Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto is a 2004 Action-Adventure, Top-down, and Single-player video game takes place in an Open World environment, developed by Digital Eclipse and published by Rockstar Games. The game is also referred to as GTA Advance and is played from a top-down perspective. The viewpoint of the game was found in first two titles in the series such as Grand Theft Auto and Grand Theft Auto 2, but vehicle-based missions, top-down display, and the major section of the weapons were also included. It takes place in the Liberty City, the fictional town that occurred in Grand Theft Auto III in the year 2000. The plot follows the protagonist named Mike, a small criminal, working his way for the more connected Vinnie. The protagonist is reconsidering to leave the city with Vinnie and retire from his life of crime. There are a set of missions, and the player needs to accomplish each one to advance through the game to become the master. Grand Theft Auto includes prominent features such as Top-down Action, Exploration, Open Environment, Vehicle-based Side-Missions, and more.
#1 Shakedown: Hawaii
Shakedown: Hawaii is a Pixel Graphics, Action-Adventure, Retro-style, Top-down, and Single-player video game, offering the similar gameplay to Grand Theft Auto (2004), developed and published by Vblank Entertainment, Inc. The game offers the open world environment and the player steps into the protagonist’s role with an aim to explore the world from a top-down perspective and complete a set of missions to advance. It parodies huge corporation, white collar crimes and more. As the protagonist, the player can move across the environment, use a set of weapons to face rivals and smash them to earn money which can be used to unlock further content. The game comes with increasingly difficult, and the player will face challenging enemies upon reaching higher levels. During gameplay, the player interacts with other characters and pick power-ups to increase the shooting ability. The player is tasked to create a legitimate corporation via open world missions, shakedown, sabotage, and more. With prominent features, top-down action, open missions, and original soundtracks, Shakedown: Hawaii is one of the best games as compared to other of the same genres.
#2 Retro City Rampage
Retro City Rampage deals with Action-Adventure, and Open World gameplay elements developed and published by Vblank Entertainment. The game serves as the parody of retro video games and 80s and 90s pop culture, as well as offering the similar gameplay to Grand Theft Auto. It takes place in the city of Theftropolis in 1985 and the player steps into the role of the protagonist, a thug, who is hired as a henchman of a huge crime syndicated controlled by Jester. After three years, during the bank heist which is gone wrong, the player runs into the time travelling telephone booth, which he then steals from its boss. As the story of the game proceeds, the telephone booth flings the player forward an indeterminate set of time to the year 20XX. Upon reaching, the telephone both breaks down and a man appears named Doc Choc in his own time travelling vehicle and saves the player. Now, the player has to gather the rare parts required to repair the telephone time booth with Doc Choc, while discovering several 80s video games.