lettuce cee here
The only 3 soundtracks worth mentioning imo was:
GTA 3
Vice City
San Andreas
Vice City and Liberty City stories had like 1-2 gems that stood out to me but overall i wasn't impresed
GTA 4 talk radio was fukking HILARIOUS. The music itself though outside of the electro stations wasn't that great. I got so tired of hearing swizz beats "top down" track. When Ballad of Gay Tony dropped I liked the soundtrack re-vamp for the electro stations that they did.
GTA 5 don't ever speak to me about that game because it don't exist to me
Now back to the worthy choices:
GTA 3 had Game FM which I could literally sing along for the whole broadcast over and over, and it also put people onto Royce da 5'9. Talk radio (Chatterbox) was fukking hilarious. I'd rate this at the bottom of the 3
Vice City had the obvious 80's cuts and we all know the 80's was fire in terms of music. I had so many stations I fukked with in terms of listening potential. Talk radio was pretty good as well. I'd rate this as the GOAT soundtrack. it also fit the game much much better than san andreas did for some reason. Like the 80's just STOOD OUT, it was like a damn movie.
San andreas had amazing music, but not as many choices IMO outside of a couple of stations. and I didn't like the talk radio. But it definitely brought a vibe that I loved, especially CSR 103.9. This game goes to #2 in my book