Looking to start playing a GTA game this evening but haven't played one in years, wondering what the general order of things is! I was thinking of going for IV!!
Do folk have an opinion?
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GTA San Andreas
GTA 4
GTA Lost and Danmed and Ballad of Gay Tomy
GTA Vice City
GTA Liberty City Stories
GTA Vice City Stories
GTA 3.
All good games
GTA Vice City
GTA 4
GTA Vice City Stories
GTA Lost and Danmed and Ballad of Gay Tony
GTA San Andreas
GTA 3
GTA Liberty City Stories
Explanation: Vice City has the 80's Vice and i really love it. One big City, great characters, great soundtrack. It's basically perfect.
GTA 4 is a lot more advanced, one big city, interesting, different characters, all those mini games, you waste hours there without even progressing the story, all the websites, tv shows...it's amazing how much time they put into creating a real world.
Vice City Stories: 80's again, i like it, a nice protagonist, good story and Phil Collins = Awesome.
Lost and Damned and Ballad of Gay Tony are good Add-Ons for GTA 4, having a lot of features GTA San Andreas had, in a more working form.
GTA San Andreas: I never liked the Rap Crap and the Ghetto *beep* The "RPG" elements were badly implemented. AI was horrible, especially in the gang warfare (way better done in Lost and the Damned), while it has great voice actors (From Samuel L. Jackson to Axl Rose), a great soundtrack (the non-rap stuff) but i think it was just a game Rockstar created to try out all the ideas they had and see what works. Most of them were later implemented in a better way (Spray-painting was better done in Bully, the gang war i mentioned before for Lost and the Damned and the big world was better done in Red Dead Redemption) and the controls for plains and helicopters was absolutely horrible. There's a reason so many people hate that "Learning to Fly" mission.
GTA 3 was great back then but aged rather badly. The soundtrack is horrible, the main protagonist is uninteresting and the story itself was....well, it was their first try.
Liberty City Stories felt half-assed all the way.
I would rank the first GTA absove GTA:SA as it's pure fun.
I would rank GTA 2 on the last place because even when it was released it was disappointing. The world looked bad and that weird retro-futuristic setting was bad.
Everything from GTA Game Boy Color to Chinatown Wars would be ranked below GTA 2.
1.GTA Vice City
2.GTA San Andreas
3.Grand Theft Auto V
3.GTA III
4.GTA IV
1. San Andreas
2. GTA V - Updated mechanics but SA has better story and characters
3. GTA IV - Really good dark serious story. I like the realism.
4. GTA III
5. Ballad of Gay Tony
6. The Lost and the Damned
7. Vice City - Didn't care for the gameplay. Great soundtrack though.
1. San Andreas
2. Vice City
3. GTA 5
4. GTA 4
5. GTA 3
GTA 3 was the most influential game in the series and one of the most influential games of all time and it was extremely good for its time, but looking at things as they are now, this is my ranking from best to worst. The funny thing is, the worst GTA game is better than 90%+ of games ever made.