Your favorite GTA clones (of all time)?

As I play Saints Row 2 (which I'm enjoying a lot of, it's also my first SR game), I ask, which clones of the GTA series you think are the best?

Thus far, here are mine

-Red Dead Redemption (XBOX 360)

-Simpsons: Hit and Run (GameCube)

-LEGO City Undercover (Wii U)

-True Crime: Streets of LA (PS2)

@nintendoboy16:

Red Dead Redemption

Saints Row 2, 3 and 4

And that's about it for me.

@nintendoboy16:

Sleeping dogs

Simpsons Hit and Run was amazing. Wish it got a sequel.

Sleeping Dogs

My favorite GTA clones would be:

• Watch Dogs & Watch Dogs 2
• Red Dead Redemption
• Simpsons: Hit and Run
• Driv3r (Driver 3) (Despite it was a buggy mess & the paid controversy reviews, I still find myself enjoying the game for that it is)
• Saints Row 2

Saints Row 3

Godfather Blackhand Edition

I dont consider RDR as GTA clone

Sleeping Dogs

Mafia and Saints Row 2 were really the only two that I enjoyed. Not a huge fan of these types of games.

Tony Hawk Pro-Skater 4(2002)

None. I liked Saints Row more when it stopped being ghetto GTA and went bat shit. Sleeping Dogs is okay. Red Dead is mediocre once you get over how well done a character John Marston is, True Crime was a bad series, the Getaway was super boring,

Is nowhere close to a GTA clone in any capacity.

Yeah, Sleeping Dogs is a good one... I preferred it to GTA 4 & 5 actually.

Plus I agree about Simpsons Hit & Run... such a cool game.

@jg4xchamp: "Is nowhere close to a GTA clone in any capacity."

I expected someone to say something like that.

But the design of Tony Hawk 4 was influence by GTA 3.

Mafia, if you'd include that. Other than that, Retro City Rampage was pretty fun.

None really. But then again, I'm not too fond of the source material itself.

@PSP107:Why though? Because the career mode was more open like free skate mode? That's a very loose similarity, and certainly nothing that puts it in the realm of being a GTA clone. Might as well call Streets of Rage a Mario clone, or MGSV a Skyrim clone if we're being that loose with the definition.

Saints Row: The Third, it had that whole whacky cartoony early days GTA vibe thing going for it.

I too refuse to consider any other Rockstar sandboxes to be GTA clones.

Jak 2 + Sleeping dogs

Haven't played Watch Dogs yet.

Grand Theft Otto.... (The Simpsons Hit & Run). :P

Saints Row IV is so much better than any GTA. It was fun to play the campaign and it had good sidequests and it didn't bore me out after 40hrs. So yes SRIV :P

Saints Row 2, The Godfather, Sleeping Dogs

Sleeping Dogs
The Simpsons: Hit & Run

I'd say Saints Row.

Although when Saints row 3 and 4 came out, they were far beyond any kind of clone since they took off in a completely different direction to any GTA game. Even Saints Row 2 was more unique since it let you create and customize your character which you still can't do in a GTA game.

Sleeping Dogs was a pretty fantastic game.

Those aren't GTA clones but sandbox games which GTA is also is. The only GTA clones is Saints Row.

Saints Row 3, prob. Although Sleeping Dogs was pretty awesome.

Not sure if these games are GTA clones but Sleepings Dogs and Red Dead Redemption are excellent, actually I prefer them over GTA.

You make a great OP. Red Dead Redeption was a lot like GTA. And so was Simpsons: Hit & Run.

By far my favourite open world game though is Saint's Row 2.

It's just such a whacky game in all aspects. It improves on what I already really liked so much about Saint's Row 1 and makes it a hundred times more fun, and adding in a hundred more things to do.

It also really reminded me of where GTA came from: Nobody could say GTA I, GTA II or GTA SA were serious games, they had tons of whacky side stuff to do. Even Vice City didn't take itself too serious, with lots of TV references, and every GTA so far has had whacky characters.

Maybe open world games don't need to be too serious, that's my point.

Like in Sleeping Dogs: just kung fu kicking people in the streets. It's just fun in a silly way xD

Simpsons Hit and Run, would love to see a HD remaster of it someday

I never got to play The Simpsons Hit and Run :(, still trying to find a copy that isn't too expensive.

Saints Row 1 and 2

Just Cause 2 and Saints Row 3

Yeah, that does suck the game is hiking up in price. I was lucky and got my GC version for $3 at a thrift store.