Load up GTA III for comparison some time and you will be tripping over health packs, body armour, random weapons and hidden packages. A piece of a suicide note, an alien ship fragment and a baseball bat are all I stumbled upon during my campaign. I played the game for twenty hours of gameplay interspersed with exploration of the landscape, I can still count the thing I found on one hand. And the levelling up thing is pointless since you might only ever use a hacker or driver twice.īy the end of the game, there are only three real heists (where you plan everything and actually get a reward) and the rest is cover based shooting and talking to annoying people. You get to unlock heist members but it hardly feels rewarding to get a new driver or gunner after you’ve already done two of three heists you can actually use them in. Unfortunately the heists were too few and far between for my liking and constantly limited your planning options. For me, this is easily the most fun thing about GTA V and I looked forward to every single one of them. They were promoted as being integral to the game with players planning the heist, doing set up missions and choosing a crew of support characters who would level up the more you used them. The big new thing Grand Theft Auto V introduced to the series were the heists. GTA V Has New Gameplay Elements (that are barely used) Read on as I explain why Saints Row 3 and 4 are just plain better than GTA V, despite lacking some polish.Īlso Keith David is playing himself as Vice President. Meanwhile, Saints Row IV (and its predecessor Saints Row the Third) were doing almost everything better than GTA V, but being ignored by the mainstream. It was to my surprise then that when I actually played the game, I thought it was dull and repetitive, populated by characters I despised, and wound up feeling like a massive chore to play through.īy no means is it terrible or lacking in some rather fun moments, but I would personally have given the game a 7 or 8 out 10. With so much excitement building up to the release of the game, getting perfect 10/10 scores and GameSpot employees receiving death threats for daring to give it less than a perfect rating, GTA V was essentially promised to be the greatest game ever made. So 2013 saw the release of Grand Theft Auto V, which must have been the most hyped game of last generation (yes the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 are officially last gen).

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