Grand Theft Auto is a top-down action-adventure video game developed by Digital Eclipse and published by Rockstar Games for the Game Boy Advance, released on October 26, 2004.[1] The game is referred to as Grand Theft Auto Advance on its title screen; the game's cover art and all promotional material refer to it as simplyGrand Theft Auto.[2]The game is played from a top-down perspective; this view angle was seen on the first two games in the series, Grand Theft Auto and Grand Theft Auto 2, but vehicle-based side-missions (such as "Vigilante" and "Paramedic"), the heads-up display and a large majority of the weapons, first introduced in the three-dimensional counterparts, were also included.