Grand Theft Auto (video game)

Quality:

Grand Theft Auto - 1997 action-adventure open world video game. This video game is the 296^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of video games and the 961^st most popular video game in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Grand Theft Auto (video game)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 2.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.13 points.

This article has the best quality in Portuguese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 961^st most popular in video games in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 296^th most popular in video games.

In June 2025 the article “Grand Theft Auto (video game)” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Grand Theft Auto (video game)”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2125 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Grand Theft Auto is on the 961^st place in local ranking of video games in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 296^th place in global ranking of video games in all the time.

The article is cited 24 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1766 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #955 in December 2023
• Global: #1611 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #24905 in December 2023
• Global: #3019 in May 2008

There are 41 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Portuguese (pt) Grand Theft Auto (jogo eletrônico)		75.6727
2	English (en) Grand Theft Auto (video game)		72.8067
3	Croatian (hr) Grand Theft Auto		48.5761
4	German (de) Grand Theft Auto (Computerspiel)		47.0081
5	Ukrainian (uk) Grand Theft Auto (відеогра)		43.0468
6	Vietnamese (vi) Grand Theft Auto (trò chơi điện tử)		41.147
7	Malay (ms) Grand Theft Auto (permainan video)		34.6014
8	Russian (ru) Grand Theft Auto (игра)		34.0273
9	Greek (el) Grand Theft Auto (βιντεοπαιχνίδι)		32.9822
10	Finnish (fi) Grand Theft Auto		31.7924

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Grand Theft Auto (video game)		6 896 965
2	Japanese (ja) グランド・セフト・オート		1 612 124
3	Russian (ru) Grand Theft Auto (игра)		990 222
4	Spanish (es) Grand Theft Auto (videojuego)		517 580
5	Italian (it) Grand Theft Auto		438 746
6	French (fr) Grand Theft Auto (jeu vidéo)		418 472
7	Portuguese (pt) Grand Theft Auto (jogo eletrônico)		263 712
8	German (de) Grand Theft Auto (Computerspiel)		235 393
9	Polish (pl) Grand Theft Auto (gra komputerowa)		205 767
10	Finnish (fi) Grand Theft Auto		145 453

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Grand Theft Auto (video game)		27 488
2	Russian (ru) Grand Theft Auto (игра)		3 521
3	Spanish (es) Grand Theft Auto (videojuego)		2 941
4	French (fr) Grand Theft Auto (jeu vidéo)		2 051
5	German (de) Grand Theft Auto (Computerspiel)		1 938
6	Japanese (ja) グランド・セフト・オート		1 563
7	Portuguese (pt) Grand Theft Auto (jogo eletrônico)		1 364
8	Italian (it) Grand Theft Auto		1 173
9	Polish (pl) Grand Theft Auto (gra komputerowa)		844
10	Persian (fa) جی‌تی‌ای (بازی ویدئویی)		616

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Grand Theft Auto (video game)		677
2	Spanish (es) Grand Theft Auto (videojuego)		177
3	German (de) Grand Theft Auto (Computerspiel)		163
4	Russian (ru) Grand Theft Auto (игра)		112
5	French (fr) Grand Theft Auto (jeu vidéo)		109
6	Italian (it) Grand Theft Auto		86
7	Dutch (nl) Grand Theft Auto (computerspel)		82
8	Polish (pl) Grand Theft Auto (gra komputerowa)		78
9	Portuguese (pt) Grand Theft Auto (jogo eletrônico)		59
10	Finnish (fi) Grand Theft Auto		58

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Grand Theft Auto (video game)		5
2	Spanish (es) Grand Theft Auto (videojuego)		2
3	German (de) Grand Theft Auto (Computerspiel)		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Grand Theft Auto (videójáték)		1
5	Simple English (simple) Grand Theft Auto (video game)		1
6	Arabic (ar) جراند ثفت أوتو (لعبة فيديو)		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Grand Theft Auto		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Grand Theft Auto		0
9	Catalan (ca) Grand Theft Auto (videojoc)		0
10	Czech (cs) Grand Theft Auto (videohra)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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