A lot of light, but unfortunately also shadow

I got GTA 5 paid, and have to say it has unfortunately become a double-edged sword. The game itself is awesome, a blockbuster first order. Fulfill my personal expectations could but unfortunately still not. While Rockstar here for my taste - As for what story and campaign - has created a nearly perfect game, that really drags the player who delivered online mode is, however, a shot in the oven. Whatever one may say positive about GTA 5, as a real "open world" sandbox game, it definitely does not belong to the same level as Fallout3 or Skyrim. The term "Open World for team players" would have been more appropriate here. Unfortunately the advertising hype conceals precisely this point. Who likes to play solo, the GTA 5 has indeed a great campaign, but in the "real" open world of San Andreas such players are not desirable.

But from the beginning:

For people to whom it is enough to have played the campaign like a great gangster story with appealing characters and a lot of heart-pounding action, GTA 5 is actually a must buy. The game is like a well-staged gangster epic. A crooks drama as it can not tell better hätter novels and films. Sure ... the plot is not new and many scenes are modeled Filem known, but the characters are great and diverse and the action turns out to be stick hard blow in the middle of the entrails of a society for clean windows are more important than clean streets. Here is entertainment for social criticism. And if you share a "bribe-Bank" plunders in the game with the protagonist, creating corruption money in the cops, one wonders inevitably, how many of such banks may well actually exist in reality.

However, what is totally incomprehensible to me, is the strong separation between content GTA 5 and the so-called "GTA Online", the stake - at least from my perspective - brings a lot of minuses. Because a true open-world sandbox mode does not have GTA 5 unfortunately. Although the game trumps superficially with lots of stuff on such as tattoo studios or buying property, because you in the single player mode after the completion of the campaign, however, can no longer "reach", is missing here in the long run quickly the motivation to play on. Theoretically, one can per character standing there with $ 2 billion each as a player after completion of the campaign. However, benefits are not wearing it, because there are no more motivation to spend the money. Clear I could leave with 2bn tune dozens of cars ... but what if I can do anything else with these cars, rumzufahren than in Los Santos?

Long-term content such as a growing mission offer etc. can be found exclusively in the online offshoot. And here Rockstar mistook unfortunately the word "Online" with "multiplayer cooperation". Who simply Bock has on a little sandbox Plink, will be quickly disappointed because without solid player and headset runs in GTA Online nothing. It starts with the fact that auto racing without human players no prize money will be paid. Sits about continuing, the mini-games such as tennis (offline way, are perfectly playable against the AI!) In the online game can not even be started without human opponent, and finally culminates in a Los Santos' underworld constantly missions anträgt that are simply not playable alone ... as if it is equal to 4 cars to steal at once or off in a limited time frame 2 goals.
Also funny is the fact that you can get as a player missions that are alone not feasible at this time. So I got just over 30 stage a mission, a helicopter was necessary for their fulfillment. Since helicopters but within Mission games - unlike cars - are not stehlbar, this mission can only be played when legal owner of a helicopter is ... because it is hardly possible to stage 30, you need here so necessarily a high-level players.

Theoretically, you can indeed all missions in open sessions with "random groups" play, these are, however, mostly around rather painful experiences. Apart from the fact that it is ohenhin hard enough to find fellow players, as long as you do not run will make with supercar or survival missions, you will encounter all too often often on opponents who are one himself vastly superior, or allied, who the game only just started and barely tell the difference between a shotgun and a machine gun. While GTA Online Theoretically, a pseudo-matchmaking system in which you can decide to invite only those players who have similar skills, as you do. Because you but even on servers with 20 players often little more than one or two find other players, the system is useless. I have to compete as a soloist in random groups so the choice, in the road race or deathmatch either against an opponent who is 50 levels higher than me, or me accept that I can not find a team-mate.

Many improvements can be obtained in the game are bound to multiplayer competitors. Will you be installing, for example in his sports car turbo tuner that can only happen if you have previously won a certain amount of auto racing with sports cars. It performs as a soloist in random groups in such a race but constantly against drivers of which have already upgraded their car with a turbo-tuner, swallows you just dust a chance, because a 10% strength acceleration is in race one not to be underestimated advantage. I have, however, a few buddies or a few crew members on the hand, let me just win 10 times, I have in record time not only meets the requirements for tuning, but also grossing almost $ 100,000 in less than an hour playing time along the way. .. for's nothing.

In addition, in the free play anywhere (spiritual) children are traveling, who find it super great to take the fun out other players. Time to park loving roadside and go to the bathroom, does not work here, otherwise you have very quickly a bullet in his head and finds its own, lovingly tuned truck in the hands of another player again. Unfortunately, the Switchable "passive mode", which should protect the player from enemy PVP Aktioen is a joke.
On the one hand it will only work as long as you are on foot (in the car, you are always vulnerable), in this state offers you your own car for potential thieves but gradezu on the Silver Tablet for theft on. And secondly, the passive mode also protects only against weapons attacks. If you walk on the road, you can still be hit by other players despite passive mode ... so nothing half and nothing whole.

I really have long tried to be warm with GTA online but at level 35 I have finally stopped. Friends, I have no GTA5 games and on this whole online social rigmarole I - as sure a lot of people my age - simply not interested. I doubt not think that makes a lot of fun GTA-O in a small group with 3, 4 friends in a private session. But players who to not have the opportunity (you can in a community schlißlich not constantly put in the living room with a headset in front of the TV, and "self-talk" lead, rock star!) Should know in advance that you probably permanently, this aspect of the game will remain closed.

Had the additional game content, which brings GTA Online in the game, even in solo mode with the AI ​​available, then GTA 5 would have become the perfect game of this console generation, an insanely great campaign and extreme long-term motivation. There apparently was Rockstar but far too important to step up their game own social networking service, the online mode is completely designed for organized groups of players, so-called crews.

Who offline or solo play, while still coming to enjoy the very good campaign, the sandbox game missing there but almost completely. Who would have been one of the more important reasons for purchase, which should be considered in advance.