Grand Theft Auto V – Xbox 360
- The biggest, most dynamic and most diverse open world ever created and now packed with layers of new detail.
- Grand Theft Auto V blends storytelling and gameplay in new ways as players repeatedly jump in and out of the lives of the game’s three lead characters, playing all sides of the game’s interwoven story.
- Grand Theft Auto V also comes with Grand Theft Auto Online, the dynamic and ever-evolving Grand Theft Auto universe for multiple players.
Los Santos: a sprawling sun-soaked metropolis full of self-help gurus, starlets and fading celebrities, once the envy of the Western world, now struggling to stay afloat in an era of economic uncertainty and cheap reality TV. Amidst the turmoil, three very different criminals plot their own chances of survival and success: Franklin, a former street gangster, now looking for real opportunities and serious money; Michael, a professional ex-con whose retirement is a lot less rosy than he hoped it would be; and Trevor, a violent maniac driven by the chance of a cheap high and the next big score. Running out of options, the crew risks everything in a series of daring and dangerous heists that could set them up for life.
Grand Theft Auto V is the largest and most ambitious game Rockstar Games has yet created, and takes full advantage of every ounce of processing power available in the current generation of consoles. In order to provide the best possible experience for such a m
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174 of 200 people found the following review helpful
 Grand Theft Auto Returns (Thankfully) to its Roots, By
J.S. Knapp (Canonsburg, PA) – See all my reviews
This review is from: Grand Theft Auto V – Xbox 360 (Video Game)
It’s been interesting browsing through the lower-rated reviews and seeing what people have to say. Some of them raise some pretty decent points and I can’t deny them – you can’t enter most stores, there isn’t a fancy casino, there aren’t as many side-games, etc. But I want to ask the real question – does anyone really care? Did you LIKE sitting at a slot machine in San Andreas? I probably spent all of 5 minutes in that casino – outside of the relevant missions – in the HOURS that I played that game. And did you like having to go to restaurants to eat? Was that really "fun"? NO!! It was drivel! It was time-consuming, it made you lose your focus, and bored most of us to tears. And thanks to the new "stock market" mechanic, we don’t need to waste time in a casino trying to make a few quick bucks… We have to look forward people. This isn’t San Andreas. For the most part, it’s better. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed GTA V. I actually thought the story was one of the better ones in recent times. I thought the tension between the three main characters made for some pretty unique events. Towards the end when (spoiler alert) you start getting hints that characters may be forced to kill other characters, I actually found myself quite riveted to the story. Sure some of the missions themselves were a bit odd – the billionaire car-collector guy seemed pretty pointless. The warring military/government factions actually confused me somewhat, but they seemed to confuse the main characters as well, so perhaps that was the point! The heists were pretty neat and I wish there were more of them. We’ll probably get them in the form of costly DLC… But what I’ve enjoyed most about GTA V was the fact that it left behind a lot of the nonsense from GTA IV. No more mandatory "man-dates", no more dragging around cousins and friends and acquaintances just so you can buy guns or hitch a helicopter ride from time-to-time. We also have our BLESSED garages back, and even some storage buildings added with the sole intent of storing our favorite cars. Thanks for that, Rockstar. I love the large map again with the differing geographic and cultural areas. I truly enjoy the "random encounters" where you’re given the option to mingle unexpectedly with a random event taking place. They’re repetitive after a short while, but there’s a pretty wide variety of them scattered about. In fact, the "new" things added to the GTA franchise are pretty significant. The custom car shops have much more variety than what we saw in San Andreas. The in-game internet has a wealth of additional content, including the abiliy to purchase almost every vehicle in the game. Just CANNOT find that wanna-be Corvette? Screw it – buy one on the interwebs! And of course, the whole "three characters = thrice the fun" is such an interesting change from the way GTA has always been. The only frustration I encounter is when you switch to Trevor only to find that he’s wandered to the top of a mountain and is wearing a sun dress… Suddenly I’m forced to hike a mile to the nearest road and on top of that, I need to change clothes again… There are certainly some annoyances in GTA V – for one, the police seem the hardest ever to avoid. Most of the time I hit a three-star wanted level, I end up walking out of a hospital. The AI is pretty relentless. Once I managed to escape line-of-sight and hide in a train tunnel. Somehow the AI managed to "see" me through what I can only presume was grating in the street above, and suddenly a calvary of FIB trucks came screaming down the train tracks. Police are spawned ad-nauseum, creating a "no-win" scenario for the player. Your best bet is to go off-road where the AI has a hard time with path-creation, and knock out police helicopters as quickly as possible. In short, it’s not a lot of fun. I would have loved to see a Skyrim-like "witness" mechanic, where if you take out everyone who saw you do what you did, you can get away with it. Another irritation I found was in the dialogue between Franklin (a young, black man living in a gang-ridden part of town at the start of the story) and one of his friends, Lamar. The two interact several times throughout the story, and their dialogue is annoyingly ridden with the "N" word. Now, I’m certainly not a fan of political correctness, but after a while, I simply got tired of hearing it. And since you’re forced to listen to the two ramble on to each other as you drive from point-to-point in these missions, I often found myself muting the TV. Let me clear – I wasn’t offended – I was simply annoyed. Some of the sentences were literally scripted as "No my ‘N’ you’re not living like a ‘N’ in the hood, my ‘N’…" Who wrote that crap?? Lastly, we’re still stuck with a lot of collection requirements to…
336 of 407 people found the following review helpful
 Don’t listen to the 1 star reviews…,
This review is from: Grand Theft Auto V – Xbox 360 (Video Game)
If you’ve ever played San Andreas then your going to love this, this game is not boring and there’s alot to do, lots of off road vehicles for off-roading and lots of customization options for your cars.
Overall its a HUGE improvement over Grand Theft Auto IV, its brighter and more colorful, the people come to life in the game and better car handling, for people who care about graphics its a big improvement over IV but I’d like to point out that if you choose a game by its graphics then your never going to enjoy good games and being picky over graphics ruins the experience (but like I said they’re great in this game). No the game does NOT freeze, sadly I played it straight for over 10 hours without realizing it and it never froze nor did I experience any bugs at all, it played flawlessly, so I really don’t know what these people are talking about it being buggy, if it doesn’t freeze within that amount of time then I think its pretty obvious its not going to and maybe they are having problems with their Xbox and not the game. The one thing that I do hate in this game is the crashes aren’t as realistic is they are in IV, its similar when crashing in Saints Row, but I didn’t pay just so I could experience good crashes, I got it for free roaming, and after playing it for awhile you really don’t even notice the cheesy crashes anymore, during gameplay you may notice things you don’t like and an example of that would be the crashes, or maybe you don’t like the way the planes and helicopters handle because of the wind blowing against it (the flying is realistic and helicopters are difficult to handle, which I like.. it’ll make it harder for little kids to shoot me on multiplayer when they’re in a chopper), but in my opinion this is the best Grand Theft Auto to date and I would strongly suggest you don’t pass on this game because its worth it. ***THIS GAME IS RATED MATURE!!!***: so parents if you don’t think your kids aren’t mature enough to handle this game then DONT buy it for them, I’m sick of seeing parents complaining and the news making Grand Theft Auto games out to be a game that makes kids do bad things when in the first place the parents shouldn’t even buy young kids a game that clearly says 17+ on the back and you have to be 17 and up to buy it, so please don’t rate games badly based on your ignorance. And if you get this game and notice that the online multilayer isn’t up yet don’t freak, it says its going to be up 2 weeks from this past 17th (GTA V release date)
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Helps you save money?!?, By
BMUR (Seattle, WA) – See all my reviews
Verified Purchase(What’s this?)
This review is from: Grand Theft Auto V – Xbox 360 (Video Game)
I wasn’t going to leave a review for this game seeing as I purchased it as a gift for my son and do not play myself… that is until last night when he came up to me and said "You know what, Dad? That game teaches you how to save money"….. Huh? HOW? I asked… "Well", he said "you have to save your money in order to get the things you want". Interesting! I have not heard this spin as of yet and it does make me feel a bit better letting him play it knowing that in a weird way it’s teaching him how to budget his money in addition to pimpin’ hoes and slappin’ bitches.
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Grand Theft Auto Returns (Thankfully) to its Roots,
It’s been interesting browsing through the lower-rated reviews and seeing what people have to say. Some of them raise some pretty decent points and I can’t deny them – you can’t enter most stores, there isn’t a fancy casino, there aren’t as many side-games, etc.
But I want to ask the real question – does anyone really care? Did you LIKE sitting at a slot machine in San Andreas? I probably spent all of 5 minutes in that casino – outside of the relevant missions – in the HOURS that I played that game. And did you like having to go to restaurants to eat? Was that really “fun”?
NO!! It was drivel! It was time-consuming, it made you lose your focus, and bored most of us to tears. And thanks to the new “stock market” mechanic, we don’t need to waste time in a casino trying to make a few quick bucks… We have to look forward people. This isn’t San Andreas. For the most part, it’s better.
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed GTA V. I actually thought the story was one of the better ones in recent times. I thought the tension between the three main characters made for some pretty unique events. Towards the end when (spoiler alert) you start getting hints that characters may be forced to kill other characters, I actually found myself quite riveted to the story. Sure some of the missions themselves were a bit odd – the billionaire car-collector guy seemed pretty pointless. The warring military/government factions actually confused me somewhat, but they seemed to confuse the main characters as well, so perhaps that was the point! The heists were pretty neat and I wish there were more of them. We’ll probably get them in the form of costly DLC…
But what I’ve enjoyed most about GTA V was the fact that it left behind a lot of the nonsense from GTA IV. No more mandatory “man-dates”, no more dragging around cousins and friends and acquaintances just so you can buy guns or hitch a helicopter ride from time-to-time. We also have our BLESSED garages back, and even some storage buildings added with the sole intent of storing our favorite cars. Thanks for that, Rockstar. I love the large map again with the differing geographic and cultural areas. I truly enjoy the “random encounters” where you’re given the option to mingle unexpectedly with a random event taking place. They’re repetitive after a short while, but there’s a pretty wide variety of them scattered about.
In fact, the “new” things added to the GTA franchise are pretty significant. The custom car shops have much more variety than what we saw in San Andreas. The in-game internet has a wealth of additional content, including the abiliy to purchase almost every vehicle in the game. Just CANNOT find that wanna-be Corvette? Screw it – buy one on the interwebs! And of course, the whole “three characters = thrice the fun” is such an interesting change from the way GTA has always been. The only frustration I encounter is when you switch to Trevor only to find that he’s wandered to the top of a mountain and is wearing a sun dress… Suddenly I’m forced to hike a mile to the nearest road and on top of that, I need to change clothes again…
There are certainly some annoyances in GTA V – for one, the police seem the hardest ever to avoid. Most of the time I hit a three-star wanted level, I end up walking out of a hospital. The AI is pretty relentless. Once I managed to escape line-of-sight and hide in a train tunnel. Somehow the AI managed to “see” me through what I can only presume was grating in the street above, and suddenly a calvary of FIB trucks came screaming down the train tracks. Police are spawned ad-nauseum, creating a “no-win” scenario for the player. Your best bet is to go off-road where the AI has a hard time with path-creation, and knock out police helicopters as quickly as possible. In short, it’s not a lot of fun. I would have loved to see a Skyrim-like “witness” mechanic, where if you take out everyone who saw you do what you did, you can get away with it.
Another irritation I found was in the dialogue between Franklin (a young, black man living in a gang-ridden part of town at the start of the story) and one of his friends, Lamar. The two interact several times throughout the story, and their dialogue is annoyingly ridden with the “N” word. Now, I’m certainly not a fan of political correctness, but after a while, I simply got tired of hearing it. And since you’re forced to listen to the two ramble on to each other as you drive from point-to-point in these missions, I often found myself muting the TV. Let me clear – I wasn’t offended – I was simply annoyed. Some of the sentences were literally scripted as “No my ‘N’ you’re not living like a ‘N’ in the hood, my ‘N’…” Who wrote that crap??
Lastly, we’re still stuck with a lot of collection requirements to…
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Overall its a HUGE improvement over Grand Theft Auto IV, its brighter and more colorful, the people come to life in the game and better car handling, for people who care about graphics its a big improvement over IV but I’d like to point out that if you choose a game by its graphics then your never going to enjoy good games and being picky over graphics ruins the experience (but like I said they’re great in this game).
No the game does NOT freeze, sadly I played it straight for over 10 hours without realizing it and it never froze nor did I experience any bugs at all, it played flawlessly, so I really don’t know what these people are talking about it being buggy, if it doesn’t freeze within that amount of time then I think its pretty obvious its not going to and maybe they are having problems with their Xbox and not the game.
The one thing that I do hate in this game is the crashes aren’t as realistic is they are in IV, its similar when crashing in Saints Row, but I didn’t pay $60 just so I could experience good crashes, I got it for free roaming, and after playing it for awhile you really don’t even notice the cheesy crashes anymore, during gameplay you may notice things you don’t like and an example of that would be the crashes, or maybe you don’t like the way the planes and helicopters handle because of the wind blowing against it (the flying is realistic and helicopters are difficult to handle, which I like.. it’ll make it harder for little kids to shoot me on multiplayer when they’re in a chopper), but in my opinion this is the best Grand Theft Auto to date and I would strongly suggest you don’t pass on this game because its worth it.
***THIS GAME IS RATED MATURE!!!***: so parents if you don’t think your kids aren’t mature enough to handle this game then DONT buy it for them, I’m sick of seeing parents complaining and the news making Grand Theft Auto games out to be a game that makes kids do bad things when in the first place the parents shouldn’t even buy young kids a game that clearly says 17+ on the back and you have to be 17 and up to buy it, so please don’t rate games badly based on your ignorance.
And if you get this game and notice that the online multilayer isn’t up yet don’t freak, it says its going to be up 2 weeks from this past 17th (GTA V release date)
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