Grand Theft Auto V - Xbox 360

Where to begin? It's hard to find a place in such an enormous world full of things to see and do. I'm going to begin with the world. Rest assured. It's huge, and varies greatly. There's no longer just a boring city that we saw in Grand Theft Auto IV. There's your given city, Los Santos, and then the huge world around it which includes nature, more rural towns, and many more places to visit. However, it wouldn't be much worth it if it wasn't fun or packed with things to do. Once again, rest assured. There are many activities that no longer feel like chores for the money that IV had. You'll be able to do things like bounty hunting, racing, animal hunting, and more. Each of these are very well thought out and feel very fun, and rewarding- because money no longer has very little value other than for weapons. In fact, you'll almost never have enough money! Apart from the vehicles to buy, weaponry and the other standard things you'd expect, there's also customization on both weapons and cars that personalize your experience. Apart from that, there's businesses to buy that grant you chances to have more power and income. And to top that off, there's also several side missions and strangers to meet, each with their own story and optional missions that are quite interesting, and often mysterious. However, what most people are there for is the storyline. Let me just say, though it's only about 70 missions and takes from 15-25 hours, it's very well thought out. I haven't finished it yet because of all the other things to do, but I can already tell the missions are heading towards greatness. It's no longer a "drive here, kill them, drive back" situation. You never know how a mission is going to start or what you're going to do. You could one minute be infiltrating a base, the other robbing banks. Which brings me to the next point: The storyline in Grand Theft Auto V takes you to success and riches that make you feel like you're actually a gangster. There are about eight or nine heists in the game, I believe. And they're not even limited to the requirements! Each heist is made through your playstyle. This includes your approach (loud and proud, or quiet), you can customize the members you choose to come a long with you, and more. They're also heavily inspired by several heists in classic movies. The heists are some of the best feelings you'll ever get in a game. It feels like a high budget movie. Heists vary from jewel store robberies with escapes on dirt bikes to huge heists of millions of dollars with the marines chasing after you. Each mission, especially the heists, are extremely well thought out, unpredictable, and action packed. I cannot judge the story's power as I have not finished, but my friends that have say it's a quite decent ending for such a story. And there's no longer limitation to one character. There are three characters, Michael, Franklin, and Trevor. Each have their own personality that doesn't limit you to one character. They each have their own special ability, and can be switched through in or out of missions. There's also stats for each ranging from driving to stamina that can be upgraded for better character performance on missions. Apart from all that, there's also the small touches that make it great. To make the world feel more alive than ever, there's things such a stocks and randomized events, ranging from a small bike theft to shootouts. As a Rockstar games, there's also several easter eggs, like ghosts, U.F.Os, and even cults that you can secretly join. There's no longer any packages to find but there are U.F.O. parts and confessions to the murder of CJ's mom from San Andreas (Each 50). Not to mention there's lots of modern popular songs on the radios, as well as the classic radio parody talk shows. As another well needed touch, the game is much smoother now. Engine and gameplay wise. Animations are top notch, gunplay feels very solid and the cover system got some much needed love. The cops have also been improved, and are no longer the obese and stupid, but very dedicated and it will take effort to get away from them. It's no longer escape from their little radar icon, but rather escape and then hide in alleyways, fool them by maybe leaving you car in a street to make them think you've gone that way, or leave false trails. Weapon swap is no longer awkward scrolling through and trying to find what you want, but rather a roulette that allows you to pick which weapon you want from whichever category (Red Dead Redemption style). The driving mechanics are also much greater. Cars feel more solid, each have their own feel and take a lot more damage from crashing. Air vehicles have turbulence and are a lot more difficult to learn but very well rewarding when you do. Game performance is amazing because it takes about 1-3 minutes to load up, and missions and other loading times are extremely short. Not to mention the amazing graphics. Rockstar has made a masterpiece. Overall, the game is a 10/10. It's a top notch game, and I haven't even been able to try GTA Online because it hasn't been released yet. Well worth the buy. Graphics: 10/10 (Amazing for such an old console) Gameplay: 10/10 (Smooth, feels solid) Story: Cannot judge, haven't finished. Missions: 10/10 (Very fun and variant) Side activies/world: 10/10 Pro's: -Huge world -Lots of side activities that are fun and rewarding -Amazing story missions -Well planned out and player influenced heists -Great easter eggs -Better mechanics and gameplay -3 Characters than can be switched between Con's: -Textures don't load sometimes -When you replay a mission, the loading time is insane (1-5 minutes) -Your social life will go down the drain

As an adult gamer, I absolutely love this game. The attention to detail Rockstar has put into it is amazing. It takes everything you have loved about the GTA series, put it into a huge world, and made it look so good you can't believe it is running on a 10 year old computer. Gameplay is fun and fulfilling for the most part. It does leave you wanting more in the way of main story line missions, but over all there is a ton of gameplay without ever connecting to XBLive. The world is huge and beautiful, but sometimes feels empty. For example there are huge buildings and areas that you are not used or even directed through in the story line. 95% of the action takes place on about a 35% of the map. With that said, I have noticed that in GTA online, they seem to be using these locations more. The combat mechanics is very similar to GTA IV. The only noticeable change is the way you swap weapons, which is vastly improved. I can actually switch from my combat rifle to my shotgun before getting killed by a flanking player. It is not in any way a first person shooter, nor does it make it out to be. Over all the gameplay is completely absorbing. With that absorbing gameplay comes it's major problem. This is a MATURE rated game for a reason. It has consistent, horrible, language and nudity (no more black stars like in previous editions, with billions of polygons to make it realistic). This is not even going into the cold blooded (even twisted) violence that is forced upon the player. I worked in very harsh environments through the years that have built up a "filter" for a lot of these things. I am not saying that your child should or should not play this game, I am saying an adult needs to make a decision about whether they want to allow their child to play it. They should also be aware of it's content so that they are making an informed decision. Do not compare this game to other M rated games (such as Halo) that received their ratings on violence alone. Take any one of the mentioned "reasons" on the ratings card and there is enough of it to get a M rating. Like I mentioned before, I thoroughly enjoyed this game, I would not let my children, or a child I was responsible for play it. For the online: I did not try and play it until about a week after it was released and I had a much better experience because of it. The bugs that plagued the first few weeks I have not encountered. The game is a mix of a persistent, open world morpg and a "menu based" XP shooter like CoD. It is fun to run around with friends in the open world, but you really have to choose whether you want to mess around or do missions because the transitions between the two are clunky and slow. In the open world, it is not a " casual friendly" game (nor was it designed to be). Playing by yourself you have to look over your shoulder constantly for other players in your area, because they will most likely kill you on sight. It is much more fun for most if played in a crew, or on a server with only friends. If you buy into the fact that the vast majority of other players will be your enemy and play accordingly you can have a good bit of fun. Most of the people I have heard complaining about how the open world plays out are very young (more reason youngsters shouldn't be playing it). If you have friends and a mic you will love the online play. If not, you can always stay out of the open world and just rank up like other shooters. Overall this is one of the most entertaining and absorbing games I have ever played.

For me, Grand Theft Auto V’s extraordinary scope is summed up in two favourite moments. 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. 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. Turns out it was a path, and I spent 15 minutes following to the summit, where I nearly ran over a group of hikers. “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. I could go on like this for ages. 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. It both gives you tremendous freedom to explore an astonishingly well-realised world and tells a story that’s gripping, thrilling, and darkly comic. 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’s immediately noticeable that the cover system is more reliable and the auto-aim less touchy. 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. 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. Grand Theft Auto V is also an intelligent, wickedly comic, and bitingly relevant commentary on contemporary, post-economic crisis America. Everything about it drips satire: it rips into the Millennial generation, Grand Theft Auto V SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 Trouble taps on your window again with this next chapter in the Grand Theft Auto universe, set in the city of Los Santos. → MUCH MOR Best Open Worlds Red Dead RedemptionBatman: Arkham CityFallout 3 celebrities, the far right, the far left, the middle class, the media... Nothing is safe from Rockstar’s sharp tongue, including modern video games. 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. 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. If GTA IV was a targeted assassination of the American dream, GTA V takes aim at the modern American reality. The attention to detail that goes into making its world feel alive and believable is also what makes its satire so biting. Grand Theft Auto V’s plot happily operates at the boundaries of plausibility, sending you out to ride dirt bikes along the top of trains, hijack military aircraft, and engage in absurd shootouts with scores of policemen, but its three main characters are what keep it relatable even at its most extreme. The well-written and acted interplay between them provides the biggest laughs and most affecting moments, and the way that their relationships with one another developed and my opinion of them changed throughout the story gave the narrative its power. They feel like people – albeit extraordinarily f***ed-up people. Michael is a retired con man in his 40s, filling out around the middle as he drinks beside the pool in his Vinewood mansion with a layabout son, air-headed daughter, serially unfaithful wife, and very expensive therapist – all of whom hate him. Franklin is a young man from downtown Los Santos who laments the gang-banger stereotype even as he’s reluctantly seduced by the prospect of a bigger score. And then there’s Trevor, a volatile career criminal who lives in the desert selling drugs and murdering rednecks; a psychopath whose bloodthirsty lunacy is fuelled by a combination of methamphetamine and a seriously messed-up childhood.

If you found that easter egg or understand what it means, your my kind of people! GTA V is one of the most highly anticipated games of the year and boy does it deliver. Im so far at about 10 hours of gameplay and I literally completed 3 missions, I chose to look around and venture first, trying to find some of my favorite parts from San Andreas (My favorite GTA game). Seeing CJs old block sent shivers down my spine as I remembered all the times I had to head back home to protect my moms house from a gang war, or during the big los santos riots, Or even looking around waiting till 12 o clock to see the ghost of CJs mom (Myth not true :(...) I remembered being that dumb little gamer kid playing a game I truly couldnt appreciate the story it was trying to tell at such a young age. On a side note thats my gripe with most kid gamers these days, I dont care if your young and playing these games but its much more than killing and racing. At the heart of every GTA is a story ready to be told... Although the game looks beautiful I have had a slight graphics problem but I am unaware if it is on my part of the game itself. I have a big 55 inch tv and I notice while racing down roads the picture sorta becomes jumpy and makes it hard to focus my eyes. If this is just a problem due to my big screen size then this is to warn all you big tv people out there, your eyes may become a little irrtated and blurred after extended playing, Something that NEVER has happened to me before in my 15 years of gaming. With that tiny negative out the way the positive. Random encounters like red dead redemption. Arguably one of my favorite add ons was this from RDR. I used to love traveling via horseback only to see a question mark light up on my mini map, it was such a thrill thinking I could have possibly missed these random awesome encounters. So the addition of that system in GTA V is a plus. HUGE map. Im sure a million people already told you so I'll leave it at that. Its big. 3 Separate characters with unique individual stories. I am a big story driven gamer so the fact that Im not just playing as the thug or the bi polar ex con, etc really gives this game more depth. CJs MOMS GHOST!!! Ok that was a lie....But there are a TON of other easter eggs for you to find, including Aliens, murder mystery solving, spaceships, and this is just rumored but the Infamous Bigfoot that was even a urban legend way back in the days of San Andreas This game offers so many things for everyone and I highly recommend it even if you are new to the series. Now if you will excuse me I gotta get my Chatterbox on.

Fantastic game! This game is even better than GTA IV which means a lot. NOT SPOILERS, I haven't finished the game yet, but I'm on the last mission now. So far, terrific! This game is definitely not for children, it is an adult-only game. But it's awesome, and very funny. I'd never laughed with a grand theft auto game before like I did with this one, but Trevor man, best character ever! I simply love Trevor. Michael and Franklin are fantastic too, but Trevor is a crazy psycho that makes me laugh every time I play with him (ransom mission is hilarious). OK, many people say GTA V is way too short. I concord, it's a little short. I have done almost every mission, playing a couple of hours daily last week and I'm ending the story soon. Good news is this game comes with a crazy online that will keep this title fresh for a long long time. Graphics are very good, the best you can find in any other sandbox game, think in any game (current gen sandbox) and GTA V has better graphics. Story is good, nothing spectacular, but engaging enough. There are a couple of missions that require you to make certain decisions and plan what to do, pick your team members, and those are fantastic, because you switch your characters, Michael, Franklin or Trevor, depending on their positions and/or abilities, etc.. Driving is very good too, specially with Franklin who is the best driver along the three characters. Flying is the only thing I didn't enjoy as much as I thought because it's kind of difficult with certain planes, the bigger the harder and way more turbulence which makes it ever harder. I recommend taking lessons (yes, there is a school where can learn how to fly a plane better - Trevor only, but you can fly a plane with any character at any time). OK guys, my last words are these: I pre-order a next gen console, but I'm keeping my Xbox 360 just for this game, GTA V is that good! It has sold more than a billion dollars (so, R* doesn't need to sell more), buy it with confidence, it is a fantastic game and you will not regret buying it, you'll regret not buying this game! It's not perfect, but it's very very good. FYI, I recommend not installing disc 2 (playing game) on your HDD. Some people (like myself) bought a USB flash to install disc 1 (mandatory installation) and play disc 2 (no installation). You don't need to switch between discs, you only install disc 1 and that's it. Installing disc 1 on a USB flash is a good option if you don't have a HDD. If you do, a good option to enjoy this game is: Install disc 1 (mandatory) on your HDD, and install disc 2 on a USB flash, NOT ON YOUR HDD. Why? Because installing disc 2 on your HDD makes you experience many problems while you play. Enjoy GTA V! Kifflom! Kifflom! Kifflom!

So, the main question of the hour... Is Grand Theft Auto V the Game of the Year 2013? Personally, I think it is the game of the year and, more importantly, the Holiday Season of 2013! ** WARNING: I will avoid spoilers to the best of my ability. If something slips out for some reason, I apologise right away. ** The thing I liked the most is the multi-character story line. It makes the game not only the most innovative of the Grand Theft Auto series, but it also makes it the most fun of all of them. It definitely increased the replay value and I heavily applaud Rockstar Games for implementing this into the story real well! The story was wonderfully written and executed with a difficulty level that is neither too high for a beginner to catch up on and not too low for an expert to blend into. Each character is lovable in some way and the dirty humour definitely hasn't gone away. Everything combined with the free-roaming non-linear story environment makes such a brilliant game I do not regret spending my days away playing! Another wonderful feature is an actual, organised online multiplayer, otherwise known as GTA Online (since they seem to treat it as a game of its own.) It's easy to get into and, as far as I've gone into, everyone has a fair chance to rank up and get social. Much like a "second life", I've had my share of fun with all the people I've met through GTA Online: getting cars and customing them to show off, popping some of the rivals we create (for fun, of course), doing missions together, and lots more. Hours of memories and good times that you can never legally do in real life in GTA Online... oh so much fun it was! It's up to you to make GTA Online the way you want it... I've definitely had loads of fun! Overall, I find GTAV the best game of 2013 and I'm glad I selected this game to be the final game I play before I make my long hiatus from console gaming. In the midst of a downhill interest on new games, this one definitely is a game changer and it was all for the best! I'm really glad I got this game! I'm genuinely happy of the story mode I've played through and continue to play through from time to time, and I'm really delighted that I caused chaos with people on GTA Online! If you can find a greater game than this that can warm your heart in a socially awkward way, then you're probably thinking about the next release in the Grand Theft Auto series!

I'll be honest - this is the first Grand Theft Auto game that I've actually taken the time to complete the missions on. I have played GTA San Andreas and Vice City in the past, but by "played" I mean mostly just tear the city up with cheat codes to make myself invincible and have my own fun with it. Though I did buy this game back in July of 2015, I just recently got into it hardcore and dove through the rest of the missions in the last two weeks, mostly due to my not having a job at the moment and gaining a crap ton of free time to indulge in GTA. Anyway, onto my actual review of this amazing game. People were not wrong when they said this game is so massive and detailed with numerous areas of Los Santos to explore and take on various complex missions in. Part of the fun is just driving around the big city and wandering off to the desert land and seeing what mischief I can put Trevor, Michael, or Franklin through. Though I haven't yet purchased the most fancy and souped-up cars or the biggest choppers available, it's still a lot of fun to bum around in the cars flowing through traffic and take on the cops when I'm feeling lucky. Generally, when I rack up one or two stars, it's not that difficult to evade the cops' paths and get away with my madness. As I hit 3 or the rare (for me) 4 stars, that's when I run into trouble and likely end up walking out of a hospital 10 minutes later. That's all just some of the craziness you can get yourself into, but let's move onto the three main characters, shall we? Michael: Out of the three characters available, I enjoy Michael the most. While he goes after these incredibly insane heists and pulls in gobs of money behind authority, he tries to remain calm and collected about everything and not make the job any more difficult than it has to be. He's got a family that he cares immensely about, keeping them out of harm's way when deals may or may not fall through (spoiler?). He's also got a sweet house and certainly knows how to spend his money. I also just like his personality and how he handles situations throughout the game. Franklin: "Rising" from the hood, Franklin is more on the neutral side for me. I don't like him, but I don't dislike him. He doesn't exactly have the life Michael has, but isn't down in the dumps like Trevor either. At the beginning of the game, life isn't really all rainbows and unicorns for Franklin, and not much is going his way or for him. As missions are completed and life progresses, however, it slowly changes for the better, without me giving too much away. Trevor: Oh boy. Trevor is definitely his own person. I would never want to run into him in a dark alley in the middle of the day. There's no telling what he has in mind for anyone in GTA V, friend or foe. Half the time, when I played as Trevor during a mission or one of the "Strangers and Freaks" side missions, I never really knew what to expect from him during the cut scenes and interrogations. Really the only two what I would consider R-rated portions of the game for Trevor are is when he's first introduced in the game and when he meets with Floyd and Debra in Floyd's apartment. Now that I've given some insight on each character and my take on them, I'd like to take some time for pros and cons. Sound good, yes? Pros: - It's pretty damn easy to make money, and from various ways. There's the stock market, which, unlike in real life, doesn't ever crash, just dips up and down. Besides that, there are the heists that you accomplish which end up bringing in loads of cash, depending largely on who your crew members are. On the smaller side, there are random events that can lead to some pocket change as well. - Guns are easy to get, maybe too easy. Just stop at Ammu-Nation when you've got some dough and you've got a plethora of weaponry to choose from. - There's Vanilla Unicorn: Gentlemen's Club (aka Strip Club) right around Franklin's neighborhood that you can check out if you ever feel so inclined. - Endless opportunity for exploring, new activities, having it out with the cops, races, you name it. Cons: - I realize it's Rockstar, and this is a rated Mature game and all that stuff, but I still feel that they used the N word a little excessively. As one of the first posters mentioned, many of the lines are literally scripted with the N word in there at least 4 or 5 times. It's not like it affected me, because it didn't. It's just annoying when two characters are constantly babbling at each other with that kind of language, so I fully agree with that poster. Unfortunately, for me, this cost the game a star. - There's kind of a lot you have to do to reach that 100% completion mark. Not only do you have to complete all 69 missions, but there are I think like 4 or 5 other categories of beefy material you need to cover in the game to really finish it off. I guess it's a con because after you've done it all, what else is there left to work towards in the game, besides more money? - GTA Online requires Xbox Live Gold, so I'll probably never be online, but that isn't a huge issue anyway. Other than that, this is an excellent game, and I highly recommend any GTA and Rockstar Games fans to check it out (and are of mature age of course, not sure if even 17 cuts it at a mature level with this one) and see for yourself just how large of a game this is and consider the amount of money, time, and effort that went into this beast of a video game.

Pros: This game is hilarious, has super-fun gameplay and has a lot of intertextuality to it. The graphics in particular make this a beautiful game to just roam around in. There's a lot to be said about this game's candidacy for the "Games as Art" platform - between the stunning graphics and gameplay there's also a lot of dialogue in this game that makes you think. The character Trevor in particular really brings home the hilariousness of this game - he's an angry drug dealer who has so much rage towards various groups that he is willing to create all kinds of anarchy just for the fun of it. Which is pretty funny, given that he's canadian. There's an undercurrent in the story of subverting authoritarian figures, being ANGRY at the way the world currently works. A lot of missions in this seem to exist just to point out the corruption that goes on within places like the government, and while I know it's just a game I do wonder if this is helping people have more critical thought about what goes on in our world. Cons: Online play is pretty awful. I've been kicked off so many times that I've pretty much given up trying to log on. And the following? Well. Not so much a con, but I know a number of parents purchasing this for their children without knowing what it's about. If you are a parent considering purchasing this for someone under the age of eighteen, please read what the game entails before you do. What does it entail? Well. Violence. LOTS of violence, in one form or another. You profit from violence against pretty much everyone. If you didn't know that, then I would suggest informing yourself about this game franchise before purchasing for a minor. There is nudity in this game. There are strippers in that you can pay to receive lap-dances from (and take those strippers home if they like you enough.) You can hire prostitutes in this game. There is a significant amount of drug use. There's even a mission where you have to torture an innocent person. Full on torture - this is the one part of the game I couldn't do; it was kind of horrific. But I suppose that's the point - to make you feel uncomfortable enough that you would never enjoy it. The sexism in this game is also pretty rampant, and it still surprises me how few -adults- I have spoken to who have played this game realise the ingrained nature of it. If you decide to purchase this game, I'd suggest opening a discourse with the player regarding gender inequity and what this game higlights. Forbes has a great piece on the gender gap in this game - google if you're interested. This is NOT a game for anyone under the age of eighteen. But it's a super fun game for adults, and I really really enjoyed it.

El juego llegó en excelentes condiciones el día que me pusieron como día de entrega aproximada, no venía roto y no tiene ningún problema, el juego viene en inglés con subtítulos en español, el único defecto que le encontré (qué supongo es mío) es que las texturas tardan en cargar aveces e incluso una vez se levanta crasheo como por 30s...aunque dudo que sea el producto, tal vez debo reinstalar los archivos ya que tenía ese gta pero se me rompió el disco 2 quizá falta algún archivo que debe estar ahi o hay algo haciendo conflicto así que si continúa voy a reinstalar, pero repito el juego dudo que sea ya que este está tal y como el proveedor dice...

Good working brand new product. Sold by sksb import

Produto novo, chegou muito bem embalado e em perfeito estado. Veio dois cd's e um mapa. Produto original. Podem comprar sem medo.

Truly a classic in its own right. Company was great to deal with and had super fast delivery.

Jeu préféré de mon fils. Malheureusement les commentaires sont en anglais, mais il y a la traduction écrite