Grand Theft Auto 5 Review (PlayStation 5)
Our Grand Theft Auto 5 Review tells the story of a young street hustler, a retired bank robber, and a terrifying psychopath who find themselves entangled with some of the most frightening and deranged elements of the criminal underworld, the U.S. government, and the entertainment industry, they must pull off a series of dangerous heists to survive in a ruthless city in which they can trust nobody, least of all each other. This is GTA but not as you know it.
Grand Theft Auto 5 Review Pros:
- Gorgeous graphics.
- 92GB download size.
- Platinum trophy along with trophy lists for Doomsday Heist, GTA director, and GTA online heists.
- Action gameplay.
- Graphic settings – Fidelity, performance, and Performance Ray Tracing.
- In-game depth of field effects – on/off.
- Full HDR support and settings.
- Motion sensor controls can be turned on and off individually for aircraft, bikes, boats,s and reload.
- Tutorial pop-ups as you play.
- Haptic feedback on the triggers that are felt when driving vehicles.
- First and third-person perspectives S can be changed on the fly.
- Camera settings include driving height, Invert axis and sensitivity sliders, and head bobbing.
- Controller speaker used for phone calls.
- Clip system that can be set up to automatically capture minutes of action before your death, link to YouTube for fast uploads.
- Control multiple characters each with a special ability and stats.
- Faster loading times for both the story and GTA online mode.
- Radio stations are intact.
- Can import your GTA online character from another console.
- Rockstar Social Club integration.
- In-app purchases for online cash.
- Adaptive triggers can be set to high, low or turned off.
- Light bar effects can be turned on and off.
- Actions increase your stats so driving loads will enable more air control or swimming will increase your stamina so you can run more.
- Play how you want.
- Screen saver style system kicks in when you leave the game idle.
- Map uncovers as you explore.
- Mini games galore from darts to tennis to golf.
- Swap characters when you like.
- Setting a marker on the map will put a GPS line showing directions.
- Full damage to vehicles.
- Police wanted level goes up and with it more Police and police units until the Army come after you.
- Full stats section.
- Can quickly skip the cutscenes.
- Will import saves and unlock earned trophies from the last gen version.
- Safe houses can be bought and they allow you to store vehicles.
- Mobile phone is used for emails, texts, calls and the Internet for shopping and banking.
- Random events can be found and/or triggered.
- Excellent voice work.
- Living breathing world, you can just people watch.
- Earn cash and buy new clothes, hairstyles and guns, cars etc.
- Quick save option from the mobile phone.
- Unlock new director options and characters by playing the story.
- Your characters live a life and when you change to them they could be doing any thing!
- Day/night cycle and different weather types from sun to rain to snow.
- Fully working stock market where you can buy/sell sticks.
Grand Theft Auto 5 Review Cons:
- Issues with character transfers whereby at the moment if you used the service for PC then you cannot do it.
- Issue where transferring a character from last gen will delete that character from last gen meaning you have to play current gen only.
- Had pop up happen a fair few times.
- The story can be hard to follow.
- Choice overload!
- Cannot rebind controls.
- In app purchases for online cash.
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Grand Theft Auto 5:
Developer: Rockstar Games
Publisher: Rockstar Games
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