I played Trevor for the first time proper today and the man is full on mental. I took him to the barbers and gave him a full on grizzly beard and a mullet as I think that is what he would want. I also took to the skies for the first time and the lighting is just beautiful up there. It is such a massive leap on anything else out there. The water and skyline are worth half the admission price alone. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.

My only qualm today was the final triathlon which took 27 minutes of pressing the X button. It was exhausting and a bit trying, but the nice graphics kind of got me through it. Perhaps the races are a bit too easy as I finish 1st in them mostly on the 1st attempt and the same can be said for the side games, but the sheer variety and depth and wealth of things to do is great. I think my initial exploration of 4 hours also made the races easier as I kind of knew the winding mountain layouts and city streets already. Maybe that was a lesson learned from GTA 4 where I didn't do any prep and found some of the races harder than these. I made it too easy for myself by being too meticulous. I guess Rockstar kind of predicted the experienced gamer too as this game gets into the harder missions much sooner that GTA4 did, though there has been nothing terribly difficult so far. Having said that, they have carried through the mission success ratings and so you can replay missions to improve your success rate. Many of my passes are silver or bronze and so when I replay the game (as I surely will), that is what I should aim for. In that sense, maybe it is difficult as I am not reaching gold as often as I should.

Greenbeanz, you are going to love this game! Such fun! To think that when I was a kid it was the Commodore 64 and then the Megadrive. I recall that a new game like Streets of Rage 2 would cost 45 pounds and yet here in 2013 you can buy something like GTA5 for less than that and with the layers and layers of satire, depth, gameplay and graphics etc that it has, means it is such good value.