New Delhi: With Grand Theft Auto V, Rockstar have raised the gold standard to seemingly unattainable heights for not just their competitors, but even themselves. GTA V, the latest installment of the storied video game franchise, took in over $1 billion in its first week. That's more than any movie released this year, with the exception of “Iron Man 3” (which happens to be the fifth highest-grossing movie of all time).Grand Theft Auto V has everything that makes it go down in the history books as a landmark in gaming and one of the very best games ever created. It is probably, the best-looking, best-sounding and, most importantly, best-playing version of gaming's most notorious franchise.Originality and adventure highlight the game in many different ways with most notably with the enormous undertaking of crafting a game with roughly 100 hours of content around not one, but three unique and distinct protagonists with their own intertwining life issues.Grand Theft Auto V‘s storyline breaks the mold of the single-protagonist linear structure and features three central characters that the player can actively switch between at nearly any time during gameplay. Each character have their own missions and side stories, as well as their own daily routines when not controlled by the player. It's a sort of television-style serial structure, in which missions playing out like episodes, and the entire game is a season. Grand Theft Auto V has chosen L.A. County as the basis for the fictional setting of Los Santos. The British and Scottish designers at Rockstar, the company behind Grand Theft Auto, have made immersive environments of LA's suburbs, the Nevada desert, upstate California and dozens of miles of underwater Pacific coast, a trademark. With forty-nine square miles of interactive territory, the map of G.T.A. V is bigger than all of Rockstar's previous open-world environments combined. It is also the largest interactive environment ever built for a video game. There are three main diverse criminals in the game who have their own personalities, styles, and roles:Michael De SantaMichael is a retired bank-robber-turned-father who spends most of his time watching movies in his villa in Los Santos and reminiscing about his glory days of heisting. His marriage is in ruins and he is incapable of connecting with either of his two teenage children. After getting bored with his life of leisure, he return to his old life he's ever really known: crime.Trevor PhillipsTrevor is a violent drug addict, in his early 40s. He has worked with Michael in the past, and is firmly entrenched in a life of crime. He has experience as a former military pilot and is currently living in Blaine County. He is the 'loose cannon' of the group.Franklin ClintonA young rough-and-tumble gangbanger of sorts, Franklin survives by working risky jobs. Franklin wants more from his job.As players continue completing the tangled webwork of quests and missions, the plot becomes more layered, often revealing key points of each character's pasts. The intriguing central themes touch upon everything from dysfunctional families, celebrity sycophancy, government morality, feminism, and social media.Shooting has received a drastic cosmetic overhaul taking cues from both Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne 3, complete with helpful cover and a weapon wheel. Each protagonist is also given a special ability unique to their personality. For instance, Michael can slow down time in a firefight. Similarly, Trevor can enter a state of berserk granted with the buff of dishing out double damage and having all damage taken halved. Franklin has the ability to slow down time while driving.The online multiplayer component, referred to as GTA Online, will launch as a free download two weeks after the initial release of GTA V.GTA V features 240 licensed tracks across 15 radio stations, and is the first game in the franchise to also feature an original score. The original score is produced by three separate composers, Edgar Froese of the electronic band Tangerine Dream, Woody Jackson who previously worked on the Red Dead Redemption and LA Noire soundtracks, and the hip-hop duo Alchemist and Oh No.
