Grand Theft Auto III (Xbox, 2001)

Grand Theft Auto III (GTA III) revolutionized the gaming scene with it's open ended playing style. Basically in GTA III you are dropped in the middle of a large and busy city and allowed to do basically whatever you want. You can steal a car and go cruising around town. You can mug people on the streets. You can go on a rampage and take out all the gang members hanging out in the city park. Plus at any time you can go to a variety of locations and recieve a mission to accomplish. During missions you'll pick up key people and take them to another location, you'll do dirty work for the mob, you'll compete in street races, you'll use bazookas and tanks to take out the police, and commit all manner of mischief and crimes. There's so much to do, see, and explore that you could play this game forever and not find, see, and do everything. This is not a game for childeren, but if you're old enought to handle it, you simply can't exclude this game from your xbox collection.