IGN has published an in-depth analysis for those who want play GTA episodes in chronological orderreporting the complete timeline of the Rockstar Games series when the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI is just under a year away.
The franchise currently consists of sixteen games and expansionswhich however in reality are intertwined within the scope of three different timelines which the development team declared independent of each other: the 2D timeline, the 3D timeline and the HD timeline.
As you know, the saga began in 1997 with two two-dimensional episodes and as many expansionsLondon 1961 and London 1969, which established some aspects that Rockstar Games would maintain over time, from the irreverent tone to the degree of freedom guaranteed by an open structure.
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However, it was with the advent of the 3D timeline, inaugurated in 2000 by the release of GTA 3, that the franchise managed to change the gaming industry foreverintroducing mechanics and solutions that were then taken up by countless other productions, although rarely with comparable success.
The complete timeline
The HD timeline is of course the most mature, coherent and ambitiousboth on a technical and narrative level, as demonstrated by the engaging stories and social criticism of GTA IV and the expansions The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony. GTA Tokyo was also about to be added to the list, however.
The rest is recent history, so let’s see below the chronological order of the three timelines di Grand Theft Auto:
Timeline 2D
- Grand Theft Auto: London 1961 (1999)
- Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 (1999)
- Grand Theft Auto (1997)
- Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999)
Timeline 3D
- Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (2005)
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (2006)
- Grand Theft Auto Advance (2004)
- Grand Theft Auto 3 (2000)
Timeline HD
- Grand Theft Auto 4 (2008)
- Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and The Damned (2009)
- Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony (2009)
- Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (2009)
- Grand Theft Auto Online (2013)
- Grand Theft Auto 5 (2013)
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