Grand Theft Auto Online

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3.9

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 171 Ratings

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  1. VeryQuestionabl
    Sep 10, 2015
    5
    While Online GTA gives you customizable characters and cars and offers all types of ways players can play co-op or vs. each other, it has some very random drawbacks Rockstar must fix if it plans to keep GTA Online relevant:

    * when you join a mission, it whisks you away to a limbo place in the sky. then, 75% of the time, it tells you that mission is already full.and drops you somewhere    While Online GTA gives you customizable characters and cars and offers all types of ways players can play co-op or vs. each other, it has some very random drawbacks Rockstar must fix if it plans to keep GTA Online relevant:

    * when you join a mission, it whisks you away to a limbo place in the sky. then, 75% of the time, it tells you that mission is already full.and drops you somewhere else around the city. All of this takes about 1 full minute, then you have to search for a new mission to get rejected from. How about if the missions is full, DON'T INVITE ME!

    * when you join a heist or mission and anyone leaves, the mission is done. You cannot sub someone in, you cannot pick up from the last major checkpoint. You must start the process of inviting players over, which can take 5-10 minutes often. If it takes more than 2-3, players start leaving and you ended up going through about 9 people just to find 4. So, you can play the whole mission when someone loses internet connection and POOF have to completely restart the last 45 minutes of your life.

    Between yesterday and today, I've played seven missions and lost all due to no fault of my own, in almost all cases someone just left the mission and we had to start from scratch. There are so many time-wasting features that it makes me feel Rockstar isn't taking GTAO seriously. They need to add more heists and missions and more stuff to buy if they want this to be a real game and not simply a novel add-on. Perhaps that happens in patches, or else it happens next GTA. Either way, they badly need to change the horrid time-wasting way the player-matching is designed. Plenty of games have already done that better, sucks that they're so far behind the curve on this one point.    … Expand
  2. Sir_Rage
    May 11, 2015
    7
    Well, GTA O isn't total rubbish now. But Rockstar has made some questionable descions in this version. The previous GTA online didn't have the promised heists, and it was borderline unplayable. You couldn't earn money and if you did you wouldn't keep it for very long. Well with heists you can earn money and it seems they raised the payout of all missions by a significant amount which meansWell, GTA O isn't total rubbish now. But Rockstar has made some questionable descions in this version. The previous GTA online didn't have the promised heists, and it was borderline unplayable. You couldn't earn money and if you did you wouldn't keep it for very long. Well with heists you can earn money and it seems they raised the payout of all missions by a significant amount which means you wont have to grind money for weeks to get one car. They've also fixed passive mode like it should have been in the first place so passive players CANNOT be killed by another player ( Unless they dive out of their car at you, or ram other cars into you )
    But the major things like Cheating and Cops still remain a problem. Starting with the modders, Rockstar is banning these players very quickly, But they've also decided to ban players who've recieved help from modders in the form of money or cars, A qustionable choice considering rockstar can just remove illegitimate cars, or money. Now for the Cops, They are still WAY too aggressive. Rockstar has done nothing to balance the cops. I still guarentee that you will die to the cops more then to other players.

    On the topic of other players, PVP is more unbalanced. The tank was a problem in the previous GTA onlines since it was pretty much indestructable. Rockstars solution was to add more indestructable armored vehicles, The Insurgent, Kuruma, and Hydra. The insurgent (without the gun) Is a seriously unbalanced vehicle. It is far more durable then a tank, and the driver cannot be killed from the rear. The kuruma is absolutely invulnerable to bullets. You wont kill the driver or passengers of a kuruma easily. Now you may tell me that I can blow these vehicles up, Which is true. I can blow them up. But the Kuruma can cost you $7k to blow up. and the Insurgent $17k to destroy. And in lobbies packed with such players this will make you broke, and a bad sport. The gun insurgent is just plain annoying. If you don't have a minigun to wipe out the gunner and driver of the gun insurgent I would just stay in passive mode.
    GTA online was just broken and incomplete in 2013. It was absolutely unacceptable for rockstar to release such an unfinished product, then continue to make it worse with patches and reduced pay outs until they lost a lot of their daily players. GTA online is more of a full package now, It's fixed many of the irritating design choices, but it's far from being perfect. Until bad sport pools, insurance and healthcare bills, and the over aggressive cops are removed or fixed, GTA online deserves no more then a 7/10..    … Expand
  3. dprkforum
    Nov 21, 2016
    5
    I love GTA Online - if it is in an invite-only session with a group of pals. There's lots to do, and plenty of in-game money to be made. Plenty of stuff to buy and customize. That is pretty much the extent of the positives.

    Now for the negatives. There's a lot of them! 1. Forget the public lobbies. They are filled with cheaters. I do not mind those using tanks and being jerks in    I love GTA Online - if it is in an invite-only session with a group of pals. There's lots to do, and plenty of in-game money to be made. Plenty of stuff to buy and customize. That is pretty much the extent of the positives.

    Now for the negatives. There's a lot of them!

    1. Forget the public lobbies. They are filled with cheaters. I do not mind those using tanks and being jerks in general - it is Grand Theft Auto. It is a game of mayhem, and designed to be that way. It's the cheaters I have a serious problem with. Everything from duping players, dropping billions of in game dollars, and ruining the game for everybody. Plus innocent people get banned in the process. Just use a private lobby.

    Side note - If you have a thin skin, and are easily offended, do not play the game. The players are absolutely awful. Screaming over the mic and flamewars consisting of how many ways they want to have sex with your mother or how Hitler is their homeboy.

    2. Rockstar is aggressively pushing Shark Cards with extremely expensive in game items that take days to grind for. This is why people cheat in the game. The payouts in the missions are a joke, and it seems with every patch or DLC, the payouts get worse. Therefore, making items extremely difficult to grind for.

    3. Loading screens. More loading screens. Getting booted from jobs. Glitches.

    4. It can get boring at times, especially when grinding. Lots of fetch quests. If you are a single player looking to boost your score, forget it. Grinding sp missions cost more in bullets than what it pays out. Which means you have to be selective in the missions you do to maximize payouts.

    In all, GTA Online is one of the most toxic, if not the most toxic game I have ever played other than probably League of legends. Play with some pals, and you should be set.    … Expand
  4. JoelArpal
    Dec 27, 2020
    6
    How the online works should be illegal. A part from that i've had a few good moments with friends, so that makes it worth playing.
  5. Viking706
    Mar 2, 2020
    5
    The missions are locked behind purchasable properties. You gotta grind or shell out real money to purchase these properties. Also the countless number of griefers eventually turn you into one of them.