Grand Theft Auto

Grand Theft Auto turned the open-world crime sandbox into one of the most lucrative formats in entertainment. The series began as a chaotic top-down experiment in the late 1990s before the move to 3D with Grand Theft Auto III rebuilt it as a living city you could wander, hijack, and antagonize at will.

Rockstar's signature is satire. Each game skewers American consumerism, media, and ambition through a different stand-in metropolis, and the writing has only grown sharper as the technology caught up to the ambition. The lineage splits cleanly into three continuities: the early 2D games, the stylized 3D-era run, and the grittier HD universe that produced the record-breaking Grand Theft Auto V and its enduring online mode.

A short in-game film accompanies San Andreas, but this is a franchise that lives almost entirely as interactive play.

The Grand Theft Auto franchise spans 18 games, 1 films in the CrossBinge catalog.