not a fanboy review: game is definitely worth a 10 and the online is AMAZING
im definitely with xplay on this one, this game definitely feels magical.
About the online, you can't bring your own character to your friend's world, but everything else works so smoothly, it more than makes up for i t. Entering your friend's world is a very quick and easy process, and your friend can enters your just as easily.
You can give friends that you see roaming in the world gifts. It just works so good, you need to play it (and have some friends) to understand how awesome it is
the story so far is definitely good, not exactly a masterpiece, but it gets the job done and then some
Load times? definitely not that long, less than oblivion's, and it pretty much is free roam, there are many side quests and they're all fun
The only apparent flaw so far is the first part when you're a little child, it starts out really slow, but it picks up when you first visit bowerstone asan adult
You definitely feel like the character represents you, the expressions work great and means you can create the public image of your choice, and it doesn't feel artificial
I own GTA 4, and it is nowhere near as good as this game, if GTA 4 is a 10, this is a 15 at least