Lots of reactionary GTA hate here.

Great games, all of them; they're critically acclaimed and sell boatloads for a reason in this case. It's got a wonderfully freeform gameplay that allows you to play pretty much however you want, professional grade voice acting, intricate urban warfare storylines, great graphics (for the aging PS2), easy controls, a decent challenge gameplay-wise, and pretty much every flavor of action gameplay thate exists.

The Xbox version will probably get improved textures and (hopefully) draw distance.