Well, technically we’re of course referring to the third person iterations of the game, as opposed to the top down originals which first graced consoles and PCs in the mid nineties.
However, GTA III and the two games that followed, GTA Vice City and San Andreas changed the landscape of gaming forever. Shortly after the market would be flooded with open world sandbox games, which in essence were variations of the formula that Rockstar had mastered.
We’ve been begging for GTA 6 for years now, considering the fact that GTA V came out back in 2013, but the re-release of the trilogy on which was a part of many of our childhoods should hopefully tide us over.