|MYT|dimonkey wrote:|MYT|Torq wrote:
What is actual game play like ?
I think it is awesome. Best game I have played. Although I am a fan of the GTA series.
Well it is indeed the whole usual GTA pack, one you cannot forget.
Huge beautiful scenery, with the very specific highly cynical atmosphere, tending to exagerate every aspect of the World as the USA see it. Sarcasm everywhere and in everything, parody on all corners and in every available form. I could start a list, but that is pointless and neverending. It is a continuing pleasure to discover new ones, even though you spent loads of hours playing it already.
Truely those Rockstar guys had fun finding out ideas on how to depict all the different vices, quirks & bumps or real life concentrated in highly concentrated satirical characters. Despite that, you tend to bond to the characters you play, lost in something bigger than them: a World somehow, strangely, believable which you can free-ride and run around as you like, when you like, doing what you find the most suitable.
That is GTA, as it has always been given to be experienced (at least since III, the first I ever played), and no other game matches the whole pack.
You then get the movie-style of the game, as GTA has always been a masterpiece in trying to get their video-game being very close to the movies aesthetic: you will surprise yourself watching the cutscenes as the action, dialogues and camera shots (angle, colour palette, movement) are inspired, not to say borrowed, from the 7th art.
You will sometimes try to mimic what you could see on a big screen, fitting in the clothes of the characters you have been given to impersonate. GTA V has the technical help of recent improvements in making characters even more believable: movement, facial expressions and now eyes are animated through motion capture to deliver what is getting closer and closer to real actors play. Not there yet of course (will it ever be there?), but highly satifactory and truely astonishing.
The technical layer disappears behing all that fun, but it is to be remembered (even though I admit I was skeptical, du to what the industry provides sometimes) that the game is beautiful even though you have a decent but not cutting-edge PC.
Who knew you could have water reflections, light effects, smoke, individual animations, animated lights, backed up with shaders all around to blur, create effects and make things looking like coming staight from a movie on a normal, not-that-aged machine? Thumbs up Rockstar!
Of course there are some bumps and bruises in the game, such as some poorly designed menus and strange bugs not (yet?) fixed (I am talking about the PC version here, dunno about others), but the overall quality, deep experience and great fun you will enjoy with it, even if not being an excuse, will make you closed your eyes and them and happily press the pedal to the metal in one stolen sports car, flying (sometimes literally) through an awkward, scary but yet amazing San Andreas state.