The major 3D titles in the franchise since GTA III with included expansion packs One of the most successfully video game franchises to date The Grand Theft Auto (GTA) video game franchise by Rockstar Games, formerly DMA Design, has been around for more than 25 years since 1997 and is one of the most popular triple-A title video game franchises in the world. It is an action-adventure game series with seven stand-alone titles and four expansion packs (as of 2020). The first two releases GTA (1997) and GTA II (1999) were both open world, top-down view games played from a third person perspective and both achieved commercial success. However, when GTA III was released back in 2001 it was phenomenal and unlike anything ever really seen in the history of video games. It is an open world game and allows players to virtually move any where in 3D space both on foot and to a large extent, in a variety of in-game vehicles. To date, it is largely considered by many game developers