Grand Theft Auto V is definitely one of Rockstar’s worst mainline games, as a story it trips over itself and often feels like it’s caught up on being miserable, it expects us to take these characters seriously while simultaneously having them exist in this (personally) unfunny, immature and simplistic satire that feels full of itself, a sense of humour that feels right at home in a terrible adult comedy cartoon. Then the characters actually talk to each other and suddenly that all melts away, the jokes and scenes are actually entertaining sometimes, it’s like the game doesn’t know what it wants to be, what tone to have.

This is compounded by a cynical, money hungry live service style online mode that is so detached from the original game that it might as well not be anymore.

But it is funny when man fall down so, do with that what you will.

Reviewed on Jan 15, 2024


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