Joshimuz Presents: Rockstar Games' Games Marathon
To prepare and celebrate the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI, between the 26th of May and the 19th of November Joshimuz will be playing through every single Rockstar Games' game, back to back!
The marathon will be live on Twitch and Youtube Tuesday to Friday (with some Mondays and Saturdays) starting 9:30 UK time, with full and edited playthroughs posted to Youtube shortly after. Dates for when each game will roughly be played can be found on the schedule page.
Below is the list of every game that will be played, along with a Youtube link to the playthrough, how long it took Joshimuz to beat it, and what tier list raiting he gave it.
The full list of games is from the "official" list found on Rockstar's website. This list was chosen as it's as close to an "official" list as possible which cannot be edited freely by anyone, so debates over what is and isn't included are fruitless. If you take any issues with what is or isn't included then take it up with Rockstar Games and not with me!
After the marathon Joshimuz will go straight into playing GTA VI!
| Game | YouTube link(s) | Time taken | Notes | Tier list rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wild Metal Country | UNCUT | 12:56:57 | Could've beaten in ~9 hours if I had complete gameplay knowledge from the start. Game was OK but waaaay too long with very barren empty maps. Classic 90s "just add more content!" logic. | Advanced |
| Thrasher Presents Skate and Destroy | UNCUT | 5:11:47* | I have never played a skating game. I do not care about skating. The game is a skating simulator, more so than THPS, and expects you to know what a DS 180 Tricky Backshot Grindslave is and when to do the 5 button combo for it. After struggling through 6 out of 12 levels it became apparent that I was not going to be able to progress. Chat agreed with me to skip this game when I finally learnt to do manuals and we figured out that they do not continue combos. The speedrun WR which everyone was using as backseat fuel does a glitch to make manuals continue combos. This game is apparently way jankier and harder than THPS, but I have no frame of refrence. I do not feel good skipping a game, but for the sake of the marathon we need to continue, no one was having fun. I may return later. | Definitive Edition |
| Grand Theft Auto | Soon™️ | 11:56:11 | Terrible mission design, stupid score requirements to progress requiring cheesing, awful map layouts, and really hard instakill combat... but despite all that it's still really the first game of it's kind so honestly gets a pass for a lot of it. | Advanced |
| Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 | Soon™️ | 4:11:15 | This was way better than GTA. Much better missions, much nicer map, and sort of a coherent story! | III |
| Grand Theft Auto 2 | Soon™️ | 19:32:55 | This was waaaaaaaaay better than GTA and London! Much nicer map layouts, camera is much improved, movement, missions, everything! Still personally not a fan of 2D GTAs so did not enjoy it towards the end, and it took a long time as I was only playing missions and not grinding score. I can see why people like this one though, but not for me personally. | III |
| Oni | Soon™️ | 18:06:55 | Alright AA early rushed PS2 game. Story is mega skin deep with 6 total characters and one plot point/twist. Gameplay is fine but repeative and classic non-reging health is a pain in the arse coz the only strat is damage avoidance and nothing else. Played on Hard, was indeed hard. Controls are shit pre-industry standard ones and the main issue with the game. No air control with jumping, but jumping puzzles and instakill falls. Jump is L1. Oddly lacking music 90% of the time. Only 8 way movement so Analog stick was useless. Almost all guns were useless minus a few OP ones (if the green thing wanted to coperate that is). | III |
| Smuggler's Run | Soon™️ | 7:01:10 | Very cool game for launch PS2 title! Wish I had played back in the day. Awesome graphics, solid frame rate, great physics. Cool levels, decentish mission variety. Overall a welcome surprise! Difficulty got a bit stupid towards the end though, otherwise 10/10 would play again. | San Andreas |
| Midnight Club: Street Racing | Soon™️ | 3:38:40 | Weird prototype open world racing game. Controls have a weird drift issue (where the car's steering won't return to centre sometimes). Progression in the game is very convelutied and weird, you don't just press the "Next race" button, but instead have to either chase people repeated around the map, or ring them to directly race them if you want to unlock their cars, once you've done that enough a new racer spawns who you can race to move on. Very short, TooLongToBeat says 7:30 but I took less than 4 and could easily have taken less than 3 had I understood the games archaic progression structure from the start. | Advanced |
| Smuggler's Run 2: Hostile Territory | Soon™️ | 7:16:00 | Huge improvement over the first game. Graphics massively improved with better world and MUCH better vehicle graphics. Gameplay remains largely the same except the police have been made much more fair, you can actually destroy and lose them, and the countermeasures feature helps too! I bet the multiplayer is a lot of fun but I haven't tested that. | San Andreas |
| The Italian Job | Soon™️ | 3:32:22 | Why did they release a PS1 game in 2002, a year before the movie was remade (and this is based on the OG version). The grahics are pretty good for a PS1 game, but that's the only upside. The gameplay is generic/simple driving game, the physics are absolute trash, the audio is terribly balanced, with 2 music tracks total and hideous constant siren/honking sound effects. Maybe more fun if you like the film, or if you're a kid and this is your first exposure to funny British accents I guess? | Defintive Edition |
| State of Emergency | ||||
| Max Payne | ||||
| Grand Theft Auto III | ||||
| Midnight Club 2 | ||||
| Grand Theft Auto: Vice City | ||||
| Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne | ||||
| Manhunt | ||||
| Red Dead Revolver | ||||
| Grand Theft Auto Advance | ||||
| Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | ||||
| Midnight Club: Dub Edition | ||||
| Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories | ||||
| The Warriors | ||||
| Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories | ||||
| Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis | ||||
| Manhunt 2 | ||||
| Beaterator | ||||
| Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars | ||||
| Grand Theft Auto IV | ||||
| Midnight Club: Los Angeles | ||||
| Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned | ||||
| Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony | ||||
| Max Payne 3 | ||||
| Bully | ||||
| LA Noire | ||||
| Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare | ||||
| Grand Theft Auto III The Definitive Edition | ||||
| Grand Theft Auto: Vice City The Definitive Edition | ||||
| Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas The Definitive Edition | ||||
| Red Dead Redemption Online | ||||
| Red Dead Redemption | ||||
| Red Dead Redemption II | ||||
| Grand Theft Auto Online | ||||
| Grand Theft Auto V |