Ranking Every Rockstar Game From Worst To Best

7. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

When you were Rockstar circa 2004, just what boundaries were there left to break?

With GTA III and Vice City, we had two landmark releases that redefined the very idea of a world on the other side of the screen, though once we saw San Andreas, all assumptions was obliterated all over again.

Playing basketball in the cul-de-sac of Grove Street, base jumping off Mt. Chiliad, donning a suit to gamble in Las Venturas, stealing a plane from the local airport - San Andreas encapsulates that older, more 'punk rock' mentality Rockstar used to exude before they'd fully given in to the big time. As a location it represents the 90s rap aura so many artists to this day harken back to, with one of the best soundtracks in gaming history backing every bullet.

The only thing that stops it rising higher comes from how much Rockstar pushed GTA III's tech to the point of splitting at the seams. San Andreas had some of the worst missions in the franchise simply because they were asking the player to perform feats that the control scheme and physics models were never built for.

At the same time, it did give us the cultural meme of "You were only supposed to follow the damn train, CJ!"