The attention to detail that goes into making its world feel alive and believable is also what makes its satire so biting. If GTA IV was a targeted assassination of the American dream, GTA V takes aim at the modern American reality. Grand Theft Auto’s San Andreas is a fantasy, but the things it satirises – greed, corruption, hypocrisy, the abuse of power – are all very real. One prominent supporting character spends most of his time in his room shouting sexual threats at people on a headset whilst playing a first-person shooter called Righteous Slaughter (“Rated PG – pretty much the same as the last game.”) It’s not exactly subtle – he literally has the word “Entitled” tattooed on his neck, and the in-game radio and TV’s outright piss-takes don’t leave much to the imagination – but it is often extremely funny, and sometimes provocative with it. Nothing is safe from Rockstar’s sharp tongue, including modern video games. Everything about it drips satire: it rips into the Millennial generation, celebrities, the far right, the far left, the middle class, the media. Grand Theft Auto V is also an intelligent, wickedly comic, and bitingly relevant commentary on contemporary, post-economic crisis America. And at long last, Rockstar has finally slain one of its most persistent demons, mission checkpointing, ensuring that you never have to do a long, tedious drive six times when you repeatedly fail a mission ever again. The cars handle less like their tires are made of butter and stick better to the road, though their exaggerated handling still leaves plenty of room for spectacular wipeouts. It’s immediately noticeable that the cover system is more reliable and the auto-aim less touchy. It is a leap forward in narrative sophistication for the series, and there’s no mechanical element of the gameplay that hasn’t been improved over Grand Theft Auto IV. It both gives you tremendous freedom to explore an astonishingly well-realised world and tells a story that’s gripping, thrilling, and darkly comic. GTA V has an abundance of such moments, big and small, that make San Andreas – the city of Los Santos and its surrounding areas – feel like a living world where anything can happen. “Typical!” one of them yelled at me, as if he nearly gets run over by a rogue ATV on top of a mountain every time he goes on a hike. Turns out it was a path, and I spent 15 minutes following to the summit, where I nearly ran over a group of hikers. Another time, whilst driving around in an off-road buggy, I got distracted by something that looked like a path up one of the San Andreas mountains. One is from a mid-game mission in which I flew a plane into another plane, fought the crew, hijacked the thing, and then parachuted out and watched it crash into the sea to escape death at the hands of incoming military fighter jets. įor me, Grand Theft Auto V’s extraordinary scope is summed up in two favourite moments.
Also see our GTA Online Review and GTA 5 Cheats. Note : This review exclusively covers the single-player portion of Grand Theft Auto V, since it launched without any multiplayer mode.
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