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FarleyMcFirefly said:
I think it is overrated... I have only played Vice City and San Andreas, I personally don't understand the hype but that is just me.

A dark side of people want to do criminal mayhem, so that open world stuff was appealing.  Then Rockstar decided the game needed to be more serious and make a point, so they do decent writing and acting apparently, and the reviewers eat it up as groundbreaking.  Individuals who play a LOT of games for a living end up eating up stuff like GTA.  GTA4 fell into this also, by sucking reviewers in.  So, do decent production value, long play, lots of content, and decent writing, and reviewers go nuts over it.

You get stuff like this from the Sesslers of the world: