 In January 2014 , Computer and Video Games ranked the game fourth on their " Games of the Generation 20 @-@ 1 " list . Editor Rob Crossley said that for the first time , Rockstar created an " utterly beautiful " open world . He found that the game did away with Grand Theft Auto IV 's repetitive mission design and focused instead on fun gameplay . In May , IGN ranked it eighth on their list of the " Top 100 Games of a Generation " and called it a " huge , raucous , and wildly ambitious bridge towards the [ eighth ] generation of console gaming " . The next month , it placed at number three on IGN 's list of the " Games of a Generation : Your Top 100 " as voted by the site 's readers . In August , Game Informer ranked it third on their " Top 10 Action Games Of The Generation " list . They compared the game 's quality to that of its predecessor , but thought that its ensemble character set @-@ up , varied missions and multiplayer superseded Grand Theft Auto IV 's placement on the list . They wrote of the story 's absurd drama and the open world 's vastness , and did not " regret a single second " spent playing the game . In November , Edge named it the fifth best game of its generation and commented that " no other game studio is even daring to attempt an open @-@ world game in its tradition because there is simply no possibility of measuring up to [ its ] standards . " In 2015 the publication rated the game the second greatest videogame of all time . It also ranked high on several best game lists determined by the public . It featured eighth on Empire 's list of " The 100 Greatest Video Games Of All Time " , and fifth on Good Game 's " Top 100 Games " list , as voted by the audience of the magazine and show respectively . Grand Theft Auto V was the most tweeted game of 2015 , despite being released over a year earlier . 
