What is the best GTA Game?

I'm gonna have to go with San Andreas as still my favorite, even though I really like GTA 5.

And I suppose it's a combination of the story, varied map and overall satire setting of the 90ties and gangs.

For me its probably vice city, but i also love 3 and SA almost as much. Then probably V followed by 4 and I also really liked Liberty city stories.

San Andreas... followed by Vice City.

IV was my favorite probably. I like stories like the one it had. I was super pumped for V, and after beating it like last august, I have barely touched it. It just lacks a lot of the soul, with a gigantic map with hardly anything going on.

i don't think 3 gets the love it deserves. it was such a pivotal release. a complete game changer. at the time it was utterly sublime. vice city still holds that special place in my heart though. nostalgia ftw

GTA 3 for blowing my mind; the size of the world, the amount of stuff you could do...before I played it, I was like "wait, GTA is a top-down game, isn't it" and people were like "no man, this is GTA 3" and then I played it and mind = blown.

But as for my favorite? Probably San Andreas or Vice City, both for doing such an amazing job of portraying, and then satire-izing, their respective worlds (90s gangster rap, and 80s culture)

Completely agree. At the time, GTA 3 was all anyone could ever talk about. But its funny because now it is almost forgotten.

Yeah I enjoyed GTAV but was disappointed at its staying power; I find it pretty empty once you finish the story. Multiplayer was not all that exciting for me, either, and frankly the game was filled with a lot of jerks lol.

I think maybe it's because of the nostalgic aspect and not completely the game itself, but Vice City was big part of my school years and the 80s atmosphere was great, it's Vice City for me.

V is best GTA and best game ever.

Hmm,

Storywise i would have to say GTA IV, there are no other story that has even come close to that in any GTA Game.

But my Top 5 would be

GTA IV

GTA Vice city

GTA SA

GTA III

GTA V

Atmosphere: Vice City

Gameplay: GTA V

Story: GTA IV

GTA IV :D

Grand Theft Auto 4 is the only one that I love. I enjoyed others but I don't want to go back and play them again. Most fans hate GTA 4 because it doesn't allow a street tier gangster to fly a jet fighter but I love it for exact same reason. It's more realistic, dark and has a great story.

Ya i agree, GTA IV was a huge step forward in terms of making GTA more than just a open world mayhem game and making it also have a story that was actually good.

And also have choices that meant something.

GTA V maybe more fun in terms of mayhem and heists, but storywise it's the worst in any GTA game.

I think the same, plus I want to try out GTA V, I also liked Niko.

Had to go with Vice City and San Andreas.

It used to be GTA:SA but that was totally eclipsed by GTA V in every way. The acting and characters made the game for me, you could tell they have a real chemistry between them all which really drags you into their world and the game.

Chinatown Wars.

Maybe it's just nostalgia, but the world in San Andreas still feels bigger than any other GTA. It had three cities, tons of little towns, and space in between. It felt like there was more interaction with the world, with all the barber shops and clothing stores and restaurants and girlfriends and those silly side missions as a taxi driver/firefighter/pimp etc. Liberty City is just a homogeneous city, and the new Los Santos feels like Liberty City with some hills.

It's a really close one, but my vote goes for San Andreas. It was THE game of the generation, and showed just what a sandbox could be. GTA V gets the runner up spot. A fantastic game on last generation, and they've pushed the attention to detail in this generation to a completely new level.

GTA 3, no doubt

Vice City.. cheesy 80's theme, music, AND Ray Liotta? Can't beat that.

Ya im not sure if it was the game graphics or nostalgic that just made it seem bigger, but even compared to GTA V, GTA SA felt huge and a lot bigger than GTA V

Also making GTA V´s map a island is just wrong, they could have dealt with that in a much better way.

I disagree with the gameplay winner being GTA V. While it had more variety and scale, the gameplay sucked IMHO. Simple things like the unrealistic ways npcs and police react made it boring. In GTA IV, you shoot someone in a leg, they fall over, and hobble. Shoo them in the shoulder, they maybe drop their gun and grab the affected area. The melee was worlds better too. GTA V, you shoot someone in the leg, they get right back up and start sprinting away, as well as the cops having otherworldy senses. It kills the immersion for me.

I have only played the games from a 3d view, not GTA 1,2, Advance, Chinatown.

My top is

1. Grand Theft Auto Vice City (The music just makes the game truly amazing)

2. Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (It just had about everything, and the story was great too, and Samuel L. Jackson, made the game for me)

3. Grand Theft Auto IV (I usually care the most about the story, and this has the best Grand Theft Auto Story IMO)

4. Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories (Most underrated Grand Theft Auto game, I hate they didnt make an iOs and Android Version)

5. Grand Theft Auto III (I always love the classic games)

6. Grand Theft Auto The Ballad Of Gay Tony (Story was only average imo, but the rest was good)

7. Grand Theft Auto V (Most overrated Grand Theft Auto, the story was not a good as Grand Theft Auto IV, and the game has turned into Grand Theft Auto Online)

8. Grand Theft Auto The Lost and Damned (Great story, the rest meeeeh...)

9. Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories (Just was too boring compared to the other Grand Theft Auto's)

GTA 5 and Vice City

GTA V and GTA IV

San Andreas followed closely by Chinatown Wars. Its criminally underrated IMO

For me it's:

1) GTA 5

2) GTA 3 & San Andreas

3) GTA 4

4) Any others

My favorite GTA it's San Andreas: great story, rich atmosphere and coolest gameplay. But now I playing in GTA V and she awesome too.

Hmm Thread necromancy is bad :D

IV and it's episodes and V stand side by side for me. Both have 3 protagonists that drive the overall story and both do phenomenal things that the other doesn't.

IV has the superior 3rd person gameplay. In fact, outside of Max Payne 3, I've yet to see third person gameplay that even comes close. That half trigger general aim control scheme is nothing short of genius. Turning off auto aim provides for a weighty yet intuitive experience but with auto aim on, you can make these awesome snap headshots (or wherever else you want to make your opponents dance).

The driving controls, while fun with the extra weight in IV, are far superior in V. Mostly because I play entirely in first person mode. It feels so damn good regardless of what vehicle I use. It's also great to have all of the great vehicle customization back. Also, relegating the acknowledgement of all of the bumps and cracks in the road to force feedback as opposed to the euphohria was a smart move. The physics fight me less while driving, leaving me free to perform some remarkable feats that I have total authorship over.

V is obviously designed to be played in first person. I think that's the main reason why Rockstar toned down all of the euphoria. Leaving it where it was in IV while playing in first person would have been a god damn mess. Playing the game in 3rd person feels shallow, especially compared to IV, but in first person it becomes one of the most phenomenal open world videogame experiences I've ever had. I'll never go back to 3rd person in V ever again.

The civil engineering in both are both amazing so I can't really say either is the clear winner. Also, while the faces and character models in V are obviously superior, the art design in both are both pretty amazing.

I think the stories are on par with one another as well. Again, I don't consider IV just Niko's story, but that of Luis' and Johnny as well. Within the full context of those three amazing characters I think it's on par with the three bad asses in V.

These two games will never be uninstalled from my rig. I still play them in a constant loop. Quick side note, IV and it's episodes are best played in narrative order, bouncing back and forth through each game as the story calls for it. It makes for a pretty epic experience.

GTA San Andreas :')

I like GTA V but San Andreas is my favorite and IV has the best story and main character

For someone that hate open world game I only enjoyed and finished Vice City even though I played San Andreas and V.

Vice City had that 80 feel, good metal music and an anti-hero that is human and not just a criminal... I mean that game finally won me 100% when I bought the printing workshop and then old dude got beat up and the Hero decided to give a beating to the young punk ... then all the stereotype caracter were cool too me.

I didn't like San Andreas because of that NWA/ghetto curse every 2 words and that rap music ... man too much

I didn't like V because it felt empty ... while I liked how all 3 caracters meet and because playable, it was meh.

Probably San Andreas for me.

GTA 3 deserves a mention aswell, I remember seeing it for the first time when they scrapped the birds eye view and was mind blown. Got it that Christmas and never put it down!

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