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Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is a video game series created by DMA Design (now Rockstar North) and published by Rockstar Games in 1997. It includes five standalone games; a sixth is currently in production.
The games allow the player to take on the role of a criminal in a city. Various missions are set for completion, such as bank robberies, assassinations, and other crimes.
There have been 5 sequels to the original Grand Theft Auto:
GTA: London, 1969 was a continuation of original GTA, only it is set in London. GTA2 features better graphics and gameplay than the first installment, considering that some versions of GTA1 were DOS games, and GTA2 was made in Microsoft Windows.
GTA3 is much more controversial than its predecessors. Unlike the two former games in the series this game is fully 3D and provides the player with a "third person view" rather than a "top down view". Vice City is set in a Miami-like city in the mid-1980s, and it is yet more controversial than GTA3. The series has been attacked as "morally ambiguous" at best and "immoral" at worst.
The Grand Theft Auto series is notable for the large amount of freedom given to the player in deciding what to do. Unlike most action games, which are structured as a single track series of levels, in GTA the player can pick and choose which missions they want to undertake, and their relationship with various powers are changed based on these choices. Players also often cite the music, humor, and "stress relieving factor" of the series in explaining its appeal.
Rockstar Games has since released an updated copy of the original Grand Theft Auto as a .
Original
The original game Grand Theft Auto was available for MS-DOS, Gameboy Color and Sony Playstation.
- for other meanings of Grand Theft Auto, see Grand Theft Auto
