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Not Recommended 1,177.1 hrs on record

This review is very much a game of two halves, but please do read all of it, the bad part is last, be aware.







GTA V single player.



Comedy gold, great characters with OTT humour blasting their way around Los Santos, couldn't be more fun. Buying on sale for the single player even if you never go online.... worth it.







GTA V Online.



Well, where do I start. The online part of the game leaves you rattling round in public lobbies trying to grind away the cash to buy anything fun, then more stuff comes out that looks fun and you spend more time grinding for that. Commonly griefed while doing it, often hassled by modders and frequently stuck in the clouds.



Of course there is stuff like the pvp arenas, all the racing types and heists that can be done without joining a crew as well.



But, find a good crew..... and all that changes. With a good crew you can help each other make money, kick the griefers out of sessions, roleplay a motorcycle gang riding around in leather and the game becomes a lot better. Like most online games, finding decent people to play online with makes all the difference.







Rockstar Support



No review of GTA would be complete without a quick look at R* support. Yes the online game has a modder problem, so yes a fairly aggressive anti-cheat is welcome...... regrettably it sometimes functions like a rabid dog and bites whoever it sees.... and from late on 24th to 26th March 2018 it bit a lot.



24th - A bit of code is updated, thousands of people start getting banned for 30 and accounts wiped.



25th - The bans continue, thousands and thousands of bans and accounts wiped, thousands of hours of gameplay gone. No word from R* about it, support tickets relating to bans autoclosed with a polite "f**k off reply"



26th - Bit of code changed on 24th changed back, no word from R*, media gets hold of it, steam reviews tanked. No new bans



28th - People still banned, no word from R*, support tickets relating to bans no longer autoclosed. So yeah, that's progress.



29th - So R* has started lifting the false bans, which is great, the downside, when they log in they are getting autobanned again. The mess continues.



So finally, about a week after people got banned, and unbanned and banned again everything is getting sorted out. I was lucky, I got told what was happening so I didn't log in.



Now a lot of people say "cheaters always whine about getting banned hahahahaha", but these are people I play with every day, in a crew specifically focused on avoiding cheaters, people I trust in a crew I trust.



GTA is a genuinely great game at times, frustrating at others, and a miserable piece of ♥♥♥♥ when you have to try dealing with R* themselves.



Single player 10/10



Online 5/10 rising to 8/10 with a decent crew.



Support and respect for their customers 0/10, nothing, nada, f**k all.