2. Originality
Even though the sandbox shooter genre is relatively heaving with competitors these days, have you ever really played a game that's
quite like GTA? Of all other sandbox games, the only game I can think of that feels similar is Saints Row which lets face it has always been a carbon copy with the insanity dialled up to 11. Almost as if in answer to that, with GTA V, R* really look to be reinventing the very wheel that they themselves originally designed and on almost every important level. As a result I argue that GTA V will be quite unlike any game that came before it, sandbox or otherwise. And although imitators will surely follow (as they always do), R* will have made history once more as the company that once again completely changed the game.