This game is one thing that everyone been waiting for. While the Xbone and the PlayStation 4 version been out for some time, PC gamers waited for some time after so many delays. As of this review, it has finally hit steam after quite some time! After GTA4, I found it to be under-whelming since the game-play clashed horribly with the story to the point I would rather play Saints Row 2 and even recommend that game over it. It would be nice if they patched Saints Row 2 and bring 1 to the PC master system, but that's neither here nor there.
So, how IS the game. well...
The positive:
+ Best port of the game
+ Three playable characters that you would either love-to-hate or Hate-to-love with different abilities
+ The game is bigger as advertized
+ There are a lot of sub-activities from Heist to the simplest game of golf
+ Online can be a blast with friends
+ During crime sections, music cues with fitting themes
+ A lot of crime movie tribute pieces
+ Single player runs smoothly over +60 Frames
However, There are some big flaws, in my humble opinion. For example...
The negative:
- In summary, the story is a major dick-butt
- Characters that are known are either killed, missing, or worst, butchered
- The family sucks, as they are easily the worst characters in the game
- Unskippible water boarding section, which is pointless
- Plot-holes which the game contradict itself with
- While most of the music nice, most of them doesn't fit GTA's ascetics .
- Graphical glitches can occur on some graphic cards. Recommend +800 Cards
- Heist in Online are currently broken on all ports; Dated Online Social system
- Path finding for AI drivers are broken, especially the taxi drivers!
- Useless out-of-game phone apps for smartphones which don't really add anything to game
- Caps where not all your CPU power is not read properly; Fixed via notepad
- Online needs a passive-aggressive mode that prevents Friendly Fire to other players
- Worst of all, Micro-transactions break the flow and ruins progress in the game.
Grade: B
If the gaming PC can handle the game, this is recommended hands down. The player can easily work around the micro-transactions, but they should NEVER exist in a triple A game. Thankfully most of the cut-sceans are skip-able besides the few parts of the game which act as loading zones. While the story and the micro-transactions do hold this game back from
being a perfect game, there's no denying that this is the best port of
the game!
