They dont make em like this anymore.
The new gta imo you have to babysit your homeys too much, and all the side stuff was basically stripped, with some totally over powered abilities included.
Well this gta can be tough at certain points, but its got a very large map even by todays standards, and i admittedly have driven them for no real purpose for hours and hours.
The theme to the game was very cool imo too, with the street war and the ability to capture territories for parts of the game in addition to businesses and your usual several residential locations as well (i dont know why, but i always loved these aspects). The pc port version i had was a kinda buggy, the soundtrack makes up for it.
The score would be higher but some of the missions are a little harder then they need to be, and despite having 3 independent towns/cities in the game, each town has less content than some of the previous games.
All in all tho, this is one for the ages. I know criminals that have retired after playing this game stating they can now get their fix at home lol.