GTA's Wanted Level Is One of Video Games’ Perfect Ideas

With Grand Theft Auto 6 so close that you can practically taste Leonida’s bog water, I’m starting to reflect on why the GTA series still excites me after decades of playing. It’s easy to write off Rockstar’s series as typical open-world games, but the truth is that GTA is filled with brilliant design decisions that are too easy to take for granted. Case in point: the Wanted system, one of the brightest ideas in a series full of them.