Grand Theft Auto III era

The Grand Theft Auto III era is a group of Grand Theft Auto games devloped in a similar style, using variants of the same game engine.

Rockstar North developed all the major games: Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas; and also Grand Theft Auto Advance.

Rockstar Leeds developed later games for the PlayStation Portable: Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (which is due to be released October 2006).

All of the games in the series are Three-Dimensional, with the exception of GTA Advance, which is viewed from a top-down perspective. There has been a fair bit of controversy over whether the top-down view is 3D or 2D. In fact it is 3D (you can see the sides of the building models), but the camera can only move along one plane.