I thought about doing a GTA V review but there are a ton of those out there and I'm not sure I can add any insight that hasn't been covered. So, instead of a review, I thought we could do an impressions thread. I know many of you (judging by the over 13 million day one sales) bought the game so we should be able to give a pretty good collective insight into GTA V.
Here are my thoughts so far after getting through 4-5 missions:
Here are my thoughts so far after getting through 4-5 missions:
- The graphics are 100x better than anything this series has offered so far. I thought GTA IV was disappointing as basically a PS2 port. GTA V certainly changes the game graphically. The really cool thing is that the close up, zoomed in camera scenes during dialogue don't change much from what you see when playing. It flows really well.
- The cut scenes and acting are really, really good also. By far the best in the series (including the Ray Liotta, Tom Sizemore and Dennis Hopper led Vice City). The opening scenes really drew me in and made it feel very lifelike (or movie like for those that prefer that depiction).
- The gameplay, for the most part, is pretty much what you've seen from past versions. That's not a bad thing. I think that's all what we like about the GTA series but it does kind of lack that "wow" factor from previous versions.
- The controls are very similar as well although you have multiple control versions that you can choose from. Again, this all feels very familiar. The biggest knock for me though is that the player movement is very slow. Even when running it is more of a jog than a sprint. That's always been a drawback. You can fly through the streets of Los Santos in a vehicle but you practically crawl through them on foot.
- My last complaint is the save feature. You've always had to return home to save but I wish they would've upgraded that and just auto-saved at the completion of missions. It becomes tedious to have to return home every mission or two.