Tell me, a game called “Life Simulator” ever flashed in your dreams? No, we are not talking about glamorous Sims or some epic RPG like Skyrim with cardboard residents. No, did you dream of a game that would be a copy of real life with all its capabilities and freedoms? Where you can wake up, watch a couple of minutes TV, then put on a suit and go to work, then go to the bar, skip one at one and complete the day in the company of some beauty. And tomorrow everything will turn completely different.
Surely yes. Only all dreams immediately broke up about the realities and possibilities of modern technology. What does it have to do with it GTA? The fact is that Rockstar, Leaving the concept of the series throughout its history unchanged, it developed a project in the direction that we have now talked about, expanding the list of actions available to the player. GTA5 – something much more than a car liner simulator in an open city.
On the other side of the screen
“But all this was already in the previous parts of the series! What is new here?» – exclaim you. We, having analyzed the question with the left hemisphere of the brain, confidently nod: indeed, nothing. But then, having knocked down the right half, we will object: everything. Paradoxical, but fact: remaining as a whole copy of the previous part, GTA5 passes and perceived in a completely new way. The point here is not even that the number of main characters has increased three times, and they turned into superinteroractive guys who were able to play tennis, meditate, drink whiskey and stroke the stripper chest. Details – secondary business. But their connection is the same magic that gives the game a unique flavor and distinguishes the usual entertainment from the project with a capital letter.
GTA5 – a fundamental continuation of the series, which is a perfect example of joint creative work of designers, screenwriters and programmers. Obviously, the task of the authors was to transfer the user on the other side of the screen where the player is so accustomed to the role of the character that he does not distinguish himself from him. And if we look closely, we will see that the changes at all levels of the gameplay that appeared in the new part work for this purpose.
Two in the boat, not counting Trevora
The plot presentation in GTA5 radically different from everything that was before. Before us
is more than one hero with a muddy past, the knowledge or ignorance of which will not prevent us from unhindered to understand the events. This time, the performance of three actors is played on the stage, the fate of which is closely intertwined. We are told a story deeply personal for each character, whose content goes far beyond the scope of the action that unfolds on the screen. During the passage, we not only strive to see what will happen next, but also learn the facts from the biographies of heroes.
So, Franklin, Michael and Trevor. Young dark -skinned guy;the robber and loser-seven-seven;Fixed crazy with mania greatness. Before our heroes meet and take up what they can do best, a small introduction will smoothly introduce us to each of the characters, allowing us to get more deeply in the role. Immediately notice the amazing cinematography and realism of even the most ordinary conversations. The game of actors, dialogs are full of jokes, truthful characters – all this fascinates with its natural effect. Heroes do not at all strive to resolve the problems of mankind;Each of them is concerned about minor difficulties. Franklin is trying to get out of the ghetto, Michael has problems with his family, Trevor dreams of the laurels of a businessman and a smuggler. All this personal problem is very captivating.
The plot swings slowly, allowing you to see every moment in Los Santos. At first, the tasks surprise their innocence and diversity: to ride on bicycles with Michael’s son, sit in a difficult pose during a yoga session. Some quests demonstrate completely unexpected scenes. So, once Franklin, earned as a paparazzi, caught a secular lady, occupied by obscenities with some guy. Before the distraught girl rushes for compromising, we will be shown in detail all the sexual intercourse and an idyllic dialogue accompanying him ..
At all, Rockstar It remains true to its own traditions and brazenly spits on censorship and ratings: the ubiquitous non -normative vocabulary, genitals (male as), cruelty in all its manifestations. We are not moralists and look at any phenomena that are not welcomed in games as a necessity dictated by the requirements of the setting. However, sometimes it seems that the developers still went too far. This is especially true of the episode in which we are forced to torture in the role of alarm in the role of an innocent person. We will not reproach the authors once again – in any case, there will definitely be painful comrades with an aggravated perception of reality, who will propose the world public to arrange an extraordinary court of Lynch.
Together even at a distance
The trinity of the main characters sets the backbone of game mechanics. Each of the heroes lives its own life, has its own house, its own list of acquaintances and quests, which are available only to him. At any moment we can switch from one character to another. The camera soars into the sky, is transferred to the other section of the map and lands on the hero’s head, landing it by surprise: Franklin, pulling himself up on horizons, alarm, lying drunk on the street, or Michael, dormant behind the wheel.
The procedure looks somewhat different during the completion of plot tasks. Free switching is also preserved in them, but sometimes to maintain cinematography and entertainment the game itself will “transfer” us behind the backs of the heroes in the most “piquant” position. The missions are set simply amazing, the level of dynamics and variety here is on top. What are at least large -scale robberies! Before you go on a task, we will have to do careful preparation, choosing a team for ourselves and choosing a work methodology.
For example, you can clean the store with jewelry in two ways – quiet and loud. In the first case, we must strew visitors and staff by letting the gas through ventilation. In the second, we act in the old fashioned way: boldly burst inside with a shotgun and ask the audience to tolerate our presence in the position “face to the floor”. In addition, before the main task, several preparatory missions will have to be completed, having made a lulling gas, transport for retreat, masks for conspiracy, and so on.
The characters have their own skills and parameters like endurance, accuracy, and the ability to control the aircraft. There is a secretive regime in which the hero can sound silently behind the backs of enemies. In addition, each protagonist has his own talents: Michael slows down time in shootouts, Trevor falls into rage, becoming almost immortal, and Franklin turns on “Slood-Mo”, being driving. They, like other parameters of characters, can be improved. This is done with the help of frequent repetitions of one action (the more you run, the more hardy you will become), as well as the active use of material and spiritual and entertainment goods in the vastness of Los Santos.
The lights of the big city
Los Santos, of course, the largest city in the series GTA And, perhaps, one of the most thoughtful, saturated and beautiful video games throughout the history. Like its real prototype, Los Angeles, the settlement is divided into several large zones that completely differ in landscape and design. Wild areas covered with rivers and mountain massifs, suburban villages, Dauntown, looking at the world from the tops of skyscrapers … After the first walk along the street, fall in love with this world blindly and selflessly, like a child.
Never throughout the passage you will have a sensation of “copy -paste” in the form of areas. You can walk aimlessly on them for hours, slowly considering the samples of architecture, the non-casual advertising shields, graffiti on the walls … Los Santos lives, he breathes full breasts, without trying to entertain the player. Nevertheless, random events that occur at every step contain a considerable share of the charm of the city.
Passers-by chatting among themselves, somewhere there is a construction, somewhere an accident happened, and an ambulance and police come to the scene. A random counter is stolen by a bicycle, you rush to the rescue and return his property to the guy. And after a couple of days, when what happened has already left the memory, SMS comes to the phone: “Hello! Remember me? I am the guy whose bike was stolen. In fact, I am a millionaire and I want to thank you for your help “.
The city reacts to the player’s behavior-then on the local Internet they will say something about the robbery of the bank, then some unexpected letter in an electronic box will fall off. In the world GTA5 The innumerable number of Easter clinics, secrets and references to cinema, politics, sports, religion and culture is hidden. You need to spend more than a dozen hours in order to find them all.
And after the next mission, you think: where to relax before the continuation of the trip? Go play tennis? Do yoga? Or go to a strip bar, get drunk and get a harassment for you in a private room for a girl? Or maybe ride through the streets of a night city, listening to one of several dozen radio stations, or put on an aqualanga and go to study underwater kingdoms? In the end, just fucking, having typed a nickle of “popularity” from law enforcement officers? The police, by the way, became much smarter than before, and each chase looks like a full adventure.
Services and entertainment are waiting for us not only in the open spaces of “real” streets – the developers built into the project a game analogue of the Internet with a huge amount of content! You can sit on a local network for hours, looking at news feeds, as well as “tweets” of acquaintances and relatives of our heroes. Sites, advertising everything that is possible, social networks, a whole exchange on which you can earn very good money. Here, the creators muffled over all the prejudices of the information society and new -fangled social movements.
We can go to the Internet from any computer that has met on the path of a computer, as well as from a phone that each of the heroes has in stock. Periodically we get SMS, emails. At any time we can call friends or girls and agree on a meeting. No one prohibits and photograph everything around, posting pictures in a real network.
The schedule of the project leads to unhealthy thoughts: either they lied to us all the time, for some reason not allowing the potential of the consoles before, or together with GTA5 We miraculously infected our prefix with non-virus … But the fact remains: a picture in creation Rockstar is one of the best among the games of the current generation. With all unearthly beauties, the system manages to simultaneously calculate the actions of a huge number of objects in a large territory. True, in particularly dynamic and loaded moments FPS sags. But not critical – in general, everything looks more than worthy.
After the recent Saints Row 4 with its “matrix” jumps on the roofs, the prospect of driving the car and was like a small mortal no longer seduced. GTA5 put everything in its place, once again showing everyone a real quality mark. Developers from Rockstar – unconditional leaders and real geniuses in the field of the concept they created. Each new part of the series raises the bar to a new level – is it really after GTA5 Unconquered heights will still remain?
Pros: a perfectly working concept of three main characters;vivid images of the characters;staging dialogs and cat-scenes;big city;A huge number of opportunities for non -packed entertainment;high level of interactivity;Great graphics.
Cons: only for lovers to suck out of a finger.