Bitmap Frogs said:
It is true that the city in GTA4 is more of a background rather than a playground, but that's not necessarily bad. The only non-debatable weakness is lack of mission variety |
I believe when you do that, you end up losing the sandbox appeal that fans wanted. I think Rockstar probably thought multiplayer is where the sandbox mayhem would funnel into, but that didn't happen as much as they thought it would.