The pacing is all wrong for the first 5-6 hours, the camera is very annoying and the cutscenes are generally over-long. But I’m having fun. Starting from the mission where you go to the second safehouse it really starts to improve. As the Gamers with Jobs guys pointed out, they should have moved that cutscene where Nico explains why he’s in Liberty City much earlier in the game.

You can skip a lot of the driving by taking taxis everywhere. I’ve found the combat almost too easy: hold down left trigger, press right trigger until they stop moving, repeat.

For a game, the cutscenes are pretty good. Compared to a film, of course, they’re badly edited and directed (look at all the awkward pauses in the scene where you go to the cabaret with Roman), but it’s well above the level of an average RPG. Certainly not “Oscar worthy”, but then everyone knows IGN are morons.

It would be nice if the gaming press didn’t praise Rockstar so much, because then maybe they’d actually fix some of the problems.

You didn’t like this game? You obviously must be teh gay, because the main problem is that you just sucked at it. Or didn’t devote enough time to it to get to the interesting parts.

Fag.