{"id":535300,"date":"2026-03-07T18:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T18:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/im-playing-grand-theft-auto-v-for-the-first-time-and-it-lives-up-to-the-hype\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T18:03:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T18:03:27","slug":"im-playing-grand-theft-auto-v-for-the-first-time-and-it-lives-up-to-the-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/im-playing-grand-theft-auto-v-for-the-first-time-and-it-lives-up-to-the-hype\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Playing Grand Theft Auto V For The First Time And It Lives Up To The Hype"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/im-playing-grand-theft-auto-v-for-the-first-time-and-it-lives-up-to-the-hype.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Grand Theft Auto V Impressions First Time Player New Gen PS5 Xbox Series\/X\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/p>\n<p> <b>Platform:<\/b> PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC <br \/> <b>Publisher:<\/b> Rockstar Games <br \/> <b>Developer:<\/b> Rockstar North <br \/> <b>Release:<\/b> <time datetime=\"00Z\" class=\"datetime\">September 17, 2013<\/time> (<span class=\"gi5-details-platform\">PlayStation 3<\/span>, <span class=\"gi5-details-platform\">Xbox 360<\/span>), <time datetime=\"00Z\" class=\"datetime\">November 18, 2014<\/time> (<span class=\"gi5-details-platform\">PlayStation 4<\/span>, <span class=\"gi5-details-platform\">Xbox One<\/span>), <time datetime=\"00Z\" class=\"datetime\">April 14, 2015<\/time> (<span class=\"gi5-details-platform\">PC<\/span>), <time datetime=\"00Z\" class=\"datetime\">March 15, 2022<\/time> (<span class=\"gi5-details-platform\">PlayStation 5<\/span>, <span class=\"gi5-details-platform\">Xbox Series X\/S<\/span>) <br \/> <b>Rating:<\/b> Mature <\/p>\n<p>You know how every time a new story about Grand Theft Auto V\u2019s massive sales numbers somehow increase again \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2022\/02\/08\/grand-theft-auto-v-has-surpassed-160-million-units-sold-gta-remastered-trilogy\">it recently surpassed 160 million copies sold<\/a> \u2013 somebody makes the joke, \u201cWho the hell hasn\u2019t played this game yet?\u201d Yeah\u2026It\u2019s me. I\u2019m the person who hasn\u2019t played the game yet, or at least, I was until Monday. Now, roughly 10 hours into Grand Theft Auto V: Expanded and Enhanced, I feel like a fool.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grand Theft Auto V absolutely lives up to the hype, despite my belief that there was no way an open-world\u00a0game with so many systems and mechanics,\u00a0now almost a decade\u00a0old, would hold up this well in 2022. I\u2019ve always known GTA to be the series of crude jokes, vulgarity galore, and more along those lines. And to be clear, Grand Theft Auto V is very much that, but somehow, it all works. I laugh as I type this because I imagine 99-percent\u00a0of people reading this are like, &#8220;Yeah dude, duh,\u201d but if you\u2019re someone who still hasn\u2019t played this game, let me tell you: play it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<article class=\"embedded-entity\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/im-playing-grand-theft-auto-v-for-the-first-time-and-it-lives-up-to-the-hype-1.jpg\" typeof=\"Image\" alt=\"\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/article>\n<p>When I booted up the story mode for the first time and saw the visuals, I chuckled. In no way should Rockstar Games be charging for this new-gen version of the game. It should have been an update because, at best, it\u2019s simply a 4K\/60 FPS patch that makes things look a little better. Despite improved textures and lighting, Grand Theft Auto V still very much looks like a game from 2013. After shaking off the feeling that this enhanced edition should have been free, though, I was able to play a game I can already feel shaping up to be a new favorite.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One thing I found particularly striking in Grand Theft Auto V is how immediately authentic\u00a0these characters feel. Michael, Trevor, and Brad all react and speak to each other how I imagine they would if they were real humans in a world robbing a bank\u00a0in some remote snowy town. Fast forward to meeting Franklin and his friends, and I find myself constantly laughing out loud at their conversations. They\u2019re hilarious and highly engaging. I\u2019ve already turned down the in-game music\u2019s volume a touch to ensure I hear every interaction\u00a0when driving through Los Santos and I love hearing phone calls come out of my DualSense controller\u2019s speaker.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<article class=\"embedded-entity\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/im-playing-grand-theft-auto-v-for-the-first-time-and-it-lives-up-to-the-hype-2.jpg\" typeof=\"Image\" alt=\"\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/article>\n<p>Above all of that, though, the conversations between characters in this game just feel so real. Franklin and his friends relentlessly (and lovingly) give each other crap the same way my friends and I do. Michael\u2019s nihilism fits in perfectly with the setup of Rockstar\u2019s Los Santos, and while I\u2019ve only just met Trevor, I\u2019m already floored by Steven Ogg\u2019s unhinged characterization. Trevor is nuts, and Ogg plays into that so well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<article class=\"embedded-entity\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/im-playing-grand-theft-auto-v-for-the-first-time-and-it-lives-up-to-the-hype-3.jpg\" typeof=\"Image\" alt=\"\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/article>\n<p>For me, the dialogue is the driving force of this game. It varies from real and well-written to absolutely off-the-wall, but not in a bad way \u2013 the more zany dialogue feels right at home in this glamorized, centralized version of Hollywood. One minute, I\u2019m having a real conversation as Franklin while talking to Jimmy about the faults of his dad. Another minute, I\u2019m playing as Michael listening to a salesman pitch me a new strain of weed that gets Michael so high he goes on a machine-gun fueled rampage to murder dozens of aliens. Every corner I turn, I find something else in Los Santos that catches my attention, be it a new Strangers and Freaks mission, a billboard with an advertisement that makes me cackle, or a street reminiscent of my trip to Los Angeles in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve played past GTA games, and I adore both Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, but I figured a 2013 Rockstar game wouldn\u2019t deliver an open world designed as well as the latter one, and yet, I\u2019m in love with Los Santos. It\u2019s impressive how much Rockstar was able to cram into this city and the surrounding desert a decade ago, and my brain hurts to think about just how big Grand Theft Auto VI is going to be.\u00a0<\/p>\n<article class=\"embedded-entity\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/im-playing-grand-theft-auto-v-for-the-first-time-and-it-lives-up-to-the-hype-4.jpg\" typeof=\"Image\" alt=\"\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/article>\n<p>Grand Theft Auto V also has some impressively smart writing. For example, as Michael, I walked in on my wife sleeping with her tennis coach. Enraged, Michael decides to get revenge on the coach. He informs Franklin about the situation, and the pair head over to a Malibu-esque cliffside house in a pickup truck. The two tie the truck\u2019s tow line to beams holding the coach\u2019s house up on the cliff. When they drive away, the beams and most of the house fall down the hill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I loved this scene, but I was thinking to myself the entire time, \u201cThis is funny but there\u2019s no way a tennis coach owns a house like this.\u201d And sure enough, 30 seconds later, Michael gets a phone call from the coach saying it\u2019s not his house. In fact, it\u2019s the house of another would-be tennis player the coach is sleeping with. I was so satisfied by this twist because Rockstar swiftly and comically answered a question I was asking myself. That level of smart writing has been present throughout my 10 hours in Grand Theft Auto V thus far, and I can\u2019t wait to find out what else awaits me in Los Santos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<article class=\"embedded-entity\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/im-playing-grand-theft-auto-v-for-the-first-time-and-it-lives-up-to-the-hype-5.jpg\" typeof=\"Image\" alt=\"\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/article>\n<p>Does the gameplay, especially the gunplay, feel like 2013? Oh yeah. Are the visual and performance improvements worth the price Rockstar is charging? Nah. Does Grand Theft Auto V hold up\u00a0extremely well? Yes, very much so.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it\u2019s silly that I\u2019m surprised \u2013 Grand Theft Auto V\u00a0is the best-selling game of all time and one of the most successful entertainment properties ever, after all \u2013 but this game\u2019s really, really good. I only wished I had played it years and years ago.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Anybody else playing Grand Theft Auto V for the first time? Let me know I&#8217;m not alone in the comments below!<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2022\/03\/16\/im-playing-grand-theft-auto-v-for-the-first-time-and-it-lives-up-to-the-hype\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platform: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC Publisher: Rockstar Games Developer: Rockstar North Release: September 17, 2013 (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360), November 18, 2014 (PlayStation 4, Xbox One), April 14, 2015 (PC), March 15, 2022 (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X\/S) Rating: Mature You know how every time a new story about Grand Theft Auto V\u2019s massive sales numbers somehow increase again \u2013 it recently surpassed 160 million copies sold \u2013 somebody makes the joke, \u201cWho the hell hasn\u2019t played this game yet?\u201d Yeah\u2026It\u2019s me. I\u2019m the person who hasn\u2019t played the game yet, or at least, I was until Monday. Now, roughly 10 hours into Grand Theft Auto V: Expanded and Enhanced, I feel like a fool.\u00a0 Grand Theft Auto&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/im-playing-grand-theft-auto-v-for-the-first-time-and-it-lives-up-to-the-hype\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":535301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-informer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I\u2019m Playing Grand Theft Auto V For The First Time And It Lives Up To The Hype | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Platform: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, 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