ugh…Where to begin, after spending well over an hour with installing the mandatory and potentially harmful side-junks that comes with the game it turns out that a computer running a quad core 8800gtx SLI and 4 gigs of RAM can only manage to get a steady 20 frames per second performance on the absolute lowest graphical settings. This coupled with very frequent texture glitches and no anti-aliasing makes the game worse than unplayable.

Rockstar is well known for making horrendous PC ports of their console games (Bully and GTA3 anyone?) but they certainly took the piss when they ported this one, from what i can tell this was ported by a team of 5 baboons with reading glasses.

Don't expect for a patch to come out either as Rockstar is also known to be famous for not flushing the toilet after doing a number 2 in the PC toilet section, although if it does come out expect it to fix absolutely nothing.

Terrible disappointment.

XP users take note – this game needs service pack 3, and gives you a cryptic “Fatal error RMN40” error if it isn't installed. Even once installed, it seems to be fairy buggy.. I can't change the control keys.. menu options don't work.. etc… hope there's fixes for this soon!

I have to agree will all the negative feedback. I would definitely advise everyone thinking of purchasing this game to browse the reviews, and then think very carefully before stumping up a hundred bucks for this game.

Firstly, I feel absolutely insulted that I am not allowed to determine the graphical settings for a game that I paid for. To have a game insist that I play it on lower specs than I know can run it on is totally infuriating. My computer will run Call of Duty Modern Warfare on 2560 × 1600 with 8× anti-aliasing. Rockstar have determined that I can only run their game on 1440 × 1200 with ‘Detail’ set at LOW, and the drawing distance about as low as it can go. And it looks rubbish. Can't really comment on the gameplay yet as I (much like a lot of the other reviewers) have spent so long setting up accounts and other crap, just to get blocked from running it at reasonable graphical settings.

Previous GTA games have been near-perfect and SO much fun, this is just a kick in the crotch from Rockstar. Get it on PS3 if you have one, at least then it will run on 1920 × 1080 without all of the other ‘account’ nonsense.