Anywhere City seen from above, a nameless town where everyone wants you dead.

This is the profile of an ancestor respected more than loved. Desert island holds up, ahead of 59% of games, and the soundtrack sits just behind, ahead of 58% of titles, though that figure rests on two duels only. Connection and feel in the hands settle a little below average. Then it drops: fun ahead of 22% of games, art style ahead of 16%, and rediscovery right at the bottom, ahead of 5% of titles. That's the knot: nobody dreams of experiencing GTA 2 for the first time again.

Let's be honest about the gap. An isometric open world from 1999, with its sprites and its top-down view, cannot compete on criteria built for today's emotion and visual craft. What makes it matter is what it made possible, the freedom to drive anywhere, the city as a playground, not what these questions measure.

So, who is it for? For you if you like going back to the source, pixelated brutality and anarchy seen from the sky. Much less so if you expect a GTA to pull you inside its world.