Going through a GTA games ranked list is a trip through nearly three decades of experiments, innovation, big ambition, and even bigger success. Rockstar’s genre-defining action game series had a rough beginning before it made the rest of the games industry sit up and take notice, and it influenced nearly every non-linear sandbox game afterward in some measure. Not every GTA game lived up to the reputation Rockstar created for itself, though, namely the portable spinoffs that saw GTA spinning its wheels instead of pushing ahead.
