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[[File:GTA V box art.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The Pursuit of the Almighty Dollar]]
'''''Grand Theft Auto V''''' is an action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by [[Rockstar Games]]. First released in 2013, it is part of the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' series. An enhanced version of the game for the [[PlayStation 4]], [[Xbox One]] was released in 2014, with the [[Microsoft Windows]] version further delayed to April 2015. Ports of the game for the [[PlayStation 5]] and [[Xbox Series X]]/S were also announced in 2020, albeit much to the consternation of gamers who were understandably burned out by the constant ''GTA Online'' updates and lack of news about the next main game in the franchise.
Its story follows three criminals and their efforts to commit heists while under pressure from a government agency, and as such the gameplay allows players to cycle between the three protagonists: retired bank robber Michael de Santa, former gangbanger turned repo man Franklin Clinton, and [[Ax Crazy]] career criminal and ex-military pilot Trevor Philips, each having their own special abilities. Michael can enter [[Bullet Time]] whilst in armed combat, Franklin is able to slow down time when driving, and Trevor can fly into a blind rage and dish out extra damage whilst sustaining far less damage himself, and he can also perform a few unique melee attacks when the special meter is activated.
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* [[Bland-Name Product]]: As part of the series' [[Constructed World]], many fictional products from the series lore make a return, most often parodying real-world products and services like [[Apple|iFruit]], [[Facebook|Lifeinvader]] and [[Twitter|Bleeter]].
* [[Broken Bridge]]: The first numbered entry and the second game overall to avert this, with the whole map accessible to the player save for a few interior locations.
* [[Conspiracy Theorist]]: To a degree with Trevor as he expressed his contempt with the [[Illuminati]] and their (supposed) machinations, also alleging that the [[Private Army|Merriweather]] is "the Illuminati's private army" which motivated him to carry out attacks against them. Taken [[Up to Eleven]] with Ron Jakowski, who developed an irrational sense of paranoia towards various conspiracies. Ironically enough, despite his deep-seated disdain for pervasive surveillance and his efforts to get away from "the man", Ron [[Hypocrite|has]] a [[Facebook|Lifeinvader]] profile; this is [[Truth In Television]] though as some real life conspiracy theorists do maintain social media profiles, contrary to their (twisted) beliefs, although they did come up with their own [[The Moral Substitute|substitutes]] to mainstream social platforms (i.e. the so-called "alt-tech" geared towards right-wingers) as the likes of Facebook wanted nothing to do with them in recent years.
* [[First-Person Ghost]]: Averted with the eighth-generation and PC releases. The characters' limbs are visible all the time and bespoke animations were made to account for the new viewpoint.
* [[First-Person Shooter]]: The eighth-generation and PC releases mark the first time that Rockstar has utilised this viewpoint extensively, contrary to what Dan Houser stated in 2011 about avoiding "what other companies are doing". To Houser's credit though, Rockstar has never developed a straight-up first-person shooter to this day, linear or otherwise.
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