My review of Grand Theft Auto 5 Online
Hello! This is my unbiased review on Grand Theft Auto 5 online on PC. The majority of this review will be focused on the online portion of Grand theft auto five.
After spending a copious amount of time playing this game (1000+ hours) I have come to the conclusion that this is single-handedly the best and worst games I have ever played. Before you question how the previous statement contradicts itself, let me explain. I originally brought this game when it was out on the Xbox 360 at launch. I played through the campaign and dabbled some in the online portion before deciding that I had experienced everything the game had to offer, boy was I wrong. Fast forward a year or two when GTA 5 for PC was released, I saw the trailers for the PC version and decided to give the game another go. Below is my experience with GTA 5 on PC.
The good:
· The Cars — The amount of customization that is offered on some of the vehicles is mind boggling.
· Constant DLC and updates to existing vehicles in game
· Fun interactive game modes that provide hours of replay ability
· The level of detail in the games map is amazing I have spent countless hours roaming the country side and the city of Los Santos.
The bad
· Timing out of sessions
· Modder’s who ruin the experience for everyone
· Players who gang up on other players
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· Abuse of various in games feature such as: Passive mode, the kick feature and the report feature
· Poorly optimization for AMD cards
The ugly
· Lack of effective anti-cheat
· Rockstar’s blatant disregard towards fixing game breaking bugs and glitches It took some time for Rockstar to actually patch game breaking glitches or cheats that can ruin the overall experience.
· The time it takes to actually load into the game — The load times for this game are abysmal, it shouldn’t take me 10 minutes to actually get on a game.
· Overpowered vehicles thus giving people who have more money or (sharks cards) an advantage over those who don’t.
· Overpriced Shark cards — It’s an in game currency that can be purchased with real money. The cheapest cards range from two dollars all the way to one hundred.
· Inclusion of the KDR (Kill death ratio) on online. Players are obsessed with their kill to death ratio thus subtracting from the fun of the game
· Abysmal loading times — I kid you not, you will spend roughly half of your time in the menu or loading screen in this game
· Horrible matchmaking — this game has the worst match making of any online game I have ever played and that’s saying a lot. I should not have to wait upwards of 6 -20 minutes to load into a fucking session with my crew or friends. To make matters worse nothing has been done about this.
Overall online rating 8.8/10: This portion of the game is more enjoyable with friends or a crew of people. It would be in your best interest to join a sizable crew so that you have people to play with.
