A Well Regulated Militia . . .
The GTA games have never been about cutting edge visuals and maximising the potential of the hardware, but they've done a fantastic job here: the game world looks absolutely stunning. They've learnt a lot of lessons on creating huge vistas from Red Dead Redemption and the weather and night/day transitions are sumptuous.
The sheer diversity of the world now is incredible but all of these fantastic buildings and installations sort of encourage you to want to explore them. So far at least though there doesn't seem to be much reward in terms of locations with interiors or pick-ups to be found.
I think the ability to switch between the stories and missions of the different protagonists is very well done but it doesn't take you long to realise that at its heart there's not a huge amount that advances the series. It's all polish and tightening and making the thing much more cinematic.
As an aside I find the wanted level and police pursuit quite harsh. I punched a character and that was enough to get me a police star even though there were none in site. Just trying to evade them raised my wanted level to 2 stars and police cars were smashing into me at speed like maniacs.
There's a lot of bare breasts in the game for the first time which I'm mentioning because of a tweet I saw last night: 'OMG, GTAV has REAL tits!!!'
The GTA games have never been about cutting edge visuals and maximising the potential of the hardware, but they've done a fantastic job here: the game world looks absolutely stunning. They've learnt a lot of lessons on creating huge vistas from Red Dead Redemption and the weather and night/day transitions are sumptuous.
The sheer diversity of the world now is incredible but all of these fantastic buildings and installations sort of encourage you to want to explore them. So far at least though there doesn't seem to be much reward in terms of locations with interiors or pick-ups to be found.
I think the ability to switch between the stories and missions of the different protagonists is very well done but it doesn't take you long to realise that at its heart there's not a huge amount that advances the series. It's all polish and tightening and making the thing much more cinematic.
As an aside I find the wanted level and police pursuit quite harsh. I punched a character and that was enough to get me a police star even though there were none in site. Just trying to evade them raised my wanted level to 2 stars and police cars were smashing into me at speed like maniacs.
There's a lot of bare breasts in the game for the first time which I'm mentioning because of a tweet I saw last night: 'OMG, GTAV has REAL tits!!!'
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