Your ranking of GTA games

[customizable]

So far...

Classic:

 

1. V
2. The Ballad of Gay Tony (took IV to another level)

3. The Lost and Damned (the fact that you could free roam around LC from the start without any constraints alone makes this one worth the price of admission)
4. IV

Excellent:

5. San Andreas
6. Vice City (timeless game that could never be duplicated)

7. Vice City Stories
8. Liberty City Stories

Good: III (groundbreaking, but hasn't aged well), Chinatown Wars, 2 and Advance.

...never played '61, '69 and the first official game. I evaluate by gameplay, mission design and platform (bias). And please let TBoGT be the last game to feature LC.

Overall:

San Andreas and EfLC are the best in terms of gameplay, but newcomers to the series should start with the more accessible ones (Vice City and V).

Edited September 29, 2013 by customizable

[KaRzY6]

1. San Andreas - Put the most hours into it and good modding (including DYOM)

2. Liberty City Stories

3. IV (with EFLC)

4. Vice City Stories

5. Vice City

6. III

7. Advance

8. II

9. Chinatown Wars

 

Never Played: I, London '69 and '61

[Pyrrhic]

1. GTA San Andreas

2. GTA III

3. GTA IV

4. GTA Vice City

5. The Ballad of Gay Tony

6. The Lost and Damned

7. GTA Vice City Stories

8. GTA Liberty City Stories

9. GTA Chinatown Wars

 

Haven't played 1, 2 or Advance although I would love to, especially 2

[Simon_V]

@lzw3 - U can download Grand Theft Auto and Grand Theft Auto 2 for FREE on R*'s site.

 

On-Topic:

#1 - IV

#2 - Episodes From Liberty City

#3 - San Andreas

#4 - Vice City

#5 - III

#6 - Liberty City Stories

#7 - Vice City Stories

#8 - Grand Theft Auto

#9 - Grand Theft Auto 2

___________________________

 

Never played London 61 & 69, Advance and Chinatown Wars.

Edited August 21, 2012 by Simon_V

[Dr. John]

1. San Andreas (Modding and Variation)

2. IV (Graphics and AI)

3. III (Environment and Player)

4. VC ("Old is Gold" proverb and nice weather)

5. CTW (A new look to Liberty City and more Chinese action)

6. Others (Didn't play them)

 

 

[Tycek]

It looks like someone wants to start another fanboys war here.

 

1. GTA IV (TLaD)

2. GTA: VC

3. GTA: VCS

4. BoGT

5. GTA III

6. GTA: SA

7. GTA: LCS

8. GTA 1 (London '69 & '61)

9. GTA 2

10. GTA: CTW

11. GTA: A

[Space Cowboy]

1.Vice City

2.IV

3.VCS

4.SA

5.TLAD

6.III

7.LCS

8.TBOGT

9.CHTW

[Senex Iunior]

3D era games only, does not factor in mods.

 

1. VC

2. IV

3. VCS

4. SA

5. TLAD

6. TBOGT

7. III

8. LCS

9. CTW

10. Advance

[General Scrotum]

1. San Andreas

2. The Lost and Damned

3. IV

4. Ballad of Gay Tony

5. Vice City Stories

6. Vice City

7. III

8. Liberty City Stories

9. I

10. II

11. London: 69

12. London: 61

13. Chinatown Wars

14. Advance

[ZoomZoom]

 

• GTA San Andreas (awesome gameplay and modding)

GTA Vice City & III (nice game and awesome missions)

GTA IV including EFLC (cool, modern and realistic)

GTA Liberty City Stories

GTA Vice City Stories

[AnDReJ98]

1.San Andreas

2.Vice City

3.IV & EFLC

4.Vice City Stories

5.III

6.Liberty City Stories

 

 

[Vega LVI]

Excluding the 2D era games.

 

1. IV and EFLC

2. III

3. SA

4. VC

5. LCS

6. VCS

7. CTW

8. Advance

[MyDog]

1. Vice City

2. IV

3. III

4. SA

5. 2

6. 1

[loki18760]

0)GTA1/GTA2/london (series origins can't compare with modern)

 

1)San Andreas (Set what the series standard should be on Fun)

 

2)Ballad of Gay Tony (brought the fun into the HD era)

 

3)Lost and the Damned (what a dark story line should look like)

 

4)VICE CITY (Best theme of them all most cohesive)

 

5)GTA-4 (To depressing and a step back for GTA, mafia storyline feels overplayed and dated)

 

6)GTA-3 (Less and less forfilling but great for the time it released)

 

7)Chinatown wars (Still better than the "stories")

 

8)VCS (recycled from VC and not thought out)

 

9)LCS (recycled map and a play out mafia story)

[Irrational]

1. Grand Theft Auto III (The game that made me fall in love with the series.)

2. Vice City (Such a masterpiece, the setting and the music, and a protagonist with such ambition and great story is what made Vice CIty such a groundbreaking game, but he will never beat III)

3. Grand Theft Auto 2 (Indeed, a game that sets in the future with my fav protag, it had some cool music and..."innovative" vehicles and weapons)

4. Grand Theft Auto (The game that started it all, it has some memorable music and takes place in 3 different cities, it was enormous and ambitious to it's time of release.)

5. Vice City Stories (It captures some of the feel of the good Vice City, with a lot of replayability value due to it's great gameplay)

6. Liberty City Stories (Decent storyline, but was nowhere near as good as III, a little disappointing for not including helicopters)

7. London 1969 (It had such a classy feel to it, and I'd like to visit London someday)

8. London 1961 (Same as above)

9. Advance (Terrible game, the GameBoyAdvance had much more capacity than that.)

10. San Andreas (Such a pointless and immature storyline, the bichest of protagonists that only whines about his incapabilities, the game just don't do it justice.)

Edited August 21, 2012 by ClaudeSpeedRulez

[gtamann123]

1. GTA IV+EFLC (I count them as one game)

2. San Andreas

3. Vice City

4. Vice City Stories

5. Liberty City Stories

6. GTA 3

7. Chinatown Wars

8. GTA 2

 

Haven't played any of the others

[Th3MaN1]

1 - III (The very first 3D GTA, which made the franchise popular, also best story, missions and gameplay in my opinion)

2 - Vice City (Incredibly fantastic soundtrack + very similar to Scarface)

3 - San Andreas(Very big map, a lot of side missions, a long of gameplay)

4 - I/II(It started the "beast")

4 - IV + Episodes from LC(Missions are good but boring and little creativity put in, but realistic to a length where the game is still enjoyable)

5 - LCS/VCS(A mix between VICE/III and San Andreas make these portables pack a punch)

6 - Advance(Not the best, but still enjoyable from time to time)

 

Haven't really played the rest.

Edited August 22, 2012 by Th3MaN1

[indo_14]

1.SA[The most modded GTA]

2.IV[it can used for movies]

3.III[i'd like the cities, and fido]

4.VCS(in here we can see our new generation "the baby" xD)

5.VC(hard to finish mission "the driver")

6.LCS(i'd like this just i very don't like is, toni can't swim)

7.2[easy to finish, just code, or find tank and destroy city xD]

 

i never played: GTA Advance, GTA, GTA Londons, and

GTA V xD lol i'm just kidding

[Th3MaN1]

i never played: GTA Advance, GTA, GTA Londons, and

GTA V xD lol i'm just kidding

Wow you played GTA V? How is it possible?

[Senex Iunior]

 

5.VC(hard to finish mission "the driver")

Ranking a game lower because you yourself can't pass a mission? wut?

 

Also, [email protected] LCS above anything.

[Pyrrhic]

5.VC(hard to finish mission "the driver")

Ranking a game lower because you yourself can't pass a mission? wut?

I don't think that was the main reason he put the game that low, he was merely pointing out that it is a less favourable game due to it. I can sort of agree, a game gets less boring if your stuck on a mission for ages, although I had no problem with The Driver.

[ZoomZoom]

i never played: GTA Advance, GTA, GTA Londons, and

GTA V xD lol i'm just kidding

Wow you played GTA V? How is it possible?

He said he never played it.

[Algonquin Assassin]

1) GTA IV.

2) VC.

3) TLAD.

4) SA.

5) GTA III.

6) CTW.

7) VCS.

8) LCS.

 

 

[ZoomZoom]

1) GTA IV.

 

Knew it will be on the top in your list..obviously..

[Th3MaN1]

i never played: GTA Advance, GTA, GTA Londons, and

GTA V xD lol i'm just kidding

Wow you played GTA V? How is it possible?

He said he never played it.

He said he's kidding, which contradicts the fact that he wrote

"i never played".

[Pyrrhic]

i never played: GTA Advance, GTA, GTA Londons, and

GTA V xD lol i'm just kidding

Wow you played GTA V? How is it possible?

He said he never played it.

He said he's kidding, which contradicts the fact that he wrote

"i never played".

Its a paradox.

 

[Th3MaN1]

i never played: GTA Advance, GTA, GTA Londons, and

GTA V xD lol i'm just kidding

Wow you played GTA V? How is it possible?

He said he never played it.

He said he's kidding, which contradicts the fact that he wrote

"i never played".

Its a paradox.

 

Mindf*ck.

[KaRzY6]

Also, [email protected] LCS above anything.

What wrong with LCS? I found the game enjoyable, 2nd favourite GTA.

[Pyrrhic]

 

Also, [email protected] LCS above anything.

What wrong with LCS? I found the game enjoyable, 2nd favourite GTA.

IMO the storyline of it was great but the gameplay experience got boring really quickly.

[Senex Iunior]

Also, [email protected] LCS above anything.

What wrong with LCS? I found the game enjoyable, 2nd favourite GTA.

Boring and unrelatable characters (I liked Toshiko and Salvatore- and that was it), recycling of the worst 3D map, rehashed and at times incoherent plotline, terrible recycling of the SA engine (still no swimming in Liberty?), worst radio stations by far (Radio Del Mundo: wat is this i dont even...), faceless protagonist, the "major" antagonist that didn't appear until the penultimate mission, generally uninteresting missions (notable exception being the Portland Chainsaw Masquerade)- and that's the short list. The only things that even slightly redeem it are the facts that it was so cheap and that it still has very basic elements of your typical Rockstar sandbox game, but otherwise it completely failed. A rare miss, but a miss nonetheless.