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It's a terrific time sink game that's entertaining, visually appealing, and all around excellent.
Having said that, I believe the games progression is slow and slightly tedious during the beginning of the short learning curve. The slow progression does not compliment the repetetive gameplay loop. But the game is high quality and for relaxing.
If you have the screen real estate this game is a great desktop game since there is no consequense for not paying attention to the game outside of bartering.

It is a good game with a captivating gameplay loop. It stands out in terms of its visually stunning graphics, mesmerizing aesthetics, and the sheer diversity of locations within the game. The various points of interests are very beautiful and you find a lot of well made npc's to talk to and other options to go deeper into the lore. The map, world and numerous points of interest are very impressive, but the rest of the npc's and enemies that fill the open world, even the bosses, are complete vegetables.

But the reason I cannot recommend this game is due to a critical bug. Throughout my entire experience with this game, I encountered a persistent issue of severe stuttering. This issue would occur randomly whenever I exited maps, menus, or inventories, and at times when I was fast traveling. Initially, upon launching the game, it would consistently crash due to the stuttering and frame drops. It took me days of trying to fix the bug, and I only managed to somewhat alleviate the problem. Even so the stuttering would inevitably reemerge every one to two hours, by then I could mostly resolve it by reloading a saved file or fast traveling. Still the whole ordeal was a inconvenience all throughout my playtime and nobody should have to deal with persistent stuttering and recurrent crashes.
You'll become a IT specialist by the time you find a partial resolution for the problem.

Still the best story and game in the GTA series, unfortunantly it forces Rockstar launcher and the game video playback bugs alot with temporary cuts of the image and occasional crashes.

"We can pick the game, Nico Bellic. But we cannot change the rules."

Highly underrated co-op game.
Theres a 97% chance every russian named player will grief your sub, this is one of those games where being racist could save your life.

solid game for rpg fans, and especially for people that like to play with interactive maps like completionists and collectors.