The stuff we see in superhero movies is usually the action, or things relevant to the story. What about everything that happens in-between those moments? What is that stuff like? One GTA machinima series finds out.
It can be easy to forget when you spend most of your time treating them as obstacles and target practice, but the NPCs of Grand Theft Auto V are people too. They've got their own lives to live, their own conversations to have, their own problems to solve.
The Snapography crew is currently running a Snapmatic photography competition within GTA V, challenging players to recreate the spirit of Vice City within Los Santos, spotted by VG247. The responses have been pretty impressive.
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Rockstar always tries to sell its Grand Theft Auto games with fancy trailers. Moody music, social commentary, beautiful sunsets. The thing is, that's not how anybody actually plays Grand Theft Auto.
Los Santos in Grand Theft Auto V may be a caricature of Los Angeles, but that doesn't make it complete fiction. Like the best caricatures, it shares its foundations with the real thing, as you'll see in these images which compare certain landmarks in the game with their LA counterparts.
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This isn't the Los Santos from Grand Theft Auto V that I remember, but it's one I'd like to visit.
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All the jets are grounded. GTA V's birds are here to show how to pull tricks off properly.
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When I saw that the React folks had done an "Elders Play Grand Theft Auto V" video, I expect looks of abject horror. I certainly didn't expect "Cops? Who gives a shit about the cops?!"
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We've seen charts, and galleries from the street, but it's only when you see the size of the game world in both GTA titles laid bare that you start to appreciate a few things you might have otherwise missed.
I've been toying with the idea of purchasing an Ultra HD monitor since toying around with the enhanced resolution early last year. With the release of the first 4K screenshots of Grand Theft Auto V on PC, the time for toying is over.
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GTA Series Videos (via VG247) has recreated a few scenes from Stanley Kubrick's iconic film about violence in GTA V and, well, it's GTA with Malcolm McDowell talking over the top.
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A black driverless car possessed by evil terrorizes San Andreas in YouTuber Gigerbrick's fan-trailer, based on the 1977 movie "The Car" and edited similarly to schlock horrors from that era.
Look, LSPD, Michael and Trevor and just trying to have a deep & meaningful. They've got some issues to talk through. Can you save the bullets until they've hugged it out?
Most of these stunts are legit on-the-edge-of-your-seat harrowing, but the payoff is always worth it.
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With the new gen versions of Grand Theft Auto V released and tons of new content added to the game, it was inevitable for the GTA Mythbusters series to return and confirm a bunch of new tricks and funny little exploits.
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A new update is bringing Christmas goodies to Los Santos and its surroundings, and yes, those goodies include explosives.
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Chinese Central Television is interesting. It's worth watching just to guess at what the Chinese government wants to disseminate, but one thing about CCTV that is true is that it's often error prone. In a recent broadcast about violent video games, CCTV claims that GTA was made in 1968. 1968.
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QUOTE | “If these folks had their way, none of those people would be able to buy Grand Theft Auto.” - Take-Two president Karl Slatoff reacting to Australian protestors who got GTA V pulled from some retailers; ultimately Slatoff believes “if you don't like it and it's offensive to you, then you don't buy it.”
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Grand Theft Auto V's Los Santos is based on Los Angeles, so graffiti is a big source of the color in its concrete jungle. And while it's easy to think of graffiti as simple window dressing, these things often come from a very real place.
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It's the year 2014. Grand Theft Auto V is now on next-gen consoles. So what's that mean for last-gen? Why, the rapture, of course, if this fan video is to be believed.
