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Get Marathon and 7 More Steam Games for $25 in Humble's New Sci-Fi Exposure Bundle Humble Bundle fejrer sit 15-års jubilæum med en Sci-Fi Exposure Bundle, der samler otte pc-spil til Steam for mindst 25 dollar. Pakken indeholder blandt andet Bungies Marathon, tre Crysis Remastered-spil, RoboCop: Rogue City - Collection samt Ghostrunner og Ghostrunner 2. Tilbuddet kan købes i omkring 20 dage, og en del af betalingen kan doneres til velgørenhed.

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'I Feel Incredibly Awkward but Truly Honored' — Nintendo Legend Shigeru Miyamoto Is the First Game Developer to Receive Japan's Order of Culture Nintendo-designeren Shigeru Miyamoto modtager Japans Order of Culture ved en ceremoni den 3. november. Han bliver den første spiludvikler, der får den prestigefyldte hæder, som gives for fremragende bidrag til landets kultur. Miyamoto har spillet en central rolle i udviklingen af Mario, The Legend of Zelda og Star Fox og har arbejdet hos Nintendo siden 1977.

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Planned Mass Effect Content Disappears from Battlefield 6 Store After BioWare Shutdown EA ser ud til stille at have fjernet planlagt Mass Effect-indhold fra Battlefield 6, efter at BioWare blev lukket og Mass Effect 5 angiveligt blev aflyst. Indholdet omfattede blandt andet N7-mærkede genstande, våben og en Normandy-inspireret våbenpynt. Fjernelsen kommer kort før N7 Day og har vakt yderligere utilfredshed blandt fans af den populære science fiction-serie.

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More Than 50,000 Mass Effect Fans Have Flocked to a Petition to Try and Save the Franchise Following BioWare's Closure En fanpetition for at redde Mass Effect har rundet 52.000 underskrifter, få dage efter at EA lukkede BioWare og aflyste det kommende Mass Effect-spil. Initiativet opfordrer EA til enten at lade et andet studie fortsætte udviklingen eller licensere serien videre. Det vurderes dog som usandsynligt, at petitionen alene får selskabet til at ændre beslutningen.

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Marvel's Blade Is Reportedly Still in Development at Arkane Lyon Despite Xbox Closure Threat Arkane Lyon kan blive lukket i november, hvis Microsoft ikke finder en køber til studiet, der beskæftiger 217 medarbejdere. Fagforeningen forsøger at forlænge forhandlingerne om en overtagelse og en plan for de berørte ansatte. Studiets lukning kan også bringe udviklingen af Marvel's Blade i fare, selv om spillet fortsat er under udvikling.

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Apple Music Has a Hidden iPod You Can Play With Apple har gemt et interaktivt påskeæg i webversionen af Apple Music. Ved at åbne en ikke-eksisterende side vises en fungerende førstegenerations-iPod, hvor man kan afspille korte musikeksempler. I iPod’ens indstillinger findes endnu et påskeæg, nemlig det klassiske spil Breakout. Funktionen kan kun opleves i en webbrowser og markerer 25-året for den oprindelige iPod.

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Grand Theft Auto V – The Legacy Review IGN ser tilbage på Grand Theft Auto V som led i en gennemgang af seriens centrale spil før udgivelsen af Grand Theft Auto 6. Artiklen fremhæver spillets langvarige succes, det detaljerede og varierede San Andreas-kort samt systemet med tre spilbare hovedpersoner. GTA V beskrives som et spil, der fortsat imponerer 13 år efter lanceringen og har sat standarden for moderne open world-actionspil.

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'They Should Be Given Federal Support' — Canadian Politician Wants the Government to Bail Out Mass Effect Developer BioWare Canadas oppositionsleder Avi Lewis opfordrer regeringen til at hjælpe BioWare-udviklerne med at købe og drive studiet videre efter Electronic Arts’ lukning af afdelingen i Edmonton. Omstruktureringen har ifølge rapporter kostet omkring 400 arbejdspladser og sat udviklingen af nye Mass Effect- og Dragon Age-projekter under pres. Lewis kritiserer samtidig private equity-ejerskabets fokus på kortsigtet profit.

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PlayStation Discounts Select PS5 Bundles Ahead of Black Friday — Save Up to $155 on a Refurbished Console and Two DualSense Controllers Before GTA 6 PlayStation giver 40 dollar rabat ved køb af en certificeret istandsat PS5-konsol og en recertificeret DualSense-controller i samme ordre. Tilbuddet starter ved 518 dollar for Digital Edition og 568 dollar for modellen med diskdrev, med rabatten trukket automatisk ved betaling. Kampagnen kommer før Black Friday og GTA 6, der ifølge artiklen udkommer 19. november 2026.

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'This Was Entirely Predictable' — BioWare's Future Was in Jeopardy Well before EA's $55 Billion Acquisition, Analysts Say BioWare er lukket som led i EAs omfattende omstrukturering, der også medfører aflysninger og omkring 400 tabte arbejdspladser. Spilbrancheanalytikere vurderer, at studiets fremtid blev svækket af høje udviklingsomkostninger, skuffende salg og EAs store gældsbyrde efter opkøbet. De tvivler samtidig på, at Mass Effect- og Dragon Age-rettighederne bliver solgt videre, fordi projekterne er dyre og langsigtede.

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'Who Is Here After Watching the Leaked Mass Effect Universe Trailer?' — the Exodus Devs Picked a Hell of a Time to Reveal Their Redesigned Male Protagonist Archetype Entertainment har vist en opdateret udgave af den mandlige hovedperson Jun Aslan i det kommende science fiction-rollespil Exodus. Ansigtet er redesignet efter kritik fra fans, som nu generelt virker mere tilfredse. Afsløringen kommer kort efter, at EA har lukket BioWare og aflyst Mass Effect 5, hvilket har øget opmærksomheden på Exodus som en mulig åndelig efterfølger. Spillet udkommer 7. april 2027.

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'Our End Goal Is That Every Match Is a Good Match' — Infinity Ward Weighs in on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Matchmaking Infinity Wards multiplayerchef, Joe Cecot, siger, at målet med matchmaking i Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 er at skabe gode kampe, men han giver ingen konkrete detaljer om systemet. Spillet er lanceret uden en tydeligt angivet åben matchmaking-kø, som ellers fandtes som valgmulighed i Black Ops 7. Det har genoplivet debatten om skill-based matchmaking blandt spillerne.

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Breaking Down the Future of Disney Lorcana TCG with Co-Founder Ryan Miller Disney Lorcana får nye kortsæt, mekanikker og samlerprodukter, mens Ravensburger løfter sløret for spillets planer ved D23. Hyperia City er lanceret med figurer fra blandt andet Coco og en ny ressource kaldet Ink Drops. I 2027 kommer sættene Into the Inkdark og Cosmic Quest, ligesom en digital version af spillet er under udvikling.

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Cyberpunk 2077 2.5 Update Secretly Added The Witcher 3 Sword and Cosmetics Cyberpunk 2077-opdatering 2.5 indeholder flere The Witcher 3-inspirerede genstande, som ikke fremgår af de officielle patchnoter. Spillere kan blandt andet finde Sihil-sværdet, Boar Carver-kniven, Professorens briller samt jakke og bukser fra Ursine-skolen. Genstandene bliver tilgængelige i V’s lejlighed efter en besked om en gave.

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The Battlestar Galactica Board Game Is Making a Surprise Comeback Next Year Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game vender tilbage i en ny udgave, efter at Ghost Galaxy har indgået en aftale med Universal og Fantasy Flight Games. Den opdaterede version af det populære spil fra 2008 lanceres via crowdfunding tidligt næste år. Detaljerne er endnu få, men Christian T. Peterson, tidligere chef for Fantasy Flight Games, står i spidsen for projektet.

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Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember Preview: Killing Giant Spider Things, Wuxia-Style, and It Feels So Good IGN har prøvespillet Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember, som kombinerer Team Ninjas hurtige actionkamp med strategiske elementer fra Three Kingdoms-universet. Spillet foregår på en dæmonisk ø og lægger vægt på aggressiv kamp, parader og en Spirit-måler uden stamina-begrænsning. Previewet fremhæver også de 18 våbentyper, magiske angreb og spillets detaljerede visuelle udtryk.

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'A Foot-in-the-Door Technique' — Half of Cyberpunk 2's Quest Team are Former Modders, Game's Associate Director Says Omkring halvdelen af quest-teamet på Cyberpunk 2 består ifølge associate game director Pawel Sasko af tidligere moddere. CD Projekt Red har aktivt rekrutteret fra moddingmiljøet og fremhæver fællesskabets betydning for Cyberpunk 2077’s fortsatte liv. Udmeldingen blev gentaget under en REDstream, hvor studiet også talte om nye opdateringer og udvidet platformsunderstøttelse.

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Amazon Slashes Magic: The Gathering Booster Boxes Ahead of Black Friday, Discounting Unreleased Star Trek and Marvel Crossover Sets To New Low Prices Amazon har sat prisen ned på flere Play Booster-bokse til Magic: The Gathering forud for Black Friday. Tilbuddene omfatter blandt andet kommende Star Trek-sæt samt kortserier baseret på Marvel, The Hobbit og Avatar: The Last Airbender. Artiklen understreger, at Play Boosters er billigere end Collector Boosters, som typisk indeholder de mest værdifulde kort.

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'More to Come' — Saber Interactive CEO Says Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival is 'First in a Series' of Releases from the Studio Saber Interactive-topchef Matthew Karch siger, at Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival klarer sig ekstremt godt på pc og konsoller efter udgivelsen 8. oktober. Han fremhæver spillet som et eksempel på, at mindre, etablerede IP-baserede AA-produktioner kan give stærke resultater med lavere risiko end meget dyre AAA-spil. Karch varsler samtidig flere udgivelser, der skal følge samme model.

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‘Now You’re Pushing It’ — Debra Wilson Drew the Line at the Wolverine Devs Scanning Her Tattoos Into the Game Skuespilleren Debra Wilson fortæller, at hun er blevet træt af, at hendes ansigt gentagne gange bruges i videospil. I det kommende Marvel’s Wolverine ville udviklerne også scanne hendes originale tatoveringer, hvilket fik hende til at sige fra. Wilson understreger dog, at hun ikke ønsker at begrænse kunstnernes kreative frihed, og at brugen af hendes lighed kan fungere i spil som Death Stranding 2.

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Half-Life 3's Rumored Codename Accidentally Mentioned by Valve Developer En Valve-udvikler nævnte ved en fejl kodenavnet HLX under en konference om lyd i computerspil. HLX har i flere år været sat i forbindelse med det rygtede Half-Life 3, men omtalen bekræfter ikke, at projektet faktisk er det næste spil i serien. Episoden tyder dog på, at HLX fortsat er under aktiv udvikling hos Valve.

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GTA 6 Is Almost Here: Trade in Your Old Console and Save on an Upgrade at PayMore Grand Theft Auto 6 udkommer ifølge artiklen den 19. november 2026 til PlayStation 5 og Xbox Series X|S, men ikke til PlayStation 4 eller Xbox One. PayMore tilbyder frem til 20. november et ekstra gavekort på 10 dollar ved indbytning af en gammel konsol i deltagende amerikanske butikker. Artiklen beskriver samtidig spillets tilbagevenden til Vice City og de to hovedpersoner Jason og Lucia.

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Amazon Is Selling Magic: The Gathering's Rare Foundations Commander Decks for MSRP — but Only if You Buy the Complete Five Deck Bundle Amazon har igen Foundations Commander-decks fra Magic: The Gathering på lager til den vejledende pris, men kun som en samlet pakke med alle fem mono-farvede decks. Pakken koster 149,95 dollar, mens enkelte decks fortsat kan være markant dyrere hos forhandlere. Især Tramplesaurus Rex sælges til overpris, som artiklen fraråder at betale.

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World of Warcraft: Forever Breathes New Life Into an Iconic Classic - IGN Blizzard lancerer World of Warcraft: Forever den 4. november som en nyfortolkning af det klassiske MMORPG. Spillet bevarer blandt andet niveaugrænsen på 60 og den langsommere progression, men tilføjer over 1.000 quests, nye områder, en spilbar race, klasser, dungeons og raids. Et nyt Legacy-system giver kontobaserede belønninger, mens grafik, lys og andre visuelle effekter er blevet opdateret.

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Mass Effect 5 Trailer Leaks Online With 'Mass Effect: Universe' Title, Reveals Returning Characters and Much More En intern trailer fra det aflyste Mass Effect 5 er lækket online under titlen “Mass Effect: Universe”. Optagelserne viser blandt andet rumrejser, en galaksekortfunktion, velkendte arter og en ældre Liara T’Soni. BioWare arbejdede på spillet frem til EA’s beslutning om at lukke studiet og standse udviklingen, angiveligt efter flere års produktion.

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Grand Theft Auto V – The Legacy Review

IGN ser tilbage på Grand Theft Auto V som led i en gennemgang af seriens centrale spil før udgivelsen af Grand Theft Auto 6. Artiklen fremhæver spillets langvarige succes, det detaljerede og varierede San Andreas-kort samt systemet med tre spilbare hovedpersoner. GTA V beskrives som et spil, der fortsat imponerer 13 år efter lanceringen og har sat standarden for moderne open world-actionspil.

Fra IGN

I’m taking a look back at each of the core Grand Theft Auto games and replaying them in the lead-up to the arrival of Grand Theft Auto 6. What we’ll be putting together won’t be traditional re-reviews, and they won’t come with any new IGN score, but they will re-examine what made each GTA remarkable upon the time of its release. By the end of the project, using GTA’s previously six-star wanted level, you should be able to get an idea of where each of these games roughly rank in my long-term love for this series.

Our last stop in this series is Grand Theft Auto V: a game so nice, they released it thrice.

13 years. Three console generations. 230 million copies. Over $10 billion in revenue. The numbers that tell the story of Grand Theft Auto V’s longevity and success are wildly impressive and virtually unprecedented. The only other games even in the conversation are Minecraft or, depending on your criteria, about 200 different versions of Tetris. The numbers, however, don’t tell us why GTA V still sells more copies every few months than most games will ever total. They don’t tell us why people can’t get enough of it, and they don’t tell us why it’s special. So how did we get here? I guess it was the weather.

While GTA IV’s Liberty City sandbox was a dense, modestly-sized, and entirely urban environment, GTA V’s vision of the city of Los Santos was considerably more sprawling and varied. Yes, it retained a grid-like downtown district packed with tall buildings and a few particularly sizable skyscrapers, but Los Santos otherwise has a wholly different identity to that of Liberty City – and the map encompasses an area way beyond Los Santos itself.

The aesthetic shift is stark. Weather depending, the beating San Andreas sunshine gives vehicles a dazzling gleam, casts crisp shadows, and saturates the whole place with a sharp, sun-bleached vibe. It’s not the stylised orange tint that illustrated the oppressive heat of 1992 Los Santos in GTA: San Andreas, but it’s bright, effective, and a striking visual departure from the cold, drab, and gritty appearance of Liberty City.

It’s also such a different place to explore. The town is splintered into dozens of distinct districts that seamlessly blend from one to the next – from the affluent mansions of Vinewood Hills and Richman to the spectacle of Vinewood itself, glowing under a thin layer of grime and entertainment industry sleaze, and from the sun-kissed sand and beach bum backalleys of ageing Vespucci to the graffiti-tagged and struggling suburbs of South Los Santos.

Outside Los Santos, the countryside opens up to include desert, forest, mountains, and a handful of other small towns dotted around the map. It’s essentially a greatly expanded vision of the southern segment of GTA: San Andreas’ map – the section that features Los Santos, Mount Chiliad, and its immediate surroundings. It’s actually more than twice the size of GTA: San Andreas in its entirety, even if it doesn’t always feel that way, considering you can’t travel beyond the fringe of the county to find a fully-fledged San Fierro or Las Venturas. However, that’s more of a statement about how utterly special GTA: San Andreas’ map really is, rather than an indictment of GTA V in any real way.

GTA V’s map remains a stunning achievement.

That is, GTA V’s map remains a stunning achievement. It’s a world that – even after 13 years – I’m still spotting signs, storefronts, and subtleties that I don’t think I’ve overtly noticed before. Like all the best developers, Rockstar understands that true immersion emerges through accumulation: a single graffiti-tagged wall, bill-covered pole, or interesting piece of architecture might not be hugely remarkable on its own, but combined they become something else altogether. Funnily enough, a world full of thousands of such details can make an entire city so realistic you essentially stop noticing it. It’s almost counterintuitive; things don’t stand out, because they look so authentic, lived-in, and normal.

Streiht Up Menace

The smartest way Rockstar exploits this densely detailed map is through GTA V’s defining innovation: its trio of protagonists. You swap between Michael De Santa, a retired criminal becoming increasingly agitated at his otherwise comfortable suburban life; Franklin Clinton, an aspiring, small-time hustler looking for a real payday to get him out of his rundown neighbourhood; and Trevor Philips, a wildly volatile Canadian psychopath who was formerly partners with Michael.

The system is much more than a novelty. Switching between them allows Rockstar to prod us into different parts of the world to explore, without relying on a single character to experience everything. For a map this large, it makes a lot of sense.

For clarity, following the release of its single-player expansions The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, GTA IV also ultimately featured three protagonists – and three different lenses through which we could view and interact with Liberty City. Similarly, it was a really smart way of squeezing more value out of the map, and drilling down on parts of it Niko Bellic’s story never really took him to. But while you could certainly regard this as a first draft of a multi-protagonist approach, you can’t switch between them in real time in GTA IV; you have to pause and load into the expansions separately.

In GTA V, the transition between characters is far, far more rapid, and occurs after just a brief zoom out and back in again, dropping you into Michael, Franklin, or Trevor’s life in the middle of whatever they happen to be doing at the time – which may well be dropping a man off a bridge. The transitions give the illusion that these guys continue to exist beyond the missions in which they appear.

Do It (’Til You’re Satisfied)

GTA V’s missions are typically far more varied and layered than those in GTA IV. After experimenting with it in The Ballad of Gay Tony, GTA V introduced mission checkpoints and finally shed what had arguably become the most frustrating characteristic of the series – the need to completely start from scratch after failing a mission.

This is what allows GTA V’s missions to be longer and regularly more wild than ever. With checkpoints as a safety net, Rockstar could really push the boat out with what it asked us to attempt – free from the sometimes debilitating concern that messing up at the last minute will result in a long drive and a lot of backtracking over things we’ve already done.

Of course, the highlight here is the focus on multilayed heists, taking the fan-favourite Three Leaf Clover bank robbery mission from GTA IV and blowing that concept out to make it the central pillar of GTA V’s campaign. There are multiple big scores that can be tackled in overtly different ways, something made easy to experiment with thanks to the ability to easily replay missions from a list of those you’ve previously completed. With the exception of The Ballad of Gay Tony, in past GTA games, the only way to play the missions again was to start over from the beginning.

GTA V builds elaborate on ramps to these heists focused on planning and preparation which typically draw on the different skills and traits of Michael, Franklin, and Trevor.

The heists are where the three-character structure becomes most effective. We’re not just passengers on these huge marquee missions; rather, GTA V builds elaborate on ramps to these heists focused on planning and preparation which typically draw on the different skills and traits of Michael, Franklin, and Trevor. It gives the heists, and the campaign as a whole, a sense of scale and variety that would’ve been difficult to achieve through a single character.

Higher Love

Beyond the multiple protagonists and the escalation in mission variety, GTA V also made major changes to the car handling and significant refinements to the shooting. Vehicles are certainly more approachable to drive in GTA V than they are in GTA IV; they brake hard and respond sharply to steering input. The result isn’t superficial or overly light, but it does feel very grippy. It’s a handling model that I think is particularly suited to sure-footed sports cars, although I have to concede a part of me prefers the way older vehicles feel with the “slidey cars” cheat on. It’s just more drift-friendly.

In terms of vehicle variety, however, GTA V is very much a welcome shift back to the broad spectrum available in GTA: San Andreas after things were scaled back significantly in GTA IV. As a result, one minute you could be fanging an 18-wheeler down the freeway, and the next kicking tyres and lighting fires in a fighter jet. GTA V dialled things up rather than back, so go ahead: land that jumbo on the beach and escape via a jet ski. Why the hell not?

Combat was polished too, with more nimble movement and more dependable cover shooting. The highlight for me is the sound of firefights, as guns bark and bullets thunk into car panels. It’s brilliant stuff. The integration of the weapon wheel, which functions similarly to Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne 3, also means you can carry way more hardware – as well as multiple weapons within a single class. The weapon wheel stores all of the weapons you collect and you’ll never lose them, even if they run out of ammo or you get busted.

Party All The Time

When GTA V launched on Xbox 360 and PS3 in September 2013, both of those consoles were approaching the end of their lifespans. With the Xbox One and PS4 arriving in November that same year, you could probably make a strong case that GTA V felt like the last great statement of that generation. Many people did. However, I think there’s more to it than that.

A couple of weeks before its September 17 release, I was fortunate enough to conduct the world’s first hands-on with GTA V for IGN. Revisiting and playing it again so extensively this week has very effectively taken me back to how blown away I was in that moment. I was stunned by what I was playing, and utterly convinced GTA V was outright good enough to upstage both Microsoft and Sony’s new consoles. In fact, I wrote never mind November; the next generation will start when Rockstar says it does. In 2013, that was a comment reflective of just how ahead of its time I believed GTA V was; that it was simply streets ahead of its peers, squeezing next-generation scope and ambition out of a console that first launched in 2005. Simply put, it felt like a new benchmark for an era that hadn’t even officially arrived yet. On September 3, 2013 – two weeks before GTA V came out – maybe that’s a bold claim. But with new and improved versions of GTA V going on to loom large over the generation to follow, and then doing it all over again for the generation after that – all to the tune of 230 million copies – I don’t think it was ever an exaggeration.

Verdict

Grand Theft Auto V was a game so preposterously future-proof upon its 2013 launch on Xbox 360 and PS3 that its subsequent ports to modern machines remain the benchmark for open-world action-driving games. At the conclusion of this GTA Legacy Review project I find myself too emotionally attached to the PS2 pair of Vice City and San Andreas to push past my adoration for the style and soundtracks of those period piece classics and place anything above them but, make no mistake, there are very few games I’ve played more than GTA V. Combining an enormous and extraordinarily detailed world, three compelling protagonists, a thrilling set of varied missions and heists, and the foundation for a world of multiplayer that is simply a whole separate discussion, GTA V is the peak of the series. At least for the next few weeks, that is.