Over three decades of open-world storytelling, Rockstar Games has quietly assembled one of interactive fiction's most ambitious canvases — 346 story missions across five Grand Theft Auto titles, each one a negotiation between spectacle and meaning. IGN Southeast Asia has distilled that archive to eleven sequences that mark the series' evolution: from the rain-soaked cinematic ambition of GTA 3's opening to the cathartic, city-on-fire finale of San Andreas, these missions reveal how a game about crime became a study in consequence, identity, and the strange satisfaction of earned endings. What
IGN Southeast Asia
· Jul 27, 2026
· technology
· 16 min read
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IGN ranks the 11 greatest Grand Theft Auto missions across the franchise
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Authoritative list-making combined with nostalgic celebration of franchise history. Frames Rockstar's design choices as objectively 'greatest' while using evocative language to justify selections through emotional impact rather than analytical criteria.
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