Before I start throwing shade at the first GTA 6 trailer, let me clarify something straight out of the gate: Grand Theft Auto is my favorite video game series of all time. I’ve adored every entry since the series went 3D with 2001’s GTA 3 — a title I’d class as among the most important in the history of the medium, seeing as it essentially laid down the open-world template for every subsequent competing franchise to copy.
Not that Grand Theft Auto actually has any true competition, of course. GTA 5 has sold almost 200 million copies. Saints Row, for example, has become a shambles of a series. For my money, the only open-world games that are even close to the quality of Franklin, Michael and Trevor’s Los Santos caper are Red Dead Redemption 2 and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
