"Knowledge was my main game, to figure out the law, to figure out the frame," rapped Robert De Negro in Joyride, the winningly goofy GTA title rap. "Just when I thought I knew justice, a cop behind me said, 'You've just been busted.'"
I thought I knew the original Grand Theft Auto. That I had The Knowledge, like a London cabbie, and could find my way through Liberty City's maze of bridge-connected islands. Most of all, I thought I knew what it meant to be Busted—thrown on the ground by a blue-jacketed patrolman in the midst of a mission and booted to the nearest police station, with the admonishments of some gangster overlord ringing in my ear.
