which is your favourite: Grand Theft Auto game?

[L2R]

chinatown wars on psp is sick. i love the stylistic animation. the top down perspective takes a little getting used to, but it's far better than gta1+2.

 

[Zakalwe]

GTAIII for me, I remember my mate getting it about a week after it came out and us playing it pretty much non-stop for the next three weeks. I have innumerable memories of staying up til 7am at the age of 14, hyped up on caffeine and shouting at the TV as me and my friend Craig tried to outrun the army for as long as possible. It had all of the features from the older games but in a much more enjoyable format and with immense graphics for the time. In my opinion it was definitely one of the best games ever made for its time, and a landmark in itself.

None of the games truely impressed me on the same level until GTA4 came out, and for that reason it takes a close second. Whilst it polishes all the best elemts to a tee, it isn't quite as revolutionary as the third installment.

Alot of people have cited Vice City and their favourite, and whilst I have plenty of fond memories of that game (and its soundtrack) the map really pissed me off. There were alot of nice features like the insane stunts, the occasional building you could enter and so on, but there were also large areas of the map which were boring, emoty, dead space. The beach I could forgive (after all, a beach is pretty much just an empty space with some bumps) but there were also aread like for instance the West coast of the Western Island, which was pretty much a blank area of bricks that stretched in a straight line almost as far as the island was long. The second island has far too many of these areas and it just made the game feel like it was half finished. This didn't really bother me on the first play through I've got to admit, but on my third or fourth play I was setting out to reach 100% without cheats or any form of guide or walkthrough (in which I was successful) and you really start to notice things by that stage.

San Andreas on the other hand fell down because of the annoying features that have already been mentioned above: going to the gym, eating etc. I didn't feel that the map was too oversized because the landscape was irregular enough to keep me interested whilst I listened to music between towns, and there wern't too many missions which required you to for instance, cross large areas of the country by foot (which was a pain to do if your vehicle exploded). The wilderness could have done with some extra landmarks though, an abandoned building or two to explore. I got bored of this game before I could 100% it though, definitely not my favourite, but it had a good sountrack.

 

[xK-la]

GTA IV takes the cake by far graphically, but I prefer the music, and the little extra bits of San Andreas, to IV.

 

[Evad]

If you include the two DLC addons then it puts GTAIV even further out in front, san andreas not too far behind

 

[atri]

i have to say 4. i started out on 2 and i thought 3 was great but 4 is the first game i actually finished, the other games just never held my interest enough for me to slog through them. never even tried sa

 

[L2R]

if you can go back to the old gta3 physics, SA is fuckin crazy big. the one map had like three airports where you can fly a jumbo friggin jet from one to another.

 

[Wolfy90]

No love for GTA San Anderas?, That game was the best in my opinion allowing to alter your players ablities and all of that it was in depth and its brings back memories of growing up in Cali.

 

[ricardo08]

I probably had more fun playing San Andreas than any of the others. It had the best map by far. I hope the next game's map is similar to SA in that it's not just a three similar looking cities like in 4.

Rumour has it the next one is going to be set in San Andreas.

 

[L2R]

to save my gamestarved sanity, GTAIII is now available in a 10th anniversary edition for iphones, ipods and ipads. downloaded for the wife's ipad2 for $5. they even updated the graphics a little. :D

 

[hiphophippy]

Niko was an annoying prick. the only part of IV I really enjoyed was when you got to kill that prick playboy x.
SA was Great the best.

And personally I feel ripped off by Chinatown wars (which OP also forgot) .

 

[L2R]

was that even out in oct 2008?

 

[xstayfadedx]

I love gta: san andreas hahaha..... Vice city was fun too though (first one I ever played) but I liked San Andreas the best.

 

[MikeOekiM]

San Andreas and its not even close.

 

[4x4ledbury]

gta 4 san andreas hard to pick between the 2 good times good times indeed loved burning around mt chillad listening to freebird cant fucking wait for the new 1 it aint going to dissapoint rockstar north baby

 

[Southern Devil]

Gta4

 

[freddy47]

Its a toss up between IV and San Andreas for me. IV is admittedly more streamlined than SA but in SA there was just soooo much to do. Going to the gym and eating aside (which I actually didn't mind as it added a RPG element to it IMO) there were just so many options. You could be a fat ass gangster or a huge mound of muscle. Also breaking into area 51 and stealing military equipment to wreak havoc was just so amazingly fun.

 

[Divine Moments]

I loved GTA II. Was all the rage back in the day

 

[L2R]

check out the other video game polls which haven't been bumped in a while in the index

 

[garrygofast]

Gta vice city.. tommy vercetti (ray liotta) that game and the soundtrack was awesome! "do the lance vance dance"! %)

 

[AlphaMethylPhenyl]

the fourth...until the fifth comes out