As a series of single-version games, GTA5 launched Console, in 2013 and PC in 2015. Up to now, the cumulative sales have exceeded 130 million copies, and the cumulative sales revenue has exceeded 10 billion US dollars!
This awesome sales figure has reached hundreds of times that of countless top successful products!
Set a crazy record unparalleled in the whole history of AAA games!
Only “Minecraft” and “Tetris” have sold more than it in the whole history of video games.
GTA5 is an open world action adventure game published by Rockstar Games around the theme of crime.
Grand Theft Auto, is an American legal term, meaning major car theft, which also establishes the theme style of the GTA series.
The game story takes place in the fictional city of Los Santos, where players can play three protagonists and switch at any time. Each protagonist has his own unique personality and story background, as well as an intertwined plot, and the game has a variety of endings.
In the game, there are not only elements such as action adventure, driving and third-person shooting, but also role-playing, sneaking and racing, and players are free to decide when and how the task will be carried out.
GTA5 is a classic milestone in open world games, and it is only after GTA5 that the whole open world concepts and games begin to become more and more popular.
Although it and “The Elder Scroll” have the core features of open world games, their emphasis is slightly different, and GTA is famous for its high degree of freedom and richness.
Let’s analyze it in detail:
A real and detailed world.
The first thing worth talking about is GTA5’s “world building”, which creates a super real and detailed world.
The world Los Santos in the GTA5 game is based on Los Angeles and southern California in the real world, the game has almost the same worldview as the real world, players can shuttle through the busy cities on the west coast of the United States, get close to the elite, civilians and underworld, street culture and various racial issues, and experience the most real America.
Los Santos, the city in the game, covers an area of 126.9 square kilometers, although it is not the largest open world game map, but R Star has almost restored a “real” city through massive production details, and every inch of land is covered with content and details. finally, quantitative change leads to qualitative change, this kind of real experience is that many players have never seen before, how real is it?
First of all, there are real physics engines and various realistic features. Let me give you a few examples.
Swimming will wet your clothes, and you will also get wet when you run and sweat.
Pressing the space bar while driving is a handbrake. If the protagonist is on the phone, it is useless to press the space bar. You must hang up the phone to pull the handbrake.
GPS and radio stations lose signal when driving through tunnels or remote areas.
The car glass has a sound insulation effect, and the sound heard after breaking the car glass is different.
The moon has cloudy and sunny changes, which will change the brightness of the moonlight at night in the game.
Shooting at the fuel tank of the car can break the fuel tank and make the car leak oil, which can be ignited.
Where the current is strong, people will be swept away, and when swimming, the waves on the sea will lift you up.
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The second is the powerful NPC realistic AI, in the game, such as:
If you cut in line in the public toilet by the side of the road, the NPC in the queue will run angrily.
Call a NPC and call back immediately, and the NPC will complain, “didn’t I just get off the phone with you?”
You can rob a store in the game, but if the player keeps robbing the same store, the clerk will remember the player and ambush with the police, and the next time the player tries to rob, he will encounter the police.
When waiting for a red light at the intersection, if there is a car in front of you, you can honk your horn to urge them. Different NPC reactions are also different. Some ignore you at all, some give you the middle finger in the car, some get out of the car to scold you, some are too timid to run the red light directly, of course, some are ruthless, and they will directly get out of the car and get a gun and shoot you.
The criminal NPC in the game was found by the police NPC, grabbed a car and escaped, the police car followed the chase, the fugitive’s vehicle was shot, the fugitive got out of the car and had a shootout with the police, and the nearby passers-by NPC dodged one after another, some of the NPC even abandoned the car directly, and the criminal was shot dead by the police. The nearby passer-by NPC will slowly gather around to watch the hustle and bustle, applaud the police, and even take out his cell phone to take photos and share it with Facebook.
Then the ambulance will come and pick up the body, and the transportation department will clear the barricades and tow the vehicles away.
The whole process is NPC’s own behavior.
Amazing, huh?
Finally, there are a large number of environmental background elements and details in the game:
For example, birds in the sky can be shot down with guns, and these birds may also be swept into the engine by airplanes; the TV in the game can really be watched, and there are different TV programs, which are complete programs rather than a few clips. There are even a series of programs; the cinema is really showing movies, and so on.
There are more details. I won’t list them one by one.
It can be said that GTA5’s investment and ability to create a virtual world is unparalleled, even today, seven or eight years later, no company in the world can match it except for R Star’s own new ones, the Red Dead Redemption 2.
2.The “free” play that transcends reality.
But is a real Los Santos fun?
If it is really just to restore the experience of a city, isn’t that our real life?
What can players do in it?
This is the second killer mace of GTA5 — to satisfy our fantasy of transcending the real world, the playful content in reality should be strengthened, and the uninteresting content should be deleted.
The theme of the GTA series is exactly in line with this demand.
The GTA game is a city that transcends reality with criminal themes such as violence, money, gambling, drugs, sex and so on.
As Dr. Ford said in the TV series Westworld: “they already know who they are, and they want to know who else they can be.”
This is the core experience that GTA brings to players, and it is also the most attractive core experience that an open world game should bring to players.
So how does GTA5 do it?
Of course, it depends on a variety of ways to make players feel free to play.
Let’s give some simple examples of how to play:
How to play with the vehicle.
There are more than 300 kinds of vehicles in the game, including bicycles, motorcycles, cars, buses, trucks, engineering vehicles, ambulances, armored vehicles, tanks, fighters, airships, parachutes, submarines.
Basically, there are all kinds of vehicles that we all know in real life, and all of them can be driven.
The way to fight.
You can rob, steal a car, kidnap, rob a bank, jailbreak, assassinate, blow up, walk a policeman, or even fight Russia, fight artificial intelligence, stop a nuclear bomb and save the world.
More than 50 weapons are provided in the game, from axes to Gatling machine guns and bazookas.
Because of the physical characteristics of the game, there are various physical ways of fighting games, such as driving a car to hit people, heavy objects hitting people, and so on, you can also induce NPC to fight each other.
Financial gameplay. More like a simulated business game, you can change the trend of commercial companies through your own behavior, and you can also invest in shops, from starting from scratch to building a business empire, or even until you buy the whole Los Santos.
Adventure collection and play.
You can go hunting in the wild, or you can explore and discover hidden clues to unravel the mysteries of UFO and aliens.
Players can play such a plot in the game: prepare to go out to the clothing store to buy a piece of clothes, accidentally knocked down a pedestrian on the road, can not stand the pedestrian’s provocation, shot him dead, and then the police came to catch the player. players casually grab a car on the road and run away, shooting at each other with the police all the way, causing traffic jams and a series of accidents. After causing traffic jams and a series of accidents, the police dispatched helicopters to catch the players.
The player fled directly to the military base, robbed a tank and confronted the police, killed all the police, grabbed a plane and flew into the sky, and then suddenly remembered, “what am I going to do today?” and then parachuted out of the plane.
I believe that GTA players will have a similar experience.
Players do not receive any tasks preset by the system, and everyone has their own different stories to tell.
This kind of experience is to live in a virtual world and live what your life should be like.
If “The Elder Scrolls” is equivalent to several complete linear processes of RPG, then GTA5 is equivalent to a collection of more than a dozen games.
In building a “real” virtual world and a high-freedom experience, GTA not only surpasses the “The Elder Scrolls”, but also achieves the extreme of the current era. It deserves to become the benchmark of the open world, and no one can surpass it all the time.
Until 2017, there is a new competitor born, recognized by the world as an open world game set a new benchmark, that is “Breath of the Wild”.