Play awarded the game with a 97/100, they considered it as a "generation-defining" and "exceptional" Grand Theft Auto game in the series.

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The game takes place in the year 2013 in the southern part of the state of San Andreas, more precisely in the city of Los Santos and rural areas of Blaine County, and tells the stories of three protagonists: Michael De Santa, Franklin Clinton, and Trevor Philips — three uniquely-different criminals as they commit daring and profitable heists across the sprawling city of Los Santos. The ongoing success and continued development of Grand Theft Auto Online, which resulted in the game being the first to span three generations of game consoles without a subsequent GTA title being released, has been a common complaint for those anticipating announcement of a possible "Grand Theft Auto VI", until the announcement of a brand new entry in the Grand Theft Auto series on February 4th 2022. Famitsu awarded the game with 40/40, making it the second western-developed game to received a perfect score from Japan. Like all previous Grand Theft Auto games, Grand Theft Auto V has courted controversy, though has been viewed by some as significantly more controversial than its predecessors.All subsequent content updates focus on GTA Online, and no content has been implemented in GTA V in updates that followed the Ill-Gotten Gains Part 2 update. Metacritic awarded the game with 97/100, making it the second highest rated Grand Theft Auto game in the series and the 11th highest rated game of all time. First person view and First person hood camera (vehicles only) (Found on the PC version, and introduced onto the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions in the Ill-Gotten Gains Part 1 Update). The name of the theme song ("Welcome To Los Santos") might be a reference to the first lyrics in Young Maylay's "San Andreas Theme Song" being "Welcome to San Andreas". GTA 5 San Andreas Red Dead Redemption Size. gawdalmighty.com (August 5, 2013). Archived from the original on August 9, 2013.

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It takes place about five years after the events of Grand Theft Auto IV, and eight years before the events of The Contract update of Grand Theft Auto Online. Grand Theft Auto V is the first game in the franchise to feature in-game incidental music (not counting cutscenes, credits and pause menus, as several earlier games had incidental music for these aforementioned sequences). Grand Theft Auto V features three playable protagonists: Michael De Santa, Trevor Philips and Franklin Clinton. The open world was modelled on Southern California and Los Angeles, and its design and in-game render constituted much of the game's early work. [12] Key members of the game world production team took field research trips throughout the region and documented their research with photo and video footage. [10] Google Maps projections of Los Angeles were used by the team to help design Los Santos' road networks. [13] To reflect and reproduce Los Angeles' demographic spread, the developers studied census data and watched documentaries about the city. The team considered creating the open world the most technically demanding aspect of the game's production. [14]

Nine years after a failed robbery in the fictional town of Ludendorff, North Yankton, former bank robber Michael Townley and his family have relocated to Los Santos under a new identity. Michael is living a normal but boring life, until he encounters Franklin Clinton, a gangster who seeks to elevate himself in the Los Santos underworld, and unexpectedly encounters Trevor Philips, the only other survivor of the bank robbery in Ludendorff. The three join forces to carry out a daring task to rob the Union Depository and seize tens of millions of dollars worth of gold. However, the trio find themselves being taken advantage of by corrupt Feds, using the three to carry out their own agenda, as well as numerous confrontations with rival gangs and other criminals. There's an advertisement on the side of a strip mall in Davis stating that it's having a "Summer Sale on flat-screen TVs". Although it is not specifically stated when exactly in 2013 the game takes place, the following evidence suggests August - October 2013: