Grand Theft Auto V

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7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 9245 Ratings

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  1. oneloveall
    May 12, 2015
    7
    At first everything completely worked, and the immersion factor lived up to this legendary hype. Somewhere in the middle though, apathy began to set in. By the end, missions felt shallow, dialog grating, and the narrative flimsy. Rockstar proved themselves utter masters of transcendent city building at the expense of everything else.
  2. justsean09
    May 11, 2015
    10
    It's a great game. Fantastic story, great graphics, huge map, a bundle of fun. Ignore the usual idiots that do not understand the concept of a review or rating, these people would claim it's a perfect game except one little thing and all of a sudden the rating switches from a 10 to a 0.
  3. Wello889
    May 11, 2015
    9
    Great game overall. Definitely better than any of the other Grand Theft Autos. The only big thing i would complain about is the driving. It has gottan ridiculously unrealistic. Too arcadeish for me.
  4. Vikiing
    May 11, 2015
    0
    I'm an old gamer that loved the serie of GTA since its beggining, tho, we all got admit its decline: since San Andreas, Rockstar has been unable to make an entertaining game in the long run: yes, this game becomes boring after a while, as the previous one.
  5. replica17
    May 11, 2015
    8
    Good game in general. Best gfx I've ever seen.

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    GFX
    High replay value
    Good singleplayer

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    Online; loading takes foreeeeever... Sometimes I feel like I'm loading more than playing.

    If the online part is fixed, best game of 2015 already on PC.
  6. sukho204
    May 10, 2015
    7
    it was very unstable and messy at release, and I was unable to even start the game until april 16th. 2 days after the release. even this made me dismantle my chair, I quickly realized how great and beautiful the game is after playing. not the best story ever, but decent storylines, and awsome online mode where you can just play around with your friends.
  7. 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
  8. Magikarp
    May 10, 2015
    10
    Firstly, im a huge GTA fan.. Been playing non-stop since GTA 3, easily my favourite franchise of all time and Grand Theft Auto V didn't disappoint me in anything.

    The world is huge, everything feels right, the physics, the animations, the graphics, the detail, the sounds.. Every little bit feels in the right place. The characters are quite unique and have their own story that the    Firstly, im a huge GTA fan.. Been playing non-stop since GTA 3, easily my favourite franchise of all time and Grand Theft Auto V didn't disappoint me in anything.

    The world is huge, everything feels right, the physics, the animations, the graphics, the detail, the sounds.. Every little bit feels in the right place.

    The characters are quite unique and have their own story that the game tells you in a great way, the transictionbetween every character is flawless and innovative.

    The missions are extremely good, an easy 10, they're not rage inducing, they're extremely well designed, they barely have any flaws and the dialogue in missions is like it always was in GTA.. Amazing and mostly sarcastic funny.

    The story is probably the best in the franchise, with a decent ammount of choices and lot of explanation given so you don't miss any detail.

    The guns feel good, the world feels alive, the cars feel real, the NPC's feel alive and not for one second this game felt nothing less than a true masterpiece.. Easily the game of the century.

    An easy 10/10.. Probably one of my few 10/10.. Probably the first one since GTA San Andreas. (And that tells you something)

    About the PC Port.. Ye, it's simply quite amazing, the definite version of GTA V is on PC, either 60fps or 30fps, it won't matter.. The game is good both ways, it scales extremely well and has almost no issues. (Some small issues like some stuttering at the most) This game will also run in almost any PC, be it a cheap laptop or a old pc with a dual-core and a 9800gt or even a 5670.

    I played at 1080p on a 560ti.. You can easily achieve 60fps in a 560ti at 1080.. That's how well optimized the game is.. At medium settings btw.    … Expand
  9. BigDragon
    May 9, 2015
    3
    I am absolutely blown away by GTAV. This is seriously the worst GTA game I've ever played. I waited some 18 months for a PC release for this piece of garbage? They shouldn't call it Grand Theft Auto. They should call it Grand PURCHASE Auto.

    If you want to read about the positives to GTAV please see one of the cheerleading gaming "journalism" reviews of it that completely ignore its    I am absolutely blown away by GTAV. This is seriously the worst GTA game I've ever played. I waited some 18 months for a PC release for this piece of garbage? They shouldn't call it Grand Theft Auto. They should call it Grand PURCHASE Auto.

    If you want to read about the positives to GTAV please see one of the cheerleading gaming "journalism" reviews of it that completely ignore its flaws. Here I'm going to point out those flaws.

    1) GTAV expects you to purchase everything with in-game money. Don't have enough in-game money? Rockstar will be happy to sell you some for real money! You seriously cannot just go up to a good or government vehicle and steal it in a game called Grand Theft Auto. Rockstar will not allow you to store it in your garage. You must purchase it. Yes, you must purchase cars in a game called Grand Theft Auto in which focuses on criminal activity. Have the developers ever even played a GTA game before? Hell, you have to purchase tanks too. You cannot simply steal one. That used to be a huge accomplishment in previous titles. It's impossible here.

    2) The online portion is progression-gated. When you start out the city is a literal ghost town and you're expected to do the same races OVER AND OVER AND OVER again. Then the game gradually unlocks new events. You'll need to repeat them each a hundred times in order to accumulate the RP necessary to rank up. As you rank up things start spawning in the city that should have been there from the beginning and actually appear commonly in the single player mode. Go to the airport in online mode and note the complete and total absence of planes at the AIRPORT. You have to rank up just to make a handful of them appear. Ranking will take years if you're someone with a job. It's clearly designed specifically for the no-lifers or children who need to be treated like donkeys chasing carrots on a stick.

    3) Excessive realism comes at the cost of fun. Did you know you have to buy car insurance in this game in multiplayer? Planes don't come with parachutes. Want to steal something from the military base in single player -- not going to happen! Have fun shopping for real estate to buy or spending hundreds of thousands of in-game dollars on businesses that pay you only 1% of what you spent on them maybe once a real life week.

    4) Rockstar is very mod-unfriendly. They will ban you from the game you purchased without refund even if you're trying to privately have fun with your friends. They make zero attempt to distinguish between people screwing around amongst themselves and those maliciously ruining the experience for others. Can't spend a couple hundred thousand or a couple million in fair cheat-detection, Rockstar? Spent your billions already? This is beyond sad. The community is continuing to try and fix the mess that is GTAV to actually make it fun again, yet Rockstar has been trying to thwart them with every update.

    5) GTA has been obsoleted by other entrants in the open world genre. Who needs a hyper-realistic, un-fun when we can choose from so many other options? I really thought that Vice City and San Andreas were awesomely fun games. It seems GTA has gone downhill and let Saints Row and Just Cause supersede them.

    I'm honestly really disappointed in this entry in the franchise. Yes, the heists are nice both in single player and multiplayer. Yes the graphics are good. No, the game is not fun. No, the game puts realism in front of having fun. No, the game is not for people who have other things to do than play it every waking moment. GTAV had so much potential. Save yourself money and don't buy this 18 month-late game.

    This is my last GTA game. There are far better choices out there now.    … Expand
  10. Fidiuss
    May 9, 2015
    10
    Brilliant !!!!! best GTA so far its fun its funny its graphically amazing great single player story and anyone that says its not should stick to minecraft
  11. JohnKristofer
    May 9, 2015
    9
    This is a cool game! If you don't have any plans for a day and you want to relax with a game, This is a game for you! You can murder or kill people for no reason and destroy stuff. I played this game and it is fun and enjoyable especially with friends just messing up. I don't know about the missions cause I didn't play it and I think it is more fun to jack off and blow some ****
  12. ireviewthings1
    May 8, 2015
    10
    It is the best GTA on the best possible plattform.

    Way way better port then part 4. Adding first person to GTA is pure brilliance. Getting knocked off your bike jumping red lights never ever get's old in first person. For the game itself: it's a GTA. You do GTA things, you meet GTA characters. Wether or not you mind the story depends on what entertains you. It's more then enough    It is the best GTA on the best possible plattform.

    Way way better port then part 4. Adding first person to GTA is pure brilliance. Getting knocked off your bike jumping red lights never ever get's old in first person.

    For the game itself: it's a GTA. You do GTA things, you meet GTA characters. Wether or not you mind the story depends on what entertains you. It's more then enough though to contextualize the action. The sheer unmachted brilliance is Los Santos though. The amount of detail on every single corner in this games simply blows every other game maker out of the water. Even a hall of famer like skyrim tends to look like a sterile alpha compared to rockstars world building. just stand at a crossing for a couple of minutes and watch this world being alive.

    As usual the soundtrack alone is a reason to buy the game. heard the online part is a lot of fun as well.

    just get it.    … Expand
  13. nIkbot
    May 7, 2015
    8
    This is an amazing game that has been fun for years. I have waited a long time for the PC release, as I still feel modded GTA IV is the best game that we have ever had available to us. GTA V proves promising and I've already played for 200+ hours on the PC without loosing interest. Easily 9/10 or 10/10 game with a few items fixed.

    The story mode draws you through the story of three men    This is an amazing game that has been fun for years. I have waited a long time for the PC release, as I still feel modded GTA IV is the best game that we have ever had available to us. GTA V proves promising and I've already played for 200+ hours on the PC without loosing interest. Easily 9/10 or 10/10 game with a few items fixed.

    The story mode draws you through the story of three men and those they subsequently interact with, drawing them together as a group you get to play as and switch through on the fly. While challenging, you are drawn into their tale while reaking havoc across Los Santos and more. The creativity put into the side details is wonderful. TV and movie theater shorts, random encounters on the streets of LS, the radio or even just cruising a back alley and seeing a bum scratch his butt and sniff his finger. Someone got paid to program that. Just explore, drive around with friends, punch a whale. It's all up to you and what you chose to do, with plenty of it available to you to boot. At the end of the day, it's truly a hilarious and engrossing game. A must buy if you haven't yet.

    Some cons to improve on.

    The FOV slider at max akin to a 90 year old lady with binoculars taped to her face. It's abysmal without the FOV mod and makes 1st person completely non functional for a large sector of the PC community. R* needs to increase the in game FOV slider to a much higher value.

    Online needs more stuff to do. Casino games, board walk games, the arcade machine from the last incarnation. There just is not enough after a short bit with friends... Even if it means including bowling.

    The flying shake is to much in my opinion. To each their own on this one.

    The quick menu (M key/Hold Back button on controller) is way to clunky for quick operation of snacks and armor.    … Expand
  14. elterifico
    May 7, 2015
    0
    I bought the game on xbox 360...
    I bought the game on PS4...
    I waited... I waited... I waited...
    I bought the game on PC! Finally i could use some mods... Awesome!
    Then Rockstar banned the mods...
    F*** you this game deserve a 0
  15. Jyrgunkarrd
    May 7, 2015
    0
    Days after release, Rockstar not only could not patch the game for customers who bought it for muxless laptops - which are the most common variety of gaming laptops today - but insulted customers who opened tickets on the matter attempting to find a solution.

    Could not play, felt cheated out of my money & slapped in the face by their CS department.

    0/10
  16. ToxicHumor
    May 7, 2015
    10
    Amazing game, amazing optimization, amazing story and this is my first rock star game. The lack of modding support or more accurately the legal inability to do so I do not see as a problem. It is wonderful when a game supports it, however it is not something we are entitled too.
  17. eelegendo
    May 7, 2015
    0
    I bought this on the pc to make the game just as I like with mods. Now it is not working. Why? I wanted music for myself, a radio mod. Change the FOV. Be part of a community. It is all gone.
    Why should anyone buy this game on the PC? The controls are sh.tty, driving is a chore and annoying. Mods could have made this game passable. Now they won't.
    I want my money back. I've been cheated.    I bought this on the pc to make the game just as I like with mods. Now it is not working. Why? I wanted music for myself, a radio mod. Change the FOV. Be part of a community. It is all gone.
    Why should anyone buy this game on the PC? The controls are sh.tty, driving is a chore and annoying. Mods could have made this game passable. Now they won't.
    I want my money back. I've been cheated. From now on I would not buy any game from Rstar. Never ever again. Period.
    The critic score should be updated accordingly.    … Expand
  18. 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)
  19. CoyoteTango
    May 7, 2015
    1
    attrocious pc verion.......incredibly unstable, errors, crashes, glitches, memory leaks...horrible absolutely horrible.... this games was clearly not optimized only reason it was delayed was to milk consoles sales as much as possible.
  20. J-VIk
    May 7, 2015
    0
    i bought this game for modding, but now thats no longer allowed now, and could get you banned from the game, even if you only play offline with mods. and also that rockstar does this after selling the game to us knowing that many of us bought it to mod the game is a really fkup move by rockstar.
  21. AikiNoodles
    May 6, 2015
    4
    Modding results in ban. -4 to the score easily.
    F* You Rockstar !
    This is not acceptable. Go screw. You lost me here, you can stick the rest of all your games in the future way up yours because i quit. I'll never buy your games again. On top of that, I HOPE with all my hearth that your game got cracked and that many will enjoy it with mods without your consent. You had the nerve to    Modding results in ban. -4 to the score easily.
    F* You Rockstar !
    This is not acceptable.

    Go screw. You lost me here, you can stick the rest of all your games in the future way up yours because i quit. I'll never buy your games again.
    On top of that, I HOPE with all my hearth that your game got cracked and that many will enjoy it with mods without your consent. You had the nerve to make a promise about mods for PC just to backstab us later.

    BIG F to you, Rockstar.
    You can stay forever on consoles for all I care now.    … Expand
  22. stpaks
    May 6, 2015
    0
    One of the biggest selling points for this version, modding, has just been deemed a bannable offense by the **** that made this game.

    You might as well just buy the console version.
  23. Molag-Bal
    May 6, 2015
    0
    The only reason I got this once good game was for the mods, and now Rockstar are going to be a bunch of pathetic A55Holes and band mods...This is not acceptable, mods are the only reasson I game on the PC and I waited two F***ing years for the PC version.
  24. shadowline
    May 6, 2015
    1
    Heavily delayed game, starting off with downloading problems with the Rockstar Download Manager (forces to download gigabytes of patches again and again | Download Errors). This was then followed by server problems.

    After two years of development GTA still has the same bugs as the PS3-Version, including a huge amount of unnecessary loading screens combined with crashes. The games    Heavily delayed game, starting off with downloading problems with the Rockstar Download Manager (forces to download gigabytes of patches again and again | Download Errors). This was then followed by server problems.

    After two years of development GTA still has the same bugs as the PS3-Version, including a huge amount of unnecessary loading screens combined with crashes.

    The games lobby-system is really bad, considering that friends who joined your matches are constantly placed in different sessions after playing one match.

    The first heist preparation mission always ends in a white screen error, even if replayed.

    Mods are not supported and singleplayer-modifications will lead to a ban in GTA Online.

    In contrast to that the singleplayer experience and gameplay feeling overall seem to be good.    … Expand
  25. exxr
    May 6, 2015
    10
    I gotta say I never really got into GTA IV as I found it a bit boring after a while. Also the game mechanics were a bit clunky to me, maybe coz I'm used to playing FPS. But with GTA V I got drawn in by the pretty visuals so I gave it a shot.

    Been playing for 3 days so far and its good. Those graphics are lovely for sure. Driving is better than the old one and there is much more    I gotta say I never really got into GTA IV as I found it a bit boring after a while. Also the game mechanics were a bit clunky to me, maybe coz I'm used to playing FPS. But with GTA V I got drawn in by the pretty visuals so I gave it a shot.

    Been playing for 3 days so far and its good. Those graphics are lovely for sure.

    Driving is better than the old one and there is much more depth in the missions. Object interaction is pretty awesome as is the world detail. I should note that I now have an Xbox controller I use for driving and mouse/keyboard when I need to shoot.

    Optimisation is fairly good too they spent some time polishing it for PC which is nice to see. 90% smooth performance on an i5 with an ageing 2gb 7870. Only minor downside is the 60gb download since my DSL is just average so it took a while to get it down, plus good thing I just upgraded to a bigger drive.

    Overall it's a contender for best game of the year no doubt.    … Expand
  26. maleesha
    May 6, 2015
    10
    This is the best of all games and its addictive game play bring me to an another world .this is awesome as hell.play this guys this is super super game.
  27. IstepO
    May 6, 2015
    3
    The game was released with serious bugs and memory leak problems and Rockstar seems that they are doing nothing to repair it. If you want an advice, dont buy this game.. at least not for now.
  28. zz_tophat
    May 6, 2015
    1
    I was going to rate this zero because of the lack of mods, in what is supposed to be the mod-able version but instead I will give it a 1, as it does allow the use of mouse and keyboard, so... there's that.
  29. Ianh191
    May 5, 2015
    0
    Rockstar has changed their EULA after selling the game, and is now banning people for modding the game even in single player. Such scam-like behaviour is unbecoming of a company. Modding is a key component of the PC gaming community.
  30. KnifeTheMac
    May 5, 2015
    10
    Polished, beautiful, funny and just plain fun, GTA V rekindled the love I felt for the franchise when I played San Andreas. I found the player characters diverse, comical and endearing. Switching between them kept the experience fresh and engaging.

    This is the first game that really tested my rig, though I still managed to stay north of 60 fps with nearly all settings maxed. Graphically    Polished, beautiful, funny and just plain fun, GTA V rekindled the love I felt for the franchise when I played San Andreas. I found the player characters diverse, comical and endearing. Switching between them kept the experience fresh and engaging.

    This is the first game that really tested my rig, though I still managed to stay north of 60 fps with nearly all settings maxed. Graphically GTA V dropped my jaw and gave me several "The future is now!" moments. Even my artist wife would stop to gawk and admire what was on screen.

    A great balance between mostly linear plot and sandbox rampage, I found driving and combat to be smooth with the right amount of challenge. My one game-play gripe is the clumsy-feeling pedestrian experience, where it is all to easy to accidentally jump face first into a wall that I intended to scale.

    I found the plot to be engrossing through the final scene, and can see myself retreading the story in a month or two. I originally was going to wait for the first price drop to purchase, but a couple videos of gameplay graphics at 1080p was enough to persuade my wallet to open. I have no regrets.

    I'm not sure if I can say that GTA V is my favorite game of all time, but I think its the best game I've ever played. Would score it as a 97 if I could, so rounding up to a 10.    … Expand
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Metascore
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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