 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quality to that of its predecessor, but thought that its ensemble character set-up, varied missions and multiplayer superseded Grand Theft Auto IV's placement on the list.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.
