Grand Theft Auto

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Type

SERIES

Current
Classic

Genres

Action-adventure, open world, crime, role-playing

Developers

Rockstar Games
(formerly DMA Design)
Rockstar Leeds
Rockstar Toronto
Rockstar LincolnRockstar North (formerly DMA Design)

Publishers

Rockstar Games

Creators

David Jones
Dan Houser
Sam Houser

First release

Grand Theft Auto
(November 28, 1997)

Latest release

Grand Theft Auto Online
(October 1, 2013)
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Wikipedia

Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is a long-running series of video games published by Rockstar Games and developed by subsidiary companies. The games are primarily developed by Rockstar North (formerly DMA Design).

Throughout its history, the series has always courted controversy due mainly to the mature content of the games, with all but one game being rated the local equivalent of Mature/Adult/R.

Grand Theft Auto held 10 world gaming records, including the Most Guest Stars in a Video Game Series, Largest Voice Cast in a Video Game (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas), Largest In-Game Soundtrack (Grand Theft Auto IV), and Most Successful Entertainment Launch Of All Time (Grand Theft Auto V). The Grand Theft Auto series has also been ranked 5[1] in the best-selling video game franchises of all time.

On February 4, 2022, a new entry in the Grand Theft Auto series has been confirmed to be in active development.[2]

Overview

The Grand Theft Auto series, belonging to, and to some extent defining the genre of free-roaming video games called “sandbox games”, grants a large amount of freedom to the player in deciding what to do and how to do it through multiple methods of transport and weapons. Unlike most traditional action games, which are structured as a single-track series of levels with linear gameplay, in GTA the player can determine the missions they want to undertake, and their relationships with various characters are changed based on these choices. The cities of the games can also be roamed freely at any point in the game, offering many accessible buildings and minor missions. There are exceptions: missions follow a linear, overarching plot, and some city areas must be unlocked over the course of the game.

The plot of the games generally allows the player to take on the role of a criminal in a big city, typically an individual who rises through the ranks of organised crime through the course of the game. Various missions are set for completion by the figureheads of the city underworld, generally criminal, which must be completed to progress through the storyline. Assassinations and other crimes feature regularly. Other activities like taxi driving, firefighting, pimping, street racing, or learning to fly fixed-wing aircraft are also involved as alternate adventures, which can be done at any time during the game, with the exception of the periods performing main missions.

Setting

Main article: Grand Theft Auto World

With the exception of the London expansion/mission packs for the original game and The Cayo Perico Heist update for Grand Theft Auto Online, the games are set in a fictional, heavily satirical recreation of the United States of America with references made to the rest of the world. Gameplay takes place in settings ranging from the largest cities in the country to small towns and remote wilderness and desert areas.

Games

There are currently sixteen games in the series, including two expansion packs for the original and two expansions for GTA IV and a dedicated multiplayer title. The games have been released for various platforms, including the PC, PSX, PS2, Xbox, PS3, Xbox 360, PS4, Xbox One, GBC, DC, GBA, PSP, DS, iPhone and Android with all but two of the games released on multiple platforms.

Individual games in the series have been categorized into three distinct parallel universes, officially named by Rockstar Games as the “2D Universe”, “3D Universe” and the “HD Universe”. Each universe is designed to be completely separate to each other so that no physically appearing characters or storylines would overlap.

2D Universe

In the 2D Universe, the graphics engines provided “top-down” gameplay in two dimensions with missions counting towards a score to unlock the next set of missions.

3D Universe

The 3D Universe featured the first blockbuster GTA title, Grand Theft Auto III, and introduced a 3D game world and third-person perspective. The entire era contains interlocking storylines, and many characters appear across multiple games. Notably, games in this era were not released in chronological order, with the first game released being the last chronologically, and the last game released being the first chronologically.

See also: The Introduction

HD Universe

The HD Universe featured Rockstar’s RAGE engine, also used in Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis. The gameplay did not change dramatically from the successful 3D Universe formula. This era features:

The Fan Base

Grand Theft Auto has one of the largest fan bases of any game franchise. There are many unofficial fansites about GTA games, providing the latest news, download databases, and often an online forum for the GTA community. Thousands of GTA fansites exist, ranging from small one-person news blogs to community-edited wikis (like this one) to massive download databases to forums with hundreds of thousands of members.

This is a list of some of the most popular fan sites, some of which were even acknowledged by Rockstar[3]:

An activity popular with fans is modding – creating new vehicle models, skins, re-texturing objects, and tweaking settings in the games’ configuration files. These modifications are made freely available on fansites for anyone to download and install into their game.

Another popular pastime (since GTA III) is stunting – the act of performing wild stunts with vehicles, which are produced into compilation videos.

Another activity popular with members of the community is writing Fan Fiction – stories based on events which follow on from, or are based around events which happen in the games, but these are not to be considered canon.

Note that modified games and fan-fiction are not to be documented here on the GTA Wiki.

Official Sites

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