What is the best Grand Theft Auto game of all time?

From pixelated top-down beginnings to sprawling cinematic crime sagas, this list spans nearly every era of open-world mayhem Rockstar ever shipped. Which one earns the top spot?

1

Grand Theft Auto V

The 2013 record-breaking entry following three criminals across Los Santos and Blaine County.

1000pts

2

GTA Vice City

A 2002 neon-soaked 1980s crime epic set in a Miami-inspired city.

877pts

3

GTA Liberty City Stories

A 2005 PSP prequel to GTA III following mobster Toni Cipriani through 1998 Liberty City.

877pts

4

Grand Theft Auto 2

A 1999 top-down sequel set in the dystopian Anywhere City with rival gang factions.

491pts

5

Grand Theft Auto IV

A 2008 gritty, realistic reimagining of Liberty City following immigrant Niko Bellic.

491pts

6

GTA San Andreas

A 2004 sprawling entry spanning three cities and rural countryside, following Carl Johnson's rise in the criminal underworld.

491pts

7

GTA Vice City Stories

A 2006 PSP prequel set in Vice City in 1984, starring Army officer Victor Vance.

491pts

8

Grand Theft Auto III

The 2001 game that reinvented the series in full 3D and defined the modern open-world genre.

360pts

9

Grand Theft Auto

The 1997 top-down original that introduced the series' open-world crime sandbox across three cities.

360pts

10

GTA Chinatown Wars

A 2009 handheld entry with a top-down art style following Huang Lee through Liberty City's Triad underworld.

200pts