GTA VI leaks got me kinda hyped to reinstall this but my real want to replay it came from Pikamee's playthrough a few years back. Sadly for some reason the game didn't want to work then so here we are now lmfao.

Holds up pretty well besides the usual Rockstar jank and herding towards completing missions in a specific way the developers demand unless you want to fail and very obviously looking like a 2013 PS360 game no matter how much gloss the 8th and 9th gen consoles and PC releases add to it.

Probably the best overall "game" of Rockstar's HD era so far in which I actually have fun playing through it (even doing replays with the rereleases) while something like Red Dead 2 is on the opposite end where I'd rather be watching it as some insane sicko mode Oscar bait film than playing or doing replays of it. Somehow also probably the funniest game I've ever played. Still get laughs outta so many sequences and dialogue to this day. Immensely quotable and immensely satisfying final third.

Hope 6 is just a vile and crass Michael Bay rendition of Florida crossed with The Beach Bum the same way this felt like a vile and crass Michael Bay rendition of California.

Anyways, California fucking sucks. Incredible music choices for the licensed tracks still go and search a bunch of them up to this day. This shit really came out 10 years ago huh...

Reviewed on Sep 29, 2022


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