Actor Dominic Monaghan wasn’t a big gamer as a child, but that changed when he first played Rock Stars Grand Theft Auto III on PS2. The open-world crime simulator simply blew him away and showed how far games have come from Pac Man.
In a new interview with GamespotThe Lost And Lord of the rings Star talked about his history with video games. According to Monaghan, he did play some games as a child, but it wasn’t something he was particularly interested in, preferring to play outside or perform on stage. But then he moved to Los Angeles in 2002,3 and a faithful conversation with colleagues Lord of the rings Star Elijah Wood changed everything.
“I said to my friend Elijah Wood, it sounds like I’m throwing around a lot of names right now, I said I’m going to buy a DVD player, do you want to come with me,” Monaghan said. “And Elijah said you should buy a PlayStation 2. So I said okay, but I’m just going to watch The Sopranos on it and I will only see this and that and Oz and all these things. He says, “OK.”
But then a friend brought him a copy of Grand Theft Auto 3Rockstar’s incredibly popular and controversial open-world action game set in Liberty City. And according to Monaghan, he couldn’t “believe that games” had progressed that far.
“I love the little things about GTA3, “You can steal any car, unlike certain cars where you can see that they are stealable,” explained the Lord of the rings Actor. “I got really good, or I felt like I was really good at driving. You get to the point where everything happens really fast. I kind of enjoyed that. But I think [GTA 3 on PS2] was the big turning point for me where I thought, “Oh, I didn’t realize the games had reached this point.”
“The jump was just extraordinary and you know the soundtrack is incredible. All the options were incredible,” Monaghan said. The actor went on to explain that since then he has included gaming in his entertainment options alongside movies and TV shows.
As for the latest entry in the franchise, 2013 GTA-VMonaghan played the game and enjoyed it, although he found Michael – one of the three main game characters in this installment – a little “disgusting”. He also enjoyed playing as Trevor at times, but admitted that he sometimes felt “dirty” after stepping into the madman’s shoes, saying he felt like he “needed a shower afterward”.
As for his favorite gaming experience of all time, it is not GTA3 but instead The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. According to Monaghan, he has invested around 350 hours into the massive open-world RPG on the PS3. In fact, he played it so much that his console “exploded once” because it overheated.
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