The Grand Theft Auto franchise has been around for quite sometime and has made a very powerful name for itself. It allows the player to do whatever they want and take the story at their own pace. Whether they want to stick strictly to the story or go on a murderous rampage and dodge cops for two hours or even just pull motorcycle stunts was fair game for Grand Theft Auto. My only problem with it is the fact that it just does too much at the same time. The game is a shooter, driving game, and a slew of other things. It's a doer of all, but yet it is a master of nothing. Though it never kept me from a enjoying the game, but I must say that I never did manage to finish one. In GTA III the terrible radar made one racing mission insanely frustrating and in Vice City the shooting drove me to the point of frustration because it never locked on to the person shooting at me. That problem didn't rear its ugly fang bearing head until I had that shoot out mission in a police precinct near the end. GTA IV fixes a lot of those mistakes, but does it make it the greatest of them all. As a note to the reader I never bothered with San Andreas because at that time I just didn't care about the franchise anymore.
