Fans plunked down their hard-earned simoleons by the millions to enter a fully realized world of pimps, corrupt cops and organized crime.Īgain, there have been the inevitable sequels, GTA: Vice City, which was set in an ersatz Miami Beach, and GTA: San Andreas which let you into the Boyz 'N' The Hood side of gang-banging.

No longer were you restrained in your movement you didn't have to follow a linear storyline but were free to roam about doing what you darn well pleased. Grand Theft Auto III created a new genre in gaming: the open-ended sprawler. There was an expansion to the original GTA, there was the inevitable sequel (also in isometric view), and then the bomb dropped. Leave it to the Conservative Right to make their targets more visible to non-combatants.Īnyway, let's skip ahead a little. If it hadn't been for all of the outrage that followed in its wake, I think the GTA series would have died then and there. I really didn't like the control scheme, the graphics were blasé, and the sound was excruciatingly tinny. Some years ago, a fledgling company called Rockstar Games put out a little title called Grand Theft Auto, a very primitive top-down-view driving game where you were instructed to make drug deals and run other errands for the local mobs. If you have been living in a cave for the last decade, allow me to give a ' Grand Theft Auto for Dummies' refresher.

Foul language, drug running, hookers and all the good old-fashioned fun that comes with a Grand Theft Auto title are jam-packed into GTA: Liberty City Stories for your PSP. I am a happy little critic today! I finally own a game that I can take on the road and piss off the Conservative Right when I'm out and about. And it's best if that happens fictionally.' -Jackie Kashian Sure, there are some video games that young children shouldn't play, but I'm a grownup lady, and occasionally I need to shoot sh*t. 'The news is always going on about how video games are too violent.

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