Grand Theft Auto Games Ranking by Diana Cerna-Escobar

Grand Theft Auto V - 1 Point

13339161 — 2025-09-30 01:25:15 UTC

The game represents a clear and defensible thesis; the game's description tells you the story of three characters who are flawed in their own ways. The game is accurate to what the game is actually like. It responds to its prompt. Also, the three-character feature makes you choose who's right or wrong in the game, as you have enough context with around 30 hours of pure story-- getting deeper into their personal lives-- makes it easier to make a defendable thesis.

Grand Theft Auto Advance - 0 Point

13339161 — 2025-09-30 01:39:01 UTC

The game is not very story-based. The story itself is that you're going to do some chores and favors for rich people. The game doesn't go deep enough, and there isn't any general problem that needs to be figured out. There is no possible story-mode-based thesis that could be made from this game.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - 4 Point

13339161 — 2025-09-30 01:55:35 UTC

Grand Theft Auto provides a lot of specific and coherent evidence. The game contains modern problems like corrupt police officers, violence, and normal issues like addictions. The game itself feels realistic in a way for people who grew up like CJ, our main protagonist. We see his personal experiences and stay with his set mindset of being more than just affiliated with gangs. The game shows us evidence of why he would believe this, like being kidnapped by the same corrupt police, his mom and younger brother getting killed, and his older brother going to jail. The game gives us enough dialogue and context to be able to see why we should agree with him. It is like an argumentative essay to decide ethics or morality behind certain things and put your personal beliefs and experiences which most of those essays always have a thing in common: primary sources as you lived through those moments.

Grand Theft Auto III - 2 Point

13339161 — 2025-09-30 02:04:36 UTC

The game introduces a lot of information that is useful to understand the storyline. They explain Claude's story--the main protagonist-- They explain his relationship with a woman who ended up betraying him. The evidence, though clear, is nothing more than just a hypothesis, as Claude never speaks in GTA III. He doesn't say a word, so most of the stuff is told by other characters, which could or could not be true, kind of unreliable narrators. In general, the game is focused on him, but since he never expresses his opinions or views, we can't make much of his arguments or the why in the whole story. It’s like an essay where you have to analyze someone’s writing or make your own opinions but you don’t know if the author actually meant what you think or something completely different.

Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 - 0 Point

13339161 — 2025-09-30 02:09:14 UTC

This game has absolutely no story mode. It is quite literally a re-skin of the first game that was only made as a free world experience to steal cars, not really story mode-based. It's just like an essay with absolutely 0 or no relevant evidence.

Grand Theft Auto Online - 0 Point

13339161 — 2025-09-30 02:16:04 UTC

Grand Theft Auto V: Online by itself is complicated. It is not as sophisticated as it has a lot of new features and layers, but it is not organized. The game overwhelms players with mods, hackers, and exploiters. The game tries to be good by consistently updating and adding heists, yet it just lacks organization and connection to the last heists. Also, they changed GTA V characters a lot; their personalities changed for the worse. It is like an essay that tries to be complex with overexplaining and using big words, but ends up being incoherent and complicated.

Grand Theft Auto IV - 1 Point

13339161 — 2025-09-30 02:22:41 UTC

Grand Theft Auto IV is a game that is well organized. It demonstrates sophistication by its complex character arc, commenting on American Modern Culture. Dynamic missions that use PATHOS and other rhetorical terms and ethical issues. It is a social critique rather than just a simple chaos of an argument. It is extremely well made as this game took 4 years to make with a large team of DEVELOPERS, around 1000 of them. They studied social interactions as well as how the city works and how to make it as real as possible. It's like an essay that thinks beyond just what you interpret, but also how the other people interpret it also and make it enjoyable and good enough for everyone involved.

Grand Theft Auto Vice City - 3 Point

2025-09-30 02:53:13 UTC

The game mechanics are really well designed. The game is designed as the 80’s neon and flashy Miami. The game is centered around Tommy Vercetti’s rise to power and ALMOST everything ties up well. For a 4, it most be the most accurate and fully tied up to the thesis yet there’s some elements in the game that don’t make any sense in the storyline. Story missions like gang takeovers, and the betrayal and final confrontation between Tommy and Ferelli is epic and it makes sense but missions like running small businesses like Ice Cream Factory and Malibu Club (both very connected to the story) but after you get them, it stops being mentioned as it never affected the main storyline. This is like an essay where one leaves content disconnected to the main claim either because they focused too much on other parts or didn’t re-read their own essays. This falls under 3 as it has specific evidence and partial commentary without FULL integration.

Grand Theft Auto Vice City - 3 Point

13339161 — 2025-09-30 02:56:49 UTC

Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars - 1 Point

13339161 — 2025-09-30 03:00:50 UTC

The game is based on basically an Asian population. The game itself has a weak story mode, it is done like comic strips but it lacks information. It is a 1 as the game has a story mode but doesn’t explain it well. It’s like an essay where you have the information and you know it, you just either forget to explain it and connect it to the thesis or you just simply don’t know and act like you do. There’s a storyline that you kind of have to guess to get it.