Worst Grand Theft Auto Games

Grand Theft Auto is one of the greatest video game series of all time. But which one did you dislike the most?
The Top Ten
1 Grand Theft Auto (Game Boy Advance)

It is not quite terrible. Not even bad. All I can say is that it is not one of the best. Playable and it reminds of the old school Grand Theft Auto.

Completely unplayable! Terrible controls and it is a 2004 game?!?!? That is the year San Andreas came out! What was rockstar thinking...

Dude, this game really sucks. I'm can't believe that this is a grand theft auto game! The first game (Grand Theft Auto 1) is actually better!

It's bad, but know this: It wasn't developed by Rockstar. It was by Digital Eclipse, but it was published by Rockstar.

2 Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

The only reason I am voting for this is to say this: It's actually not bad. it was made for the DS, and ported over to the PSP and IOS. It's the only Grand Theft Auto game that can run on my ipod, and overall it's impressive because it squeezed Grand Theft Auto IV's great depiction of liberty city down to a size that can fit on a DS. Why is it ranked this high? I have no idea.

Same thing as the oldest Grand Theft Auto games including the advance. I don't have no idea what direction I'm heading and I can't even drive a vehicle and kill some goons for no good reason! I've rather stick with Grand Theft Auto 4 and the Episodes of Liberty City!

It was a bad move for Rockstar to make a 2D Grand Theft Auto game. This game was made in 2009 right after Grand Theft Auto 4 and they went back before Grand Theft Auto 3. Grand Theft Auto LCS may not be the best game, but sill a lot better than this game considering that both games were released for PSP.

Just terrible considering it was released as late as 2009, the viewing is the worst, stale story and much more, you never get to enjoy anything. Grand Theft Auto Advance is a second close but I pick CW as Advance was released much earlier...

3 Grand Theft Auto

It is the first Grand Theft Auto game out there, but it's probably the weakest, apart from clunky controls from Advance and Grand Theft Auto 2.

Why is this here? If this game never came out, then we wouldn't have the Grand Theft Auto series we have right now.

Difficult to play - missions are hard to do so you just end up doing whatever you want to do in it.

If this game didn't exist there would be no Grand Theft Auto game

4 Grand Theft Auto IV

Can't stand it. I don't understand why people think this is amazing. It's so bland, with terrible dialogue, a shallow plot, and annoying or unforgettable characters. It's so realistic that it's BORING. And the game itself has a very dark contrast, with hardly any colors. It's so dull to look at, not to mention everything looks the same. Snore.

Worst Grand Theft Auto game among the main Grand Theft Auto games, Niko's hypocrisy and his so called remorse makes him unlikeable. The story is boring, Niko is full of hypocrisy, the driving mechanics are total mess(SA had a perfect balance between Grand Theft Auto style driving and realistic driving), piss poor and lazy PC port, soundtrack sucks. Oh and did I say it yet? The PC version sucks! And rockstar isn't even giving me a refund!

Worst Video game in hsitory. The game lost the regular charm which made Grand Theft Auto series fun. Replaced by a boring story and equally boring characters, Grand Theft Auto 4 has less to offer. Dumbest storyline ever. Worst Grand Theft Auto in my opinion.

GAME SUCKED I'm not saying its complete garbage but really who cares about Niko I couldn't even remember his name at first his accent makes him annoying to listen to and the story is so boring

5 Grand Theft Auto 2

Awesome game. Rated T for Teen. Purchase one and get another one at half off while at Amazon. These include Amazing Spider-Man, Tony Hawk's Underground, Weaponlord, Killer Instinct (Super NES), Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, Battleship, Teen Digital Diva, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Street Fighter Alpha 2 (Super NES), Tekken 6, Soul Calibur II, Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror, Destiny and Urbz: Sims in the City (PS2).

One of the worst Grand Theft Auto game. Storyline is bad, AI is bad, missions are boring, worse than predecessor. And the worst part is that its set in the future. And what the funk was that trailer?!

Like Grand Theft Auto 1 but Better, Has an Interesting Setting.

Could not live up to the first game but still enjoyable.

6 Grand Theft Auto V

Grand Theft Auto V is actually pretty good, my favorite parts is probably doing organizations and stealing cargo for it and doing heists. I also like the new cars they have and they have lots of many games. The bad part of Grand Theft Auto V is that the drivers are so darn stupid, they'll run you over for no reason and the cops are super sensitive and won't try to arrest you, they just shoot and shoot and shoot until your dead on the road. So pretty much everyone which is not a player is a total idiot and they need more intelligence inside of their empty skulls. The super cars are super sensitive and if you fly a few feet into the air and land in your side, you blow up! There goes $100,000, you also can't wear seat belts so you can catapult out of your car and die.

Sure it has great graphics, but the game was way to easy, the characters are the least memorable of the series, a psychopath, a hoodlum doing crime and a middle aged white guy trying to remember the old days. The physics are truly the worst ever, with cars shooting across the sky like lightning bolts. Add that to the the bull story-line, with the which is cute, but way too weak for a true Grand Theft Auto game. Grand Theft Auto is more that just killing a bunch of guys, which truly Grand Theft Auto V is all about. Cops are way too hot headed and it takes an unreasonable amount of time to lose just one wanted star.

Possibly one of my most hated games so far. The story -line is laughably bad, and brings nothing new to the table. The things it does better gets overglanced by the large quantity of things it doesn't do even nearly as good as some of the older games. And I haven't even started to talk about the mod support. Literally, Grand Theft Auto V is the tip of the cancerous iceberg within the modding community.

It had such good potential; but Rockstar needed some casual money. Now, I'am through with the series, and I won't comeback anytime soon.

It used to be so awesome. But when it came to next gen the new UI and first person was cool but I really miss the old UI and colored map and I almost never use first person anymore. Then they ruined online and it became pay to win or grind all month to win then update comes out and oh gotta do it again. It's just not that fun anymore and my cousin has been brainwashed by it. I can't believe it

7 Grand Theft Auto: London 1969

This worst than Grand Theft Auto 1 and Grand Theft Auto 2

This was worse than Grand Theft Auto 2

8 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories

Vice city's story's sucked!
The Map is to small and Horrible because it's to small, though the characters made a change for the better!
The characters, Mission's and Miami's 1980s real made me play this game! Decently a game to play!

Most parts of this game are great, but helicoptors, airplanes and other useless transports are pointless. I can't even fly on the plane the right way and I can't even ride on a helicoptor when there's a bad storm going on.

What are you talking about this game is great!

This game is very horrible even the story is bad

9 Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories

This game is horrible bad graphics looks cartonish the cool cars are lame plus you can even ride a helicopter don't get it and the guns are horrible stick to Grand Theft Auto vice city

Reveals origins of Liberty City and great story, it still has bad graphics and not the best gameplay.

Are you kidding me I hate it you connot swim, there are no shops, and the islands are the size of a match box seriously it sucks!

WORST...The missions are hard...you can't swim on sea...THE WORST Grand Theft Auto GAMES I HAVE EVER PLAY

10 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Now, don't get me wrong! I don't think Grand Theft Auto San Andreas is the worst... no Grand Theft Auto SA is great! But it's too overrated and the fans just keep going "San Andreas is the best game ever because of sheer amount of content" other Grand Theft Auto games outclass SA in many aspects and CJ is not the toughest character he often acts like a whiny wimp.

This game has no heart. empty minigames and shovel-ware tier crap injected at every level. only people with ADD like this game, or Russians who bought it because it came out 2 years ago and their toaster comrade PC can finally run it. the pedestrians stand around doing nothing. the world is empty and hollow and story is made for spergs who can't realize every other Grand Theft Auto game had a better story, even GTA2 has more substantial story.

This game consists of mostly driving long distances only to have to drive all the way back. It gets boring fast. The vast amount of things to do is just that; A vast amount of things. Most of which are tedious at best.

It's the best game I have ever played yet it has a nice story and many features which are not in vc. It has a never wanted cheat and a full ammunition cheat and many other cheats. So I can do what ever I want to do.

The Contenders
11 Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony

Why is this thing down here? Up, right now!

12 Grand Theft Auto Vice City

I remember not enjoying the missions in this compared to the rest of the series & buying the assets was so time consuming & felt really grinding & repetitive doing side content like doing taxi missions, vigilante missions etc just to get enough money to buy more assets & it was required to play the final two missions which was annoying

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas is best and better than Grand Theft Auto vice city because Grand Theft Auto san andres has many mission, gangs, great story, many cheats and many other features.

That's the most worst Grand Theft Auto game I have ever played he cannot swim nor sit in a plane at the airport and it has a small map.I am bored roaming around vc

Way too hard. No easy, hard, or expert levels. Horrible graphics. Worst game I ever played, what a waste of money.

13 Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned

This was worst than the ballad of gay tony

Still better than most of the series

14 Grand Theft Auto III

I'm sorry, but this game is not overrated. It's underrated. Grand Theft Auto I broke ground for all your favorite GTAs. Grand Theft Auto I was entirely revolutionary and paved the way for what we see today. And yes, it's a hard game, but it is also a blast. Much fun to play. Bad design? No. Grand Theft Auto I is a masterpiece. Definitely has maybe some downsides, but anyone bashing it or not favoring it the way they should, needs to take a back seat. People that say that don't know what the Grand Theft Auto series is about or made of. It's made of Grand Theft Auto I.

The only thing I liked about this game is Claude (the protagonist). Catalina is well annoying and doesn't realise they'res a difference between being tough and being a dick. Half of the people killed in the missions are innocent people who done nothing to claude, the perdestrians are weak, the missions were too hard or ran out of time, I think personally that it was kind of unneccesary of claude to go after Catalina, don't get me wrong I love the game and I can undertand why he wanted to kill Catalina but I think it was unneccesary to kill her. The fact Claude is mute kinda creeps me out.

The only thing u could do is mission, no fun stuff like shooting in the amunation, no bowling no Racing (the only racing missions they're ARE are the hard missions where u always lose) and the only "fun" activity they're was is the blow up gangs which wasnt any fun. All Claude done was provoke other people into fights for no damn reason.

theyres barley a tutorial accept from a ...more

this game is pretty overrated, I mean some
stuff it had was either deleted or pointless
in the final versoin (planes, moutains on the
third island, lighthouse) you can't explore that
much, and gta-lcs made little improvements
overall the physics are good

Many things have been deleted and there is one mission that is deleted about hijacking a plane it would be really cool and a half winged dodo plane what was that? The original verion have better stuff in there! It is because of 9/11 I wish that doesn't happen. I think the mission was in the third island.

15 Grand Theft Auto Online

Terrible community

16 Grand Theft Auto (Game Boy Color)

At least, some musics were a little catchy.

17 Grand Theft Auto: London 1961
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