

And have you played a Tony Hawk game? I can't even articulate why, but I feel like some of the appeal is similar to that of GTA. If you like games that are crummy, disappointing and available for, like, five bucks, you might try State of Emergency. If you like the part of GTA that involves endlessly customizing your lowrider, you might enjoy Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition. Here are a few crazy suggestions: if you like the free-roaming part and aren't attached to the cop-killing and so forth, you might like the Harvest Moon games (or Animal Crossing, but that's Nintendo-only). If reviews are any indication, all try to do the GTA thing, and all fail significantly in major areas. Maybe Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction? It involves a lot of running around destroying things, anyway.ġ87 Ride or Die, the 50 Cent game, The Warriors and Gun are also fairly recent, and I haven't played 'em. And it's probably the 'daredevil bonus' game you're thinking of. The Burnout series is also all driving, but it's definitely worth considering, if only because the series (by which I really mean Burnout 3 and Burnout Revenge) does crashing better than any game I've ever played. What they don't have, however, is much of a sense of speed, at least not when compared to a lot of other racing games, and the physics are pretty crummy as well. The Need for Speed games combine racing and evading the police, though you never get out of the car. Neither will be knocking GTA off its pedestal any time soon. Both are somewhat free-roaming, and, in both, one plays as a police officer. Off the top of my head, there's True Crime and NARC. Best answer: Plenty of people have tried, but hitting the GTA sweet spot must be harder than it looks.
