After the success of Vice City and the third part of the series, many developers decided to release their own version of Grand Theft Auto. Among such projects, there were both failures and very successful games that left a mark in history. However, none of them surpassed the creations of Rockstar. In this article, we will analyze the main advantages of GTA over its competitors.

At the recent State of Play, which took place on February 13, 2025, we saw a trailer for MindsEye. The game is being created by Leslie Benzies, the game director of Vice City, San Andreas, as well as the third, fourth and fifth parts of the GTA series. In this article, we will tell you what the developer has been doing since leaving Rockstar.

According to many players, the official remaster of GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas turned out to be a failure. However, in the three years that have passed since the release date, Rockstar has released many patches aimed at fixing the errors of the re-release. In this article, we will analyze the latest version of Definitive Edition and try to understand whether it deserves your attention.

We continue to analyze early versions of the GTA series games. In this article, you will analyze the Liberty City Stories files, which date back to May 2005. Of course, this is not a fully playable build, but it allows you to understand how the development of the prequel to the third part was carried out.

Grand Theft Auto Vice City Nextgen Edition is a large-scale modification by the Russian team of enthusiasts, Revolution Team, offering a different vision of the remaster of the classic 2002 game. The modders transferred Vice City onto the «rails» of the fourth part and offered fans an unprecedented level of visual and gameplay enhancements that Grove Street Games could not provide in the official remaster, The Definitive Edition. Despite numerous challenges and legal battles with Take-Two Interactive, the publisher of the Grand Theft Auto series, the modification was released at the end of January 2025. In this review, we will look at the history of the modification, its improvements, and answer the main question of why the unofficial remaster looks and plays better than the official GTA: The Trilogy — The Definitive Edition.

On January 20, two early builds of Liberty City Stories leaked on 4chan. This is a prequel to GTA 3, which was released on October 25, 2005 on PlayStation Portable. We have studied them and are eager to share information about what the game was like at various stages of development.

Recently, an interesting topic was launched on Reddit — they showed the difference between girls in bikinis from Vice City, the fifth and sixth parts of the series. We decided to develop it, but not limit ourselves to just sunbathing beauties, but compare the main and secondary characters, as well as random NPCs.

On October 1, 2013, GTA Online was released on PS3 and Xbox 360 as a free add-on to the fifth part of the series. But a similar project was conceived by Rockstar back in the early 2000s. Initially, multiplayer could have appeared in GTA 3. And we are not talking about simple shootouts between players, but about a full-fledged gangster RPG with skill upgrades. This is evidenced by the design documents of the early parts of Grand Theft Auto, which recently appeared online. We analyzed them and are ready to tell you what online GTA would have turned out like if it had been released in 2001.

If the costumes of the heroes of Mass Effect or Dragon Age seem bizarre in everyday life, then the outfits of the characters of the GTA series look natural and stylish. Moreover, you can dress up like Tommy Vercetti or Niko Belik yourself. In this article, we will tell you in which cases their clothes will be most appropriate.

GTA has always had a scandalous reputation. Starting with the third part, Rockstar offers to create real mayhem in a very realistic city, with hundreds of corpses, explosions and destruction of the police. Of course, such a format attracts the attention of people who are looking for scandals and reasons for new bans. We will tell you about their actions, as well as other resonant stories related to Grand Theft Auto, in this article.