Week 1:Grand Theft Auto 5 Review

            The Grand Theft Auto franchise might be the most lauded, yet also the most divisive of all time. GTA V is no exception to the precedent. Any game where you play as a criminal and earn points by breaking the law is going to come under scrutiny. Yet Rockstar has, so far, balanced the aggressive (and sometimes psychopathic) aspects of its anti-hero protagonists with enough back story and supporting cast that players feel at ease. Even when mowing down pedestrians or murdering people on the flimsiest of pretenses.

               This time around we have three characters, and the ability to jump between them. Each brings something different to the overall story while maintaining secondary storylines of their own. One question for me to answer, then, was "could Rockstar pull this off or would it be a mess?"

              The short answer is yes, Rockstar could pull it off, in fact they  even surpassed my expectations with the game. It doesn't feel like its just an improvement on Grand Theft Auto 4, it feels like Rockstar took all the good mechanics from their previous games, Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne 3 stand out the most in games they borrowed mechanics from, but it is also a giant improvement in every mechanic from GTA 4. The story is also great. Almost everything about it is great except the bugs in GTA online.

       My score: 9.5 out of 10