Grand Theft Auto (video game)
Grand Theft Auto is an action-adventure video game developed by DMA Design and published by BMG Interactive. It was first released in Europe and North America in October 1997 for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. It was later re-released on 12 December 1997 in Europe and 30 June 1998 in North America for the PlayStation. It is the first instalment of the "Grand Theft Auto" series, to be followed by 1999's "Grand Theft Auto 2". The series, which has led to five main entries and several special edition games over 16 years, has sold more than 150 million units as of September 2013. The story follows a group of criminals in three fictionalised versions of US cities as they perform bank robberies, assassinations, and other illegal activities for their respective crime syndicates.
List of accolades received by Grand Theft Auto V
"Grand Theft Auto V" is an action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. Players can freely roam the open world of the fictional state of San Andreas (based on Southern California), composed of open countryside and the fictional city of Los Santos (based on Los Angeles). The game was first announced on 25 October 2011, and was widely anticipated. At the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards (now the VGX), it was awarded Most Anticipated Game. It was released in September 2013 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, in November 2014 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and in April 2015 for Microsoft Windows. Review aggregator Metacritic, assigned the game a normalised score of 97 out of 100, indicating "universal acclaim", based on 50 reviews for the PlayStation 3 version, 58 reviews for the Xbox 360 version, 66 reviews for the PlayStation 4 version and 14 reviews for the Xbox One version. Within twenty-four hours of its release, "Grand Theft Auto V" generated more than $815.7 million in worldwide revenue, equating to approximately 11.21 million copies sold for Take Two. Three days after release, the game had surpassed one billion dollars in sales, making it the fastest selling entertainment product in history.