I played a fair amount of GTA IV online, and IMO, GTA V is a vast improvement. Most people who played IV online were just there to team up with someone and try

I played a fair amount of GTA IV online, and IMO, GTA V is a vast improvement. Most people who played IV online were just there to team up with someone and try to kill other players. Someone would inevitably get a Buzzard and ground all the other choppers, so it was just a one-sided kill fest until someone got a lucky RPG shot on the Buzzard. It got boring very, very quickly. Yes, there were other game modes, but they were very simplistic, and there was no overarching benefit to progressing in the online world (except score? meh). In GTA V, you have incentives on every side of the table. I don't think they've got it 100% right yet, but in this iteration, I actually care about what happens when I play online. That's a significant step forward.