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The original grand theft auto. The game that started it all! At first glance it seems like a child's game, cheap top down graphics, no real sense of challenge and lots of mindless violence. But once you start playing it you soon realise just how much fun this game is. The main aim of the game is to go around the city committing various crimes such as stealing cars, killing people, robbing buildings until you have built up your "criminal profile" high enough to be allowed into other parts of the city. What made this game stand out from others and become so much fun to play is the ability to totally ignore the missions and just ...  Read the complete review

This is the game that started the pop culture revelation that is Grand Theft Auto. Without this rough around the edges attempt, we wouldn't have the superb sequels that we now do, nor the numerous attempts to recapture that success with knock-offs, from the True Crime series, to the sandbox ventures of Prototype. The setup is delightfully simple; you're a gangster who is hired to do missions. You got to payphones to find missions, mostly consisting of mass destruction, theft and murder, and then have to executing them while trying to evade the police. This is a very simple game to pick up and play, but considerably more difficult to master. I spent ...  Read the complete review

A far cry from the big budget, visually impressive GTA games of today, the original Grand Theft Auto is a very simplistic top-down affair with basic, 2d graphics that relies on addictive, arcade-style gameplay and responsive controls. Its very easy to pick up and play and is game that has dated very little, both because its gameplay is so straightorward and enjoyable and also due to the fact that its visuals were nothing particularly special even when it first came out back in 1998. As in its numerous sequels you play a joyrider who makes money by stealing cars and undertaking missions for local organised crime gangs, roaming about vast cityscapes complete with ...  Read the complete review

Grand Theft Auto, often abbreviated "GTA", is a video game released to the personal computer in 1997 by BMG Interactive. It is the first game in a long standing series of the same name which is still in production to date. At the time of release its system requirements were a CPU capable of 100 MHZ, 16 MB of RAM and 1 MB of video RAM. I have tested this title to run in Microsoft Windows XP but the performance is very slow. There are also noteworthy graphical differences between the Windows and MS-DOS version. It is therefore recommended that, for full compatibility, one runs this title under a DOS emulation program such as "DOSBox". The game received .  Read the complete review