Originally Posted by **********

So I walked into my local Best Buy yesterday and picked one up off the shelf. The cashier said they sold a ton of them yesterday.

Popped it in at around 7pm and played until midnight. Amazing... Here's my thoughts:

- Huge world. I have no idea how they managed to sample ever drop of LA into this game.

- Beautiful. The highest level of detail in any game to date. It looks like Forza.

- Different Physics. The cars "feel" different. I don't know how to describe it yet. They feel heavier than GTA 4.

- Different damage. Cars still fall apart as you crash into things but it is also different. I can't quite put my finger on it yet.

- Cool feature: You now play 4 different characters and can switch between them as you like. The transition between characters is interesting.

- Another cool feature: The switch from realtime play to cinematic mode (sort of pre "recorded" story mode) is now seamless. It's a really cool effect.

- The cellphone dial cheats from GTA4 are gone and replaced with Left Right LB LT RT moves which I can't stand. I can remember numbers but not moves like this.

- LASLOW!

- Flying is different. Planes and Helicopters feel super-light and / or the air feels very windy making the crafts really hard to control.

- Image detail, worth saying twice. Just amazing.

- Comes on 2 disks. The first disk installs about 7 Gigs of data to your Xbox HD in about 10 minutes or so. The second disk takes about 3 minutes to install.

The 5 hours I played last night just went by in a blink. Fun! And worth the money especially if you like the other GTA's..