Great online experience when playing with friends or a clan.

I loved GTA online when playing with friends. It has a ton of stuff to do, looks beautiful, is well balanced and makes sure that you never have to bore yourself.

You are thrown in the massive city of Los Santos as a customizable nobody, and need to work your way up through the ladder by engaging in various non legal missions. You play some sort of campaign, in which you meet new people and quest givers. Each time the missions increasing in difficulty. You earn (or steal) cold hard cash, buy new weapons, a place to live, new fancy cars and much more.

You can buy fancy, new clothes, upgrades for your house, and overall, it just feels like a second life online, with a lot of realism. The only difference here, is that you are a bad guy who earns his money in a “different” way. You level up, unlock more items, can play minigames like golf, work out, increase your stats by interacting with everything in the world, go shopping, and overall, you always have something to do.

The graphics are beautiful in GTA online. There is just so much detail, so much on the screen at the same time, so many different things to interact with. It is just great.

When speaking sound, gunfire, explosions, cars and the voice acting is spot on. The ambient sound of the city also really works great and simulates the experience of a big city.

The controls and menus take some time to get used too. In the basis, shooting, walking and ducking work simple, but the inventory screen and flight controls are a little hard to master.

GTA online is great for LAN parties and when playing with a large group. Starting heists together, coordinating each other roles, working together, it is just a great experience. From all the online games, this one is still the game of choice for me when enough people want to play. My only personal problem with GTA online is that the best experience with the game, is with friends. Of course, many online games, shooters and RPG’s can be more fun with people you know, but here, when you don’t have friends online to play with, and are left with random people, the whole atmosphere changes, and not for the better. For me, this was true at least.

When playing with random people, you get shamed for being too low level, get scolded on for dying during a heist, get killed randomly for no reason and the overall experience drops dramatically. I cannot explain exactly why and how, but it “just doesn’t feel right anymore”.

Another general problem, are the loading times. When logging in and loading the game, you can get a drink, take a sh!t, watch some episodes of your favorite series, have a meal, do your laundry, walk your dog and visit your parents. When you return, the game might have loaded and you can finally play. To put it short: The load times are HORRENDOUS.

Nevertheless, GTA online can hook you up for hours, and with the right people, it is worth every buck of your purchase.

Definitely recommend this game.

never really got into it I was there on day one with my friend I was 14 last year of middle school (for reference that would be 9th grade which I think would be equivalent to the first year of high school for Americans?) coming home from school and it was just impossible to get on an online match with anyone it constantly lost connection it was a terrible experience to be on day one we did persist because we really wanted to do the online heists but I think it took a while as in weeks to get that working. then years later a friend in high school invited me to play with him and he was like bawling in the game idk if spent on micro-transactions or if he just played a lot but he definitely knew his way around the game and that was kind of fun experience but I was far gone to care about getting back into it then when it came to pc I tried the online there mostly to play with my younger brother but that also didn't last but it was a much smoother experience getting to playing with someone i knew compared to when the game was on ps3. but that was about it i was mildly curious about GTA RP but that idk it looked kind of boring and the fun things happening in that seemed like they were primarily coming from streamers that got main character treatment in those experiences