answer to be something like "South American Folk music CD vol.8 - Condor's flight over Palenque hills". Harry Styles usually sounds like a soft pop music with some beat, to me.
I'd assume that the Pistukas Mods dudes are Lithuanian (like me) because that word is a gentle and clever way of calling a fuckboy. Literally "pisti" means "to fuck" in our language. If you added "e" after "i" and changed the "s" to "š" you'd get the word "pieštukas" which means "pencil".
Yupp! Played this on my PC. Plus this mod was not made for mobile. Classic versions can still be purchased via RGL, or you can just find the original files somewhere online.
Holy crap I forgot to put the time code on to skip spoilers!
24:23
don, t worry i look for you i you body gard ,
The Sad thing is the mod had a really cool concept. The Leones having a civil war after Salvatore's death, you having to navigate a liberty city underworld ravaged by Claude's misadventures in 01 sounds great and in the hands of a good writer it can still be.
@@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658 exactly! Woulda been a fantastic concept if done correctly, instead we just get random tasks to fulfill before getting back to the main plot at hand.
@@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658 bruh do you mean we still get a taste of shotgun city
The most batshit insane GTA mod ever made.Also I love how the japanese characters have chinese names and the G Man from Half Life appears halfway trough
Than you gots to luv gta san anderius/alien city when Don Salieri appears.
Love these GTA total conversion mod vids you do. I'm looking forward to seeing more!
I love how the dev gave the Yakuza Chinese names.
I always find it interesting that GTA's Liberty City titles (that being III and IV) always had snow mods. Though it makes sense, given their Northeast setting.
Add to that the hidden snowy weather in Liberty City Stories, only available in one of the car dealership side missions, and the bit of Portland that we see in San Andreas is also covered in snow
Like every single one Gta from 3d universe? xdd
A huge shout-out and thank you for 8:08 and onwards. It means the world for me as a Finn and a a Max Payne fan 🇫🇮
So rarely people get this or notice it when they spea about this mod!
THANK YOU ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Definitely gotta shout out Max Payne/Remedy where I can! 🇫🇮 Perkele!
@BladeOpotato 🥺❤️
I think “the place” would be a nod to how mobsters communicate to one another
Man this mod makes me wish for more devs to have games set during winter, like Mafia 2 is the only game that kinda does this and that was for only a part of the game
@@nickrustyson8124 daily reminder that I STILL need to play the Mafia games someday, thank you! Lol also Spiderman Miles Morales was a good snowy game!
Witcher 3 doesn’t take place in winter per se but does very nice snow when it shows upin certain parts of the map. Makes you wanna curl up by the fire and play Gwent :)
@jackcouch8322 agreed!! Witcher 3 is such a beautiful game
I remember stumbling across this mod a few years back on pc and honestly i like the changes they put to the map and the extra change clothes feature, i threw in the towel because of one mission where you had to destroy 9 mail boxes under a short time limit.
There's a mission patch that added extra time limit for the mail box mission
Yeah that mission was ass. Found that the only way you could get the mailboxes was to either ram em at full speed, or hit them face first. But that patch woulda been helpful if I noticed it lol
Omg the voice acting was so good!
There is a different winter mod to this one that I played few years ago, and that was GTA 3 Snow City. It's just regular GTA 3 but it takes place at winter and it has a lot of cool changes. Like new locations, changed weapons, clothes, looks for pedestrians, new(ish) look for Claude and a lot more. Even some new hidden missions that you have to find. And the vehicles handling was changed too. It also has flyable helicopters and planes, but the story is the standard GTA 3 story. So maybe you can check out that mod too if you already didn't.
I believe that frosted winter used a version of that mod as a basis
Oh yeah, I saw that recently, I'll have to check that one out for the next snowy season!
@@BladeOpotato Well, considering the fact that winter is not yet over, you still have time.
Wow was waiting on a review of this. Glad to see it
you absolutely nailed it with the voice acting🤣🤣🤣 Gave me mafia 1 remake vibes you earned a new Subscriber😁
10:13 The vehicle collection was already present in GTA III.
Shows how I never did 100% in GTA 3 lol
Some facts!
-That tail mission was actually 10 minutes in older version
-This mod is also available on Android (based on older version. Not the Ultimate one)
Great video! I love the cinematic / aerial shots of the game and the way you structured your video, it felt very logical and made the video very interesting 😄😄
My favorite moment when playing this mod was, after having played through the whole thing, me not being able to finish it because the final mission did not show up. Definitely did not annoy me, not in the slightest 🙂
I bet your channel will do awesome in 2025, just like it did in 2024. Can't wait for more! ✌❤
@AlexIsTired__ thank you for checking it out as always! Gotta get those nice shots when I can! Looking forward to this year! 🤘
People like the nostalgia.. it reminds them that there used to be snow in winter and white christmas... it brings back that spirit. And also it does give Max Payne vibes
Always a good day when I see you upload
I remember downloading winter mod some 20 years ago from GTA Inside. It was a german site and the mod was called Schneemod :) It just retextured a lot of stuff and made driving pretty miserable. This looks exactly like that mod from 2003 xD
At first glance I thought Eben finally dropped his remaster!
@@AncientGod not yet but it will be worthy of another playthrough when it's out! From what he's already worked on, I think you'll all love it!
And here we go.
Perkele! 🇫🇮🇫🇮
Can't wait for your review of SoV... And your role in it ;)
Same here B'Dawg!
There's a Gman Sighting in here btw
@@GangstarTrilogy tbh that's one of the things I missed, and I wish I spotted him! Maybe on my next playthrough with EBens remake
WAKE UP BLADE O POTATO UPLOADED
If someone showed me a clip of the cutscene you voice acted, I would think it's totally normal, especially considering it's gta3
Ya know, as cheesy as this mod is at times, just learning about such a robust and, in some ways ambitious project like this, I'm kiiiinda temped to go for it :D
The GTA III nostalgia has been hitting me like a truck lately and this is perfect timing for me :3
I definitely recommend checking it out if you're having an itch for GTA III lately!
“Tony Cipriani, who tries to take us out right at the beginning of the game to be come the Don themselves.”
Written by AI????
Damn I must be really bad at writing if that's the comparison 💀
"Tony Cipriani, who attempts to eliminate us at the very start of the game in a bid to become the Don himself."
Here's AI writing it
@@TurboLight see, AI did a better job at writing that than I did lol I need to improve my writing tbh
New sub this mod is amazing
Check out Shine O Vice. It's by the same devs.
@@bouncingbluesoul5270 I will definitely have some "role" with covering Shine o Vice on it's full release ;)
This has slightly better quality, but stiill most dialogues made by 6 year old ( it"s crap)
Man, is SOV finally coming out?
Anyway I want to mention that the base of this mod (interiors, winter, new island and...) are from other mods! Like GTA 3 Snow City, GTA LC Twenty Ten and more. And I think it is mentioned in gtaforum, trailer and other places
I'm referring to the scene sround 15:04. Wait, but didn't Asuka Kasen die in GTA 3?
As someone who played GTA LCS a lot, it saddens me to see Toni betrayal honestly
That was a good voice acting
oh damn, i remember when this mod came out, i'm old lol
Will Ben update the whole story? I wish these mods developed a bit more the character personally, like the camp talks you can have in RDR2 or dating in San Andreas or something like that, not everything has to be run and gun
He plans on making certain changes to the script to make things make a bit more sense, but changing the whole story would be a huge undertaking, and could go against the original vision by Beginit.
And I definitely agree with that, more mods should focus a bit on player interactivity with the world and NPCs. Everytime I play GTA IV with mods I usually add the one that gives Niko the ability to talk to NPC's, even if it is very basic.
Even if something like camp talks are a possibility with III's version of Renderware Engine, it would still be a very daunting task to implement them with the same complexity as RDR2.
5:35 what is this GTA 3 Theme Remix/Cover called?
13:34 XILED GAMER SPOTTED
The car collection is from GTA3 originally
You are right, I didn't even realize that. I've personally never done 100% on GTA III, only SA and IV
Frosty
21:45 looks like a mission from mafia 1
Can you do the mafia 1 Prequel mod rise and fall? It seems to have a cool concept where it explores the Salieri and Morello friendship that was hinted out in the original game and remake. And seems to have period accurate 1900s-1920s cars as well as some changes in the map with street gangs
I played this mod but my save got broken around middle of story😭
@@soulbrother5435 that's a bummer!
The story would've probably been better if was separated in three acts: you go after Toni in the first, who goes into hiding, and you seize back the mafia; act 2 has Luigi and Mickey plotting against you and you having a war with most of the gangs, making the mafia more strained; last act is you seeing the mafia in shambles, changing your mentality into being a businessman instead of a gangster, having Toni come back with a vengeance and finishing everything right there and then: cutting ties with the Leone mafia (which it's more or less what Joey wanted in GTA III: distance from the mafia and his father), taking revenge against Toni and all of that making you feel... empty.... cold... but, yet, free from the chains of war that his family has bound you to
Can we get you in the writing room for a remake?! Seriously, woulda been a great mod if it went down this way
@@BladeOpotato If there was a space, why not? >.>
that's what they did in sindacco chronicles
@@Impulse-iv2pp I haven't played Sindacco Chronicles, so I'm unsure. However I went to look at the synopsis and the setting is 1998. You sure that this happens with Joey, Toni and the rest of Leone members, or do you mean this happens with the new characters they brought?
@JohnRDVSMarston i mean the 3 acts
I'm just curious, as far as the bad, are these things you find bad or things Ben finds bad? I've not seen or played the mod myself yet. But I do know Ben's levels of critique are often quite high, in some cases understandably. But A few times I'd say if the developer included a towel to soak up all the tears it could make for an easier watch. Even though I will say Ben has enough experience to make something truly exceptional. And your Voice acting was very good, that would be a nice addition.
All my opinions here. I intentionally skipped any of Ben's playthroughs of the mod so I could go into FW blind. I'm looking forward to seeing if Ben addresses a lot of what I brought up. Hoping that Ben goes the VO route with the mod cause I'd love to help!
While I like this mod and while I do believe that after the death of Salvatore, there's a huge chance that the Leones were divided into two section - one half following Joey, while the other one following Toni. I don't believe that Toni would do such a sneaky move on Joey or that he would kill him in the first place - well, unless it's really the only way.
For Salvatore's sake, after he would win against Joey in a Leone Family Civil War - which he most likely would, since he got more experience in this type of life than Joey - , I do believe that he would just let the kid go. Leave town and never come back.
nice vid
I'd still take this over GTA5's story. I don't mean to set the bar low, I'm just saying.
great of you to joice the jenuarary for this modification of Grand Theft Auto: III Video game from R* Games publijed by Take2 inter atiff
go to school lil bro, you'll need it
@Impulse-iv2pp bro i am holli day the scool bro me watch online video and est poped corn s
@Impulse-iv2pp why und post comment me say bad worsd
hey, did you get a widescreen fix working on the rehamstered version? whenever i try to install it, the game crashes when the menus should appear. also i cannot move my camera around when in a car (have you installed that mod seperately)? this is my first time modding gta 3 and it's an absolute nightmare lol, pls help
Now available n the Sega Dreamcast.
What is the music in the beginning (probably played on Quena). Shazam tells me it's Harry Styles and he makes me angry
In the original edit, it was a Harry Styles cover of Sledgehammer, originally by Peter Gabriel. Took it out in my last editing sesh to avoid copyright with a song from Yakuza 0 that suspiciously sounds like David Bowie's Let's Dance for the intro. But kept the Quena noise from Sledgehammer, since the mod's intro in-game uses the song.
@@BladeOpotato Haha, that's awesome. I was expecting answer to be something like "South American Folk music CD vol.8 - Condor's flight over Palenque hills". Harry Styles usually sounds like a soft pop music with some beat, to me.
@nikGhost1 lol he usually is but his cover of Sledgehammer was pretty good tbh
I recommend you to checkout GTA Flame's Story mod
16:50 Lmfao
Putting a cringe warning for the voice acting when it's better than the original game's voice acting lmao
@@zombiewarrior225 I definitely disagree, I could never beat Claude's voice acting. I appreciate you tho
I'd assume that the Pistukas Mods dudes are Lithuanian (like me) because that word is a gentle and clever way of calling a fuckboy. Literally "pisti" means "to fuck" in our language. If you added "e" after "i" and changed the "s" to "š" you'd get the word "pieštukas" which means "pencil".
Blade, are you going to review the upcoming gta vice city rage remake?
Yupp! Can't wait
@BladeOpotato looking forward for it man! Love your channel
Lets be honest though, Frosted Winter is the worst name they could've come up with lol so original
we freezin' the new year with this one ❄
@@OnionDude hell yeah!
Can you even start to play this in 2025? It wont work on my phone and the old gta3 is off steam now?
Yupp! Played this on my PC. Plus this mod was not made for mobile. Classic versions can still be purchased via RGL, or you can just find the original files somewhere online.
Go to the place - the game
They should of added San Andreas Liberty City building interior the one from the mission
Rule number once : don,t play gta old titul on 60 fps it will bug the game ,
Rule two : never use 16x for mat in old gta titel ,
GTA III came out in 2010???
No, he said the mod came out in 2010 lmao
Hopefully ben adds ai voices, they're better than dead silence IMO
We've talked about itand hes still undecided on that, may potentially go the route of a community round up of VA's but we'll see.
Yeah the game is dated 😥
Why do you call everyone "they"?
Cool concept, shitty writing. ( stupid dialgues made by 6 year old, stupid side mission ideas and other crap.)