Now I know that GTA is not to everyone's tastes but I'm a computer game nut. So, I need to extol its virtues as a game (regardless of subject matter).

And it is awesome. I'm only a couple of hours into the game, but from the off, the feeling that you're in a high quality experience is right there thanks mainly to the opening titles. From there it's the big things: sprawling city, great graphics that attract, but then the small things: humour in the branding and characters which smack of quality down to the tiny details: the "dit-dit-dit" signal from the mobile phone interfering with the radio just before it rings that put the icing on the cake.

Ace.