Grand Theft Auto III

A title that changed the rules of the game forever. GTA III brought the series into full-fledged 3D and opened up Liberty City as a living criminal sandbox where you could do practically anything. The freedom of movement, the missions of the gangster underworld, the stolen cars and the radio stations with their ironic commercials became the blueprint for the entire open-world genre. Without GTA III, today's sandbox games would look completely different and many of them might never have existed at all. An absolute milestone of its generation whose influence continues to this day.