The only game is Grand Theft Auto IV, but not because of the general praise it gets. I understand why people liked it - I myself had loads of fun with the online portion. It's the number of perfect scores it received that still has me mystified. The lack of checkpoints alone killed GTAIV's single player; it's too punishing for the way Rockstar designs their games. Your ammo and health aren't replenished when you restart a mission, so unless you want to risk dying again and doing it all over, you have to drive somewhere to refill your health, and then drive somewhere to restock your ammo. Then you still have to drive to the mission start point, skip the cutscene, sit through a long and tedious driving section, and then two summers later, you're finally at the part you died at. Frankly, I don't recall many of those glowing reviews highlighting how flawed the system was, but perhaps it was only a big deal to me. I found the combat and player movement equally as bothersome, too. I can't think of any open world character that I've had less fun controlling than Niko. Rockstar has gotten a lot better since 2008; GTAV and both Red Dead Redemption games were a big step up from GTAIV, although, ironically, none of them were rated as highly.
