What can I say? It's THE game of my youth, I've played it obsessively and there was a time when I knew its streets better than that of my hometown. Every ramp, every shortcut, the spawn points of every power-up, weapon and vehicle. (This was before broadband internet connections have become widespread and commonplace, mind you.) I've created elaborate scenarios in my head, how I would utilize this knowledge during a police chase to outsmart and ultimately shake my pursuers. (Of course, the police AI is nowhere near sophisticated enough for such a situation to occur, but it was immensely fun just to fantasize about it.) To this day, it remains one of the Greatest Video Games Ever Made and the best GTA in my eyes. It's a shame it got delisted from here because of a lazy attempt to cash in on its legacy (they could've put in some real effort to make the so-called "Definitive Edition" at least half-decent, getting rid of the original still wouldn't have been okay) and due to that writing a recommendation feels kinda pointless now, but I owed it as much.

What can I say? It's [b]THE[/b] game of my youth, I've played it obsessively and there was a time when I knew its streets better than that of my hometown. Every ramp, every shortcut, the spawn points of every power-up, weapon and vehicle. (This was before broadband internet connections have become widespread and commonplace, mind you.) I've created elaborate scenarios in my head, how I would utilize this knowledge during a police chase to outsmart and ultimately shake my pursuers. (Of course, the police AI is nowhere near sophisticated enough for such a situation to occur, but it was immensely fun just to fantasize about it.) To this day, it remains one of the Greatest Video Games Ever Made and the best GTA in my eyes. It's a shame it got delisted from here because of a lazy attempt to cash in on its legacy (they could've put in some real effort to make the so-called [i]"Definitive Edition"[/i] at least half-decent, getting rid of the original still wouldn't have been okay) and due to that writing a recommendation feels kinda pointless now, but I owed it as much.