The story when online ruined everything
Open world, yes it is smaller than in San Andreas, but how can 3 dead cities with houses made of cardboard compete with such a living Los Santos, only by talking with local homeless people you realize the whole atmosphere of Los Angeles
The plot, I think it’s perfect, for the first time in the GTA series there are 3 playable characters at once, to be honest I don’t even know the game, or maybe I don’t remember where in such a large game world you can play for 3 playable characters at once, each of whom is a personality .
But, GTA Online ruined the whole thing, now GTA V has 70-75% of reviews on Steam, and all the negative ones are dedicated to the online mode. So the game would have had at least 95%, which would allow it to become the best game in terms of sales in terms of the number of purchases/percentage of positive reviews, also because of the online mode we won’t see GTA 6 for another 5 years, because Gta Online is consistently in 4th-5th place among players on Steam, every time GTA V is the leader in sales at discounts (it’s not bad to snatch a game like this for 700 rubles),
people continue to donate, I’m buying flying motorcycles and orbital guns.
GTA V is reminiscent of the Fast and the Furious movie franchise, first we stole cars, and now we shoot from orbital cannons and transport storage units around the city.