It's been over a decade since Grand Theft Auto 5 first launched, and a good few years since I last cruised around the streets of Los Santos. In fact, I only realised after loading my five-year-old save (after a bit of faffing where I had to install both the new Enhanced and the old Legacy editions of the game then upload my Legacy save to Rockstar before redownloading it for the Enhanced edition) that this is the only GTA game that I never completed.
Returning to this spit-and-polished iteration of GTA 5, I was reminded about the good and bad of Rockstar's money-spinning machine. I'm impressed by just how content-rich GTA Online has become yet saddened by how the single-player has been left behind; I'm impressed by how great the open world of San Andreas still looks and feels to zoom around in, but also terminally bored by the prescriptive mission design and archaic controls that are something of a Rockstar hallmark.
