Mission Passed
By LaunchPod Studios / Listen Foundry
Categories: Leisure, Video Games, Society & Culture, Documentary
A 10-part unofficial look back at every Grand Theft Auto, from the top-down 1997 original to GTA V and Online, then ahead to GTA VI on 19 November 2026. Dev played the first one on a beige PC in Birmingham. Kaz came in through San Andreas and lived in GTA Online. About 20 minutes, three times a week. Dev and Kaz are AI voices, and this show is produced with AI tools. Unofficial. Not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive. Grand Theft Auto and related marks belong to Take-Two Interactive.
9 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- EP09: The Road to VI (Grand Theft Auto VI, the long wait)
Two weeks out from Grand Theft Auto VI, Dev and Kaz walk the public road to launch. The long gap after Five. The September 2022 breach and the British court record around Arion Kurtaj, carefully, as reported. Trailer 1, Trailer 2, two delays, the August 2026 Extended Look, the October launch…
- EP08: GTA Online, Thirteen Years in Los Santos (Grand Theft Auto Online, 2013)
Kaz spent most of her twenties in GTA Online. Dev just wanted to drive about. From the broken launch in October 2013 and the half-million stimulus, to heists, Shark Cards, the Diamond Casino, Cayo Perico, roleplay servers, a player who fixed the loading screens, and Michael De Santa's return. Plus…
- EP07: GTA V, Three Leads and a Record (Grand Theft Auto V, 2013)
Dev and Kaz head back to Los Santos for Grand Theft Auto V, from September 2013. Three playable leads and the switch between them, the heists, the radio, the launch that made a billion dollars in three days, seven Guinness World Records, and a game that came back on three generations of consoles…
- EP06: GTA IV, Niko and the Grey City (Grand Theft Auto IV, 2008)
Episode six is Grand Theft Auto IV. Dev bought it on release day and thinks it's the best story in the series. Kaz came to it late and never took to it. They get into the long wait and the trailer that started Rickrolling, a Liberty City built from New York, Niko and his cousin Roman, the grey…
- EP05: San Andreas, Grove Street (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, 2004)
Episode five is San Andreas. Dev bought it new. Kaz came in through her brother's PS2 and has never really left. They get into three cities and a countryside, CJ and the casting behind him, the role-playing touches, the radio, how it sold, a fair look at the criticism, and the Hot Coffee re-rating…
- EP04: Vice City, 1986 (Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, 2002)
Episode four goes to Miami in 1986. Dev bought Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on release day. Kaz played it after San Andreas, which is like seeing a gig backwards. They get into how a mission pack became a whole game, why Miami Vice mattered more than Scarface, the hero who finally speaks and the…
- EP03: GTA III and the Jump to 3D (GTA III, 2001)
Episode three is the one that changed everything. Dev played Grand Theft Auto III the week it came out. Kaz only got to it through the twentieth anniversary remaster. They get into how a Dreamcast city prototype and an abandoned Godzilla game turned into the first 3D Grand Theft Auto, the three…
- EP02: Respect, Gangs and Anywhere City (GTA 2, 1999)
Episode two goes to Anywhere City, the strangest setting in the series. Dev bought Grand Theft Auto 2 on release day and played it least. Kaz has never played it. They get into the respect meter, where seven gangs remember who you worked for, the six-head wanted level that ends with tanks, the…
- EP01: Top Down, Dundee and London (GTA, 1997)
Episode one goes back to where it all started: a two-room office above an old chip shop in Dundee, a buggy cops-and-robbers prototype called Race 'n' Chase, and the top-down Grand Theft Auto that landed at the end of November 1997. Dev played it at thirteen on a beige PC. Kaz, who came in through…
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