The Worst GTA Game Is One Rockstar Could Never Make Today

Polygon looks back at GTA Advance on the Game Boy Advance, arguing it is terrible in some ways yet not as bad as its reputation suggests, and an essential part of Rockstar history. Developed by Digital Eclipse at a time when the studio had yet to firmly decide what made a GTA game, it showed Rockstar where the series could fall short and paved the way for better entries. The piece calls it a necessary bad game—the kind of essential failure the games industry can no longer tolerate.