Grand Theft Auto
- Released
- 1997-10-21
- Metacritic
- RAWG rating
- 3.9/5
Game Boy Color · PlayStation · Game Boy · PC
Series legacy
28 years of mainline chaos
Eight mainline games, three protagonists at once, one leap from top-down 2D to the biggest entertainment launches in history. Metadata via the RAWG database — artwork deliberately our own.
Grand Theft Auto 2
- Released
- 1999-10-22
- Metacritic
- RAWG rating
- 4.0/5
PC · PlayStation · Game Boy Color · PlayStation 3 · Dreamcast
Grand Theft Auto III
- Released
- 2001-10-22
- Metacritic
- RAWG rating
- 4.2/5
macOS · PC · iOS · Android · PlayStation 4 · …
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- Released
- 2002-10-27
- Metacritic
- RAWG rating
- 4.4/5
Android · macOS · PC · iOS · PlayStation 4 · …
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- Released
- 2004-10-26
- Metacritic
- RAWG rating
- 4.5/5
macOS · PC · iOS · Xbox · Android · …
Grand Theft Auto IV
- Released
- 2008-04-29
- Metacritic
- RAWG rating
- 4.3/5
Xbox 360 · PC · PlayStation 3 · Xbox One
Grand Theft Auto V
- Released
- 2013-09-17
- Metacritic
- RAWG rating
- 4.5/5
PlayStation 5 · Xbox Series S/X · PlayStation 3 · PC · PlayStation 4 · …
Grand Theft Auto VI
- Released
- 2026-11-19
- Metacritic
- RAWG rating
- 3.6/5
Xbox Series S/X · PlayStation 5
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Game metadata: RAWG Video Games Database, fetched at build time. Placard designs are original GTA 6 VICE Guide artwork.
Photo: Erik Mclean via Pexels
The pattern
Every entry redefined big
III invented the 3D open-world crime genre. Vice City gave it style. San Andreas gave it scale. IV gave it weight, V gave it three heads and a decade of dominance. The through-line is simple: each mainline game arrived late, arrived huge, and rewrote what "open world" meant. November 19, 2026 has a lot of ancestors to live up to.
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