I'm kind of feeling the same way, however while I really enjoyed GTA3, I felt kind of burned out after many months of playing it and when I played VC it just felt like more of the same and it did not take long to bore me, I skipped San Andreas for this very reason (that and the hip hop theme disgusts me). So I really thought this one was really going to make a ton of fresh new changes that were going to suck me in just like the old ones did.. It did for about an hour, then it really felt like the old runaround I still feel burned out on..