4 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 163.5 hrs on record (162.6 hrs at review time)
Posted: 5 May, 2015 @ 10:37am
Updated: 22 Nov, 2017 @ 10:57am

As you might have already heard, this brand new 2 year old game is just freakin fantastic!

+ Great story (although a bit short if you ask me) with loads of mission variety - shooting, driving, flying, diving, boating, parachuting, stealth... you name it, GTA V has it. Also there are a ton of cutscenes that have great dialogue, writing, voice acting, and are always entertaining and fun to watch.

+ Great main characters, never mind what crazy people say, Trevor is the man! He's pretty much the only GTA character that acts like a psycho both in cutscenes and in-game (you know, when you're making him murder innocent people with a rocket launcher, as you do). Michael is pretty great too, a lot of his missions are wacky in a sitcom/soap opera mashup kinda way. Franklin is a bit too average in my opinion, but he has his moments (and a puppy!).

+ Amazing graphics, never knew 360 and ps3 games looked so damn good. ;)

+ This game is so full of small, teeny tiny details. For example, when you're playing in third person and you pull out your phone, it shows it in the bottom right corner of your screen, and while you're navigating the phone menu, you can see the tiny phone screen in your character's hand actually displaying the same stuff you see on your bottom right, and when your character receives a call and answers it, the phone lights up his face as he puts it up to his ear. It's small details like these that make GTA V's version of Los Santos come alive.

+ Car sounds! Sit in GTA's version of a Lamborghini or Ferrari, switch to first person view and enjoy the engine sounds.

+ Danger zone, Fortunate Son, Danger zone, Carry On Wayward Son, Danger zone, Gimme All Your Lovin', DANGER ZONE!!1!

+/- Runs fine on average poor man's gaming hardware - 660ti, i7 920 @3Ghz, 8gb of ram can squeeze close to an average of 60 fps with everything turned up to high/very high, IF! you turn the grass down to normal. If not, lock your fps to 30, turn up the grass and enjoy your ps4 game). That is of course if you don't get struck by the stuttering bug which they may or may not fix, who knows... or you know, if your game doesn't start (these problems are plaguing a lot of people, so keep that in mind before throwing money at rockstar).

Online is a thing, I'm not a big fan of online games unless they are proper mmo's (this game is not an mmo), but I wouldn't recommend playing GTA online alone (as in with random people), cause it just might bore you to death.

It may not really be a perfect game by any standards, but it gave me everything I wanted out of it and more. It's just a fantastic open world game, and instantly one of my favorite games ever - 10/10.
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