I bought this game there a month ago, having never played a GTA far. The game is very beautiful, the graphics are very realistic and detailed (set up). The game is perfectly smooth and some extremely fast loading times. I appreciate the universe, but I confess that I find it fairly repetitive (I am a few tens of hours of gameplay) despite a sought main timeline. Without revealing the plot, in the end even if the objective exchange between missions, you realize always more or less the same way. Let's say it's the kind of game in which it explodes before for 1:30 to want to do something else, when you're used to games where the quests are much more varied anyway.
I hesitated a bit before buying it from the reviews on incompatibility related to Windows 8, and I should point out that for my part I installed it without any problem on this operating system. The game did not experience any bug to launch then nor during my gaming hours. If that does not work for you is that you definitely play poorly installed or improperly installed Windows 8 on the base. This OS is not directly call into question, so you can buy the game eyes closed.