What is the best crime video game of all time?

Bank jobs, mob dynasties, an undercover cop and one detective who talks his way through it.

1. 1
   Red Dead Redemption 2

   Rockstar's outlaw western about a gang running out of frontier to hide in.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Grand Theft Auto V

   Three criminals, one Los Angeles, and the second best-selling game ever made.
   914pts
3. 3
   Saints Row 2

   The gang-war rival that took Grand Theft Auto's formula somewhere stranger.
   806pts
4. 4
   Max Payne 2

   A noir shooter about a New York cop and the crime syndicates that ruined him.
   664pts
5. 5
   L.A. Noire

   A 1947 Los Angeles detective game built on facial-capture interrogations.
   652pts
6. 6
   Yakuza 0

   The Tokyo and Osaka crime saga that finally broke the series in the West.
   652pts
7. 7
   Hitman: World of Assassination

   A contract-killer sandbox where every level is a puzzle box full of targets.
   487pts
8. 8
   Sleeping Dogs

   An undercover cop inside a Hong Kong triad, with the best hand-to-hand combat of its era.
   487pts
9. 9
   Scarface: The World Is Yours

   A licensed sequel that let players rebuild Tony Montana's empire.
   487pts
10. 10
    Mafia II

    A 1940s and 50s mob story told as a straight period crime drama.
    384pts
11. 11
    Disco Elysium

    A murder investigation carried entirely by dialogue, skills and a ruined detective's mind.
    262pts
12. 12
    Payday 2

    Co-operative heist shooter built entirely around planning and blowing a robbery.
    262pts
13. 13
    Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven

    The 2002 original that proved a crime game could be slow, scripted and cinematic.
    262pts
14. 14
    Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

    A gang story stretched across three cities and the whole of a fictional California.
    0pts

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