Grand Theft Auto V
Grand Theft Auto V is an action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. First released in 2013, it is part of the Grand Theft Auto series. An enhanced version of the game for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One was released in 2014, with the Microsoft Windows version further delayed to April 2015.
Its story follows three criminals and their efforts to commit heists while under pressure from a government agency, and as such the gameplay allows players to cycle between the three protagonists: retired bank robber Michael de Santa, former gangbanger turned repo man Franklin Clinton, and Ax Crazy career criminal and ex-military pilot Trevor Philips, each having their own special abilities. Michael can enter Bullet Time whilst in armed combat, Franklin is able to slow down time when driving, and Trevor can fly into a blind rage and dish out extra damage whilst sustaining far less damage himself, and he can also perform a few unique melee attacks when the special meter is activated.
Included is Grand Theft Auto Online, where up to 30 players can engage in a variety of different cooperative and competitive game modes. While Online is incorporated into Grand Theft Auto V as its multiplayer component, sharing assets with each other (though DLC items such as vehicles are under normal circumstances exclusive to Online; these can still be accessed through mods), Rockstar treats it as a separate product from the main game.
- AKA-47: All of the weapons are given generic descriptors like "Pistol" or "Advanced Rifle", though they do have (fictional) brand names and are loosely based on real-world firearms.
- All Bikers Are Hells Angels: The Lost MC, who established a chapter in Sandy Shores and was taken care of by Trevor after an outburst stemming from Trevor's sexual affairs with Lost MC member Ashley Butler.
- Ax Crazy: Trevor.
- Bank Robbery: Hands down the main focus of both the single-player and Online storylines.
- Bland-Name Product: As part of the series' Constructed World, many fictional products from the series lore make a return, most often parodying real-world products and services like iFruit, Lifeinvader and Bleeter.
- Broken Bridge: The first numbered entry and the second game overall to avert this, with the whole map accessible to the player save for a few interior locations.
- Conspiracy Theorist: To a degree with Trevor as he expressed his contempt with the Illuminati and their (supposed) machinations, also alleging that the Merriweather is "the Illuminati's private army" which motivated him to carry out attacks against them. Taken Up to Eleven with Ron Jakowski, who developed an irrational sense of paranoia towards various conspiracies. Ironically enough, despite his deep-seated disdain for pervasive surveillance and his efforts to get away from "the man", Ron has a Lifeinvader profile.
- First-Person Ghost: Averted with the eighth-generation and PC releases. The characters' limbs are visible all the time and bespoke animations were made to account for the new viewpoint.
- First-Person Shooter: The eighth-generation and PC releases mark the first time that Rockstar has utilised this viewpoint extensively, contrary to what Dan Houser stated in 2011 about avoiding "what other companies are doing". To Houser's credit though, Rockstar has never developed a straight-up first-person shooter to this day, linear or otherwise.
- Hide Your Children: Again for fairly obvious reasons. However, children do appear in several in-game cartoon programmes, and an African-American boy can be seen on the Children of The Mountain in-game website that Franklin has to complete.
- Hyperspace Arsenal: As per series tradition where the protagonists can carry a military-grade arsenal and conjure one from their inventory at will. Weapon selection was made less tedious with a pie menu reminiscent of Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne 3.
- Private Army: Merriweather.
- Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: Averted. Stuttering and repetition of words does happen to several characters.
- Retired Outlaw: Michael is one at the beginning of the game. The situation quickly changes when he is forced to come out of retirement after unwittingly trashing a gangster's house.
- Wanted Meter: With a maximum level of five. The meter eventually cools down as long you stay out of the law enforcement's line-of-sight.
- Would Hit a Girl: Would? It's fair play dude! (well, not so fair if you're attacking civilians) You can attack any female you want.