"Game Over" is a feature appearing only in the 2D Universe.

Description

In Grand Theft Auto, its two expansions – Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 and Grand Theft Auto: London 1961 and Grand Theft Auto 2, players have limited lives. A life is lost by getting the player character wasted. Losing all lives will result in a "Game Over" message appearing instead of the normal "Mission Failed" or "Wasted" message, and the game will also end, instead of the player resuming as normal after being wasted. The game can also manually end the game at any time.

When a game ends, the player's score is saved on a leaderboard if the session's score was greater than any of the scores on the leaderboard. After a game over, the player cannot resume normally from the last session. The player must load a prior save in Grand Theft Auto 2 or use a passcode in the Game Boy Color version of Grand Theft Auto and Grand Theft Auto 2 in order to resume. This can result in loss of completed mission progress, and the player may have to do previously completed missions again.

This feature was removed in Grand Theft Auto III along with the score leaderboard, and the player has unlimited lives in the story mode of every 3D Universe and HD Universe game.