Despite its mature rating, there were protests against it in Britain and Australia, while other countries - such as Brazil - banned the game altogether, imposing fines on anyone who tried to sell it. Inevitably, GTA’s degenerate gameplay (killing cops, murdering passers-by, stealing cars) stirred up an international controversy. But at the same time, it was also irresistibly immoral, allowing you to live a cartoon life of crime complete with Bullitt style car chases and Heat-style shoot-outs. It was easy to ignore the fact that GTA’s gameplay was actually all-too-repetitive. To play this game with any success, you needed to spend time learning the layout of the city to avoid the police, perfecting Micro Machines-style driving on the wide freeways and narrow side-streets. Pedestrians wandered the streets, cars obediently halted at traffic lights, ambulances and fire engines responded to death and fiery destruction. GTA gave you entire cities to act disgracefully in, cities that felt real and alive. You could even rampage through crowds of Saturday shoppers with a machine gun. You could steal cars and sell them at the docks - there were over 20 different vehicle types in each city (all drivable) or set fire to drum-banging groups of Hare Krishna worshippers. Instead, GTA’s strength lay in the vast scope of its gameplay and in the freedom it gave you to stray from the guiding mission structure. The game was functional rather than fancy, using a top-down 2D perspective and crude sprite-based graphics. The appeal of GTA wasn’t the way that it looked. Complete a mission and you earned greenbacks for your efforts - amass $1,000,000 and you could advance to the next city.

These missions (received via payphones) were often timed, challenging you to ferry passengers across the city chunks, assassinate rival criminals or act as a getaway driver. Featuring six levels split between three cities - Liberty City, San Andreas and Vice City - there were over 200 vehicle-based tasks to complete. The game cast you as a small-time car thief with big-time ambitions. Looking back, the core gameplay elements that define Grand Theft Auto are present in this first title. Grand Theft Auto eventually hit the PSone in 1998, where the mighty Official PlayStation Magazine praised it to the heavens as “one of the most original, innovative, technically impressive and controversial PlayStation releases ever”. As the Amiga grew old and technologically infirm, GTA’s creator, DMA Design, switched the development of the original game to the PC. The M-rated/18-certificate gameplay of GTA IV is the pinnacle of an eleven-entry series that began life in 1996 on the Commodore Amiga. this is the long storyline of the Epic gta games! LETS START!

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