The first GTA I actually saw (and played a bit) at my best friend's house who temporarily swapped his N64 with a classmate's PS. Personally, I've played GTA -> GTA 2 -> Vice City -> San Andreas -> GTA III. After VC I had enough of the GTA experience to last me a lifetime and I haven't touched a single installment that came afterwards.
#CARMAGEDDON N64 DRIVER#
It might not have been the first of it class (you could say Driver 2 plays like a very rudimentary GTA 3, not to mention some older PC titles) but it introduced an unknown concept of gaming to the mainstream, used to linear experiences.Īnyways, the last one I've enjoyed was Vice City. It looked like a modern game that for once wasn't restricted by technological limitations. GTA 3 formalized and introduced the concept to a wider audience by virtue of having a lot of built-in hype + 3D world with realistic graphics that worked well right out of the bat. Even with its outdated graphics it was a shock to see it with your eyes. I used cheats to visit other maps, spam cars, tanks, it felt very novel at the time, fun and crazy physics for a 2D overhead game, the radios, the realized city open world. I played the shit out of 1 even though I didn't understand what to do in the missions (I didn't know English back then and the game wasn't localized).
GTA 1 & 2 flew a little bit under the radar compared to something like Carmageddon, that's not to say they were total obscurities, but the lack of realist graphics help them avoid the same stigma, they were a bit of a dirty secret among gamers. Let's see, imo it was a case of right game in the right time, during that edgy era of gaming when the market was expanding and kids needed MATURE experiences that weren't Mario and Sonic.
Younger people might ignore them but they set the foundations and made the series popular in the first place.
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