 Destructoid 's Jim Sterling called the sound design " impeccable " and praised the actors ' performances , original soundtrack and licensed music use . IGN and Giant Bomb commended the music selection and felt that the original score enhanced dramatic tension during missions . GameSpot 's Petit wrote that the score " lends missions more cinematic flavour " . Edge said that the licensed music enhanced the city 's " already remarkable sense of space " and that the original score improved the atmosphere of the gameplay . They summarised the game as " a compendium of everything Rockstar has learnt about the power of game music in the past decade " . 
