Grand Theft Auto Reviews

It works very well for me in Windows 10. It's a great game. I used to play a lot of it back in the day, especially at the internet cafe where I discovered it. Update: Since I've updated to Windows 11 the game would give a fatal error at startup, but it was easily fixed setting the game executable properties to Compatibility Windows 8 and checked the Run in 640x480. Works perfectly in W11.

Not sure what people are complaining about. I can play this game on a modern Windows 10 computer. The controls are wonky but they always were. This is one of the grand daddies of modern gaming. This game seems almost tame compared to modern shooters, but spawned several of today's politicians that were morally outraged over violence. Never mind the fact their deep-seated corruption was largely responsible for the social conditions leading to teen violence via the destruction of the American family. Interesting that their moral outrage led to them becoming multimillionaires while their districts suffered and decayed. That's another discussion entirely. This is an isometric shooter similar to the original Postal. It’s a bit more top-down view of the city. You run around doing gangster Sh*t, making money any way you know how. Do jobs for other gangsters, make money, and fight the man. Move through the various cities completing objectives and kicking @ss. Rinse and repeat. This game released around the time of Windows 95 and 98. If it doesn't work on your modern PC, check out the compatibility options. I was able to get it working in Window 10 v 21H1 and I'm on a Gen 10 i7 w 64GB of RAM and RTX 2060 with no modification. I was also able to get it to run on an HP EliteBook 6470 Windows 10 v 1909 Gen 4 i5 w 16GB of RAM and Intel 4000 GFX. It was also working on a much older Intel Atom ASUS Netbook with 2GB of RAM and integrated Intel graphics. So, if you're having trouble, I would suspect it is a Direct X or GFX Card issue with your machine. That said, this is 23 years old. My original experience with this game was playing on a Pentium 1 Toshiba laptop. My little brother and i played a Demo of this game for years before finally acquiring a retail copy. I'm sure you can still find the roms to play it on a PSOne Emulator online. There are several other ports available. The game controls are a bit wonky and GTA2 was the superior game with better graphics and overall performance. I have GTA2 on GBA, PSOne, and a few additional platforms. Many of these games are also available on Abandonware sites. If you're looking for first person experience, that didn't arrive until GTA 3. The expansion London 1969, I am not sure why it wasn't included, but was more of the same with a British flare. Somewhere, I still have the free versions that RockStar made available through their site in the early 2000s. I believe now this game is only available as a Bundle. It was fun back in the day. It resembles at GBA game in the graphics department. If you're looking for something different, then you'll likely be disappointed.

The one that started it all. The original GTA. Possibly still my favorite of the series (yeah I'm weird) but this is where I grew up. It's funny to imagine these kids playing GTA V first now and then going back to try and play part 1. Obviously most newbies won't like it since its almost a totally different from everything past gta 2. What makes this game cool? It's the original Reminds me of the time period, the overhead camera is supposed to represent a helicopter chase cam video which was at the time always on the tv it seemed. Like when the police were chasing a famous white bronco with a mr.oj simpson in it. OR the holliwood shoot out, most of that was from over head. This game was big for the same reasons it's one of the biggest game series of all time, What a way to blow off steam. Now that being said, is it worth getting on STEAM? yes and no, depends on what you want. I noticed the title music is missing (it's because the music was on a cd, if you played bootleg GTA 1 you didnt get a title song, exactly like the steam version. So there is THAT. It's not the end of the world but the GTA theme song is part of the experience.) If you want to play for free I would suggest getting the PSX version and playing on EPSXE if you want, but for me I bought it because it's just easier to download for me on steam. Awesome game, GTA 2 will be better for anyone who hasnt played the originals probably (it's more advanced and has better graphics and features).

My first GTA game and THE first GTA game, I remember GTA3 hitting the shelves and feeling amazed at how far the franchise has come, really wish they brought London 1969 to Steam. Would love for Rockstar to bring these back for other people, important part of video game history right here

Grand Theft Auto is the root of open world exploration and gameplay. Released in 1998, this classic title started jump started the future for gaming. I don’t recommend this game just because it’s classic, I recommend it because it genuinely has good gameplay. The world is rather large for a game of the late 90s, and gameplay is actually better than a lot of Indies of today. Multiple mission routes mean endless replay value. If you’re not the type to follow story, just go around stealing cars and killing bitches, hoes, and pedestrians for mad points. It’s a real shame the developers gimped on the graphics of Grand Theft Auto. Even for a late 90’s game, the graphics for Grand Theft Auto is god awful. When my avatar leaves his car, I can’t tell the difference between his front and backside; this makes shooting quite chaotic and confusing at times. If you look pass the graphics, there is lots of fun to be had from this classic title. Play it.

A high school friend of mine named Tony lived in an apartment complex behind a McDonald's. I rode my bicycle over there on more than one occasion. Tony was a Sony PlayStation kind of man. PlayStation was not the first disc-based gaming system. However, it was certainly the most popular one at the time. On one such visit to Tony's apartment, he dug out a game unfamiliar to me. A game that would open the door to a whole other level of freedom. The first game to truly spark the question of right and wrong actions in video games. That game was, of course, DMA Design's Grand Theft Auto. From the moment we first picked up the controller, we had the option of stealing a car and mowing down a group of pedestrians. Grand Theft Auto was a game unafraid of offending people. It would be a few years before I dove further into the series, but I have Tony to thank for introducing me to it. Please excuse me while I shake this wanted level. -Nintendo Rhapsody, Chapter 5 FYI, the version of Grand Theft Auto available here on Steam does not work on Windows 10 without Legacy Components enabled under Settings > Apps > Optional Features > More Windows Features. And if the game fails to display correctly, enter the properties menu for Grand Theft Auto.exe under the WINO directory, click on the Compatibility tab, look for and click on Change high DPI settings and then click on Override high DPI scaling behavior.

I remember playing the original Grand Theft Auto via a demo that I got from one of those floppy disks you got from a computer magazine way back in 1997, shortly after it was released and I was hooked immediately. At the first opportunity I bought the full game from my local Game shop in the Manchester Arndale Centre. I was amazed at how violent it felt, despite it's low quality graphic and side scrolling top down viewpoint, but more-so because of the large sandbox world where you could drive a car, bus, truck or motorcycle and later in the game more interesting vehicles like tanks. anywhere you wanted; even ditching vehicles into the river. You could even catch a train to other parts of the city, or run or walk almost anywhere; yet, because of it's colourful and almost cartoon like graphic, it felt okay to stop vehicles and rip the occupants out and steal their cars; or, once you'd picked up your first weapon, to just shoot everyone in sight or go on a rampage, running pedestrians over and smashing into cars willy-nilly. Each vehicle had it's own characteristics, with slow moving trucks to very fast sports cars. Despite the game including the usual missions you always got with Grand Theft Auto games, which would see your character assassinating targets, stealing specific vehicles of which there were a large selection throughout the game, plus of course drug dealing. Completing these missions helped you rise through the ranks of the underworld. To get new missions you had to go to one of the various pay phones within each of the three cities that you got to explore (as you progressed) included Liberty City, San Andreas and Vice City. The original hard copy of the game included maps of each city, which were useful as it was easy to get lost in the maze like streets of each city. I recommend downloading the maps and game manuals from the links I've provided below as they will help increase your immersion in the game. Personally, I had far more fun just ignoring most of the missions and driving around the city, picking up various items such as guns, armour, get out of jail cards, power ups and extra lives. My favourite of these were the kill frenzies, that were often found within smash-able crates. These would give you a specific amount of time to do as much mayhem as possible and attempt to score a certain amount of points to win the challenge. I loved creating mayhem wherever I ended up and often my main focus would be escaping from the police. Travelling on trains to get to other parts of the city or finding a tank and blasting everything in sight was much more fun than following the scripted missions. Sadly, with the latest computers and Windows platforms it's almost impossible to read the mission information that pops up along the bottom of the screen because it disappears before you've got past the first few words. I'm hoping when Rockstar release Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition in January (2022), that we will get proper spoken words rather than the gobbledy gook that you hear when a new mission appears. (though in the original games, this was part of the fun as it would give rise to a smile or laughter. I'd forgotten I had GTA I and GTA II in my Steam library and had been looking for my hard copies recently as I'd had a hankering to replay the games. I happened to see a comment from someone who had sent me a friends requests who had also sold a copy of GTA 1 & 2 to another Steam community member. I checked my library and lo and behold I had both games; so installed them to see if I still got that gut feeling of excitement at driving around an imaginary city from a top down perspective. It wasn't quite the same, partly because I've been accustomed to the later GTA titles, i.e. I prefer to do it in first person, so have also reinstalled my favourite GTA classic, GTA VI to play The Lost and Damned as I'm an old biker at heart. I was prompted to post this because I noticed a community member thanking another community member for selling him/her copies of GTA 1 and 2; both of which have been freeware (officially from Rockstar) for at least fifteen years. Both of the originals minus the add on that came with GTA :II were originally available for download directly from Rockstar and later available via special bundles that included most of the early GTA titles;. Thankfully they are still available from various abandonware sites. You can get GTA 1 and II for free via MyAbondonware [url=https://www.myabandonware.com/game/grand-theft-auto-3w6][b]HERE[/b][/url] and [url=https://www.myabandonware.com/game/grand-theft-auto-2-3w7][b]HERE[/b][/url]. There's also download links for the manuals and maps for each game on the main download page. The links above take you to each of the games initial pages. /when you click on the yellow download buttons it will take you to the page where you can download bot the game and the manual + maps. I've scanned both files and Virus Total found no malware in both of the games installers you can check those [url=https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/bbe5cba698aea396c93218c530bc30730b93a419ae92ee1ae122cff564743bdc][b]HERE[/b][/url] (GTA I) and [url=https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ac09b16c3f32472587c42bba252db287fe910e114af93154ccac976c71ef6bbb][b]HERE[/b][/url] (GTA II). Overall, the game hasn't lost it's original charm; though I remember being able to play the game smoothly. It feels a little jittery now, but I expect that has something to do with it playing on modern machines.

[h1]"[i]Grand Theft Auto[/i]" is no longer available to purchase on [i]Steam[/i] due to multiple situations that ultimately lead to the recalling of the game. The game was initially made free on [i]Rockstar's[/i] official website but the old promo is long gone and it can no longer be downloaded. In addition, many players have complained about compatibility issues the game had (specifically [i]Windows 10[/i]) which eventually lead to [i]Rockstar[/i] pulling "[i]Grand Theft Auto[/i]" from the official [i]Steam[/i] store. The only way to obtain this title is to purchase the franchise pack under the same name which includes this game.[/h1] [h1]Overview:[/h1] "[i]Grand Theft Auto[/i]" holds many merits when it comes to its initial release. One of the first babies in introducing a gaming concept where you can create crimes in a city with a system. A game where you do bad things not because you have to, but because you want to. Shooting innocent people, stealing cars, damaging property, no game company in its era dared to explore any of these concepts until [i]Rockstar[/i] came along. It is and can be a good amount of fun but nowadays, it's more fun playing many other games with similar game styles as "[i]Grand Theft Auto[/i]". In its time, "[i]Grand Theft Auto[/i]" paved the way for many of the games we see nowadays including the more modern titles of the same name, the "[i]Saints Row[/i]" games, the "[i]Just Cause[/i]" series and more. That being said, and how we're far past the two decade point of it's release, how exactly [i]does[/i] the game stand up today? Well obviously not comparing it to modern day games of the same concept, "[i]Grand Theft Auto[/i]" has unfortunately been frozen in time and does not fare well to newer systems nowadays. As mentioned, it is unplayable in [i]Windows 10[/i] without any kind of internal adjustments to the game files. In this respect, I simply can't recommend it because it's literally unplayable. I have however been able to play it during my high school years in 2010 on a friends computer and can say that it is mediocre at best (at least in today's standards). It isn't terrible or anything but it's a game that would be truckloads of fun if you were still in the year 1998. Now, it's along the lines of '[i]meh[/i]'. [h1]Gameplay:[/h1] Unlike most "[i]Grand Theft Auto[/i]" games today, the first instalment of "[i]Grand Theft Auto[/i]" presents the player with a top-down perspective and the immediate freedom to do what they wish to their heart's content. The purpose of the game is really to just wreak havoc in the city and basically rack up as many points as you can by committing crime. Everything from shooting/running over civilians, destroying property and anything illegal will dish out points for the player. Aside from all that, there isn't much else going for the game. Current "[i]Grand Theft Auto[/i]" games obviously offer more on top of better graphics, controls, and objectives. It's the first of its kind so I do believe that it's a good game but only in its time. However, you're better off picking up the newer titles today. [h1]Controls:[/h1] Something that doesn't sit well with me. Unlike other top-down games, movement is wonky and hard to get used to. There's no real way to strafe and driving is also awkward. Shooting is mediocre as well and for a game from the 90's, you can only expect so much. Overall, the controls are rather shoddy and are not very refined. Although possible to adapt to, it's still a hassle to do so. This is a time where game companies were still experimenting with certain concepts for games so to an extent, I can let it pass, but with the ageing of games and how polished controls are today, it's not a good style to be playing. [h1]Graphics:[/h1] It's 1998, not too much to expect. Things look the way they should despite the pixels. Although not too appealing to the eye, you can't really expect high definition graphical output from a game from 1998. The screenshots on the [i]Steam[/i] page definitely don't help its case due to the limited resolution options in that time period which explains why the screenshots look so dreadful. Speaking of that, there also aren't any resolution options nor an option for windowed mode. There's only a fixed display that you can play on. "[i]Grand Theft Auto[/i]" is a game where when it was initially released, did not get any future updates to it. [h1]Audio:[/h1] If I recall, a lot of the sounds in the game are very laughable. Maybe back then it was kind of cool to hear audio of such quality but nowadays it's hard to believe that "[i]Grand Theft Auto[/i]" would have audio that funny. From a quality standpoint it's definitely not good, barely mediocre. But from a more casual perspective, it's definitely amusing to say the least. Long story short, it's bad, but in a hilarious way. [h1]Conclusion/TL;DR:[/h1] "[i]Grand Theft Auto[/i]" is a top-down crime game where you cause crime to rack up points. With shoddy controls, terrible graphics, and overall unstable functionality, "[i]Grand Theft Auto[/i]" is a no go. It's also no longer available to be purchased alone and is only obtainable through the "[i]Grand Theft Auto[/i]" bundle. In addition, it does not work on [i]Windows 10[/i] without internal file adjustments. It's a game that was released in 1998 and evidently stayed there.

[h1]Short version: 73%[/h1] It’d be a lie to say GTA1 aged well, but the first entry of the series is still a fun arcade game about carjacking and other criminal activities, with the kind of satiric humour that stood the test of time. [h1]Long version:[/h1] Compared to the massive open world lumbering giant the franchise grew into, Grand Theft Auto 1 is a simple top-down arcade action game, inspired by the highway car chase helicopter news casts. The simplicity is reflected in the core mechanics: instead of playing through a story (which this game lacks pretty much entirely), all six levels require a target score to pass. While almost every action gives points, the intended way to progress is to raise the score multiplier, usually by completing missions. These missions are barely anything more than a random set of objectives, tied together with some immature and politically incorrect, yet not too controversial flavour text with some (black) humour and social satire. The game is easy in many regards– enemies aim terribly, the police are quite ineffective, and all tasks can be described in a few words– but many small annoyances can ruin gameplay. For example, there are no mission retries, and when even the player dies in one hit, it is easy to fail a task on the first try. The best way to approach GTA1 is to think it as a memorisation game: learn the city layouts, weapon locations, and the mission objectives, and it’ll go smoothly. Just don’t forget that there is no save, so each stage has to be completed in one sitting. The game engine is ancient and difficult to run on any modern system. On top of that, it can cause nausea with the jerky camera movement and wonky frame rates. And when it works, the player can enjoy the interesting physics that turn every vehicle into a bouncy bumper car. Still, if you can live with these limitations, GTA1 can still hold itself on its own as a good arcade game that can warrant a replay from time to time.

While a lot of people seemed to have first played the GTA series with the 3rd person games, I started here. It's a terrific, humorous action game without the involved stories of the newer ones.