Grand Theft Auto

You navigate a gritty criminal underworld where every decision—from how you spend your hard-earned money to which route you take—directly impacts your progress toward increasingly ambitious goals. The tension between wanting to splurge on upgrades and needing to preserve your score creates a constant psychological push-and-pull that keeps you focused and calculating.

Grand Theft Auto is the first game in the Grand Theft Auto series and a sandbox-crime game published by Rockstar Games. The original Grand Theft Auto is made up of a series of levels each set in one of the three cities in the game. In each level, the player has a target number of points to achieve, and five lives to attain the score. The score counter doubles as a money meter; the player can spend this money on paint jobs and various other things. However, any money spent is of course taken away from the score, making the goal that little bit further away. On obtaining the target number of points, the player must then drive to a certain location to complete the level, which allows progress to the next one.