The game is played from the perspective of either a third person or a first person, and the world is navigated on foot and by vehicle. Players control and switch between the three  protagonists across a single player, both during and outside the mission. The story focuses on robbery sequences, and many missions include shooting and gameplay promotion. The "desired" system regulates law enforcement aggression against criminal players. Grand Theft Auto Online, the game's online multiplayer mode, allows up to 30 players to participate in a variety of collaborative and competitive game modes. Development of the

game began around the time of the release of Grand Theft Auto IV and has been shared by many rock star studios around the world. Inspired by many of the previous projects such as RedDeadRedemption and MaxPayne3, the development team designed the game around three  protagonists to update the core structure of their predecessor. 

GTA veterans will still recognise how the game underneath it all works. There is a backbone of narrative missions that gamers must complete in order to progress, but beyond them is a vast range of dynamic encounters, sidequests and moneymaking ventures, from buying property to managing clubs and playing the stock exchange (which cleverly reacts to ingame events, allowing you to make extra cash by buying the right shares at the right time). Most story tasks are variations on one theme – drive somewhere, shoot something, drive back – but as with all video game feedback loops, the joy of the system is in the execution. And boy does GTA V execute.

To say much more would be to ruin the fun of discovery, but rest assured there are insane stunts, there is massive destruction, there is militarygrade weaponry, and you will be required to jump out of planes. And helicopters. Combining the sheer scale of the environment with the excellent physics engine, these escapades throw everything at you, from rural bankheists to jetski chases, to operating huge industrial machinery. The bigger heists require minipreparatory missions (hiding getaway cars, picking novelty masks) which help build the tension, and subtly add to the feeling that what we`re all doing here is acting in our own version of Michael Mann's film Heat. While certain ideas are repackaged and chucked straight back at you several times, you're carried along on a rush of euphoric action and shock – mostly because the world looks and behaves as though all this makes sense.

Rockstar North has built an extraordinary universe that functions not only as an exciting, diverse setting but also as a pulverising, nihilistic satire on western society. Reality TV, celebrity magazines, social media, plastic surgery, pop psychology books — all of which are often devastated by hilarious commercials on  many radio and television stations in the game. The game itself will also be a hit. The RighteousSlaughter7 ad promises "a realistic art of modern killing."