I am a huge Grand Theft Auto fan, but that doesn't change the fact that Grand Theft Auto IV is amongst the worst of the throusand-some-odd games that I own.
i liked smugglers run, max payne, and state of emergency but hated GTA4, it took all the fun out of the series, it might as well been the sims with guns.
Generally there quality has been quite high, but I've never personally been a fan of Manhunt. It's also important to not that Red Dead Revolver, Redemption's predecessor, didn't do particularly well.
Both GTASA and RDR had horrible stories. They were very well made games, but suffered from god awful writing and padding beyond anything tolerable.
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Yet San Andreas still had the best story in the series by a mile. What does that say for the rest of the stories in GTA games? Personally I disagree though. San Andreas is one of the few game stories I somewhat paid attention to. Maybe I'm not the greatest judge for this though. I'm pretty old fashioned and still consider the purpose of story in video games is simply to give the player vague reasoning for doing a level and vague reasoning for having great gameplay. Sure, the story in SA had padding. But really, I don't need the story to give a legitimate reason for having such awesome missions that San Andreas had.
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