Every GTA Game Ranked
From Liberty City to San Andreas, Rockstar has built a rich world of career criminals, lunatics, and thieves, and we’ve loved each and every one. Although over 25 years old, the record-breaking views on the first Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer is proof that Rockstar’s iconic game series remains one of the most popular franchises on the planet.
From humble beginnings — the series originally began as top-down car-stealing games — to creating some of the most advanced and realistic open world games in the industry, each new Grand Theft Auto game is worthy of celebration. So, with Grand Theft Auto 6 on the horizon, IGN has thought back on both modern blockbusters and retro classics to create a definitive ranking of all of Rockstar’s open-world crime games and determine which GTA game is the best.
After having already made the switch to 3D, Grand Theft Auto: Advance returned the series to its top-down roots in 2004 for a Game Boy spinoff. A prequel to the events of Grand Theft Auto 3, GTA: Advance successfully brings the classic car-jacking, crime spree gameplay of the original games to Nintendo’s portable. While there is a story that ties into GTA 3, GTA: Advance is primarily gameplay driven, giving players over 300 missions to complete which makes for a fun excursion but hardly a full GTA experience in the modern sense.
An expansion pack for the original GTA, Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 is notable for taking place in the real city of London as opposed to a fictional amalgam like Los Santos (Los Angeles) or Liberty City (New York City). Like most of the early GTA games, it is hardly recognizable today and is more of a fun retro relic of the past. However, London remains one of the most fan-requested locations for the series to
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