Grand Theft Auto 1

Grand Theft Auto 1 - the first part of the series was released back in those years when the criminal world fit on one screen with a top-down view. The player takes control of a criminal who has access to car theft, contract killings and dozens of side cases in three cities. The world is divided into levels. To open the next one, you need to score a certain number of points: they are given for completing missions, showdowns with gangs, and simply for chaos on the streets. Unblocked areas immediately become accessible, and with them new tasks and more serious opponents appear. City missions are short and rough in design: you need to catch up with someone, eliminate someone, and simply take something out from under the noses of the police. Tasks are issued by phones that ring on the map, and the messages in them are read in the form of short texts. The police respond to the riots and begin a manhunt, so they have to lose their tail by driving into dead ends and getting into someone else's car. Radio stations, recognizable from the first chords, and small details like knocked down furniture make these cities alive even after so many years. The project is crude by today's standards, but it is where the whole series began. Tasks vary in duration: there are quick tasks for a couple of minutes, and there are multi-step stories stretched over several areas. Between them, you can have fun as you like: crush the crowd, blow up cars, or look for bonuses in hard-to-reach corners. The failure of a mission does not cancel the world: you can live without a plot, making money from petty crimes. Anyone who wants to see what GTA looked like before it became three-dimensional.