The reason the GTA series is so popular is that the open-world design allows players a lot of freedom to explore and be creative on their own, without necessarily having to stick to the game’s main story or side missions.
The detail and openness of the world itself really help draw you in and make the game a unique experience for each player.
- Rockstar hired real gangsters to voice them in GTA V. The gangsters even changed the script to be more realistic.
- GTA V cost 270 million dollars to make, making it one of the most expensive video games of all time.
- If you pull up next to someone in red light and rev your engine in a sports car, they will race you once the light turns green.
- If you take Michael’s car as Franklin or Trevor, he will call you and yell at you.
- If you shave your head or facial hair, stubble will grow in time.
- Prostitutes will sometimes have phone calls about how they need to pay off student loans or rent.
- GTA V has multiple murder mysteries that are gruesome ex: Lenora
- There are multiple flying saucers in the sky, at the skybox limit, each looks different, and one looks like a FIB ship.
- There are something like 20 sea wrecks around San Andreas in the water, and some are pretty interesting, like one that is meant to approximate the disaster of the titanic being split in half.
- There is a Bigfoot sighting in one mission.
- Finally, the Epsilon Program is real in GTA, bringing you back from your first death online.
- At the end of an early mission, Lamar will make fun of Franklin’s haircut. Later, Lamar’s dialogue changes if you got a new hairstyle.
- You can send your contacts hunting pictures, and they will respond. Most of them are confused or angry.
- If you follow female NPCs for a while, they’ll get messy and try to walk faster or look over their shoulder.
- If you do a burnout over a dead body, you’ll get a huge blood spray. Don’t try this at home.
- When you look behind your car, your character looks in the rearview mirror.
- When you restart the same mission multiple times, the dialogue changes.
- The moon phases change over the days and weeks.
- Birds can get sucked into the engine when you’re flying.
- If you drive on the left shoulder, your controller vibrates on the left. The same happens when you drive on the right.
- If you see a dog walking by itself, a woman will ask you about her lost dog.
- If you break the glass and walk over it, you can hear the crunching.
- If you leave your character idle, he will switch into the first person and ogle women and sports cars.
- If you drive at night with your headlights off, NPCs will flash theirs.
- If you punch someone wearing glasses, they will fly off their face.
- If you repeatedly rob a store, the clerk will recognize you and have a police officer in the store.
- If you’re talking on the phone, you can’t flash your headlights.
- If you swim with Michael and track water inside, Amanda yells at you.
- If someone is in a chair, you can kick the chair from under them.
- GTA V took over one thousand people to create in a span of 5 years.
- GTA V’s world is about 81 km squared.