Monday, October 7, 2013

Grand Theft Auto 5: Farewell My Vice City!



With the end of the Xbox 360 and the PS3 crawling slowly out the back of 2014, one can expect to see how 13 years would come to a close. Throughout the ages, each generation of video game console would flush the void of it bowels and find one or two gems that usually pushes the boundaries so far, one wonders how so many developers failed to put out something as good a lot sooner.

Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series has always been a crowd favorite. Every 10-12 year old GTA veteran would pour out of the wood work, frayed from life in Hong Kong's violent underground and spending unhealthy hours as the U.S. President taking on aliens who seem to be on a constant meth high.

Two years of waiting is over. The Pro Ice engine or whatever they call it now looks dynamite. Rockstar has also spent sometime delaying the products release by tweaking stuff and censoring their own work in lieu of the slew of growing gun crimes in the United States, knowing full well that the likes of crusading politicians with a burr up his/her ass will soon be training their sights on GTA V as the purveyor of all senseless nut jobs and child killers that walks on God's green earth. Nobody is safe.

Thankfully, we now can just ignore idiotic debates about games, TV, film, radio, cave drawing, runes and clay pot noodle readings spouting sayings of unholy doom descending into human minds. GTA V has already re-written gaming history with phenomenal sales beyond expectations. A billion dollars in 3 days is almost equal to the pharmaceutical strangle hold, minus the strong arm tactics. Boner pill makers like Pfizer take note, don't get your cocks up too often. The huge downturn in teen pregnancies, abortions and sex in general is all due to Grand Theft Auto 5.

So GTA V is about the day to day struggles of common people who are forced to act against their law abiding nature in order to put the food on the table or simply stay alive. While it tries very much to mimicking real life, GTA V, keeps the fairy tale fantasy in perspective. Cops don't rob people which is a dangerous idea to play with, owing to the fact that this game was made within the confines of the United States, a sprawling police state just like so many others around the world. In GTA V the cops are pros and will employ every trick in the book to take out the games protagonists.


Time to Rock and Roll

The story mode revolves around three men, Michael, Franklin and Trevor, who are inexorably intertwined into a fateful turn of events that will take each man through the Arena's 'circle of life' in a pair of wobbly heels on a hellacious journey through a looking glass. Dealing with deafening silence for ungodly hours eventually reassured that the bond of friendship doesn't come with conditions. Thank God! Women...

There's plenty to steal. Places to rob and people to kill. But now it's all done is a more sensible way. Sub mission are varied as the game progresses as more and more vehicles become accessible. Much of the old famous formulas are strong enough to hold up the massive world of Los Santos. And boy is it massive. Driving for hours without end. Flying around the city in awe of it's magnificence. Rockstar weren't kidding when they said thing were going to be big.

All the amenities are intact. Clothes stores to customize but characters can no longer lose or gain weight anymore. Too bad. There are houses to be bought and all that shit. Gun shops, chop shops, paint jobs all make a welcome return, although its now seemingly harder to evade the law and highly probably to result in a 'Wasted' screen.

Way to Go!

Grand Theft Auto 5, represents the pinnacle in video game development in the last 13 years. Rockstar have refined and squeezed out every ounce of processing power from 2 ageing machines and shown just how far they can push the debilitating boundaries without sacrificing quality and entertainment of their premiere flagship series with a balls deep presentation that will become a beacon for other developers and a sure sign of how to make a game the right way. The Rockstar way.


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