Have you ever been to Los Angeles? Rockstar has - and it shows. Los Santos, the city that forms the backdrop to much of Grand Theft Auto V , takes the best and most extreme elements of the City of Angels and distils them down to their essence: the fake Roman columns, the manicured lawns, the...

Biggest and most interesting open world yet; Incredible range of activities to enjoy; The best mission design in the series' history

Story tries too hard to be edgy; Shooting mechanics still not best-in-class; That's it

Big. Beautiful. Brilliant. Rockstar games have produced the biggest and best game around by a country mile. Well, fifty square country miles of spectacular world map, epic missions and interesting characters.

At the time of writing this review, please bear in mind that I have not yet completed GTA V. The game oozes content and if I wrote this after having completed the game, the review would be going live months after. I don't want to rush through the campaign either just for the sake of this article.

Red Mist

There are good games, there are great games and then there is Grand Theft Auto. For more than a decade, Rockstar's action-adventure has set a high standard for open world games and then raised them with each new iteration.

Grand Theft Auto Five literally starts with a bang, with the explosives being used as part of a breathless beginning which sees you swapping control between Michael De Santa and Trevor Philips as you attempt to rob a bank and escape through some beautiful snow covered countryside.

Grand Theft Auto V delivers an open world in excess of anything else on Xbox 360, to the point...

An opening line in Grand Theft Auto V ( GTA5 ) encapsulates the cynical tale that follows it. "Well, a sense of overriding futility is a vital part of the process," says a psychiatrist to one of the game's three main characters, Michael De Santa. "Embrace it.

The drive from Blaine County back to Los Santos, and seeing the skyline for the first time; It was only then that I began to grasp just how much larger the map was compared to any other game

Trevor and Michael fighting over the same thing for the fifteenth time

Having received so much praise over the years, it's a wonder that Rockstar Games can still be so ambitious with the Grand Theft Auto series. I mean, how do

This game has been highly anticipated worldwide; even if it was terrible people would still buy it because it says "Grand Theft Auto" on the box. And to prove my point, this game made 1 BILLION dollars in only three days!