which is your favourite: Grand Theft Auto game?

[L2R]

and who's looking forward to the 360 expansion for IV and Chinatown Wars for DS?

 

[Bill]

IV will take the cake.

 

[L2R]

^yeah i agree.

i liked the originals but the perspective made driving really annoying. i'd crash all the time, and i wasn't motivated to learn the maps.

GTA III has a special place in my heart. i loved it to 100%. Loved every incarnation since then. Some of GTAIII SA were annoying as fuck like the relationships and keeping fit but it was all very quirky. That's one hectic and massive cartoon based on a sweet time and place. Vice city is superb in the styling and atmosphere. I've even bought and finished all the PSP games. I bought a PSP just for them.

GTAIV blows me away with its beauty, its maturity, its tone (really listen to the start load music, it says it all). Sure, the multiplayer could do with a little work, but as a single player game, it is one of my all time favourites.


now considering getting a DS just for the GTA next year.

 

[L2R]

added GTA Advance for the Gameboy Advance. I didn't know it existed.

 

[Bill]

Yes 4 blew me away too because I haven't played a GTA game since San Andreas on PS2. One thing I'd like is to be able to customize the cars on GTA 4.

 

[EA-1475]

The first GTA was kind of a novelty game. It was more impressive in concept than in gameplay. These days, there are shitloads of games that let you play criminals and bad guys. But at the time, a game where you can commit murder, acts of terrorism and run over pedestrians with impunity was pretty new.
Never played GTA II.
GTA III was arguably the greatest video ever made up to that point. It was revolutionary. It's not the best GTA game but you have to respect it's impact.
Vice City is my favorite. It was GTA III except with a great plot and fantastic voice acting.
I could never get into San Andreas. I can't quite put my finger on what I don't like about it. It's just a little overly ambitious. The map is almost too big. Story didn't do much for me.
I just started GTA IV and so far, it seems like a return to form.

 

[Johnny blue]

IV hands down. The story the choices the drunkeness and a rasta. I would have like more in game choices that would affect the story but, this game just kicks ass. Honestly I really didn't like San Andreas. I loved the vice city and San Andreas seemed like a gimic ridden version of that. I don't want to work out and eat and such. Too Sims to me. IV is everything I wanted in a gta violence with good story and not much boring bullshit that I don't want to do.

 

[Rated E]

I haven't voted yet. I'm still thinking. I played GTA, GTAII, Vice City and San Andreas a hell of a lot when they each came out. I have played GTA IV quite a bit, and acknowledge it is a great game, but I don't have quite the same attachment, and haven't played it as much.

The first GTA was kind of a novelty game. It was more impressive in concept than in gameplay. These days, there are shitloads of games that let you play criminals and bad guys. But at the time, a game where you can commit murder, acts of terrorism and run over pedestrians with impunity was pretty new.
Never played GTA II.

GTA II was like the first one but it introduced gang affiliation and warfare. It also made chases more interesting by introducing SWAT and the army.
Which has culminated today into what is known in drunken GTA IV playing circles as the "epic chase".

I could never get into San Andreas. I can't quite put my finger on what I don't like about it. It's just a little overly ambitious. The map is almost too big. Story didn't do much for me.

I think this is probably why they actually took a lot of the features from San Andreas out for GTA IV. Collateral damage being the absence of parachutes, jetpacks and the harrier jet in GTA IV.

 

[Rated E]

Voted for GTA II.

I have many fond memories.

 

[-Guido-]

GTA IV. San Andreas was shit IMO. Unrealistic shit, a large empty map, and overly complicated character customization. Who the fuck wants to worry about there characters fucking diet?

 

[L2R]

I grew up on early ninties rapp so GTASA was freakin sweet for me. but hell yeah it was unrealistic. it was an absurd cartoon, but that's part of its charm. there is SO MUCH to do. i had fun flying around driving the freight train and derailing it, running over traffic and people. good times! :D
oh and the music was the best

 

[Rated E]

overly complicated character customization. Who the fuck wants to worry about there characters fucking diet?

And going to the gym. I play video games to get away from that shit.

 

[Kul69]

I'm excited for GTA IV on the PC. Finally GTA multiplayer with community mods and shit. Can't wait for the wacky shit that is going to pop up for this game. I hope RockStar releases an SDK or some kind of basic mod support with it. I doubt they will but that would be awesome.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

GTA Vice City is my personal favorite; so many good memories of sniping people two feet from their cars just to see them open the door, their head pop off, and blood start squirting from their stump-neck :D
Though GTA II is pretty cool as well.

 

[mostly-human]

And going to the gym. I play video games to get away from that shit.

indeed. There's a certain DUMB irony to a lot of stuff in SA, gym, diet, relationships, etc. I actually feel as though I'm seriously f-ng myself over by doing these things in a PC game instead of real life.

I voted Vice City - the only GTA I've finished except the original DOS 1 & 2, I really liked VICE city.

 

[Cornishman]

San Andreas without a doubt.
It offered so much more than any other GTA.
It was like being in a miniature U.S.A.
You could parachute from fighter jets
Drive combine harvesters in a country field and then mow down the yokel hillbilllys.
Fly a crop sprayer aeroplane. Mountain bike down the mountain.
Also helping that singer dude from the happy mondays who was tripping his face off in the desert.
Stealing the Jet pack from area 69.
Helping out carl's hippy friend with his fields of ganja.
Driving hovercrafts off the mountain whilst listening to alice in chains.
The list goes on.......

 

[Fabric 22]

San andreas for overall fun;

Vice City for best storyline/atmosphere;

GTA4 for best replayabilty factoy, the attention to detail STILL amazes me, also some of the best game physics to date imo, perhaps bar farcrysis.

GTA3, for single handedly revolutionising gaming.

And last but not least, GTA1 (and to a lesser extent gta2) for getting me hooked when i was just a wee laddie!


In summary, there isn't a bad one.

What makes me love the GTA series is the dynamic range it offers throughout different time periods, genres (from Scarface to Boys'n'the hood to The Sopranos, ...).

That says GTA4 needs some Krishnas.

 

[Rated E]

Elvis has left the building.

 

[eDDe9]

I still play GTA 2 on the PC. Always fun with cheats to cruise around in a FBI car with machine guns, mines and oil slicks gunning down everyone and everything.

Not played the new GTA yet though

 

[GenericMind]

I liked Vice City the best.