The wait for Grand Theft Auto VI has been a genuinely monumental one, with all the delays and speculation only making the time we've been standing by to play it feel even longer. That said, the game is finally almost here, and we're a little over a week out from the November 19 release date at the time of writing.
While we're all assuming that the years of effort that Rockstar have put into developing the game will pay dividends, and we're all going to be playing the standout game of recent times, we don't actually know that just yet. Until we get to try it for ourselves and work through the story and multiplayer modes (eventually), we can't really give the developer their flowers.
We shouldn't have long to wait until the embargo passes, and we can find out officially from those who have played it what their thoughts are, but before then, reviews have started to appear online and they are just as positive as you might expect.
Over on Reddit, one user shared a post with a screenshot from the PlayStation store of GTA VI's official page. On it, there are now 11 reviews for the game in total, all of which are currently five stars. The interesting part of that is that the store on the platform usually requires players to have purchased and played a game in order to review it.
That leaves very few options for how this happened, with one being that those who were given early access have broken cover and added their feedback to the store's ecosystem. At the moment, these appear to just be ratings for the game, rather than written feedback of any time, but it could be a sign that the game is set to deliver on the scale that many are expecting.
Many weighed in with their own guesses at how good the finished game would be, with one saying, "Quite a bit of hate both valid and bs around the game, so a game on this scale will probably fluctuate a fair amount, unless I am underestimating the hype compared to the hate/idc for GTA but will rate it poorly crowd."
While another added that a perfect score may be impossible, saying, "Even if the game is good enough to warrant a 99, it may be impossible. OOT came out when much fewer journalists were about (it only has 22 reviews, RDR2 has 99), and all it takes is a couple giving a good-but-not-incredible score and you haven't got a 99."
In the end, the proverbial proof in the pudding will come when you have played Grand Theft Auto VI for yourself, and though reviews can act as an excellent guide to what to expect, a game as big as this one is going to generate all sorts of opinions. With just eight days to go until it releases to the masses, let's hope we're not in the timeline where it fails to hit the expectations of the audience.
