I have been dreaming of a Sleeping Dogs sequel for YEARS. There were amazing plans for a sequel before it got cancelled. A prequel set in 1980s Hong Kong inspired by Hong Kong action films of the 80s would have been amazing as well.
The thing that i like about these games aside from gta is that while they take inspiration from it, they add their own theme to them that makes them stand out.
Scarface was going to have its sequel tho, it would be set in Las Vegas and it had many original ideas, but the project got cancelled for unfortunate reasons
Just beat mafia 2 last night. My opinion it’s a better narrative game, better cutscenes, more emotional voice acting, and more serious. The open world is an after thought in that game but it was alive enough to have me driving around all the time. But mafia 1: de is my second favorite game I have ever played. I teared up so much
The way Mafia 2 let you see and experience Empire Bay during the winter of 1945 and also during the Spring or 1951 was superbly done. Right as you’re becoming a little bored of the linear prison section and are itching to get back out into the open world, the game not only releases you from prison, but the entire city, climate, time period, cars, and radio tunes have changed. It felt like re-discovering the city all over again… I loved it!
I feel like when you say the term "GTA Clone" people immediately think of all the Unity asset flip slop that gets thrown onto the mobile app store in bulk. The same games that flood you in ads and pointless in-app purchases to squeeze as much money out of whatever poor kid is unfortunate enough to download it. The same games that are called stuff like "Grand Theft Car Andreas Life 3D" that can barely even be called videogames.
Thinking about this, I realized something. The term GTA clone can be seen as a negative and people will see that. But because there is one term hardly used by many people. Crime simulators. Just as how Boomer Shooters were once called Doom-like or Doom Clones, Crime Shooters are as the name implies where you play as a criminal. Maybe just like boomer shooters, we'll start referring these sort of games as that. Crime sims. Or maybe not, who knows.
@@ferbthe2gadgetguy "Crime Sim" feels like a pretty great name. More specifically "Crime Open World" could be a more specific name for GTA clones, since stuff like Payday which is nothing like GTA could fall under the Crime Sim umbrella
@@NoImNotJonsAltWhatDoYouMean You aren't always a criminal in a GTA clone... See Sleeping Dogs, Agents of Mayhem, Crackdown, True Crime, L.A. Noire, etc.
@@ferbthe2gadgetguy The devs already have a name for them... "Third-person open-world narrative action adventure shooters"... That's why we still call them "GTA clones".
GTA clones are my favorite genre of games, it's really a shame how it died. Silver lining is that without competition, hence no pressure, Rockstar are in a position to make GTA6 the game of my dreams. And your are absolutely on point about Cyberpunk. It's game loop and design is not close to a GTA-like game.
To be honest, they kind of have to compete with themselves now. GTA V is still making them lots of money so they need to put out a product that's going to make people want to move on from it and purchase VI and opt into whatever new online ecosystem they start.
not only do they have to sell me on GTA VI, but on buying a PS5 to play it on as well lmao i haven't gamed in so long and i just realized i'm only waiting for GTA VI to release but I have no console to play it on
I really liked Mercenaries by Pandemic Studios (EA). It was kinda the GTA Clone that's not a GTA Clone. Here's some reasons why. You can: -kill civilians (cost money for civilian casualties) -odd jobs -drive-by's (honestly the best type of drive-by's) -steal (hijack) vehicles -unlock maps Factions (gangs) There is no: -wanted system -Busted -losing weapons after dying -Armor -hidden weapons (found on map) -blood/gore additional uniques: - call in airstrikes, supplies, vehicles. -deck of 52 (unique bounty system) -Money for blowing up primary enemy faction -Destructible environment -can be infinitely replayed with same character -3 character choices -2 endings
Mafia and GTA are actually both owned by Take-Two. Mafia is doing quite well, with a new game coming out next year (though I question the decision to release it the same year as GTA VI). Take-Two is really monopolizing the AAA open world crime genre, huh?
There's an upcoming GTA clone game called "The Precinct", you're playing as cop and the game is open world set in Averno City with deep cop rank systems.
In my opinion that GTA clones ( at least some of them ) failed was purely on gta's community . The Moment saints row coming out everyone would immediately say that is a gta clone and no one should buy it, thus not achieving that much of a popularity. Not only that , it's difficult for even a AAA studio to make a game like rockstar makes , which even to this day it baffles me a lot that there is ONLY one company in the industry that can make a top notch game with details , graphics , maybe story but mostly world building in the open world crime genre. Then you have the indie devs which now you see a huge rise on them but they are lacking the equipment on it and even the budget to run such a huge project. I really hope soon or after a " Gta Clone " comes out and gives us some competition. That's what we need for rockstar to actually listen to us instead of being greedy over us and ruining some of their old games and even not reaching their limits which in my opinion, they can easily reach something beautiful to make even with a small team but they just either rush it or somewhere mess it up . Not to mention the community should stop this stupid mindset of gta clones , it doesn't make sense cause you wouldn't call battlefield a COD clone , it just 2 completely different games but yet in the same genre .
You don't have to emulate Scarface on PC. You can fix the bad PC port with Silent Patch and Fusion Fix (and if you want, install Remaster Project on top). The only thing it's missing at that point is blood textures on Tony, but I don't think that's worth emulating it for. 31:00 Scarface was peak, the hell you mean not that good overall? It's better than both Vice City and Vice City Stories. It's the ultimate Miami game of the PS2 era.
I actually like the clone term. It does have a negative connotation to it, but it lets you know what kind of game it is. Like open world games, is it a GTA clone? or a Fallout clone? or a Far Cry clone? Those are very distinct type of open world games so you know what you are getting by what game they are "copying".
Cyberpunk may not necessarily be a gta clone but we all wanted it to be the next gta replacement. This is at least 50% of why this game was so hyped up.
Probably most people who got mad at games being called a GTA clone... weren't of age during that era. Open world games with missions weren't a thing before GTA1 which is itself played down for the 'impact' GTA3 had on the world. That structure of gameplay especially in a modern city setting was called a GTA clone because at the time they really were following in its footsteps. It's not an insult, it's just a factor of the fast changing landscape of video games at that time. It's not like people weren't making that kind of game yet because GTA hadn't proven it to be popular... That kind of game hadn't been possible or even thought of yet. The term 'GTA clone' now would seem insulting and shallow, and would only be appropriate for those super cheaply made knock off apps that try to actually look like a GTA game but have none of the effort put into them.
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Saints Row 1 and 2 along with Destroy All Humans 1 and 2 managed to seperate themselves from GTA with thier edgy humour and unique features the grounded gameplay also worked to balance the seriousness of the story and the silliness of the gameplay
GTA 4 and 5 felt like GTA clones to me. Something that broke my heart was when I read a comment criticizing GTA San Andreas as being overrated for its "nonsensical story." Sure, I understand that I'm old, it's an old game, and there's a lot of nostalgia behind it, but the game was complete freedom for the era. There were so many fun and novel mechanics that are exclusive to San Andreas alone, and all for the upfront cost of $49.99. So many were cut from GTA 4 and 5, plus many still haven't made it into GTA online. And one thing is for sure, nobody played GTA for their storylines back then. In fact, most of the stories felt cleverly designed around the mechanics as a way of introducing you to the sandbox. Much of the map and late game mechanics were locked behind a large chunks of the story, so you just wanted to beat it to unlock the full experience at the end. It's was the fact the story would always introduce all the post game mechanics that had me so out of touch with GTA 5. I remember the first time I played the heist with Franklin and Michael, I fully expected heists to be a new mechanic, that you'd be able to set them up anytime you wanted afterwards, because that's what all my experiences with GTA had taught me until then. I really wish everyone could've experienced San Andreas when it was released. I just can't do it justice here for how fun, innovative, and how much of a GTA game changer this classic masterpiece was at the time.
*Godfather, Godfather 2, Saints Row 3, Mafia 3 and True Crime New York City are my absolute favorites 👌 but to be honest, I'm glad the clone era is over. its time for Rockstar to step it up and show why they were worth cloning in the first place 🕵 GTA5 left a lot to be desired. GTA6 needs to be Legendary* 🙌
I honestly like Saints Row 1+2 and Sleeping Dogs more over some GTA games even Vice City and maybe San Andreas on how they age well for me. Vice City is popular game but personally don’t understand the appeal of the game. If these gta clones remind me of gta this how I see them: • Saints Row 2 = Vice City & San Andreas. • Sleeping Dogs = bit of GTA 4 and more like Chinatown Wars. • Saints Row 1 = San Andreas if set in mid 2000s.
Yeah, I remember people used to say that any open world that wasn't GTA was just a game to kill time while waiting for the next GTA. So pretty much those ''smaller games'' were just filler until the actual GTA showed up.
With all the retro throwback games I really wish someone would make a retro game in the style of III/Vice City, essentially a gta game from that era, with the graphics and everything. Might be too big of an undertaking for indie devs, but I know there has to be somebody out there with enough ambition to pull it off
Games are way more complex and way more expensive now, and for sandbox games, even more so. Its the same reason why we never see Skyrim clones. Its too, expensive, too complex and too risky. A commercial failure after years and millions of dollars spent on development can mean a Concord level disaster, and for some publishers that could sink the company.
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12:00 Never had to climb ALL towers or liberate ALL outposts in a GTA game :) But I like AC Syndicate as the driveabale carriages make it more " GTA" :) Yeah, games get compared no matter what, but new " GTA clones" are rare. Only one I own is Cyberpunk 2.0 which has similar elements but is yet so different. But Cyberpunk proved how difficult it is to make a believeable openworld, many " features" had to be pached in later... I think the real GTA games just have so much more details put into them than other sandbox games, the open world of GTAV and RDR2 are still unmatched and GTA6 will top that further. That makes it hard for " clones" to be successful so less of them get made.
I don't exactly think they're gone, it's just that the market has been overflowed by low quality (mostly android) open world games that try to rival gta on paper while in reality they're quick cash grabs. Anything new will be probably faced with disbelief due to most of said games not being games made with care so a consumer will mostly trust brands and names they know and it's not exactly a bad thing. Take a look at the Paradise incident that has been making headlines lately. If you were a developer would you try making a new game knowing that you might fall into the flames surrounding cash grabs or would you try making something that people would buy anyway like a shooter pvp game or something else? To better explain what I mean I'll speak about the Mumbai open world game that we've probably all seen a trailer about. Personally I don't know if it's real and the fact that Paradise turned out to be a scam makes me even more skeptical to the point that I'm immediately losing my own interest in the Mumbai upcoming game. This means that by the time it's out I won't probably even search for it because my hype has disappeared while at the same time I'm over hyped for the new gta online dlc even though I know exactly that what I'll get won't be anything supercool and that I'll leave the game again after a few days
If Scarface: The World is Yours wasn’t a GTA Clone, then what is? I always felt like GTA Vice City was a video game knockoff of The movie Scarface. So who cloned who, The Chicken or The Egg?
This was a nice video it was quite informative of games out there, However, I will Forever see the Word "GTA Clone" as a moronic word to use, since it basically meaning its a Copy of something which invalidates the Effort and Time Devs put into it a product like Crime Sandbox Games out there That you listed. But to answer your question could be disappointing since the reason why there aren't enough crime sandbox games like saints row and Godfather, Scarface, Etc... is because there isn't a real need for games like that anymore. The people who needed games like that already got Grand Theft Auto 6 which is coming out within few months noted to be a Big game if I was a Developer I would either wait for Grand Theft auto 6 to release so I don't make a game that would suck to that game and Lose a lot of money since MAKING An game like Grand Theft Auto or any large Scale Crime Sandbox Games would be costly and risky it better off to just make an FPS or a Racing game at that point at least I would have a higher chance of sells then to go up against a Mega Giant Game company like Rockstar and Take2... as well their community. Also, Rockstar went through a lot of Controversial problems so some devs may want to play safe [Even though it COULD boost Sells] The only person who would make anything of that sort would have to be PASSIONATE about the Crime Sandbox Games Genre that they are making, but how can they be THAT if it is just going to be called "GTA Clone"? We lost Saints Row and a few other games because of this silly slang, and it is sadly and it only used by The Video Gamers space, not anywhere else.
Because it's not particularly realistic. It's very Hollywood. Definitely cool, but not what you would actually expect to see, & GTA IV was very committed to building a believable world.
ppl calling cyberpunk a gta clone actually made me mad because all it takes to be called a gta clone is an open world a huge city a wanted system being able to steal cars literally everything else about the game that's very clearly NOT gta? who cares 🤡
You lost all credibility when you called cyberpunk not a GTA clone because of the multiple endings and first person view. GTA 5 has first person and GTA 4 has multiple endings. Cyberpunk is absolutely a GTA clone if any of these other are. If cyberpunk isn't, nothing is.
Did you entirely skip over the part where I say Cyberpunk plays more like a Fallout than GTA? The STRUCTURE of the games are very different. I don’t understand how you can’t see that tbh.
@@CaptainGlack Even then I don't entirely agree there. A lot of the games mentioned here have very different structures from GTA as well (Just Cause and Mafia in particular do a lot very differently to set them apart from GTA like you mentioned in the video). Cyberpunk definitely takes more from GTA than Fallout imho. A lot of Deus Ex DNA present as well rather.
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I though a sandbox game, is a game where you can build things and do pretty much anything.... like Ark Survival Evolved.... Gta are just open world games.
All those comments from your last vid just goes to show that people obviously do not pay attention 😂 & I was so happy you DIDNT include Cyberpunk in your last vid because first It’s a Role Playing Game with open world elements, I’m so relieved that you compared it to Fallout & Elder Scrolls 👍 Godfather 1 was soo good, but when 2 released it just wasn’t as good for whatever reason 🤷♂️
Well I welcome any and all gta clones.. Mafia was amazing. Saints row was amazing ( before it became the joke gta online is now becoming.) rdr2 was absolutely fenomenal.. So more please..
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Sad thing is, we could use some GTA clones now more than ever considering how Rockstar is taking their sweet time with GTA6.
We'll get dozens of clones when no one needs them, and no clones when we're all starved for content
games have become too expensive for devs to publish as much clones as times past.
No competition can harm gta as they are chilling because of online earnings, not because of lack of threat
I have been dreaming of a Sleeping Dogs sequel for YEARS. There were amazing plans for a sequel before it got cancelled. A prequel set in 1980s Hong Kong inspired by Hong Kong action films of the 80s would have been amazing as well.
While I never saw Saints Row as a GTA Clone, I wish it could be revived just to do a fuck you to Rockstar.
The thing that i like about these games aside from gta is that while they take inspiration from it, they add their own theme to them that makes them stand out.
Open world doesn't mean gta but they did popularise it so you can say they own the concept
Scarface: The World is Yours, for example.
Fun fact: mafia 2 and gta iv is actually held by same parent company (take two) so that mean they were copying themselves
Edit:its take two
Its still two different companies
@mr.nuggies3087 i mean take two
@@egg_lover-l2n yea but rockstar games and 2k czech are two different companies
Scarface was going to have its sequel tho, it would be set in Las Vegas and it had many original ideas, but the project got cancelled for unfortunate reasons
When GTA 3 came out all those years ago I use to call GTA Driver clones lol
That damn Slalom. 😉
Just beat mafia 2 last night. My opinion it’s a better narrative game, better cutscenes, more emotional voice acting, and more serious. The open world is an after thought in that game but it was alive enough to have me driving around all the time. But mafia 1: de is my second favorite game I have ever played. I teared up so much
I love mafia DE too but I absolutely hate the shooting in it and mafia 3
The way Mafia 2 let you see and experience Empire Bay during the winter of 1945 and also during the Spring or 1951 was superbly done. Right as you’re becoming a little bored of the linear prison section and are itching to get back out into the open world, the game not only releases you from prison, but the entire city, climate, time period, cars, and radio tunes have changed. It felt like re-discovering the city all over again… I loved it!
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@@TheSultan1470 what?
I feel like when you say the term "GTA Clone" people immediately think of all the Unity asset flip slop that gets thrown onto the mobile app store in bulk. The same games that flood you in ads and pointless in-app purchases to squeeze as much money out of whatever poor kid is unfortunate enough to download it. The same games that are called stuff like "Grand Theft Car Andreas Life 3D" that can barely even be called videogames.
Thinking about this, I realized something. The term GTA clone can be seen as a negative and people will see that.
But because there is one term hardly used by many people. Crime simulators.
Just as how Boomer Shooters were once called Doom-like or Doom Clones, Crime Shooters are as the name implies where you play as a criminal.
Maybe just like boomer shooters, we'll start referring these sort of games as that. Crime sims. Or maybe not, who knows.
But the thumbnail shows what he means by gta clones
@@ferbthe2gadgetguy "Crime Sim" feels like a pretty great name. More specifically "Crime Open World" could be a more specific name for GTA clones, since stuff like Payday which is nothing like GTA could fall under the Crime Sim umbrella
@@NoImNotJonsAltWhatDoYouMean You aren't always a criminal in a GTA clone... See Sleeping Dogs, Agents of Mayhem, Crackdown, True Crime, L.A. Noire, etc.
@@ferbthe2gadgetguy The devs already have a name for them... "Third-person open-world narrative action adventure shooters"... That's why we still call them "GTA clones".
Bro made a face reveal
Haha, I don’t think I could have made the video this way without my mug in it 😂
@@CaptainGlacki see🤝
ballsy after such hot takes, somethingdude1043 now knows what his face looks like
next video should be 'When' gta clones have gone 😂
GTA clones are my favorite genre of games, it's really a shame how it died. Silver lining is that without competition, hence no pressure, Rockstar are in a position to make GTA6 the game of my dreams.
And your are absolutely on point about Cyberpunk. It's game loop and design is not close to a GTA-like game.
To be honest, they kind of have to compete with themselves now. GTA V is still making them lots of money so they need to put out a product that's going to make people want to move on from it and purchase VI and opt into whatever new online ecosystem they start.
It's because cyberpunk is an open world and not a rpg like witcher
Also they wouldn't have made gta 6 early anyway as gta online is the reason
not only do they have to sell me on GTA VI, but on buying a PS5 to play it on as well lmao i haven't gamed in so long and i just realized i'm only waiting for GTA VI to release but I have no console to play it on
My man really grew, he can afford to have face now and no longer be just a disembodied voice.
Thanks for a segment only for me 😊
I really liked Mercenaries by Pandemic Studios (EA). It was kinda the GTA Clone that's not a GTA Clone. Here's some reasons why.
You can:
-kill civilians (cost money for civilian casualties)
-odd jobs
-drive-by's (honestly the best type of drive-by's)
-steal (hijack) vehicles
-unlock maps
Factions (gangs)
There is no:
-wanted system
-Busted
-losing weapons after dying
-Armor
-hidden weapons (found on map)
-blood/gore
additional uniques:
- call in airstrikes, supplies, vehicles.
-deck of 52 (unique bounty system)
-Money for blowing up primary enemy faction
-Destructible environment
-can be infinitely replayed with same character
-3 character choices
-2 endings
Just gotta say that it feels the quality of your videos keeps getting better. I'm really excited to see this channel grow, keep at it man.
This and I Have No Thoughts are my two favorite channels for GTA videos right now
@@internetera1523 I Have No Thoughts is brilliant. Loving them and CaptainGlack at the moment
Jak 2 and 3 are my fave gta clones. Thank you for coming to my TED talk 😊
Mafia and GTA are actually both owned by Take-Two. Mafia is doing quite well, with a new game coming out next year (though I question the decision to release it the same year as GTA VI). Take-Two is really monopolizing the AAA open world crime genre, huh?
Back in the day before most the competition threw in the towel, in french we used the term "GTA-like" to talk about that type of games.
Watch Dogs Legion doesnt get anywhere near enough credit.
thank you! I had fun with that game; it wasn't perfect but it's still a good time.
Thanks for shouting out my comment I wasn't expecting it lol, glad I could be of help
disrespecting ganster vegas like that 😭
There's an upcoming GTA clone game called "The Precinct", you're playing as cop and the game is open world set in Averno City with deep cop rank systems.
I mention this at the end, and I’m really looking forward to it!
@@CaptainGlack In case if you don't know, the demo just dropped on Steam and it's playable from Oct 14th to 21st!
That sounds like a good concept. Thanks for sharing
I replayed Scarface on the PS2 a few months ago. Great game! So many stuff to do, the world is great
Interesting watch, i dont deny my game is heavily inspired by GTA but i will try to make people view it as its own thing that has its own soul
In my opinion that GTA clones ( at least some of them ) failed was purely on gta's community . The Moment saints row coming out everyone would immediately say that is a gta clone and no one should buy it, thus not achieving that much of a popularity. Not only that , it's difficult for even a AAA studio to make a game like rockstar makes , which even to this day it baffles me a lot that there is ONLY one company in the industry that can make a top notch game with details , graphics , maybe story but mostly world building in the open world crime genre.
Then you have the indie devs which now you see a huge rise on them but they are lacking the equipment on it and even the budget to run such a huge project. I really hope soon or after a " Gta Clone " comes out and gives us some competition. That's what we need for rockstar to actually listen to us instead of being greedy over us and ruining some of their old games and even not reaching their limits which in my opinion, they can easily reach something beautiful to make even with a small team but they just either rush it or somewhere mess it up . Not to mention the community should stop this stupid mindset of gta clones , it doesn't make sense cause you wouldn't call battlefield a COD clone , it just 2 completely different games but yet in the same genre .
You don't have to emulate Scarface on PC. You can fix the bad PC port with Silent Patch and Fusion Fix (and if you want, install Remaster Project on top). The only thing it's missing at that point is blood textures on Tony, but I don't think that's worth emulating it for.
31:00 Scarface was peak, the hell you mean not that good overall? It's better than both Vice City and Vice City Stories. It's the ultimate Miami game of the PS2 era.
No? Beedawg
Scarface is dope AF, I still have it for my still functioning PS2.
I actually like the clone term. It does have a negative connotation to it, but it lets you know what kind of game it is. Like open world games, is it a GTA clone? or a Fallout clone? or a Far Cry clone? Those are very distinct type of open world games so you know what you are getting by what game they are "copying".
10:53 fucking love it when people get mad a video they havent even watched and still be wrong
Cyberpunk may not necessarily be a gta clone but we all wanted it to be the next gta replacement. This is at least 50% of why this game was so hyped up.
Goat Simulator 3 is a clear omission from your GTA clones list.
You know what, you’re absolutely right. I love that game and it’s definitely floating around that genre.
Probably most people who got mad at games being called a GTA clone... weren't of age during that era. Open world games with missions weren't a thing before GTA1 which is itself played down for the 'impact' GTA3 had on the world. That structure of gameplay especially in a modern city setting was called a GTA clone because at the time they really were following in its footsteps. It's not an insult, it's just a factor of the fast changing landscape of video games at that time. It's not like people weren't making that kind of game yet because GTA hadn't proven it to be popular... That kind of game hadn't been possible or even thought of yet. The term 'GTA clone' now would seem insulting and shallow, and would only be appropriate for those super cheaply made knock off apps that try to actually look like a GTA game but have none of the effort put into them.
Exactamundo. Definitely shows their age
Precisely.
Yees the waiting was worth it! Great Video Captain
I played all the GTA clones Mercenaries is my favorite
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Why are all the army clones go? For example. Call of duty World at war. Metal of Honor.
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WHY have all the "GTA Clones" gone?
it's *WHERE HAVE all the "GTA Clones" gone?
Saints Row 1 and 2 along with Destroy All Humans 1 and 2 managed to seperate themselves from GTA with thier edgy humour and unique features the grounded gameplay also worked to balance the seriousness of the story and the silliness of the gameplay
Another comparable game is the getaway. Set in England and a ps2 exclusive.
I mention those games in this very video
GTA 4 and 5 felt like GTA clones to me. Something that broke my heart was when I read a comment criticizing GTA San Andreas as being overrated for its "nonsensical story." Sure, I understand that I'm old, it's an old game, and there's a lot of nostalgia behind it, but the game was complete freedom for the era. There were so many fun and novel mechanics that are exclusive to San Andreas alone, and all for the upfront cost of $49.99. So many were cut from GTA 4 and 5, plus many still haven't made it into GTA online. And one thing is for sure, nobody played GTA for their storylines back then. In fact, most of the stories felt cleverly designed around the mechanics as a way of introducing you to the sandbox. Much of the map and late game mechanics were locked behind a large chunks of the story, so you just wanted to beat it to unlock the full experience at the end. It's was the fact the story would always introduce all the post game mechanics that had me so out of touch with GTA 5. I remember the first time I played the heist with Franklin and Michael, I fully expected heists to be a new mechanic, that you'd be able to set them up anytime you wanted afterwards, because that's what all my experiences with GTA had taught me until then.
I really wish everyone could've experienced San Andreas when it was released. I just can't do it justice here for how fun, innovative, and how much of a GTA game changer this classic masterpiece was at the time.
this deserve more views
We need Scarface 2 game
Fun fact:
LEMMY FROM MOTORHEAD WAS A CHARACTER IN THE SCAR FACE GAME
No Lemmy was never in scarface!!!!!!
My girlfriend thought Yakuza games were GTA clones. Then she played one...
Lol i thought this was a re upload for about 3.5% of a second there but damm you're right about the comments section BOY OHHH BOY!!!
They can't compete I guess, they should still try though
Ngl 17:58 Got me it was just a bit Unexpected.😂
The Gangstar games on the Nokia are actually pretty fun, I know that not everyone agrees but that's just my opinion
*Godfather, Godfather 2, Saints Row 3, Mafia 3 and True Crime New York City are my absolute favorites 👌 but to be honest, I'm glad the clone era is over. its time for Rockstar to step it up and show why they were worth cloning in the first place 🕵 GTA5 left a lot to be desired. GTA6 needs to be Legendary* 🙌
I haven't really played GTA but I've played it's clones. I would love to make one.
i think the getaway games are a good shout
Video is really cool
I honestly like Saints Row 1+2 and Sleeping Dogs more over some GTA games even Vice City and maybe San Andreas on how they age well for me. Vice City is popular game but personally don’t understand the appeal of the game.
If these gta clones remind me of gta this how I see them:
• Saints Row 2 = Vice City & San Andreas.
• Sleeping Dogs = bit of GTA 4 and more like Chinatown Wars.
• Saints Row 1 = San Andreas if set in mid 2000s.
We probably shouldn’t have called them “gta clones” only dumb critics and journalists call them that.
It's like souls like games , every hard game is a copy of fromsoftware (what people think)
Yeah, I remember people used to say that any open world that wasn't GTA was just a game to kill time while waiting for the next GTA. So pretty much those ''smaller games'' were just filler until the actual GTA showed up.
i am expecting 171 to come this year,well hope so
Watchdogs didnt come from Driver. If it did it's drivong wouldnt suck so much.
With all the retro throwback games I really wish someone would make a retro game in the style of III/Vice City, essentially a gta game from that era, with the graphics and everything. Might be too big of an undertaking for indie devs, but I know there has to be somebody out there with enough ambition to pull it off
There are modders who are making practically new games using the classic GTAs engines, check out Sindacco Chronicles and Forelli's Redemption
This is pretty awesomesauce, if you ask me.
Games are way more complex and way more expensive now, and for sandbox games, even more so. Its the same reason why we never see Skyrim clones. Its too, expensive, too complex and too risky. A commercial failure after years and millions of dollars spent on development can mean a Concord level disaster, and for some publishers that could sink the company.
28:46 haha ash's holo-spray
7:19 American Fugitive
Cool game
Ok, what was that sweet tune at the end? and please tag the music you use. there's a place in heaven for tubers who tag their music, they get what they want 3 seconds before they even want it manifested in front of them. there's also a room in hell for those who put banger tunes but don't tag it, they keep hearing good music but forever are haunted by anxiety of will they ever find it or hear it again. save your soul, tag your music. also, second video of you I watched, and the one that got me subbed
That’s actually my own mix of the Super Mario 3D World theme! 😂
@@CaptainGlack see, now that's just cruel.
Lego city undercover is my favorite gta clone
What do you mean not enough character to mafia 1.
The game has massive atmosphere.
Health around radar was from Price of Persia
Most games are a -Tetris- Chess clone
12:00 Never had to climb ALL towers or liberate ALL outposts in a GTA game :)
But I like AC Syndicate as the driveabale carriages make it more " GTA" :)
Yeah, games get compared no matter what, but new " GTA clones" are rare. Only one I own is Cyberpunk 2.0 which has similar elements but is yet so different. But Cyberpunk proved how difficult it is to make a believeable openworld, many " features" had to be pached in later...
I think the real GTA games just have so much more details put into them than other sandbox games, the open world of GTAV and RDR2 are still unmatched and GTA6 will top that further. That makes it hard for " clones" to be successful so less of them get made.
I don't exactly think they're gone, it's just that the market has been overflowed by low quality (mostly android) open world games that try to rival gta on paper while in reality they're quick cash grabs. Anything new will be probably faced with disbelief due to most of said games not being games made with care so a consumer will mostly trust brands and names they know and it's not exactly a bad thing. Take a look at the Paradise incident that has been making headlines lately. If you were a developer would you try making a new game knowing that you might fall into the flames surrounding cash grabs or would you try making something that people would buy anyway like a shooter pvp game or something else? To better explain what I mean I'll speak about the Mumbai open world game that we've probably all seen a trailer about. Personally I don't know if it's real and the fact that Paradise turned out to be a scam makes me even more skeptical to the point that I'm immediately losing my own interest in the Mumbai upcoming game. This means that by the time it's out I won't probably even search for it because my hype has disappeared while at the same time I'm over hyped for the new gta online dlc even though I know exactly that what I'll get won't be anything supercool and that I'll leave the game again after a few days
The first Saints Row was so good till they went goofy with it, Scarface was awesome too, not really a clone though.
If Scarface: The World is Yours wasn’t a GTA Clone, then what is? I always felt like GTA Vice City was a video game knockoff of The movie Scarface. So who cloned who, The Chicken or The Egg?
This was a nice video it was quite informative of games out there, However, I will Forever see the Word "GTA Clone" as a moronic word to use, since it basically meaning its a Copy of something which invalidates the Effort and Time Devs put into it a product like Crime Sandbox Games out there That you listed.
But to answer your question could be disappointing since the reason why there aren't enough crime sandbox games like saints row and Godfather, Scarface, Etc... is because there isn't a real need for games like that anymore. The people who needed games like that already got Grand Theft Auto 6 which is coming out within few months noted to be a Big game if I was a Developer I would either wait for Grand Theft auto 6 to release so I don't make a game that would suck to that game and Lose a lot of money since MAKING An game like Grand Theft Auto or any large Scale Crime Sandbox Games would be costly and risky it better off to just make an FPS or a Racing game at that point at least I would have a higher chance of sells then to go up against a Mega Giant Game company like Rockstar and Take2... as well their community.
Also, Rockstar went through a lot of Controversial problems so some devs may want to play safe [Even though it COULD boost Sells]
The only person who would make anything of that sort would have to be PASSIONATE about the Crime Sandbox Games Genre that they are making, but how can they be THAT if it is just going to be called "GTA Clone"? We lost Saints Row and a few other games because of this silly slang, and it is sadly and it only used by The Video Gamers space, not anywhere else.
Ohh scarface i loved the game (movie too)
Ok but hear me out elden ring is just GTA with swords and horses.
Now I’m upset
You sold me on cyberpunk I love fallout
Great and wonderful video. I am so happy you mentioned American Fugitive, I enjoyed that game a ton and am looking forward to The Precinct.
13:04 Nikocado Avocado? He was more than just two steps ahead...
calling every action/adventure game the gta clone should be a crime
Well gta laid the foundation, so it kind of is pal. Suck it up
I just want to say that in Driv3r the cars explode in many little pieces. Even the GOAT of physics GTA IV didn't do that
Because it's not particularly realistic. It's very Hollywood. Definitely cool, but not what you would actually expect to see, & GTA IV was very committed to building a believable world.
GTA 4 isn't goat of physics.
Because it's annoying and driver is all about staying in the car
"GTAIV GOAT of physics" lol far from it.
ppl calling cyberpunk a gta clone actually made me mad because all it takes to be called a gta clone is
an open world
a huge city
a wanted system
being able to steal cars
literally everything else about the game that's very clearly NOT gta? who cares 🤡
ayo what about sleeping dogs.....literally the best gta clone ever made...in my opinion
action/adventure game ❎
GTA CLONE ✅
Listening to the video ❎
Generalising ✅
You forgot sleeping dogs. 😢
theres a mission in gta 3 called the getaway also the getaway is made by dma design the now rockstar north from what i know
scarface 2 set in vegas got cancelled by activision when they bought scarface
You lost all credibility when you called cyberpunk not a GTA clone because of the multiple endings and first person view. GTA 5 has first person and GTA 4 has multiple endings.
Cyberpunk is absolutely a GTA clone if any of these other are.
If cyberpunk isn't, nothing is.
was also going to have a 3rd person mode at one point
Did you entirely skip over the part where I say Cyberpunk plays more like a Fallout than GTA?
The STRUCTURE of the games are very different. I don’t understand how you can’t see that tbh.
@@CaptainGlack Even then I don't entirely agree there. A lot of the games mentioned here have very different structures from GTA as well (Just Cause and Mafia in particular do a lot very differently to set them apart from GTA like you mentioned in the video).
Cyberpunk definitely takes more from GTA than Fallout imho. A lot of Deus Ex DNA present as well rather.
Nice video, brother. 😇💯❤️😊
Thanks my G 🖖💕
@@CaptainGlack You're welcome and thank you, brother.
too expensive to make em
Does there excist a single "GTA clone" were we play as a criminal in modern times? I know of no one!
I’ve always called them sandbox games
en france , on apellait ça des "gta like "(et des "doom like" pour les fps)
scarface is playable in first person on pc with mods i replayed the entire game in first person 4k 60 fps
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Forget to mention true crime streets of la
retro city rampage started as a top down version of gta 3 then it changed to retro same with gta advance and 3
I though a sandbox game, is a game where you can build things and do pretty much anything.... like Ark Survival Evolved.... Gta are just open world games.
All those comments from your last vid just goes to show that people obviously do not pay attention 😂
& I was so happy you DIDNT include Cyberpunk in your last vid because first
It’s a Role Playing Game with open world elements, I’m so relieved that you compared it to Fallout & Elder Scrolls 👍
Godfather 1 was soo good, but when 2 released it just wasn’t as good for whatever reason 🤷♂️
What about sleeping dogs ?😢
GTA 6 has an estimated $2bn budget
I'm making an open world sim for mobile VR if you want to take a look
Just a trend just like fashion, sports teams, music. Everyone moves on and dick rides what’s hot
Well I welcome any and all gta clones.. Mafia was amazing. Saints row was amazing ( before it became the joke gta online is now becoming.) rdr2 was absolutely fenomenal.. So more please..
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