On the PC versions, Grand Theft Auto has a large modding community backing it. Even to this day, Rockstar Games amazes everyone with it's depth within the Grand Theft Auto storylines and the plentiful gameplay features and detail they put into all of their games. GTA IV: San Andreas, to this day, remains to be an all time favorite amongst GTA fans for it's broad sandbox style gameplay, large array of in game features, and taking place in parody versions of Los Angeles and San Francisco in California, and Las Vegas in southern Nevada.
Starting at it's roots in the game's 2D era, Grand Theft Auto 1, GTA London 1969, and GTA 2, while only top-down video games, were very popular for it's time. Developed by Rockstar Games, GTA: San Andreas is the third release of the Grand Theft Auto series within it's 3D era, behind GTA 3 and GTA: Vice City.
It is respected by developers and gamers alike for revolutionizing the sandbox genre of video games since their release of Grand Theft Auto 3.
Grand Theft Auto is one of the most popular sandbox video games series out there today.