Main article: San Andreas was criticised initially due to its 'gangster' elements, which include drugs, prostitution, and murder. After the threat of a lawsuit by the Haitian-American Grassroots Coalition, Rockstar removed the word 'Haitians' from this phrase in the game's subtitles. Jean-Robert Lafortune of the Haitian American Grassroots Coalition is quoted as saying that 'The game shouldn't be designed to destroy human life, it shouldn't be designed to destroy an ethnic group,' for this and similar scenarios, including lines in the game's script such as 'kill the Haitian dickheads' said by character 'Diaz' during an altercation between the player and a Haitian gang.

Haitian and Cuban anti-defamation groups criticised the game.

Grand Theft Auto III and subsequent games have more voice acting and radio stations, which simulate driving to music with disc jockeys, radio personalities, and American culture. These missions are required to complete in order to unlock new areas in the game. There are exceptions: missions follow a linear, overarching plot. Influenced by the earlier game, the cities of the games can be roamed freely at any point in the game, and are examples of video game environments which offer accessible buildings with minor missions in addition to the main storyline.

Traditional action games are structured as a single track series of levels with, but in Grand Theft Auto the player can determine the missions that they want to undertake, and their relationship with various characters are changed based on these choices. The Grand Theft Auto series belongs to a genre of free-roaming role-playing video games called games, and grants a large amount of freedom to the player. In later titles, notably those released after, the player is given a more developed storyline in which they are forced to overcome an unfortunate event (e.g., being betrayed and left for dead), which serves as motivation for the character to advance up the criminal ladder and ultimately leads to the triumph of the character by the end of the storyline.

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