Grand Theft Auto V

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7.9

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  1. Mandala
    Apr 17, 2015
    7
    GTA V is an improvement over GTA IV, easily, but it's not up to GTA San Andreas' level of craftmanship.

    GTA V has less sense of urgency, exploration, adventure, excitement, creativity, and running wild and free than GTA San Andreas accomplished, and the GTA V mission layout is inefficient and seems like it was done to artificially elongate player play-time. With GTA V, Rockstar seem    GTA V is an improvement over GTA IV, easily, but it's not up to GTA San Andreas' level of craftmanship.

    GTA V has less sense of urgency, exploration, adventure, excitement, creativity, and running wild and free than GTA San Andreas accomplished, and the GTA V mission layout is inefficient and seems like it was done to artificially elongate player play-time.

    With GTA V, Rockstar seem to have proven as de-facto that they do not have much competence at PC game-making, as the UI in GTA V is pretty hodgepodge thrown together, the minigame controls that come up in GTA V missions are very erratic / inconsistent, and accessibility for things in GTA V can be really non-intuitive, and not in line with expected functionality. Rockstar seems to clearly be a console developer who has made an effort for the PC version, but have little familiarity with the PC gaming experience. A lot of their design choices in GTA V are abysmal, and beneath average usability. They need to get their heads out of their own asses, and open their eyes and figure their sh*t out better. Maybe they're expecting a free pass without doing the proper work owed.

    The city of San Andreas is very nice, but it feels like GTA V doesn't make enough use of it. There is a lot less of a feeling of exploiting every opportunity in GTA V than there is in GTA San Andreas. GTA V is just a lot more normal than GTA San Andreas, and maybe that's why they made the Trevor character - to compensate for lacking an innate creative zaniness in the writing, mission design, overall main story. But as the player, I've wanted to kill Trevor off all along, and don't enjoy playing as him, or his contribution to the story.

    I think that the character Trevor doesn't work.The character Trevor is crazy, but RS don't seem to have known what they were trying to accomplish by it, and it feels a bit as though it was done just to see what it was like, or just to grab people's attention with vapid shock value. Having better design in the game would instead be a satisfying player draw, and Trevor seems gimmicky.

    The story in GTA V feels a bit mundane, and it makes the individual mission shine less, and have less sense of important purpose within them. Kind of feels like like just dealing with things while nothing more interesting is going on.

    The GTA V mission design is all criss-crossed across the map, so it's not like GTA San Andreas, where you'll have a bunch of mission development in an area - instead, GTA V has the player driving not especially interesting distances between each mission, and it's reducing of engagement. Maybe RS had fewer missions and tried to stretch out the playtime with this design. Whatever their reason, relying on such a tactic doesn't help the game, but makes it clear that a lack of design quality is present.

    GTA V is OK, the graphics are good - but RS hasn't employed as masterful a touch in this product as they did in GTA San Andreas, and some things in GTA V feel like RS were trying to hide recognition of that by using noisy distractions.

    I hope RS start earning their reputation again, rather than riding on it.    … Expand
  2. Ozimandeus
    Sep 11, 2015
    7
    The praise is deserved, a richer open world experience is hard to find. However there is no getting away from the fact that the games systems are unchanged from GTA3 onwards. Therefore whilst what we get is amazing and huge and yadda yadda yadda. It is, after-all, a derivative game of what has gone before. There is no attempt at originality here, instead it treads the same old ground, butThe praise is deserved, a richer open world experience is hard to find. However there is no getting away from the fact that the games systems are unchanged from GTA3 onwards. Therefore whilst what we get is amazing and huge and yadda yadda yadda. It is, after-all, a derivative game of what has gone before. There is no attempt at originality here, instead it treads the same old ground, but it is the same old ground done to perfection. Worthy of a purchase, but not GotY material. I for one, am just plain bored with third-person open world games. Can we please have some originality rockstar?… Expand
  3. Kislen
    Aug 12, 2015
    7
    I really appreciate the time they took to make the PC version of this game robust. If not for that, I'd have hit this game with a lower rating. They did a great job making it run well. That said:

    If you've played GTAIV, there's virtually no reason to buy this game. It's pretty much the same schtick, with the main difference between different characters which are completely unlikeable    I really appreciate the time they took to make the PC version of this game robust. If not for that, I'd have hit this game with a lower rating. They did a great job making it run well. That said:

    If you've played GTAIV, there's virtually no reason to buy this game. It's pretty much the same schtick, with the main difference between different characters which are completely unlikeable unlike previous ones, and a new storyline, which is 50 shades of grey fan fiction terrible.

    The multiplayer is plagued with problems, a confused system of punishments for playing the game the way it's meant to be played, and not punishing users that harass each other, a gross lack of anti-cheat measures as bad as the DayZ mod, and a horrific grind to unlock anything in an effort to encourage you to spend even more money on in-game cash.

    However, cruising around the city, blowing up AI pedestrians with rocket launchers and causing general mayhem is as polished as ever. A good game to just fool around in.    … Expand
  4. Jarcon
    Oct 9, 2015
    7
    I am surprised how user score is much more adequate than critic's. Starting with great things: huge amount of work put into creating this huge and detailed sandbox. Glitches and bugs not visible. Few fresh missions. And that is it. Now negatives: I finished gta3, vice city, sa, 4, 4lcs and V feels nothing fresh, I felt like I played it many times already. Soundtrack is with no single songI am surprised how user score is much more adequate than critic's. Starting with great things: huge amount of work put into creating this huge and detailed sandbox. Glitches and bugs not visible. Few fresh missions. And that is it. Now negatives: I finished gta3, vice city, sa, 4, 4lcs and V feels nothing fresh, I felt like I played it many times already. Soundtrack is with no single song to remember. You buy extremaly expensive cars and you can not use them inside mission, dissapointing. You can not upgrade your character's main vehicle. This works a lot like deattachment from the game flow. You take time to compse your character appereance, only to find that next mission is replacing your effort with one from scenario. The game tone: until now, few days after finishing the game, I can not find the essence: was it serious, was it joke, was it drama or comedy? I do not care for multiplayer, I only started it once, only to find that city is dead, and some punk chasing and shooting me from heli with automatic weapon. There is maybe more than that but I did not care. The meter that is never wrong to me is: I like the game then I can not stop playing it. I do not like the game, I need to force myself to play it. Well, since as a player I could not miss gtaV anyway, I had to force myself to play it and finish the campaign.… Expand
  5. Sevorast
    Apr 16, 2015
    7
    Please ignore the red scores from trolls and angry console peasants, anyone scoring this game in the red has never played it and is therefor not qualified to score it. Giving the game a 0 score because you live in an area with bad internet and the game is 60gb is unacceptable and quite frankly stupid.
  6. gabriot
    May 1, 2015
    7
    The first 10 hours or so of this game had me feeling more like it was about a 9, it starts off really well and is very fun. But once you get into the "meat" of the game, you get the typical Triple A "mile wide, inch deep" type bs where you start to discover the game falls off to mediocrity.

    My main qualms: -No purchasable safehouses. Seriously? You can even do it online and in the    The first 10 hours or so of this game had me feeling more like it was about a 9, it starts off really well and is very fun. But once you get into the "meat" of the game, you get the typical Triple A "mile wide, inch deep" type bs where you start to discover the game falls off to mediocrity.

    My main qualms:

    -No purchasable safehouses. Seriously? You can even do it online and in the beta, but why not in the single player game? Why not at least have some DLC? This is absolutely ridiculous. One of the most fun aspects of the previous games to me was having multiple safehouses I could not only duck into and lay low, but also to store cars at. You only get 1 to 2 safehouse per character and they can only be used by those characters, and they are default given to you based on the story. Lame lame lame

    -Clothing options suck. There are only really 3 different clothing stores, and you can't even buy the same clothes for all the characters. You also can only pair certain shoes with certain pants, which makes it way harder than it needs to be to form a cool outfit, especially for characters like Franklin who when they go into the "nice" clothing store, can only buy Chinos as pants, which aren't able to pair with the "nice" shoes. in fact there are no "nice" pants you can buy for him, rather you have to buy a full suit, but if you want to get any of the cool sports coats or jackets, you can't wear any good pairs of shoes with them because since it is not a full suit you are forced to wear chinos or other pants (none of which are allowed to pair with nice shoes)

    -The missions become lame after a while. They go from making me feel like an action start, to just fighting against the controls of the game to to tedious tasks. Flying missions are all horrible and unfun, as are many of the sidequest.

    -It is unclear the difference between "pocket money" and "bank money". You keep getting these emails that show you are collecting revenue, but it is a pain to try and figure out where this money actually is. After googling for several days and posing questions on forums I finally figured out where it is.

    -The swimming controls are horrid, and make zero sense. Why is the jump key by default the same as the dive key? And why should I have to google how to swim up every time I'm caught underwater losing breath because it's insanely overcomplicated to figure out how to swim back to the surface? So many unfun incredibly anger inducing deaths have come from drowning.

    -Michael and Trevor's powers are too similar. They are essentially the same thing, "Be good at combat". Why not diversify and make one of them good at parkour or something? Have Franklin be the driver, Trevor be the crazy gun guy, and Michael be the physical specimen that can jump over huge distance, run fast, climb walls, basically specialize in getting away via foot, and also be really good at hand combat with special moves and such.

    -In general there's nothing good to spend your money on. You can spend money on property, which you can't even enter or customize, it just makes you more money or gives you unfun non descript missions to undertake. All the guns are cheap and ammo is cheaper. The clothing is limited and not done well. There are no safehouses to buy cool mansions or lots of various ones to just have around the city. Spending money on cars is useless because the characters just have their default vehicles and there are only like 2 or 3 garages per character, and most missions will erase your car randomly so... yeah

    -Lack of heists. Come on, you know we want to do the heists mainly. You get to do one at the beginning of the game, and it leads you to believe there will be many with this whole explanation of choice of characters and gaining experience. In the end it really just doesn't matter at all, and you go through suuuuch a long drought in the game where you never even get the opportunity to pull a heist after the first one (you even get teased with a heist where you can't choose any of the characters, and get no actual reward from it)

    -No way to choose a set of outfits your characters can be found in. They always make the characters look like idiots, why can't I lock in the set of outfits that they can randomly be found in? Such a simple thing that can add so much more fun to the game.    … Expand
  7. Gamed2long
    Jun 12, 2015
    7
    Not much I can say that hasn't already been said. Once you've seen one GTA game, you know the basic experience you are in for. And it is a good experience. The world is smaller than San Andreas. Graphics are an improvement on GTA 4. The whole 3 character thing is a new interesting twist.
    The sad part is that the PC edition comes so late. They tried, and the game looks pretty, but controls    Not much I can say that hasn't already been said. Once you've seen one GTA game, you know the basic experience you are in for. And it is a good experience. The world is smaller than San Andreas. Graphics are an improvement on GTA 4. The whole 3 character thing is a new interesting twist.
    The sad part is that the PC edition comes so late. They tried, and the game looks pretty, but controls on the planes and helicopters are much less intuitive and stink of a console port. Cars at least drive well with a keyboard, mouse. The worst console port mistake they made is putting the "special ability" key right next to the gun-swap button when a single tap changes you to unarmed. Great way to end a rampage. (sarcasm)
    My next biggest complaint is how stripped down the world seems outside of missions compared to previous games in the franchise. I know that is because they are trying to funnel people to the online heist mode. I know this is their big focus because the most recent 0.5 gig patch made the base game run slightly worse and looking at the patch notes, it was all new stuff for the online mode.    … Expand
  8. Alsmir
    Jun 19, 2015
    7
    I have spent around 35 hours in GTA V, having lots of fun. I almost finished single player mode.
    Almost...
    After those 35 hours I decided to take a small break. To my big surprise I'm still on that break and I'm not even slightly tempted to go back. Initially I loved the game. After first ~15 hrs it felt like 10/10. Graphics were great, optimization amazing, fun gameplay and I loved    I have spent around 35 hours in GTA V, having lots of fun. I almost finished single player mode.
    Almost...

    After those 35 hours I decided to take a small break.
    To my big surprise I'm still on that break and I'm not even slightly tempted to go back.
    Initially I loved the game. After first ~15 hrs it felt like 10/10. Graphics were great, optimization amazing, fun gameplay and I loved implementation of 1st person perspective.

    The more I played the more flaws I saw. I liked the characters at first but as the story continues I realized how little personality they have. Franklin earns some money, moves to a fancy house and then his story pretty much ends. Michael has several problems with his family which leads to a bunch of different missions. The problem is - his family is quite horrible, I hated his wife and stupid kids. I get it - he loves them and wants to help them, but I couldn't care less about these characters, which made all those missions extra boring.
    Trevor felt like the most interesting character out of those 3. But then we witness him doing something awfully stupid. One good thing - his missions are most fun, lots of versatility, creativity.

    Overall there are too many missions that simply aren't very interesting. All the set-up missions for heists are terrible. I'd like to see more missions that include flying as well.

    Side activities.
    There are plenty and that's it. Shooting range was fun, I enjoyed hunting and... that's it. You don't get any decent rewards for them and they are not fun enough to just keep doing them.

    You can buy some busineses. They cost plenty, award you with some crapy mini-missions and give you lousy income. Basically, they're a waste of time.

    Earning money is difficult outside of main missions, but on the other hand there's nothing to spend it on. Forget about buying houses (not worth it) or cars (you will be stuck with personal vehicles anyway), so after you buy some guns and upgrades for personal vehicles, you're done.

    Walking around and exploring works for a while then it gets old. There's only a few "random" encounters, you won't find any cool hidden items. Best thing I found was a bunch of topless ladies near some pool, behind a fancy house.

    There's plenty of things to do in GTA 5, but only very few of them I found entertaining and actually worth doing. The main story and characters are in my opinion significantly worse than in previous GTA games.
    Overrated game but still can be enjoyable for a while. Get it when it goes on a sale.

    PS: I didn't like the Online mode at all.    … Expand
  9. Wolv
    May 10, 2015
    7
    Fun game unfortunately ridiculed with bugs and performance issues, completed the single player on a high end rig and I can't count the number of times the game crashed.

    Online at the moment is chaos, whilst it has plenty of fun activities and heists, there is a good amount of lag, frame rate drops and couple that with the loading times and matchmaking makes this game a real annoyance,    Fun game unfortunately ridiculed with bugs and performance issues, completed the single player on a high end rig and I can't count the number of times the game crashed.

    Online at the moment is chaos, whilst it has plenty of fun activities and heists, there is a good amount of lag, frame rate drops and couple that with the loading times and matchmaking makes this game a real annoyance, that is before we mention the amount of people who leave heists.

    I'm giving it a 7 because despite the bugs, I actually enjoyed this game and occasionally enjoy the online, it is however unfair to give it a rating any higher.    … Expand
  10. azgoodaz
    Apr 24, 2017
    7
    GTA V as a whole is a great game.

    For Storymode, the storyline in GTA V is one of my favorites in the Grand Theft Auto series, I beat the game on Xbox 360, Xbox One and I hope to beat it on PC (and maybe choose different paths). Rockstar nailed it on the head when it came to the characters; how the chemistry works between them and how each main character in-game is the actual face of    GTA V as a whole is a great game.

    For Storymode, the storyline in GTA V is one of my favorites in the Grand Theft Auto series, I beat the game on Xbox 360, Xbox One and I hope to beat it on PC (and maybe choose different paths). Rockstar nailed it on the head when it came to the characters; how the chemistry works between them and how each main character in-game is the actual face of the actor in real life.

    For Online, I suggest you download FiveM or GTA Network so that you can play on other servers, than on the main Rockstar servers (for the time-being). You can you FiveM/GTA Network or you can create a private lobby from the 'Online' tab and just do heist/races in that lobby with your friends. Other than that, the base Online game is filled with hackers sadly. For a 3+ year old game, you would think they would invest money into making a anti-cheat instead of making pointless updates.

    Warning; as of March 2017, you can't transfer your Online character from console to PC or PC to console. So, with that being said. You will need to start all over if you planned on merging your PS4/Xbox One character to PC. It's not possible anymore. It's funny how Rockstar can still put GTA V at the $60 price point (not worth it, get it on sale (maybe $30)), but yet they can't support a small but great feature.    … Expand
  11. Kvasi
    Jun 6, 2015
    7
    For me the best part of the GTA games has always been the open world, choosing what to yourself and trying out a lot of different things as well as the diversity of the missions. In this regard, the best of the series is San Andreas. You could go to the gym to work out so that your character looked more muscular. You could eat junk food to get fat. You could date different girls dependingFor me the best part of the GTA games has always been the open world, choosing what to yourself and trying out a lot of different things as well as the diversity of the missions. In this regard, the best of the series is San Andreas. You could go to the gym to work out so that your character looked more muscular. You could eat junk food to get fat. You could date different girls depending on your body shape. You could take over areas with gang war. You could get a lot of safe houses. You could get businesses that you did actual fun missions for (like the ice cream drug dealer stuff). You could do burglaries. Go dancing. It's a long list, I probably remember half of it. Sure GTA 5 is a lot nicer, but that's it.… Expand
  12. SLIMJIMMONSTER
    May 7, 2015
    7
    Great game but...
    So this game amazing id give it a 9/10 for when it was released for the 1st time. now i'm giving it a 7/10 because the charge you $59.99 USD AGAIN for THE SAME GAME. the only difference is First person and better graphics. is the game really worth $60 again for just 1st person no. is it worth $60 if you don't have the game hell yeah (if you get it for next gen)
  13. m0nitor
    Apr 26, 2015
    7
    Update: I'm over the release so I've updated the score. They've added some great things:

    First Person Perspective (thank you!) The FP gun mechanics still feel a little detatched, though. Stock Market/ no money cheat. I'm actually kind of glad for this because I was LOOKING for the money cheat and we'll get to why in a sec. Trevor! (lol) The characterization was tired from the    Update: I'm over the release so I've updated the score. They've added some great things:

    First Person Perspective (thank you!) The FP gun mechanics still feel a little detatched, though.

    Stock Market/ no money cheat. I'm actually kind of glad for this because I was LOOKING for the money cheat and we'll get to why in a sec.

    Trevor! (lol) The characterization was tired from the start with the "Homey" black guys (the ONLY black guys we ever get to see in pretty much ANY [game/movie/THING!]) Trevor really got me interested again. Michael's character was all right but got stale in a hurry.

    The missions are a lot more cinematic, graphics are fantastic and the city seems so much more alive, though this is the hardest I think I've heard my GTX760 work since I bought it. Heh.

    Now... as I said, I caught myself looking for the money cheat pretty early. First because I was tired of Michael and Homey and second because after running the city outside of the story I realized that, despite all of the improvements, the graphics, the new functionality, the new cars and whatnot...despite all of it... IT WAS THE SAME GAME!!! All you can really do when not following the story is happy slap civilians, steal their cars and take their money.

    It's GTA: Return to San Andreas.

    Also, I'm from L.A. and the work they did on the city is excellent. It really feels like Los Angeles but the way they manage it is modelling parts of the city almost exactly, putting all the models in a box, shaking it, dumping it on the table and connecting them all as they fall. It's grating. You can't tell which direction you're going but you recognize all the landmarks. It really does get tiresome. If you're not from L.A. it's not a problem.

    Any score lower than 4 and higher than 7 is bs coming from anyone who's played the previous GTA installments (3 - San Andreas). Someone new to GTA should be thrilled but there shouldn't be anywhere near as many user-rated 10s.    … Expand
  14. Squeze
    Jul 22, 2015
    7
    PREMISE: I'm not playing online, with all the games with a good online multiplayer I find it a waste of time to play GTA online. So I bought it 100% for the single player.

    So, San Andreas was awesome, GTA IV was same (to me). This is not awesome, is just OK. - All missions looks the same after a while, even side ones (that are actually just a couple for each character) - Since the    PREMISE: I'm not playing online, with all the games with a good online multiplayer I find it a waste of time to play GTA online. So I bought it 100% for the single player.

    So, San Andreas was awesome, GTA IV was same (to me).
    This is not awesome, is just OK.

    - All missions looks the same after a while, even side ones (that are actually just a couple for each character)
    - Since the very beginning you got your arsenal of weapons, if you die you dont even lose them (just $ 5000 fee at the hospital and there you go).
    - Never got cuffed by the police (not sure if you can actually I think they just shoot you down)
    - 3 characters looked extremely fun at the beginning, but then, if you think about it, you dont immerge in the game at all.
    - Kind of small map, especially if compared to San Andreas, you only got the city and the highlands, ant that's it.
    - Except for the ending, you cant really decide anything in this game.
    - I waited almost 48 hrs for it to download... kept having problems with a continuous download of 60 FREAKING GB of game slowing down your pc.

    Im not totally disappointed, I mean, the game is still fun as all GTA are. But I really can't say this game will remain in my personal game story.    … Expand
  15. Kazek7
    Aug 27, 2015
    7
    Grand Theft Auto is a game about cars, and criminality. Every single game in the franchise has had these two things except Grand Theft Auto V. While GTA 5 has lots of cars, The story lacks much or any criminality as you spend most of the game working for the FIB.
    GTA 5 is not the best game in the series, In fact in many aspects - It's the worst.
    As mentioned previously, The story lacks    Grand Theft Auto is a game about cars, and criminality. Every single game in the franchise has had these two things except Grand Theft Auto V. While GTA 5 has lots of cars, The story lacks much or any criminality as you spend most of the game working for the FIB.
    GTA 5 is not the best game in the series, In fact in many aspects - It's the worst.
    As mentioned previously, The story lacks criminality. A few heists, a few short missions, and not much else is what you get for criminality. In the previous games you were a Hitman, you worked for the mob, or you were a gangster. None of the 3 main characters fit in these spots. Honestly, I don't like any of the 3 main characters. They lack any personality and are boring cliche's. The story in this game ends rather abruptly, And the end game content is absolutely dreadful. If you love hundreds of boring fetch quests with no reward ( They literally give you $1 for completing one of them ) Enjoy! You have to do this for %100 game completion.
    GTA 5 I find is a direct slap in the face from Rockstar to its previous fans. CJ's house is no longer on Grove st, The Balla's own Grove st now, and this is never explained in the story. This is a direct slap in the face to ANYONE who played San Andreas. The story in this game is absolutely terrible, and wins the worst story of the franchise.

    The Police in this game are broken, and still are broken, and will remain broken. The Police helicopters magnetically follow you around, they crash into objects, they see you through tunnels and underground, a new one spawns the instant you blow it up, and the police on board rarely miss their shots. The police will attack you for the smallest of things, and you can get a wanted level even from sniping someone in the middle of nowhere with a silencer. The police cruisers will even go as far as driving up a mountain to attack you. While the police needed to be more difficult, They went way over board with the cops.

    This is the largest game in the franchise, and they've crammed detail into every corner of the map. Although the mountains have terrible spawnpoints in multiplayer, your bound to find something interesting every so often.

    If you're looking for "Best in the Franchise" aspects to this game, Look to the general mechanics. The shooting is drastically improved for the better and many more guns have been added into the game. The cars and driving are far better then any of the previous games, and car modification is absolutely perfect. The graphics are also vastly improved. These are the award worthy aspects of the game.

    GTA Online, Rubbish since Day one. I've already reviewed GTA Online individually, So I will just give you a shorter version of this.
    GTA Online is cancerous. The community is toxic, the PvP is broken by DLC vehicles, and the game will take ingame money from you wherever possible. GTA Online is packed to the brim with cheaters, and the best Rockstar can do is ban them for 2 weeks, along with the people who mod singleplayer, only to have them come back with their cheats 2 weeks later. R* support is like talking to a wall, Don't bother. They don't care. Don't step into this turd.

    Let it be known that this is NOT the best game in the franchise. Play San Andreas, Play Vice City, Play GTA 3, and take the R* beer goggles off. If you enjoy going on random rampages and exploring, go for it. This game is for you. But in general, this game was over hyped, and doesn't live up to the title of "Best Grand Theft Auto" or even "Best Game".    … Expand
  16. JQLeitch
    Oct 25, 2015
    7
    Overrated. Simply put, in my opinion this game does not deserve the praise it gets. I'll begin by saying this is a fantastic open world game and is truly a delight to roam around, but this is personally what I don't play GTA for. I play it for the story and this time Rockstar did not deliver, the story and characters are just shallow and is all over the place. It really doesn't know whatOverrated. Simply put, in my opinion this game does not deserve the praise it gets. I'll begin by saying this is a fantastic open world game and is truly a delight to roam around, but this is personally what I don't play GTA for. I play it for the story and this time Rockstar did not deliver, the story and characters are just shallow and is all over the place. It really doesn't know what it is, is it a serious story or is it simply satire (bad satire)? I personally enjoyed GTA IV's much more and even GTA Vice City's (which was reasonably simple). I also feel the game itself is pretty soulless, even more soulless than other GTA games, another huge flaw in my opinion.

    The PC Port is ok, however there was a problem that made this game a little less enjoyable than it should be and that's the constant FPS drops whilst driving/flying, it's far too jarring to not be a complaint. Every couple of seconds I'll get drops from 90fps to 40fps (keep in mind, none of the settings change this, I even played on low and the problem still persisted). My graphics card is a GTX 970 and I have an Intel i5 3450 and 16GB RAM, more than capable to play this game at High+ settings. Some lucky souls have got this game working fine, however the majority have experienced these FPS drops.

    The multiplayer is also total **** with modders all over the place and FPS drops being even more persistent. Rockstar have also developed the multiplayer in such a way that to save up for certain vehicles/houses, you have to buy micro-transactions or you grind away for a couple of days (which is extremely tedious).

    Overall it's a very fun game with a jaw-dropping open world, but it has a very weak story which is very odd for a GTA game. Simply not my cup of tea, I much prefer GTA IV.    … Expand
  17. ijijijij
    Dec 17, 2015
    7
    It turns out I'm getting a bit old for these, here are my thoughts. I have been playing GTA since the original on PS1!

    I found the game feels very tired. While much has been done to add back-story and characterisation, the core mechanics are unchanged. The city looks amazing and exciting, but ultimately, is pretty much a fancy moving background. You can interact with little of the map    It turns out I'm getting a bit old for these, here are my thoughts. I have been playing GTA since the original on PS1!

    I found the game feels very tired. While much has been done to add back-story and characterisation, the core mechanics are unchanged. The city looks amazing and exciting, but ultimately, is pretty much a fancy moving background. You can interact with little of the map that isn't a mode of transport or something to shoot.

    Having the three characters does add an extra element to the story. However, the story cannot help the limitations of the gameplay. Even with the back-story, all you end up doing is drive something somewhere, shoot stuff, get chased or chase then drive something somewhere else.    … Expand
  18. psylife
    Apr 15, 2016
    7
    The shooting mechanics are tight, responsive and weighty.The cover system is fluid and the variety of scenarios keep the action fun and engaging. The vehicle physics have great weight and the driving is good. This is very much a driving game first and foremost; 50% of the time is spent driving from one end of the map to the other, which is not really a problem if you enjoy the drive, butThe shooting mechanics are tight, responsive and weighty.The cover system is fluid and the variety of scenarios keep the action fun and engaging. The vehicle physics have great weight and the driving is good. This is very much a driving game first and foremost; 50% of the time is spent driving from one end of the map to the other, which is not really a problem if you enjoy the drive, but it is quite revealing of what the experience really amounts to. Once you arrive at your destination you will likely be asked to drive somewhere else; This is not an oversimplification. The characters are cliche yet entertaining and the many story exposition sections were mostly fun to watch and interact with. Heist missions make up the core of the campaign and allows the player to choose from different tactical approaches at the onset of the mission; It's a welcome addition but ultimately fails to add a satisfying level of strategy to the experience. Character wise, the agenda is palpable; The white southerner is a depraved murderous maniac, The italian-american is a mobster, and the black kid is a walking vegetable. Overall, the game promotes amorality, pornography, violence by the truckloads. In fact, I'd be curious to research on the ethnic/religious background of the writers and producers. As it is the case with agenda products, the game is very well produced, and the audio-visual realization is great; The world feels alive. This is a casual game that manages to entertain beyond its shallow mechanics.… Expand
  19. RMDsilva
    Nov 6, 2016
    7
    GTA V:
    Technically, it keeps getting better.
    Game looks good, controls feel good, quite a few add ons, etc. However, I missed a lot of stuff from GTA IV: a story with actual depth, characters I could care for and build rather than just laugh at. Hell, I even missed the girlfriends. Here, you can't do much to improve their lives. The shrink stuff doesn't really cut it - it's as    GTA V:
    Technically, it keeps getting better.
    Game looks good, controls feel good, quite a few add ons, etc.
    However, I missed a lot of stuff from GTA IV: a story with actual depth, characters I could care for and build rather than just laugh at.
    Hell, I even missed the girlfriends. Here, you can't do much to improve their lives. The shrink stuff doesn't really cut it - it's as superficial as "Vinewood" itself.
    And that's a shame.    … Expand
  20. akshayshah14
    Oct 29, 2018
    7
    I expected a great RPG in GTA 5 but got the okayish RPG. The side missions aren't anything to write home about nor is there any story DLC post game launch. It released one and half year later on PC and rockstar still slapped 60$ price tag on it. There could have been a bit more heists and side missions could have been a lot more better. Also the choice element was lacking in the game.I expected a great RPG in GTA 5 but got the okayish RPG. The side missions aren't anything to write home about nor is there any story DLC post game launch. It released one and half year later on PC and rockstar still slapped 60$ price tag on it. There could have been a bit more heists and side missions could have been a lot more better. Also the choice element was lacking in the game.

    Kudos for a detailed Game world and main story, rest everything needs improvement including the graphics. Some of the titles released in 2014-2015 had very beautiful graphics like Shadow of Mordor, Assassin's creed black flag, Assasin's creed Unity(the game was a mess but the graphics was undoubtedly great) etc.... GTA 5 graphics in comparison to that looks pretty dated.    … Expand
  21. RollsWraith
    Jun 23, 2015
    7
    Not sure what the hype was all about. Its a good game, played around 81 hours with 94% completed. Its predecessor GTA 4 is among my top games ever. It might be true that GTA 4 didn't deserve the 10 it had at its time, but GTA 5 in certain aspects doesn't even come close to GTA 4, especially in story-line, immersion(having a big world with lots of vehicles and lots of things to do doesn'tNot sure what the hype was all about. Its a good game, played around 81 hours with 94% completed. Its predecessor GTA 4 is among my top games ever. It might be true that GTA 4 didn't deserve the 10 it had at its time, but GTA 5 in certain aspects doesn't even come close to GTA 4, especially in story-line, immersion(having a big world with lots of vehicles and lots of things to do doesn't add to immersion), vehicle physics/controls.
    I cared alot more about Niko than any of the three of GTA 5.    … Expand
  22. Garfoodle
    Apr 16, 2015
    7
    All I can say is simply meh. It's not the best game I've ever played, not the worst. It's graphics look horrible on Ultra, it plays more or less fine, but it's just not an amazing game. The only reason I can see really reccomendin it is because it's *supposedly* 40 hours long and the soundtrack is good.
  23. splitpolygon
    Nov 7, 2015
    7
    If you know me; you know im all about my GTA and my Fallout.

    I was really worried that playing three mains, in this title, would break immersion for me and i was thankfully wrong. The story is grand and picks on pop culture like its his little brother, character are filled out and great. I have no real complaints about the story mode.. So i guess you wonder why the 7?? Well..    If you know me; you know im all about my GTA and my Fallout.

    I was really worried that playing three mains, in this title, would break immersion for me and i was thankfully wrong.

    The story is grand and picks on pop culture like its his little brother, character are filled out and great.
    I have no real complaints about the story mode.. So i guess you wonder why the 7?? Well.. online; The one game i thought would crossover into online greatly did just the opposing.

    -Load times make me feel like im wasting my time.
    -Players at time can ruin the entire experience.
    -online quests are boring and unless you got 4 friends to play with; then good luck getting into anything.    … Expand
  24. yesnomaybe
    May 22, 2015
    7
    The online portion is well done and fairly innovative.

    The single player game is more of the same with somewhat arbitrary mission failed bs. If you like this type of thing, great. Personally, I found Saints Row 3/4 much more forgiving, flexible, and fun in regard to mission structure. Obviously, ymmv. This is the slowest downloading game I have ever had this misfortune to buy,    The online portion is well done and fairly innovative.

    The single player game is more of the same with somewhat arbitrary mission failed bs. If you like this type of thing, great. Personally, I found Saints Row 3/4 much more forgiving, flexible, and fun in regard to mission structure. Obviously, ymmv.

    This is the slowest downloading game I have ever had this misfortune to buy, ever. Do yourself a favor and buy a hard copy, just like back in the day, and have it shipped to you. Installing from disks will be far less painful    … Expand
  25. Shelledfade
    Apr 23, 2015
    7
    As someone that didn't play the console version of gta 5 at all, for me its a solid 7/10.

    My personal gripes with the game for why I gave it that score: 1. The loading times in multiplayer are a constant annoyance. 2. The visuals are dated compared to a game like watch dogs and honestly they require way too much horsepower to run for the framerate to get as low as it does. Watch    As someone that didn't play the console version of gta 5 at all, for me its a solid 7/10.

    My personal gripes with the game for why I gave it that score:

    1. The loading times in multiplayer are a constant annoyance.
    2. The visuals are dated compared to a game like watch dogs and honestly they require way too much horsepower to run for the framerate to get as low as it does. Watch dogs maxed out gets 80-100 fps maxed out, This game? I've seen it go as low as 25 on a gtx 980 in some areas.
    3. Heist missions online are very fun however replaying them isn't, as 90% of my time is worrying about other people doing their jobs correctly rather than actually enjoying the mission itself.
    4. First person mode was definitely overrated and I find myself constantly switching back to the 3rd person mode instead. It just doesn't feel fluid and even with the FoV setting maxed out it feels wonky and limiting, the weapon position itself feels off as well.
    5. The pc helicopter controls are as bad as gta 4. The design wasn't improved at all.
    6. Still way too many buildings that have no interiors. It really kills immersion for me in this world when 98% of the buildings and houses you see around you cannot be accessed. I was really hoping to be able to break into houses or something this time around to do robbery jobs or something like that but sadly that isn't an option at all. Would have been a great side-activity for online as well. The games world itself just feels too limited to the street which was the same problem GTA 4 had. You see all these great looking buildings and houses and can't access any of it.

    Maybe someone can do a mod that opens up some of these houses/buildings. I realize that its a lot of work doing interiors, especially interiors with multiple levels, but still it shouldn't have been THIS restricted like gta 4 was and they could have enhanced it further over gta 4 by adding some side-activity to go along with it like robbery jobs.    … Expand
  26. Rizwan
    Jun 29, 2015
    7
    Well, I really like GTA games. I also liked this one. But everyone says that it's a great game. I don't really see anything so great about this. There are many Open world games. Whatever, This is not even a bad game. It has a great amount of fun and good graphics. But it's story is a stupid. 7/10 for it.
  27. gloriouspotato
    Sep 12, 2015
    7
    For a game so critically acclaimed, I was hoping for something a little more groundbreaking than what GTA5 offered. It is by no means a poor game, but its gameplay mechanics were unremarkable to me. The guns for example lack impact and force, and the little mini-games spread across the map felt nothing more than a gimmick worth no more than 5 minutes of entertainment. I suppose the gameFor a game so critically acclaimed, I was hoping for something a little more groundbreaking than what GTA5 offered. It is by no means a poor game, but its gameplay mechanics were unremarkable to me. The guns for example lack impact and force, and the little mini-games spread across the map felt nothing more than a gimmick worth no more than 5 minutes of entertainment. I suppose the game does offer some interesting characterization, and I do love its brilliant satire and sass, but ultimately GTA5 is so very average.

    Oh yeah, and the aliasing in this game is pretty bad as well.

    Overall rating - 7.0/10    … Expand
  28. james2003
    Apr 17, 2015
    7
    A Single player Review, I don't do Multi player ... that's for under 18's

    Did you know I played the first GTA, simple times, damn I miss those Hare Krishna’s… A good solid output, with just a few minor quibbles. Things that seem a little cheeky, like the advert about the new first person shooter, how all the levels are all the same? Wondering how many times I do a mission, take a    A Single player Review, I don't do Multi player ... that's for under 18's

    Did you know I played the first GTA, simple times, damn I miss those Hare Krishna’s…

    A good solid output, with just a few minor quibbles. Things that seem a little cheeky, like the advert about the new first person shooter, how all the levels are all the same?
    Wondering how many times I do a mission, take a constantly yapping passenger, to a location shoot someone and drive back before I realise “how all the missions are all the same”.
    In fact all in all it’s the same GTA just a different Roman numeral. But hands up, for whatever reason it’s still fun!
    What’s the point of manually swapping out characters, isn't far easier and better for the story continuum to do that for me?
    The story is OK, not great but certainly doesn't bore you to death. Some moments are absolutely hilarious, but only a few brief moments.
    I was impressed by blood splatters that stick with the car and with the scenic locations. The graphics are far better than previous versions, imagine Hare Krishna’s in glorious polygons?
    Of course, Great Graphics means high end machine, but that has always been a PC problem.
    Free Driving like a reckless lunatic and wondering if the police will ever show up? And then wondering if there is a parallel in the real world?
    Wondering why the inclusion of strip joins is a must, is it for the kids that shouldn't purchasing this game in the first place?
    Wondering is a video character painted black, allowed the same leniency as an actual black person using the N word?
    Why do they have to swear so much?

    So you know you are old when you actually like and recognise the songs on the radio.
    And dear younger gamers out there … one day it will happen to you.
    Damn I am old… thanks Rockstar for pointing it out!    … Expand
  29. Marviken
    May 31, 2019
    7
    GTA5 had it's moments but the multiplayer experience was abysmal, crashes, loading times from hell and just painful to play with friends.
  30. Frozenbyte
    Apr 22, 2015
    7
    This game is awesome by all means: attention to details, funny story, jokes, graphics, environment.
    BUT there had to be but... I have no idea how could they test it and miss so many bugs... like:
    1) stuttering on 970GTX so you have to manually set some values through nvidia inspector 2) 4 missions in game are freezeing in one specific place, when you switch characters 3) Game often    This game is awesome by all means: attention to details, funny story, jokes, graphics, environment.
    BUT there had to be but... I have no idea how could they test it and miss so many bugs... like:
    1) stuttering on 970GTX so you have to manually set some values through nvidia inspector
    2) 4 missions in game are freezeing in one specific place, when you switch characters
    3) Game often freezes when you try to shoot from the car
    4) Game often freezes while trying to switch characters even in open world.
    5) many other small bugs (according to forums), but they didint influence me.

    So all in all the game is just great.... but these gamebreaking bugs dont allow me to rate it 10...    … Expand
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96

Universal acclaim - based on 57 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 56 out of 57
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 57
  3. Negative: 0 out of 57
  1. DarkStation
    Jul 2, 2015
    100
    If you hadn’t had a chance to play it yet at all though, and your computer can handle it, the PC version does definitely feel like the definitive version.
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  2. CD-Action
    Jun 29, 2015
    100
    Rockstar promised that the PC edition of GTA V would be the best way to experience this breathtaking game, and that’s exactly what it is. [06/2015, p.48]
  3. SpazioGames
    Jun 8, 2015
    95
    We could not expect a better PC port PC for Grand Theft Auto V. Rockstar North, offers right from day one a huge game in optimized, widely scalable, and high impact graphics and the video editor, although not so easy to use, is an enjoyable addition.
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