Great game. Got it a week ago, despite me having exams to revise for. Not very sensible but bleh.

Things I like about it:

- The attention to detail everything in it seems to have.

- Huge diversity of action and things to do.

- Interesting stories and sub-missions.

- Getting drunk and trying to drive home.

- The characters and the humorous cutscenes.

- The reaction cops have when you try and jack them when they are patrolling in a car.

- The seamless ragdoll physics and new vehicle handling. People complain about how difficult realistic the cornering is, when the truth is they just suck at pulling drifts.

Things I dislike about it:

- Where are my planes?

- Repetitiveness of maintaining relationships with people. I gave up in the end. Too many people contact you too often, especially when you are aiming to finish all the missions in under 30h for an achievement.

- At night time its too dark to see anything, so I find myself changing brightness settings every 12 game hours (about 30min real time)

- Selection of weapons is not very diverse (only 2 of each type, and not much interesting variation apart from power and accuracy)

- Selection of vehicles is not very diverse (only a few of each category)

- Street lamps are knocked over when hit at 5km/h, whereas trees are completely indestructible. wtf.

And that reminds me. I know none of the other GTA's had speedometers, but would it really hurt to have an optional one?

- The phone system is very clever, except its incredibly annoying sometimes, like when you get knocked down by a car and the conversation ends, and especially when you are wanted and a call is triggered in the mission. Its a little difficult to get away from cops when you are limited to walking and cant enter any vehicles without skipping through the dialog.

However, overall its a great game and I would definitely recommended it.