Yep, I find it hard to believe, given that with movies, people will phone friends and give their critique before someone opts to go see it on their own, and in effect change the audience numbers if they give a bad or poor, or disappointing review. Now that we've had our own hands on GTA V, we know it's not outperforming GTAs prior firing on all cylinders. Some have come down rather hard on faults they find with the game, looking at GTAForums' comments the other day, I find the more you live with it, you can see the various elements from all the prior titles that take shape in GTA 5, but sadly explosions, fires, debris are all lacking, and it's a major snub for this title. I only hope they make the needed corrections for these elements moving forward. Everything else is standard fare and enjoyable so far, but AI is always needing improving, humor in ped conversations is toned down as well, it seems thus far.

Outside of police chases, happening naturally without your involvement, off-mission, things are pretty quiet all over Los Santos.

I really prefer if you help take down a criminal NPC the cops won't chase you for helping them, but they will, which is disheartening. I'd like to know what others think about that aspect. A helicopter flew right over my head and VANISHED, though the sound was still there, it's things like this that mar the GTA V experience.

Just have to be honest about it, don't want to be the proverbial wet-towel. Aside from that, I hope it keeps generating monies, it's been a long haul for Rockstar, and the title GTA should live on despite a few flat tires here and there, but it seems to me, the tires need kicking! Let's Kick some tires and light some fires, boyz!

I'm more on Chris's side. This is one of the best videogames I've played in my life. BIG WOW to the sales figures so far. 

There's no question this is a better GTA on the same engine and consoles, but it's also lacking all around improvements but I won't harp over and over on that as I stated what they are so far, in my eyes. What I will say though is that in many ways the GTA 5 Fresh Coat of Paint that Rockstar applied seems nearly in direct response to the PC community's ICEnhancer for PC GTA IV, they did take notice of the work and feature it on their own site, for those who remain skeptical.

It shows that the consoles could look nearly just as good as GTA IV with ICE on top! haha