25 years of Grand Theft Auto: GTA I & II or rather San Andreas, Vice City and GTA V?

The video game series Grand Theft Auto, which had a real surprise success on October 21, 1997 with the first part of the series, will celebrate its 25th birthday next Friday. The numerous sequels can unite almost 400 million sales, but which part of the series was your personal highlight?

Table of contents

1. 25 years of Grand Theft Auto
   1. 400 million sales since 1997
   2. From Grand Theft Auto (1997) to GTA V (2013)
   3. GTA: San Andreas was a real highlight
   4. Which GTA is your highlight from 25 years?
2. Participation is expressly desired
   1. Overview of the last ten Sunday questions

25 years of Grand Theft Auto

While Rockstar Games confirmed the development of the upcoming eleventh part of the GTA series, Grand Theft Auto VI, in February this year, October 21st marks the 25th anniversary of the release of the first part of GTA. The big surprise success was followed by a successor in 1999 with GTA 2.

400 million sales since 1997

The trade press and gamers particularly celebrated GTA: San Andreas, which was released in 2004 for the PC and the Sony PlayStation 2, as a milestone in its genre and far beyond. The successor, the current GTA V (test), has now sold 160 million copies.

• GTA V – 160 million
• GTA: San Andreas – 32 million
• GTA: Vice City – 27.5 million
• GTA IV – 26.5 million
• GTA III – 25 million

While Rockstar Games only had to deal with one of the biggest leaks in video game history with regard to GTA 6 at the beginning of last month, GTA V and GTA Online continue to run extremely successfully.

The series has produced a total of fifteen titles and five main parts so far and is at home on PCs and game consoles from Microsoft and Sony as well as on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets with iOS and Android. GTA has been a magnet for gamers for years, on all platforms.

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From GTA from 1997 to GTA V from 2013 (Image:  Rockstar Games)

Grand Theft Auto has appeared on more and more platforms over the past 25 years and has also been remade in various HD remakes. Most recently, however, Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition for PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox Series X|S and One, Nintendo Switch and PC has turned into a debacle.

From Grand Theft Auto (1997) to GTA V (2013)

Release Title Platforms 1997 Grand Theft Auto PC, PlayStation, Game Boy Color 1999 Grand Theft Auto: London, 1969 PC, PlayStation Grand Theft Auto: London, 1961 PC Grand Theft Auto 2 PC, PlayStation, Dreamcast, Game Boy Color 2001 Grand Theft Auto 3 PC, Mac, PlayStation 2, Xbox, iOS, Android 2002 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City PC, Mac, PlayStation 2, Xbox, iOS, Android 2004 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas PC, Mac, PlayStation 2, 3 and 4, Xbox 360, iOS, Android 2005 Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, iOS, Android 2006 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable 2008 Grand Theft Auto IV PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 2009 Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, iOS, Android Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Xbox One 2013 Grand Theft Auto V PC, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

While GTA, GTA: London and GTA 2 played in a 2D universe from 1997 to 1999, GTA III heralded nothing less than a small open world revolution in 2001 with the change to a 3D game world.

GTA: San Andreas was a real highlight

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas presented 2004 for represents the pinnacle of the game series to this day for many players and still has many fans today.

In order to get a grip on the neighborhood of the three fictional cities of Los Santos, San Fierro and Las Venturas, which were partly modeled on the real cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas, in the role of the main character Carl Johnson, and to resist the influence of the corrupt To evade policeman Frank Tenpenny, gamers in 2004 needed at least an Intel Pentium 3 or an AMD Athlon with a clock frequency of at least 1 GHz, flanked by 256 megabytes of RAM and a graphics card from the GeForce 3 series.

Thus, the Pentium III with Coppermine core for socket 370 and slot 1, which was introduced in March 2000, and the legendary AMD Athlon (K7) for slot A and socket A, were shortlisted. Here, the choice usually fell on the famous Thunderbird.

The recommended system requirements, on the other hand, included at least a more modern Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon XP with 2 GHz as well as 384 megabytes of RAM and a GPU from Nvidia's GeForce 6 series. The AMD Athlon XP 2400+ and 2600+ (test) in particular offered themselves here.

Officially, the developer Rockstar North – formerly still DMA Design – and the publisher Rockstar gave Games the system requirements for GTA: San Andreas as follows:

Minimum system requirements

• Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon with 1 GHz
• 256 megabytes of RAM
• 3.6 gigabytes of hard disk space
• Graphics card with 64 megabytes of video memory from the GeForce 3 series
• 8-speed DVD-ROM

Recommended system requirements

• Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon XP with 2 GHz
• 384 megabytes of memory

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• Graphics card with 128 megabytes of video memory from the GeForce 6 series
• 16-speed DVD-ROM

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GTA: San Andreas was played at that time preferably in the usual resolutions of 1,024 × 768 pixels to 1,600 × 1,200 pixels – optionally with or without AA – under Windows XP or Windows 2000, the latter also required an upgrade to Microsoft's newer DirectX 9 graphics API.

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GTA: San Andreas in 1,024 × 768 pixels with AA (Image: EvilGamerz)

GTA: San Andreas in 1,600 × 1,200 pixels without AA (Image: EvilGamerz)

GTA: San Andreas in 1,600 × 1,200 pixels with AA (Image: EvilGamerz)

Which GTA is your highlight from 25 years ?

Do you prefer the 2D classics GTA and GTA 2 or the 3D revolution GTA III? The legendary GTA: San Andreas, GTA: Vice City or the current GTA V? Which GTA is your highlight from 25 years of Grand Theft Auto?

Which serial parts from 25 years of GTA are your favourites?

• GTA (1997)
• GTA 2 (1999)
• GTA 3 ( 2001)
• GTA: Vice City (2002)
• GTA: San Andreas (2004)
• GTA: Liberty City Stories (2005)
• GTA: Vice City Stories (2006)
• GTA: Chinatown Wars (2009)
• GTA IV (2009)
• GTA V (2013)
• Abstain (show result)

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