25 PlayStation Games You Must Play Before You're 25

3. Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City & San Andreas

It may have eventually made its way over to other platforms (even iOS and Android), but back in 2001 and for the first half of the 2000s, GTA was by all accounts, a PlayStation franchise.

Plus, if you're revisiting any of these pioneering three titles today, you need to play them on original hardware, not with off-putting touch controls or half-baked 'HD upgrades' that highlight all the wrong things.

No, this GTA trilogy was a landmark achievement in every respect, both back in the day and especially in retrospect. Rockstar rewrote the book on how to frame a narrative around an entire open world, inventing and perfecting a genre they're still the kings of to this day.