GTA is perhaps one of the only games on the market that's able to sell itself twice, and this is the top performing version of one of the finest games to date. If you never played the GTA epic, it's a no brainer that this belongs in your game library. However, is it worth buying again?

At first glance, you're reintroduced to the same game, but now with an all new first person perspective! This subtle, yet finely detailed change is what really sells this game again. In fact, it's worth redoing the story mode just to play in this new enlightened perspective. It's one thing to control a character, but to have an entire world in the perspective of a character's eyes, truly redefines the gaming experience. Each action suddenly feels like it affects you more, it feels more real, interactive, and interesting.

When you played the story mode the first time, there's a lot of this scenario, you pick up your allies in a car, drive to your next location while the characters in your car chat. With this first person mode, you're now right there in the action, feeling like you're actually driving the car. You can even turn your characters head to see the players in your passenger seat and/or back animated while they talk. When I noticed this, it was no wonder it took rockstar another year to polish this game up, they clearly went through the whole story mode to make sure that each mission works with first person.

Granted, story mode isn't a must do for those who've already played it, so what's new for you? GTA Online! Carrying this epic online, somehow made the game even better! This is nothing like the online you may have played on GTA IV, not even for a second. You are able to create your own character from almost a similar fashion to The Sims. Being able to customize the finest details from your heritage, to body shape, and clothes, you create your own character that truly feels unique to you. The whole concept of this new online play is to make the user's experience feel more controlled and custom to their desires. What truly divides this online experience from any other, is that you're able to progress your character any way you want. Whether you're playing by yourself, with friends/family, or of course strangers online.

The key features of the online experience are between the freemode, and the different jobs and opportunities your player can choose from. The concept is simple, you create your own character, and build their skills as you raise in the ranks of criminal activity. I will start off with freemode, and then quickly introduce some of the other jobs you can do. In free mode, your player has their own bank account, and wallet. You quickly learn that your bank account is very essential, as players can take your cash by killing you. (With the exception of Passive Mode, a mode used to protect this from happening by restricting players, including yourself from being able to kill). Your bank account can is safe from other players and can be used "for most legitimate purchases" which includes, apartments, clothes, hairstyles, cars, you name it. Basically anything legal

Spending your money is fun and easy, you can walk to physical locations in the game or use their own fully immersive internet that includes sites from anime cartoons, to the stock market of GTA businesses, to car dealerships and everything in between. I'm sure there is a finite number of sites that's easy to reach, but the tie-ins with between the radio, internet, TV, and game world are so phenomenal, it really adds this dimension to the game that is unmatched to any other title.

Making money is going to be your primary objective of online, which can be done in many different creative ways. You can rob from stores, npc's, other players, and for those who have already put two and two together, accept jobs and opportunities. There is actually somewhat of a story mode to online, as you progress your character, you meet more and more contacts, some who are even featured in the offline storymode, and they each give you opportunities for some quick cash. Other jobs you can choose between are familiar game modes like Racing, Team Deathmatch, and all the works. My personal favorite part of this GTA, is how you are sometimes allowed to take jobs for yourself, instead of playing with other players, which is of course also an option. But this is the first online experience I've seen, that can feel fluid like an offline game, and be played by only yourself.

But when you are eager to play with fellow gamers, the players can be numerous ranging anywhere from 1 to 30 players in one game, depending on the game mode. The game is constantly rewarding good gaming behavior and punishing the bad. So the game lobbies are usually very fun. For people who quit whenever they're behind in a race, or go afk during games, they get they're repped lowered, and repeat offenders will only be able to play with other players that have low rep. So when you're racing against 12 other players, they'll stick through to the end, and be rewarded for doing so.

There are countless features of GTA that I haven't even mentioned, but last thing I want to cover is the differences between this game, and the old gen versions. Again, biggest key difference for me, was the first person perspective. I think it improves the game significantly by increasing how large your field of vision is so dramatically. Graphics were never something I mentioned, because I think new gen has already proven itself to be so much better anyways, but truly the graphics are pristine. You can see gum stains on the sidewalks, rainbows on the edge of a flashlight, the draw distances are huge as well. The weather patterns were huge too, I have never in my life seen a rain storm that looks more real than what GTA can pull off, puddles build up in lower elevations, and the rain drops are so detailed. It's kind of a funny detail for Cali to rain, but never the less is really cool. The touch pad is utilized for this game, you can swipe up or down to change the radio stations while driving, left or right to change your weapon. The light is used quite a bit too on the controller, it'll flash red and blue when the cops are at you for instance! When there's an in game phone call, your player's voice will come from the TV, but the character your talking to will come from the dual shock controller. There's a couple of easter eggs in this version too (look up GTA V peyote)

In the end, what you get with your money here, isn't a brand new game, but you will get a very finely polished masterpiece. Many games suffer through bugs and glitches at their launch, but that was taken care of last year. When the new gen consoles came out, this is the game that could have defined them, this is the game that gives you an online open world, now the rest is up to you.