VG247’s Dave Cook just couldn’t get into the Grand Theft Auto games. I mean, sure, he liked them, but he had issues with the games that kept him from enjoying them like other people do. These issues included the soulless side-missions and obligatory, unimaginative story missions. These problems, coupled with his compulsion to complete everything in a game, prevented him from enjoying the sandbox genre that Grand Theft Auto inhabits. In fact, he wrote an article about it. Well, recently, Cook got his hands on a copy of Grand Theft Auto V, and, according to this post , his issues with GTA don’t carry over into GTA V.
So what changed? Well, it seems that Grand Theft Auto V infuses its missions with more heart and creativity than previous games did. A mission Cook uses as an example spotlights this change. The mission, one of Michael’s, begins with Micahel bonding with his son over a bike race. His simple goal of beating his son soon morphs into something much larger, and Michael ends up racing to save his daughter from some skeevy dudes, utilizing a jet-ski to do so and racing through the sewer systems in the process. The way the missions escalate captivate Cook’s attention, keeping him invested in a way the missions of the previous games didn’t. The opinions of one guy lack the power to speak for an entire gaming populace. However, this one guy, Cook, wrote a well-reasoned blog post about a volatile topic on the Internet, something genuinely difficult to do. This volatile topic concerned why he couldn’t get invested in most Grand Theft Auto games. And if Grand Theft Auto V captivates him, this means it has the power to convert what few non-GTA fans still remain in the gaming community. How big is this game going to get?
Source: Be sure to check out VG247 for Cook’s opinion on everything Grand Theft Auto V is doing right.
