Grand Theft Auto V

Unlike RDR2, at least GTA 5 had a replayable campaign and fun multiplayer.

3.5 for Story Mode, -2 for Online

As with every GTA, plenty of the game mechanics are garbage, maybe some are changed/improved from GTA IV, but they added and tweaked many to be more garbage (especially for Online). For instance, exploding immediately when exiting a plane rolling slowly to a stop on the ground (yes, with my landing gear applied). At any speed. I'm pretty sure it even happened when the plane was stopped.

Even without modders/hackers making the game unfun and unplayable, bad connections, and soft locks/neverending loading screens, Online is still grindy and made purposefully frustrating to get you to buy Shark Cards, with even more terrible game mechanics and menus.

A great game bogged down by some really sluggish and narrow story missions.

Past all of the moral indignation and media buzz, it's a solid, engaging, and often funny hyper-parody of 2010's American culture in rapid decline. There's some great writing here, nice characterization, and a wildly immersive and engaging world that feels so spot-on tonally throughout the entire campaign. That's no easy feat.

For a game that is the premiere example of open-world immersion and exploration, I find it frustrating how mechanical and tedious a lot of the missions were. Not a lot of flexibility in how to accomplish things, really bizarre and numerous automatic failures, etc.

I would give it a lower score if not for the really exceptional artistic direction and "flavor" that permeates every corner of the game. Also, hijacking airplanes and assassinating obnoxious Silicon hipster technocrats will never not be fun.

I remember playing this game all the time when it first came out. I was like 7/8 years old and was playing online and all that. There will never be another game with this much hype that delivered as well as Grand Theft Auto 5.

im telling you mane, thid game made our childhood. easily to 15 best games oat

top 3 gta imo

Story mode is very fun but to even play it you have to deal with the Rockstar Launcher which requires you to be connected to their (often offline) servers to earn achievements (I purchased this game through Steam, no clue why Rockstar servers need to verify the achievement before Steam lets me have it) or sometimes to even play the offline game at all.

The online portion of the game is really fun and great with friends if you manage to find a server away from the hackers, who are stupidly common in almost every server you enter (loading into a server takes forever too, to add insult to injury). If you just do private heists and games and such though, you will probably be fine.