Grand Theft Auto (Original Release: PC & PS1, 1998)
Best: Creating The Formula: While the originalGrand Theft Auto is easily the most basic and primitive of the series, it did essentially create the blueprint for which all the future GTA entries would follow: Completing missions (if you want to) in an open world that unlock more missions and new areas. That’s still the formula used by GTA and other open-world games to this day. And GTA had it right out of the gate.
Worst: Small Worlds, Bad Missions: The worlds in Grand Theft Auto are pretty small and not super fun to explore compared to the larger cities that will appear in future games. And the missions can be very tricky for new players.
