I have found that those who consider something cloned to death are the ones that actually go out and play all those clones. All you really need is the original. No so called "clone" was really worth the buy. What would you buy them for? Better graphics than GTA3 or Vice City? Better AI or gameplay? Who cares? Rockstar brought together something that other developers only hinted on in a genre that really didn't exist before. At least not at the level that GTA took it. And then other developers released "urban" games in order to capture some of GTA's thunder. GTA, for all it's flaws, is the only one of it's kind that needs to be on the shelves. If other developers didn't take the "Friends Clone" approach to things, that might not be so. As it is Rockstar kinda has it nailed. Love it or hate it, GTA is an island of it's own. As boastful and diluted as it sounds...it is. If you don't agree by all means have fun playing 25 to Life.
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I have found that those who consider something cloned to death are the ones that actually go out and play all those clones. All you really need is the original. No so called "clone" was really worth the buy. What would you buy them for? Better graphics than GTA3 or Vice City? Better AI or gameplay? Who cares? Rockstar brought together something that other developers only hinted on in a genre that really didn't exist before. At least not at the level that GTA took it. And then other developers released "urban" games in order to capture some of GTA's thunder. GTA, for all it's flaws, is the only one of it's kind that needs to be on the shelves. If other developers didn't take the "Friends Clone" approach to things, that might not be so. As it is Rockstar kinda has it nailed. Love it or hate it, GTA is an island of it's own. As boastful and diluted as it sounds...it is. If you don't agree by all means have fun playing 25 to Life.