What's funny is now GTA Online is trying so hard to be post-GTA-clone Saints Row with their cheesy B-movie tier missions, secret bunkers, and extremely unrealistically advanced weapons/cars
@@joeysgames1084 true, I had some great times with that games a few hears ago, before I bought an actual pc. Kinda sad it's jammed with microtransactions though, but as a kid I never noticed.
The GANGSTER series deserves more attention to be honest but i only hope the day GAME LOFT decides to port their newer installment of this series won't be bad as MODERN COMBAT DEMOLITION
Im sorry, but if someone straight up rips off another game, literally steals art from artists and intentionally tries to trick my grandma into buying me the wrong game for chistmas... I'm not going to give that guy credit for his halfassed attempt at the english language. That guy's got it comin.
This was all months ago. Before it all happened. Nobody knew the worst GTA knockoff, yet to come out, was going to be ordered by Rockstar itself. It was given to a groovy, mobile-portin', studio of 20 something developers. Before its announcement, Take-Two even went on one of its worst killin' sprees purgin' all the mods. If I recall correctly, it was called something like the GTA Trilogy - the Defective Edition. It was sad. They even took down the original trilogy from the digital stores for its release. It was a psycho job, I'm tellin' ya.
Everyone's whining about DE but Rockstar made a shitty remaster before. They hired Grove Street Games (then named War Drum Studios) to make a PS3/Xbox remaster. You know what it was? Literally the mobile port, a few better graphics but much shittier character models. In fact, if you broke a part of a car, you would've gotten a different colored part. Nobody liked it.
I wish this video gets a part 2, but with the best GTA clones. I want some more GTA like games to play that are good. EDIT: Thanks for making my dream come true, Gameranx! You're the best! And also, thanks to all the replies to this comment giving suggestions, you guys are awesome too 😁👍
Saints row 1-3 are pretty good, sleeping dogs was really really good, watch dogs 2(the only one in the series worth playing), cyberpunk 2077 to an extent, true crime was pretty good, I’m drawing a blank on other games 😂
I remember GTA was like one of the only games my mom wouldn't let me play when I was younger. To her, and a lot of other parents, letting your child play that game was like guaranteeing they would grow up to be in a gang. So I always had to play all the knock off GTA games. The only one I kind of enjoyed was The Simpsons Hit & Run. The rest I never spent more than an hour on. But I still remember the one time my friend let me borrow his GTA 3 game for the night. I stayed up all night playing while my mom was asleep Lol
Same here. More just cause it was rated M. Let me have call of duty and halo but no GTA. Looking back I can understand why. They wouldn't buy it but didn't stop me from playing funny enough. Borrowed GTA 4 from a buddy and they were fine with it
Hell yeah, was an awesome game, and wherever they got that video of gameplay from, the person was either really bad at video games or was trying to make it look bad, the combat and gunshooting wasn't that bad. Also the game got more fun when you started to add glitches....like the raining cars glitch XD
@@rustysqueezebox8 I would disagree, it's a good one but it kinda threw away its whole undercover cop formula. I just wish the story wasn't so rushed for the 2006 era in-game, in fact the whole story is quite short with almost no side-stories like GTA. I beat it before even unlocking a single "odometer cheat"
I like the entire series, 3 and Parallel Lines included. My only gripe with PL is a missed opportunity to set up Driver: SF. Perhaps a cameo at the end of PL where a recovering Tanner and a very exhasted Jones arrive right after TK shot down Corrigan, missing both by minutes. Like due to Tanner's paranoia of Jericho some how walking free, they go after his outstanding associates - one of which is Corrigan for more dirt, and now they got to save him from the Cartel. It would have solve the apparent hole in the "canonical" timeline of Tanner's story - the 2005-2006 era right after the events of Drvr3.
The only thing you can not find on the Internet is an honest ad for a mobile game. You could find glow in the dark watermelon pajamas for your cat, but an ad that 's true to the game? No way, they don't exist.
I could find 20 bad clones in 10 minutes, you could make a video about games that are good clones, since they'd be helpful. But anyways, i appreciate that you bring cool videos for us.
Like why they dunking on APB? That's actually a decent game for how old it is. Like if it was remade that would awesome. I played that for long while as a kid. Vs how much I hate gta online.
@@krzysztofkoba9982 lots of mobile games suck or false advertise. He shouldn't have included them. You find many knock offs of any popular game on mobile.
@@yellowleo plenty of people out there that liked APB that consider it one of the greatest games ever, multiplayer wise but it was still a hidden gem for the most part
Ironically, the game's Shift mechanic was an attempt by Reflections to not "be cliche" and copy GTA. But they have to come up with a reason as to why you can still "carjack" people without setting foot anywhere yourself. Imagine if you could run around on foot in Driver SF though, it would have been one of the largest open world maps to walk from end to end. That would easily take an hour or so even if you sprinted the whole time.
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Narc 2005 was actually really damn fun and not "boring" in the least, most notably one of the former governors of my state IL- Rod Blagojevich tried to get it banned and went all Jack Thompson against it, which wound up being hilarious considering that he later got arrested for trying to auction off Obama's senator seat.
APB is it's own franchise. How much #9 is related to the original I couldn't be bothered to look. BUT. I did play the arcade in 1991 at the corner store. So there's that.
APB imo, is nothing like GTA....tbh this whole list and video was badly put together like most of the games in it, I mean they added a south park game only because it was open world and you could steal a car....given those criteria, they could have added TONS of other games to this list.
I thought APB was dope, but it was definitely what is generally considered a GTA clone. This videos definitions are a little too specific. Generally any open world crime related third person game is a "GTA Clone" True Crime LA Noire Mafia. Those are traditionally what "GTA clone" meant. Not these literal mobile games pretending to be GTA.
I gotta say tho, the car damage physics in driver 3 were awesome for it's time. I actually had alot of fun playing that. Yeah it was kinda boring but something about it was entertaining.
*Daily Reminder:* APB was created by a studio owned and run by the guy who was literally _the_ creative force behind Grand Theft Auto Proof positive that, no matter what you do or who its for; the brains of the operation don't mean shiz without his hands 👍😘❤
I love how he’s cutting up grab the auto 5 haha for the title and then says the award winning “Michael Scorsese “ film! 🤣 pretty sure it’s Martin there Jakey
APB customization (specially the clothes) is arguably the best thing out of that game. I wasted countless hours in that game just to play around with the editor.
I played this game a lot, I bought it when it first came out and literally didnt work. Then it went f2p so that was a good waste of 50 bucks. Same thing happened whith that old republic mmo
@@null643 im hopping that too and maybe this game can steal players from GTA ONLINE so that would convince TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE and ROCKSTAR that the GTA community is at the edge of letting this game to go but if they keep milking GTA ONLINE for a long time the community will die and the game will have no player to play it anymore because it's getting a bit pointless of playing it it's like oh yeah i got new clothes and a yacht and cars and planes and that's it but looking at the bright side APB was already an online MMO game before GTA and there is still a huge fan base still waiting for a new installment maybe we are close to it but only time well tell
Simpsons hit and run was awesome. Also the lady at electronics boutique told my grandma there was hookers in gta and that the simpsons did not feature hookers
ummm, i played that south park game, many times, on my n64 in like 98 or 99. It was all about turkeys taking over the town, it was really empty and boring. You could through pee snowballs lol - wait, no there werent cars tho, so i think i played whatever was scrapped together to sell afterwards
Crime Life Gang Wars was criminally underrated, had a great soundtrack and it was cool to see all the members of D12 in the game(well sans Eminem as he was busy doing 50 Cent Bulletproof at the time).
yeah,this guy doesn't know wtf he talking about! Crime Life was unique af back in 2005! It had awesome finishing animations and made u feel like u were part of a gang! It had nothing to do with GTA! It had a great atmosphere! The Warriors and Sleeping dogs remind me of it!
Honestly I wish it had done a lot better because I would love to play a modern game like that, it felt so bad ass seeing like 12 members of each gang going toe to toe with each other. The only thing i wish the game had was some better theft missions, the gun fights could have been better, and maybe have it so that there was more to the turf takeover stuff
Was going to say the same thing, and I remember playing it. The problem is the footage being shown here is from South Park (1998/99) which was on the N64, PC and the Playstation. If you follow the link in the description, it shows a 3rd person SP game, which is clearly unfinished.
The Narc one that was trying to use drug use to try and steal GTA's thunder is kinda ironic considering that GTA: San Andreas was actually pretty anti drug, at least for the most part.
Dude Now that you said it I just remember I used to hv so much fun I still play budget GTA games like Gangstar Vegas and New Orleans But urban crime was a classic
@@AllThatJazOfficial I was starting to wonder if I just imagined playing it. Or maybe they took the snowball mechanic and used it in something else? Because I remember flinging snowballs but not driving cars.
@@AllThatJazOfficial That's the first person shooter game for the PS1 that you're thinking of, which they have footage of in the video. The South Park game that was cancelled was more like Simpsons Hit & Run and wasn't first person.
That's a decent enough idea for a video, but I'm not sure there actually ARE 10 "good" GTA clones. I can only think of like 4 or 5. You've got Sleeping Dogs, Watchdogs, Saint's Row, Simpsons Hit & Run, maybe the Driver games? Although Driver wasn't really a "clone", more like a direct competitor.
APB was a 80's arcade game that had a wheel and a gun hostler so you got a firing button - it even had gears, a seat, and gas and brake pedals. It was a very fun game, and was in fact one of the inspirations behind the original gta series which is why they included being able to get into cop cars and stop robbers (just like the 80's APB, but you couldn't get out of your car). Both had cops racing against criminals and ramming and shooting the get away cars. APB was very interesting because you could trigger warrants at any point of the map sometimes so it felt very open world too for the time. It's cool hearing that the guy behind the original GTA got to work on the series that was partially an inspiration to GTA - APB reloaded.
Hands down, the worst GTA clone has to be my friend's game that he made for a class presentation/project called "Jonny's World: 3D Forever". It was set in a made up city called "Choots-Brookson" (which looked like dogshit, by the way). He barely worked on the gameplay which focused around driving around and running over people for drugs ("drugs" were the game's in-world currency). I think the thing he spent the most time on was this one uncomfortably long, entirely unnecessary scene where a character gets raped by a feral dog after being robbed by the game's antagonist. He gave up on making games and now works at Texas Instruments.
APB done RIGHT. Would break the industry. It had a great customization editor. It just needed a better matchmaking system. Shit to grind for. Balanced mechanics. Updated graphics and better net code. I was upset when it didn’t take off. It was poorly optimized for console too.
the south park game wasn't open world or gta knockoff. It was a fps more akin to turok or goldeneye, but less complex. It even had a split screen multiplayer. It wasn't amazing, but it was fun for the time. It does not belong on this list.
Whenever I think about GTA Clones, I always think about how Jak 2 tried to be more like GTA. You have guns, vehicles you can steal, a meter that keeps track if the "police" are about to attack you. It's such a letdown sequel because someone at the head offices told Naughty Dog to make their own GTA with Jak and Daxtar without thinking if it would work.
Aww APB you were so close... I have a big soft spot for this game because it had so much going for it, but the execution of all of it was so poor. When it originally released I was HYPED for it. Then it came out and for whatever reason my code that came in the game box didn't work to get into the game, this was before I had a car to return it to the store and the game wound up sitting on a shelf for a while then there were issues with the servers or something and the game shut down...I don't exactly remember what but I know that I was really sad to hear it was shutting down. Fast forward a few years and it got it's f2p release and I had to try it even though I had heard it was not what it should be. I played probably a dozen hours and was left with the taste often gotten from F2P games of, spend money to really play the game. But what was there for free did not do it well enough to warrant spending any money unfortunately. Damn I really do need to start making my own videos again.
Crime Life: Gang Wars sounds like a parody from an episode of an adult animation. Like I could see Bart being addicted to it and Marge being mad about it (though they did this with Grand Theft Scratchy).
Allow me to fill you in on that Open World South Park game. The game started out as a South Park shooter. But the rights holder felt that was controversial. Then the game was turned into an open world game with the puzzles and chickens with snow balls. Then the rights holders didn't think that would work either. Then if memory serves we ended up with that South Park kart racing game instead. Then shortly afterwards we ended up with some South Park reskined hand held games to quickly cash in before the rights expired. If I'm right. Sadly it was this constant licensing issues that sank crazy monkey games because them constantly bending over for other studios and rights holders kept them working at a loss.
Apb back in 2014 was actually a load of fun, and as a 17 year old in highschool, playing on my shitbox PC that I bought with my $8 an hour job it was one of few games I could run moderately well. It definitely hit different, I wouldnt even say its a GTA clone. The only similarity is that you can steal cars, roam a city, shoot people, and there are cops (except they are playable characters), if this is what makes a GTA clone, then thats some pretty vague criteria.
the unreleased "South Park" game makes absolutely no sense to put in this list. Just because you can walk and take cars= Rockstar's GTA? Heck the Nintendo 64 South Park that did end up being released was still ~3 years before GTA III even came out, which was the first GTA to be in 3D. At this point you might as well say GTA III is a South Park ripoff.
The Getaway was an actually decent GTA knockoff for its time, although it doesn't really hold up so well anymore, and the healing mechanic was pretty comical (leaning against a wall and breathing heavy).
Wait I'm confused as in the South Park game was a real game on the N64/PS1. Did they try to port to the phone, and that was what was cancelled? Cause at the time Acclaim had the game.
Wait, wasn't that south park footage from both South Park 64 and South Park Rally? A first person shooter and a racing game. I've played the first one.
10:47 block city wars is an old mobile game released in 2013 that the version 1.10 don't have any bugs but now it's just a ghost town, many hackers,many bugs,the original creator of the game left the chat,it's over for the game to update it's just gone all over the place
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I kinda wanna play the one game, just to be chewbacca
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Play anthem or cyberpunk, its better than this.. you deserve better, dont do this to yourself... 🥺
God bless you
I could play battlefront but thats not a wookie in "New York".
Eating the Golden Peyote plant in GTA will turn you into Big Foot
Micheal Scorsese
You should make a “ 5 GTA clones that are actually good “ next time that would be interesting
A free GTA series you can play on your phone is the Gangstar series. Gangstar Vegas is the best one
Lego City Undercover
Saints Row
Does "Mafia" count? I think it does.
@@Brunoki22 No it doesnt. Its not a gta clone. The game came out two mounths after GTA III.
Michael... the lesser known Scorsese filmmaker.
The better one
@@sponge260 cant believe ppl actually believe Michael is better than Martin.
Glad someone caught it.... 😬
Why does every successful man has to go to shrink? :D
@@TomNavaro a lot of non - successful people (in terms of wealth) also go to the shrink
I just so noticed that the gameranx sound effect at the start is the same sound effect for confirming in marvel vs capcom 1 on PsOne. Nice
Real shit? Cool.
Bruh you just expanded my mind
Yo! You crushed that. 14 out of 10 nerd level
@@nicholasmathews2670 *gamer brain
Dude! I've spend years watching these guys and I was sure that was an original sound of theirs!
I love how Saints Row started out as a GTA clone but turned into something completely different later on in the series.
Some might say better as well.
What's funny is now GTA Online is trying so hard to be post-GTA-clone Saints Row with their cheesy B-movie tier missions, secret bunkers, and extremely unrealistically advanced weapons/cars
@@CharlieFoxtrot Saints Row 3 had the flying motorbike. Then GTA Online came with the Oppressor.
I actually liked Saints Row less and less the further it tried to make its own identity.
2 Is my favorite but I really liked the first one too.
@@ninjabiatch101 I wasn't a huge fan of the last one. It's something about being in a simulation while playing a game that ruins my immersion.
Every mobile gangster game: *sweats*
Gangsta Vegas by Gameloft isn't horrible it's at least playable
@@joeysgames1084 Gangster Vegas is great and so is New Orleans and City of Saints especially City of Saints.
@@joeysgames1084 true, I had some great times with that games a few hears ago, before I bought an actual pc. Kinda sad it's jammed with microtransactions though, but as a kid I never noticed.
The GANGSTER series deserves more attention to be honest but i only hope the day GAME LOFT decides to port their newer installment of this series won't be bad as MODERN COMBAT DEMOLITION
@@sietsedegrande213 yea I hate the microtransactions
Im sorry, but if someone straight up rips off another game, literally steals art from artists and intentionally tries to trick my grandma into buying me the wrong game for chistmas... I'm not going to give that guy credit for his halfassed attempt at the english language. That guy's got it comin.
Micheal Scorsese Hmm. is that the guy that directed the Gangs of New York Rip-off “The pretty bad guys of New York 5” ?
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I caught that and I’m thinking to myself that’s not his name lol
the GTA font is called "Pricedown" it's also used on the show The Price is Right
This was all months ago. Before it all happened. Nobody knew the worst GTA knockoff, yet to come out, was going to be ordered by Rockstar itself. It was given to a groovy, mobile-portin', studio of 20 something developers. Before its announcement, Take-Two even went on one of its worst killin' sprees purgin' all the mods. If I recall correctly, it was called something like the GTA Trilogy - the Defective Edition. It was sad. They even took down the original trilogy from the digital stores for its release. It was a psycho job, I'm tellin' ya.
The Defecation Edition
The Defiled Edition
The Delirious Edition
Everyone's whining about DE but Rockstar made a shitty remaster before. They hired Grove Street Games (then named War Drum Studios) to make a PS3/Xbox remaster. You know what it was? Literally the mobile port, a few better graphics but much shittier character models. In fact, if you broke a part of a car, you would've gotten a different colored part. Nobody liked it.
The Dysentery Edition
I wish this video gets a part 2, but with the best GTA clones. I want some more GTA like games to play that are good.
EDIT: Thanks for making my dream come true, Gameranx! You're the best! And also, thanks to all the replies to this comment giving suggestions, you guys are awesome too 😁👍
Sleeping dogs is similar to gta but with martial arts.
Saints row was the only good one
Sleeping dogs!!!!!!!! Play sleeping dogs!!!!!!
Saints row 1-3 are pretty good, sleeping dogs was really really good, watch dogs 2(the only one in the series worth playing), cyberpunk 2077 to an extent, true crime was pretty good, I’m drawing a blank on other games 😂
@Blue Speeder solid list but watch dogs 2 was pretty good, legion is crap and so is the first one.
I remember GTA was like one of the only games my mom wouldn't let me play when I was younger. To her, and a lot of other parents, letting your child play that game was like guaranteeing they would grow up to be in a gang. So I always had to play all the knock off GTA games. The only one I kind of enjoyed was The Simpsons Hit & Run. The rest I never spent more than an hour on. But I still remember the one time my friend let me borrow his GTA 3 game for the night. I stayed up all night playing while my mom was asleep Lol
same here, when I asked if she could buy it from me she gave a very emphatic no so I didn't get around to playing it until college.
Same here. More just cause it was rated M. Let me have call of duty and halo but no GTA. Looking back I can understand why. They wouldn't buy it but didn't stop me from playing funny enough. Borrowed GTA 4 from a buddy and they were fine with it
But yea, hit and run was what I had instead of gta
why you won't try a LEGO City undercover it was gta for kid version
@@TexasRed751 Lego City Undercover wasn't around when I was a kid. Plus it definitely wouldn't have scratched that itch.
11:02 I remember the South Park game on N64 having that exact level, throwing snowballs at turkeys and everything.
That is the South Park N64 game it was also on the PS1.
Yea it's crazy I'm pretty sure these guys are older than me and I have the game on my Nintendo 64
You could press the up on the d pad and pee on your snow ball. That game brings back some memories haha
Also the car “stealing” part is a totally different game. Every race had its own theme. It’s called “South Park Rally”
I'm glad I'm not the only one who had this game
4:52 Did you fall into a dwell, what happened?
Noticed that too
@@rensaudade no shit
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People always say Driv3r sucked but I enjoyed the hell out of it as a kid and I still enjoy it now.
Hell yeah, was an awesome game, and wherever they got that video of gameplay from, the person was either really bad at video games or was trying to make it look bad, the combat and gunshooting wasn't that bad.
Also the game got more fun when you started to add glitches....like the raining cars glitch XD
One thing it did have was a very robust director mode for recording clips. Gameplay was meh, but so was Gangs of London which didn't make the cut here
Parallel lines was the best driver game in the series
@@rustysqueezebox8 I would disagree, it's a good one but it kinda threw away its whole undercover cop formula. I just wish the story wasn't so rushed for the 2006 era in-game, in fact the whole story is quite short with almost no side-stories like GTA. I beat it before even unlocking a single "odometer cheat"
I like the entire series, 3 and Parallel Lines included. My only gripe with PL is a missed opportunity to set up Driver: SF.
Perhaps a cameo at the end of PL where a recovering Tanner and a very exhasted Jones arrive right after TK shot down Corrigan, missing both by minutes. Like due to Tanner's paranoia of Jericho some how walking free, they go after his outstanding associates - one of which is Corrigan for more dirt, and now they got to save him from the Cartel.
It would have solve the apparent hole in the "canonical" timeline of Tanner's story - the 2005-2006 era right after the events of Drvr3.
I'd love to see a compilation with GTA-like games that were actually great, like Saints Row 3 and Sleeping Dogs
Change sr3 to sr2
@@akmzero630yea sr3 was dogshit
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Welcome to the early comments my friend....
Best GTA clones list! True crime, Scarface, Simpsons hit and run, just to name a few.
Saints Row and Mafia
GTA vice city is literally a scarface rip off
@@Ccccc-mi3tr basically but no it also isn’t
Sleeping Dogs, Godfather is great as well
@@CruelWarren13 Saints row 1 & 2 especially 2 has the best open world map.
Remember that game “25 to life” Not really a open world game but I still remember playing it a lot back in the day.
I remember that game. Lol
I heard about it, it was on ps2, yeah? I kinda wanted to play it on pc but never came around to it...
Do we suffer while playing it?
I remember buying 25 to life and being so disappointed when it wasn't open world lol
I played it all the time, it also had a fun multiplayer even if it was always full of cheaters!
Was that the one where you could play as cops or gangsters online?
The only thing you can not find on the Internet is an honest ad for a mobile game. You could find glow in the dark watermelon pajamas for your cat, but an ad that 's true to the game? No way, they don't exist.
Uhm...if you happen to find the link to those glow in the dark watermelon pajamas for cats....you know...hit me up
Who else spent an hour trying to find glow-in-the-dark watermelon cat clothes?
@@LogicAndCompassion nope.
Not yet anyway…
I could find 20 bad clones in 10 minutes, you could make a video about games that are good clones, since they'd be helpful. But anyways, i appreciate that you bring cool videos for us.
Like why they dunking on APB? That's actually a decent game for how old it is. Like if it was remade that would awesome. I played that for long while as a kid. Vs how much I hate gta online.
It's just a clickbait title koba.
@@riseoftheflutes1739 well, some do suck
@@krzysztofkoba9982 lots of mobile games suck or false advertise. He shouldn't have included them. You find many knock offs of any popular game on mobile.
@@yellowleo plenty of people out there that liked APB that consider it one of the greatest games ever, multiplayer wise but it was still a hidden gem for the most part
Michael Scorsese also did a sequel. He was going for Gangs of the Sea, but ended up going with Pirates of The Caribbean
Driver San Francisco is a modern classic
Yes I totally agree I love that game
Yes
Ironically, the game's Shift mechanic was an attempt by Reflections to not "be cliche" and copy GTA. But they have to come up with a reason as to why you can still "carjack" people without setting foot anywhere yourself.
Imagine if you could run around on foot in Driver SF though, it would have been one of the largest open world maps to walk from end to end. That would easily take an hour or so even if you sprinted the whole time.
Driver San francisco was a gem
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When grab the auto 5 isn’t number one you know the rest are gonna be fun to see
Number 1 was more of a Saint Row rip-off with that jump and crazy big gun.
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@@BigMobe that number 1 game looks pretty funny actually I like how the jump animation has you flying around with a jet plane 😂😂
I actually had fun with Narc back in the day. Doing drugs to get different powers was a pretty decent mechanic.
Narc was actually fun and dark. Played it on ps2 when i was a kid n didn't know shit about drugs.
@@ajiibshah3760 same here. Now I'm a weed EXPERT. 😂😂
@@blinkisthefuture man i wish i could still play it n smoke some while im at it. Be laughin my ass off
@@ajiibshah3760 get u an emulator.
Narc 2005 was actually really damn fun and not "boring" in the least, most notably one of the former governors of my state IL- Rod Blagojevich tried to get it banned and went all Jack Thompson against it, which wound up being hilarious considering that he later got arrested for trying to auction off Obama's senator seat.
I think I'd be more funny if he got caught using drugs.
Love the Narc game!!!
_"...saucy but thrilling grand gangster..."_ sounds like a camp 70's Roger Moore romp
8/10
APB is it's own franchise. How much #9 is related to the original I couldn't be bothered to look. BUT. I did play the arcade in 1991 at the corner store. So there's that.
yeah apb was foucused on competative pvp i feel like it was pretty different than gta other than it has cars and shooting.
APB imo, is nothing like GTA....tbh this whole list and video was badly put together like most of the games in it, I mean they added a south park game only because it was open world and you could steal a car....given those criteria, they could have added TONS of other games to this list.
I thought APB was dope, but it was definitely what is generally considered a GTA clone.
This videos definitions are a little too specific.
Generally any open world crime related third person game is a "GTA Clone"
True Crime
LA Noire
Mafia.
Those are traditionally what "GTA clone" meant. Not these literal mobile games pretending to be GTA.
@@FatalWalk3rFilms imo the first True Crime game was a way wore GTA clone
@@FatalWalk3rFilms its gameranx what do you expect... probably never played apb lol... or played and got deleted by sweats then called it bad....
I gotta say tho, the car damage physics in driver 3 were awesome for it's time. I actually had alot of fun playing that. Yeah it was kinda boring but something about it was entertaining.
8:22 Who's Michael Scorsese? Is that Martin's cousin, 4 times removed? Never heard of him.
That’s what I’m sayin lol
Best title for one of these clones on google play: "Dude Theft Auto"
It's more like a dude simulator clone rather than GTA
@Atshuu linyu stfu
DTA sounds like a parody of GTA 5 but more childish
The best title for GTA clones on mobile is PAYBACK 2
*Daily Reminder:* APB was created by a studio owned and run by the guy who was literally _the_ creative force behind Grand Theft Auto
Proof positive that, no matter what you do or who its for; the brains of the operation don't mean shiz without his hands 👍😘❤
I love how he’s cutting up grab the
auto 5 haha for the title and then says the award winning “Michael Scorsese “ film! 🤣 pretty sure it’s Martin there Jakey
APB customization (specially the clothes) is arguably the best thing out of that game. I wasted countless hours in that game just to play around with the editor.
Amen to that! I feel like not enough people know about it.
I think this game deserves to be revived a bit
I played this game a lot, I bought it when it first came out and literally didnt work. Then it went f2p so that was a good waste of 50 bucks. Same thing happened whith that old republic mmo
nothing compares to APB's customization!!! Almost all of my uploads are on APB
@@null643 im hopping that too and maybe this game can steal players from GTA ONLINE so that would convince TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE and ROCKSTAR that the GTA community is at the edge of letting this game to go but if they keep milking GTA ONLINE for a long time the community will die and the game will have no player to play it anymore because it's getting a bit pointless of playing it it's like oh yeah i got new clothes and a yacht and cars and planes and that's it but looking at the bright side APB was already an online MMO game before GTA and there is still a huge fan base still waiting for a new installment maybe we are close to it but only time well tell
APB reloaded *Was* good, until the damn developers attacked.
APB Reloaded could've been so much more had the original Gamersfirst owners didn't fuck up the game so badly.
raw looked so good, I just wish it came out
Simpsons hit and run was awesome. Also the lady at electronics boutique told my grandma there was hookers in gta and that the simpsons did not feature hookers
I know Im asking for "Grab The Auto 2 mideast" for Christmas this year
Mideast 😂😂😂
Wait wasn't that South Park game a N64 game? I swear I remember playing a game like that as a kid...
Yeah I thought so too!
yes, it was, but it wasn't open world. There were levels, and it was more or less a FPS. It even had a dedicated split screen multiplayer.
I'm assuming they're showing footage of that because the game he's talking about was never made.
I remember the game too
@@ARUCARDFTEPES that actually makes sense
ummm, i played that south park game, many times, on my n64 in like 98 or 99. It was all about turkeys taking over the town, it was really empty and boring. You could through pee snowballs lol - wait, no there werent cars tho, so i think i played whatever was scrapped together to sell afterwards
Crime Life Gang Wars was criminally underrated, had a great soundtrack and it was cool to see all the members of D12 in the game(well sans Eminem as he was busy doing 50 Cent Bulletproof at the time).
That was my game lmao I rocked it out
That was my shit played that game all the time I don’t think this tuber knows what he talking about
yeah,this guy doesn't know wtf he talking about! Crime Life was unique af back in 2005! It had awesome finishing animations and made u feel like u were part of a gang! It had nothing to do with GTA! It had a great atmosphere! The Warriors and Sleeping dogs remind me of it!
Honestly I wish it had done a lot better because I would love to play a modern game like that, it felt so bad ass seeing like 12 members of each gang going toe to toe with each other. The only thing i wish the game had was some better theft missions, the gun fights could have been better, and maybe have it so that there was more to the turf takeover stuff
@@Satanic_Dude true, unfortunately the dev studio went bankrupt not long after that game came out.
Saints row really had a chance to go toe to toe with rockstar. Hell, they could have tried their hand in cyberpunk style.
5 is on the way, don't count them out.
@@StaredownGames 6 will wait for 5
Why does no one mention driver parallel lines which was an amazing game. Unforgettable for me.
Started this video waiting for see driver 3. I enjoyed the hell out of it, parallel lines as well.
@@steveng8925 Yea lol, me too.
parellel lines have awesome driving mechanics... beautiful game , can't say the same for Driv3r
I wish they remade that game. I loved 70s New York. The 2006 rendition of NY was the closest thing to Liberty City before GTA IV.
Next do top ten worst doom clones.
#1 call of duty
There is also "District Wars" - made by Teyon - the guys who later did Rambo and Terminator games.
Pretty sure that Southpark game did come out cause I remember playing that on the playstation 1 and it was a complete game
Was going to say the same thing, and I remember playing it.
The problem is the footage being shown here is from South Park (1998/99) which was on the N64, PC and the Playstation.
If you follow the link in the description, it shows a 3rd person SP game, which is clearly unfinished.
Raw actually looked really cool I wished it did come out
The Simpsons: Hit and Run was an absolute banger.
Facts
"Me too style games"
Awh yes, who can forget Bill Cosby's VR Bartender
Bill Cosby jokes are outdated, but this is what happens when unfunny people try being funny.
@@Echidneys jokes never really go out of style as long as someone finds them funny, so I'm not following ya.
@@aweigh1010 How do you mean?
The Narc one that was trying to use drug use to try and steal GTA's thunder is kinda ironic considering that GTA: San Andreas was actually pretty anti drug, at least for the most part.
Anybody remember Urban Crime from 2012 on ipod? That was my shit when I was little 😂😂
Dude
Now that you said it
I just remember
I used to hv so much fun
I still play budget GTA games like Gangstar Vegas and New Orleans
But urban crime was a classic
Wow can't believe that These games and gta sa/bully/genshine impact released on same platform
I used to love that old South Park game as a kid idk if it’s the same one but you pee on the snowball and throw it at the turkeys 🦃 😂
Yeh spot on. Don't know why they are saying it was cancelled....game was released. I owned it lol
Ah yes. "Grand Turkey Assault 5"
@@AllThatJazOfficial I was starting to wonder if I just imagined playing it. Or maybe they took the snowball mechanic and used it in something else? Because I remember flinging snowballs but not driving cars.
@@collin1240 because it's two separate games i played that racing game it was like mario/crash carts
@@AllThatJazOfficial That's the first person shooter game for the PS1 that you're thinking of, which they have footage of in the video. The South Park game that was cancelled was more like Simpsons Hit & Run and wasn't first person.
I used to love driver 3, i can remember the intro so well
I like how the Konami game looks. It’s gritty and it has a Silent Hill vibe to it
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lol NArc was in such a small World and you just got high ahaha it was such a craze
I kinda liked narc lol I beat it
@@cloudsurfer67 same I loved it I was playing it around the age 10 when I had no idea what a.Qualoude was but f uck me I was poppin em on narc
Didn’t the original game say “Only losers get high?”
@@JoshuaJacobs83 lol maybe boy where they wrong
@@abcdefg2343 Were they though? I don’t think winners end up covered in vomit lying on a crack mattress.
The GTA Clones on the mobile app have decent gameplay, but they have ads literally every 30 seconds.
I mean I think I had fun with South Park Rally. Respect my authoritah!
That Southpark game was amazing as a kid tbh. With the Terrence and Phillip fart bomb dolls
You should do a follow up video of the best 10 GTA clones. I can see Sleeping Dogs on there for sure.
That's a decent enough idea for a video, but I'm not sure there actually ARE 10 "good" GTA clones. I can only think of like 4 or 5. You've got Sleeping Dogs, Watchdogs, Saint's Row, Simpsons Hit & Run, maybe the Driver games? Although Driver wasn't really a "clone", more like a direct competitor.
3:45 that character model's face 😂
That's me when I'm turtle-heading.
Lol thanks for the laugh.
Can we get a crime game wave again, after our over due half life phase.
APB was a 80's arcade game that had a wheel and a gun hostler so you got a firing button - it even had gears, a seat, and gas and brake pedals. It was a very fun game, and was in fact one of the inspirations behind the original gta series which is why they included being able to get into cop cars and stop robbers (just like the 80's APB, but you couldn't get out of your car). Both had cops racing against criminals and ramming and shooting the get away cars. APB was very interesting because you could trigger warrants at any point of the map sometimes so it felt very open world too for the time. It's cool hearing that the guy behind the original GTA got to work on the series that was partially an inspiration to GTA - APB reloaded.
I remember that arcade cabinet! It always seemed to show up at out of the way locations like the county fair, back when county fairs had arcades🙂
Driver 3 is literally one of my favorite games in the series lol
One of your favorite out of like four total games. What a stupid way of saying something
Hands down, the worst GTA clone has to be my friend's game that he made for a class presentation/project called "Jonny's World: 3D Forever". It was set in a made up city called "Choots-Brookson" (which looked like dogshit, by the way). He barely worked on the gameplay which focused around driving around and running over people for drugs ("drugs" were the game's in-world currency). I think the thing he spent the most time on was this one uncomfortably long, entirely unnecessary scene where a character gets raped by a feral dog after being robbed by the game's antagonist. He gave up on making games and now works at Texas Instruments.
APB done RIGHT. Would break the industry. It had a great customization editor. It just needed a better matchmaking system. Shit to grind for. Balanced mechanics. Updated graphics and better net code. I was upset when it didn’t take off. It was poorly optimized for console too.
the south park game wasn't open world or gta knockoff. It was a fps more akin to turok or goldeneye, but less complex. It even had a split screen multiplayer. It wasn't amazing, but it was fun for the time. It does not belong on this list.
Saints Row is the best GTA clone ever
Just like Forza Motorsport is the best Gran Turismo clone.
Bully
Pixel Gun 3D, childhood but still legit has trevor micheale and franklin as character options
You're smoking crack - Driv3r was dope
The best award that an Indie Open World Game Developer can get is get included in a Gameranx Video
Whenever I think about GTA Clones, I always think about how Jak 2 tried to be more like GTA. You have guns, vehicles you can steal, a meter that keeps track if the "police" are about to attack you. It's such a letdown sequel because someone at the head offices told Naughty Dog to make their own GTA with Jak and Daxtar without thinking if it would work.
DRIV3R was a big part of my childhood and it was fun but i will admit it didnt age as well as gta did
Number 7 : AI voiced in a vehicle
Number 5 : it's a game theory
Who remembers 25 to Life?
Mendoza! 😭
4:43 that Gina Linetti moment was priceless. (Sorry if I didn’t spell her last name right)
what in the mic quality
jake is gameranx paying you as you deserve, baby?
The Saint's Row series was my favorite back then
#1 better be the soundtrack to this video. Swear I heard the theme song from Fan Andreas halfway through
0:15 I literally just laughed my ass off to that one.
“It has the weirder looking water in a videogame”
2021 gta definitive edition: hold my beer
You could say saints row started as a gta clone that then went its own wacky way and came to make a couple amazing games
9:10 - This is Big Smoke's house but with low graphics .
😂😂😂👍🏻
A lot of these App developers are looking to make big bucks through grifts and schemes.
Hell, that should be a concept for a mission in GTA 6!
Aww APB you were so close...
I have a big soft spot for this game because it had so much going for it, but the execution of all of it was so poor. When it originally released I was HYPED for it. Then it came out and for whatever reason my code that came in the game box didn't work to get into the game, this was before I had a car to return it to the store and the game wound up sitting on a shelf for a while then there were issues with the servers or something and the game shut down...I don't exactly remember what but I know that I was really sad to hear it was shutting down. Fast forward a few years and it got it's f2p release and I had to try it even though I had heard it was not what it should be. I played probably a dozen hours and was left with the taste often gotten from F2P games of, spend money to really play the game. But what was there for free did not do it well enough to warrant spending any money unfortunately.
Damn I really do need to start making my own videos again.
Man I loved Driv3r 😂
APB was ok, I tried it out myself a few days ago, but is too repetitive
Crime Life: Gang Wars sounds like a parody from an episode of an adult animation. Like I could see Bart being addicted to it and Marge being mad about it (though they did this with Grand Theft Scratchy).
Allow me to fill you in on that Open World South Park game.
The game started out as a South Park shooter.
But the rights holder felt that was controversial.
Then the game was turned into an open world game with the puzzles and chickens with snow balls.
Then the rights holders didn't think that would work either.
Then if memory serves we ended up with that South Park kart racing game instead.
Then shortly afterwards we ended up with some South Park reskined hand held games to quickly cash in before the rights expired.
If I'm right. Sadly it was this constant licensing issues that sank crazy monkey games because them constantly bending over for other studios and rights holders kept them working at a loss.
'True Crime' and 'The Getaway' are two titles i remember from the good old PS2 days.. They weren't any good either.
Apb back in 2014 was actually a load of fun, and as a 17 year old in highschool, playing on my shitbox PC that I bought with my $8 an hour job it was one of few games I could run moderately well. It definitely hit different, I wouldnt even say its a GTA clone. The only similarity is that you can steal cars, roam a city, shoot people, and there are cops (except they are playable characters), if this is what makes a GTA clone, then thats some pretty vague criteria.
New York has palm trees, sweet!
the unreleased "South Park" game makes absolutely no sense to put in this list. Just because you can walk and take cars= Rockstar's GTA? Heck the Nintendo 64 South Park that did end up being released was still ~3 years before GTA III even came out, which was the first GTA to be in 3D. At this point you might as well say GTA III is a South Park ripoff.
The Getaway was an actually decent GTA knockoff for its time, although it doesn't really hold up so well anymore, and the healing mechanic was pretty comical (leaning against a wall and breathing heavy).
Wait I'm confused as in the South Park game was a real game on the N64/PS1. Did they try to port to the phone, and that was what was cancelled? Cause at the time Acclaim had the game.
I really dunno what happened to the mic at “4:52” his voice went BRRRRRRRRRRR
Wait, wasn't that south park footage from both South Park 64 and South Park Rally? A first person shooter and a racing game. I've played the first one.
10:47 block city wars is an old mobile game released in 2013 that the version 1.10 don't have any bugs but now it's just a ghost town, many hackers,many bugs,the original creator of the game left the chat,it's over for the game to update it's just gone all over the place