GTA, is at last a franchise with competant controls...

I played about 3 hours worth last night on launch day and all I have to say is, thank you thank you thank you.  At the risk of sounding like a complete winey pvssy cake, GTA4 was a mid 80's Rosanne Bar wearing nothing but a flannel shirt to my GTA boner.

Dear God, I'm sorry...

Back on point... GTA4 controlls were as ugly as seeing under Rosie O'donnells shirt after mowing the lawn...

ugh... No, No... I'm trully sorry.

GTAV plays really great... like really great.  Yeah, there are still some issues with movement finese for finer actions like being geometrically off from a stairwell or struggling to sometimes hit the quick hop over the wall right, instead landing you into an embarrasing face plant into a wall... but everything else is, dare I say, quite good... 

It's logical... The quick aim is smart and precise and where it makes the gameplay suffer from a precision standpoint, it more than makes up for it with sheer volume of enimies to plug in any given battle.  The driving is smooth as silk, angling corners and lineing up routes on the fly is a joy and despite the 80% chance of every intersection oddly having a passing car lined up perfectly to make you swerve.  It's a quick pick up, 1o minutes later and think "damn Im a good E-driver."  Point is, R* used some common sense in this game.  They didnt strip away the feeling of "GTA controls," but they finally made them work... Little things like switching weapons or powersliding a corner are handled with confidence now and small overall game improvements like quick saves make the cell phone actually enjoyable, rather than evoking the feeling of the dentist calling to remind you of that root canal scheduled for later this week the way GTA4 did.

Yeah, the locale is awesome and the possibilities are just knee buckling, but the greatest improvement is bar none the fact that playing Grand Theft Auto isn't a chore... it's like a whole new world baby... :P

This one should more than make up for it... :D