Feature: GTA 5 Essentials # 3: Customisation and The World

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Feature: GTA 5 Essentials # 3: Customisation and The World

Added: 29.08.2013 15:49 | 0 views | 0 comments

GTA 4's grey metropolis and even darker story didn't leave much room for over-the-top customisation or interaction with the world. Here's how GTA 5 changes that.

Feature: GTA 5 Essentials # 3: Customisation and The World article

If GTA 4's environment (and narrative) were built to oppress as much as it freed players, then GTA 5 seems to represent the opposite approach. A return to the free-wheeling nonsense of San Andreas has been welcomed by series fans, but it's the influence you can exert (or at least perceive to) on the world around you, as well as yourself, that will one of the key differentiators between GTA 4 and GTA 5.

Again, Niko's story of a probably-depressed immigrant didn't really tally with a sports car-driving, bling-wearing big-city player. He was a janitor, used and abused by the rich...