![]() However, my worries soon disappeared when I played the game. But more by the fact the game was to be set in Liberty City…again. Even I felt a little “cheated”, not by the 1 city thing as that did not bother me. GTA: IV: I recall the backlash from fans when they found out that not only would there be only 1 city after GTA: San Andreas had 3, but also the fact it was going to be Liberty City…again. It was an ambitious idea, but I think the technology just was not there to make GTA: San Andreas the game it deserved to be. I thought the map was too big and often lifeless and the writing was just flat. While I did enjoy this game, for me it never felt like a true GTA game and more like someone trying to copy Rockstar’s style. ![]() This is where Rockstar seemed to have lost their way and just decided to go for a “bigger is best” attitude. GTA: San Andreas: Often cited as the big “fan favourite”, but for me…not the best. GTA: Vice City got it all right out of the box. The plot was a simple “rise to the top” inspired by Scarface. The characters felt like they were right out of a cheesy 80’s TV show. To it’s glorious sun kissed city that was a stark antithesis to that of GTA III’s grittier Liberty City. From it’s awesome 80’s soundtrack, timeframe and attitude. It just seemed to have nailed everything. GTA: Vice City: Still to this day this my own personal favourite of the franchise so far. Not my personal favourite game in the franchise, but it is the one that made the gaming world take notice and set in place the future of open world games from that point on. When GTA dropped the 2D sprite based graphics and went 3D for the first time, people began sit up and take notice. GTA III: Probably the game that most people will remember playing. ![]() GTA 2 never really impressed me as much as GTA did, but I still found it a great game overall. The gameplay remained pretty much untouched as did the (now dated) graphics. GTA 2: This was pretty much more of the same, but with a few bells & whistles. I still think GTA has some great gameplay even today and should rightfully be remembered as the game that started a worldwide popular franchise. It was not the first open world game…but it was one of the best and most detailed. But there was also that open world aspect giving us freedom to do whatever we wanted within the game world. The game was very unique for the time with allowing us gamers to be a bad guy. GTA: Back in 1997 when I first played the original GTA, it was a gaming experience that left a lasting impression on me. GTA has had plenty of ups and downs over the years. Seeing the evolution of this series has been as rewarding as it has been exciting.įrom humble beginnings in the original GTA with it’s simplistic gameplay to today’s efforts and their much deeper and involved stories, characters and style. GTA as a whole has been one amazing and thrilling journey, from playing the original back in 1997 to getting lost (in a good way) in GTA V today. Here is the final part of my retrospective of the GTA franchise where I offer my own personal views on the main games in the series and share hopes for the franchise in the future.
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