8th July 2005, 8:40 PM
They seem to be equating the popularity of GTA to its "innovation" and disregarding any other innovations which were not as popular. GTA is innovative, of course, but it's not as innovative as the article seems to believe. It's merely extremely popular and highly copied. GTA on the PS2 took the open-endedness of it's predecessors and added in a story and realism that wasn't present in the previous titles. Games were open-ended before GTA came along, it just made it popular.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.