best Grand Theft Auto game ever???

TanG411

GTA III.

PisteHoff

Larkin91 wrote: »

GTA III.

Love GTA 3 im with yah!
Eh why are most people from Cork on boards huh strange?

LpPepper

My Fav would be GTA IV because of the driving controls which are really good , the Rock radio station with Iggy Pop has a lot of good music and even more with the Lost and damned . The detail put into the map is immence and just always fun to be around . The story line is very well put together and the missions are quite good

Only thing is :
No character customisation
No pimping cars or bikes
No planes
No train driving
No really good Misc. missions like freight driving , triathlons etc.

I love the driving , detail and story line of GTA 4 , Love SA for its enormus size and Vice City for its cool theme and great soundtrack (VROCK!)

So my Fav really is GTA 4 , SA OR Vice city

Ferris_Bueller

Vice City IMO, between the unbelievable story line, lovely setting, brilliant music and the unforgetable characters, I don't think there will ever be one individual game made that will better it.

Everytime I watch scarface it makes you miss it

Liam O

San Andreas. Liked VC and 3 but this was like those games multiplied by 2. Just fantastic settings, planes were brilliant, feel of each city was great and you could get to know the map even though it's so vast.

Hank_Jones

I think Vice has to be the best, always was my personal favourite anyway.

Might be the whole 80's setting, but also the game play.

Don't really rate GTA 4.

Hercule

VICE CITY - soundtrack, setting, action, characters - all fantastic

MoyVilla9

I'm surprised with all the VC votes. I think it's SA by far. It had everything!

Armin_Tamzarian

Vice City by a country mile and some.
The visuals, audio tracks, storylines, just everything about it.
Any time I play Liberty City it feels terrible in comparison.
Didn't really like San Andreas much.
I think it was too big and had too many silly extras in it.
The soundtrack was terrible compared to VC,
plus the main character was a gimp compared to Vercetti.

Here's probably my favourite bit from the whole of VC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5L4uvpKjNM

kamc

I think Vice City was the best - great soundtrack, brilliant cars, very witty.

Plus it's the first GTA game I completed.

Mark92

san andreas for customisation and unreal craic
gta IV for amazing graphics and physics

SeanKev

San Andreas with the physics & graphics of 4. :rolleyes:

poonamt93

I think it was vice city, has a whole scarface thing going on...i believe it's on the PS2 and the XBOX. Also, GTA3 for the same consoles was great because it was the first one that made the jump from birds eye view to third person style. that basically opened the door for all sorts of cool tricks, graphics, and all the other fun stuff!!

Purchiz

I never really got into Vice City

but between GTA4 and San Andreas

San Andreas is the best easily

CJ is the mannnnnn

Mike Litoris

IV for me by a gee hair. Or maybe Vice City.....damn cant choose. Now if Vice City had IV's engine.......

San Andreas was ok. For me I didn't like the whole homie setting plus the whole game felt tedious.

MrSir

For me 4.I thought it had the strongest storyline with the best characters.And of course the improved graphics from the previous game.

Lucious Sweet

Red Dead Redemption?

Captain Chaos

moz wrote: »

Red Dead Redemption?

And that relates to GTA, how?

RDR is an indirect sequel to Red Dead Revolver which was an FPS game nothing to do with GTA at all. Yes it has a similar gameplay mechanic and is made by Rockstar but at a different studio than the GTAs are made in.

Thats like someone saying what was the best Ghost Recon and then someone suggesting Rainbow Six. Ghost Recon was an fps once apon a time.:(

Lucious Sweet

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Yes it has a similar gameplay mechanic and is made by Rockstar

Have you played it? It is like any of the GTA's with horses instead of cars.
Even though its not called GTA "whatever", it is widely regarded as part of the GTA franchise IMO.

Captain Chaos

moz wrote: »

Have you played it? It is like any of the GTA's with horses instead of cars.
Even though its not called GTA "whatever", it is widely regarded as part of the GTA franchise IMO.

With that line of thought you can take Saints Row and Crackdown to be part of the GTA franchise. RDR, is apart of the Red Dead franchise. If it was part of the GTA games Rockstar would have linked it up story wise like all the other GTA games.

People are just trying to lump RDR in with GTA. RDR spawned from Red Dead Revolver which was not great. Rockstar decided to give it a GTA make over because that style of game is successful from them seeing as they can't make a decent FPS.

TheTosh

You can't call RDR a GTA game and the reason GTA gets a mention in the trailers is because it sells more.

ScumLord

TheTosh wrote: »

You can't call RDR a GTA game and the reason GTA gets a mention in the trailers is because it sells more.

The name sort of gives it away, does RDR have any autos in it at all?

kevinhalvey

hands down san andreas best gta in my opinion

Sl!mCharles

IV, but i miss the countryside...

Jerichoholic

Marsten in Red Dead mentions something about a city full of Vice, or something along those lines.

Penn

Sl!mCharles wrote: »

IV, but i miss the countryside...

Yeah. San Andreas did such a great job of making a huge sprawling countryside/desert and used it to perfection that it was a shame it couldn't really be expanded upon due to the return to Liberty City. Really hoping it's in the next game

Mr. CooL ICE

I finished 4 once on PC and haven't touched it since. I finished SA once on PC and once on PS2. I finished 3 twice on PC and once on PS2. However, I finished Vice City on xbox once, three times on PS2 and about six times on PC.

Hell, even reading this thread makes me want to finish Vice City an 11th time

Bonavox

Kind of a draw between Vice City and San Andreas. I think Vice City was the better game, but SA gave me so much more replay value.

Ericka89

VC then IV Loved the atmosphere in both of them. Thanks to GTA IV I can no longer imagine a GTA game without euphoria.

Penn

Ericka89 wrote: »

VC then IV Loved the atmosphere in both of them. Thanks to GTA IV I can no longer imagine a GTA game without euphoria.

Yeah, I recently bought Vice City and find it hard to play. Even just the way the character and cars move, makes you appreciate that while GTAIV lost a lot of the games charms, it made some great improvements to very basic parts of the game

Rud

each and every GTA has a place in my heart but san andreas is probably the best just for the sheer scale of it

parabola_89

Vice City by a country mile! They just captured the whole 80s atmosphere so exactly. Playing it just brings to mind so many of the films shot in that decade. Even though Vice City Stories was fairly horrific in terms of nearly everything (got it on PSP the weekend it came out and spent a good part of the following week waiting for the loading screen to go away) it was still enjoyable to just mess around with it.

Plus the soundtracks to both of them were EPIC! Cruising down Ocean Beach in a Stinger with "Cars" playing on the radio - gaming perfection really!

alanEire89

for me it has te be GTA III cause it was de first time it was in 3rd person, but I like San Andreas and The Ballad of Gay Tony aswell

Underground

Definitely San Andreas,loved the gang wars

fonecrusher1

It has got to be San Andreas for me. I loved vice city but it was just too small a world. You could race from one side of the playing area to the other in 2 minutes. Brilliant at the start but claustraphobic after a while.

Then Gta SA came along......WOW, Ive never played such a colossal & thoroughly playable game in my life. It was the closest thing to getting into my car & heading off into the counrty for a spin. In real life.:D

So much variety. From the busy city streets to the lonely dusty desert regions where you would see strange lights in the sky at night. The little country towns, the bright lights of Las Ventura with its interactive casinos, the long lonely roads that seemed to go on for miles, all you had for company was the car radio.:pac: A lot of people complain that it was too big a game. Thats exactly what i liked about it the most.

What a game.

I-Shot-Jr

For me SA and IV were the best, I really enjoyed III and vice city but I preferred the music in SA, as a massive Gn'R fan the novelty of having Axl Rose as a radio dj never wore thin! The storyline was so much fun, it kept me glued to the screen for weeks on end. San Andreas is probably what reminds me most of my early-mid teens.

I absolutely adored GTA IV because its the first next gen GTA and therefore kind of deserves to be judged in another league. I'd love to be able to compare it to a new GTA though!

Man it makes me wanna fire up the aul xbox and play through SA again!

fonecrusher1

I-Shot-Jr wrote: »

Man it makes me wanna fire up the aul xbox and play through SA again!

I bought san andreas for my 360 a few months ago as a download & was very disappointed. Its appearance is very old fashioned & deliberately pixel heavy & the collision detection is poor. They intentionally aged it for some reason? Its not that old a game, it came out in 2004, not 1994!!?

I played san andreas on my friend's old playstation 2 a few weeks ago & it is a much smoother game graphically & just plays better than the emulator version for the xbox.

I might just buy gta SA (the original xbox version) instead of playing the rubbish xbox 360 downloaded version. Its a great old game.

steo2009

I have to say vice city was my fav, still to this day play it now and again, class game over all.

paddy kerins

San Andreas just because of the scale and size of the map and the seemingly endless activities you could do. although vice city comes in at a close second mainly because of the 80s soundtrack. not one bad song in the whole game

Mensch Maschine

Stev_o wrote: »

SA was just a cliched gangster flick with some GTA styled side missions.

Wow. That's the biggest bunch of bull**** I've ever read. Can't believe so many of you agree.
*Spoiler alert*
Ok, like Vice City, San Andreas was set in an era that was the early 90's west cost of America and time of the L.A. riots. It's familiar to a lot of people. The story although over the top was still enjoyable. CJ being blackmailed by another black police officer (voiced by Samuel. L. Jackson) to do things he doesn't want to do. Meanwhile his mother is dead and that's why he's home. All this whilst trying to win back the respect of his 'family' due to his absenteeism. The Grov Street family have gone to the dogs too due to a lot of members fallen to drugs.

The story then takes you across three different cities with 3 distinct atmospheres in each city, desert and countryside too.

The amount of new and exciting feature that game had:

- You could take photos
- Burgle Houses
- Recruit homies and go on drive-by's
- Customise your car
- 3 Cities
- Countryside/desert/Mountain
- Start/spread fires
- Gamble/borrow money
- Large selection of clothing
- Large selection of music
- Base Jumping
- Being able to reply to pedestrians positively or negatively
- Pedestrians react verbally to the way you appear
- Ability to fly a multitude of helicopters and planes
- More vehicles to choose from including dune buggy and hot-rod (after gold in Driving school)
- Driving schools
- Parachuting
- Gang wars
- Huge map
- Decent rewards for collectables
- Decent and funny side missions (Pimping missions/Trucking missions)
- Decent 100% reward.
- Loads of safehouses to buy
- Ability to drive train
- Dogfighting in fighter jets
- Arguably more weapons (minigun, silent pistol, heat detecting RPG, satchel charges)

It used to be a toss up between Vice City and San Andreas for me. I've been playing GTA since the first one and I loved and completed GTA III but Vice is when I REALLY fell in love with the series. Overall I got more hours out of San Andreas though, due to the ton of features and roleplaying I could do due to the large selection of clothes.

San Andreas was a triumph. I don't know how some of you can say that there was too much to do. The longer the game the better when it's of GTA calibre.
Plus it wasn't that long when all you needed to complete really was the story.
Going for 100% could take you a while!

Let's not forget the cast. Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Penn, Ice-T, James Woods, Gary Busey, George Clinton, Axel Rose, Chuck D, Danny Dyer, Shaun Ryder, Peter Fonda, Frank Vincent

And whoever said that the Soundtrack wasn't as good as VC? what planet do you live on?

Just look at the soundtrack for the radio stations for San Andreas again mister. Plus the commercials are 20 times better.

eXsorbeo — A portable game console. The commercial equates playing games on the system with masturbation, with such lines as, "Look mom, I'm playing with myself!" and "don't play too long or you'll go blind". The console has its own website. Likely a parody of the Nintendo GameBoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqEVFALuHLo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0EGozm1TsA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRFVOR7CkvA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr4tmk6Bn28

wnolan1992

If I had to choose, I would say GTAIV. The graphics, branching storyline(granted only two endings but hey its more than you get with most games), improved gameplay - such as aiming, driving, the addition of the internet, TV, activities etc, combined to make one hell of a great game.
It did however lose a good few things from GTASA, such as burgaling houses, the selection of clothes on offer, a lot of side missions dropped, car customisation and character customisation.

What I'd love is a hybrid game. Take the graphics and gameplay style from GTAIV, the story and setting of SA, and the soundtrack of VC. That would be epic.

Benny_Cake

San Andreas for me for much of the same reasons as have already been mentioned - vast map,great story and voice cast,and above all, incredible fun. It probably has more longevity for me than any game I've ever played. I love Vice City too, but the map is a little small (in retrospect) and I always seem to have issues with the framerate jumping on my Xbox 360. Hopefully Microsoft will put it up on the Marketplace as they did with San Andreas. GTA IV was a great game, but it just felt it was lacking a little of the fun that it's predecessers had (Ballad of Gay Tony went some way towards addressing this though).

Shiminay

Yea, San Andreas pips Vice City for me mostly because it had the wow factor of VC but just MOAR of everything Huge map and some very enjoyable and distinctive areas to explore coupled with a fun and engaging story and a huge amount of fun stuff for CJ to do and any number of ways for him to do it. I spent most of my time on a BMX so I could just jump over any traffic that got in my way on missions etc

IV was disappointing for me, Saints Row 2 definitely took that genre's crown and ran away with it until Red Dead Redemption restored a lot of my faith in Rockstar. IV had some great ideas, just not as well implemented as I think they needed to be - maybe another couple of month's polish might've helped, but it drove me so far beyond where I wanted to bludgeon Roman and Brucie for their constant interruptions, I was less inclined to forgive it because I've come to expect better from Rockstar. All that said, IV is the reason I finally bought a current gen console (360) and I certainly haven't been disappointed by that experience.

KungPao

Pogo the Monkey was the best

My overall favorite is III. It blew me away when I first played it, all the way back in 2001. And I still play it every now and again, In fact I have the trilogy installed on my laptop...no cd required just plug in my pad and off I go to Liberty/Vice/San Andreas.

I love the atmosphere of III's Liberty City...so dirty and violent with the Mafia, Triads and Colombian Cartel.

It was hilarious too "People love the smell of YO-MAs frozen fish products" :pac:

And the silly comments of peds like "My mother's my sister", "In the navy"and the taxi driver when you carjack him "Get in the back, AHHHHHHHHHHH"

I do ADORE the other games, including LCS, VCS and IV but GTAIII will always be special.

littlemac1980

Gotta be San Andreas man, by a mile. Great Landscapes, best missions, fantastic radio stations/music.

None of the others in the series come close.

What an amazing game, I really hope they release a HD version for PS3 soon!!

Jerichoholic

Kharn wrote: »

IV was disappointing for me, Saints Row 2 definitely took that genre's crown and ran away with it until Red Dead Redemption restored a lot of my faith in Rockstar. IV had some great ideas, just not as well implemented as I think they needed to be - maybe another couple of month's polish might've helped, but it drove me so far beyond where I wanted to bludgeon Roman and Brucie for their constant interruptions, I was less inclined to forgive it because I've come to expect better from Rockstar. All that said, IV is the reason I finally bought a current gen console (360) and I certainly haven't been disappointed by that experience.

I would have said Just Cause 2 took the crown of open world games, SR2 doesn't come close to it. If you haven't tried it, you should.