Grand Theft Auto: Director's Cut is the 1998 PC package pairing the original top-down Grand Theft Auto with the GTA: London 1969 expansion, from DMA Design. You play a small-time criminal taking jobs across living, real-time cities, free to hijack any vehicle and cause as much havoc as you like. It released on PC and PlayStation.
The Vault · 1998
Grand Theft Auto: Director’s Cut
Play the bad guy in a living city, and love every minute.
Grand Theft AutoAction
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How to Play TodayYour options for running this game in 2026
Original Hardware
A late-90s Windows PC with the CD.
Modern Re-release
The original GTA and GTA: London were released free by Rockstar and turn up on abandonware-friendly fronts; both run on modern Windows with a little coaxing.