Grand Theft Auto 5
Developer: Rockstar
Publisher: In-house
Release: TBC
There’s
been no confirmation of Rockstar’s next blockbuster for PC, but it
would be a world gone topsy-turvy if Grand Theft Auto 5 was marooned on
consoles for ever. This isn’t Red Dead Redemption, a game developed by a
studio with around three PC credits to its name – this is GTA, a series
whose every main instalment has appeared on PC. And it’s developed by
Rockstar North, a team that (even including its legacy as DMA Design)
has brought all bar seven of its games to PC. And where are the internet
petitions to port Walker over from the Amiga, I might ask?
One
of the biggest releases of 2013, GTA 5 sees the player take on the role
of three different characters trying to make a crust amid the
tinseltown glamour and sunbaked squalor of Los Santos. And it’s an
ill-gotten crust at that, given the series’ heritage of exuberant
criminality: heists, hits and high-speed chases are the order of the
day, interspersed with all the leisure activities a high-rolling hoodlum
might desire. The game’s online component, GTA Online, lets you do all
that but...online, expanding Red Dead Redemption’s brilliant multiplayer
to envelop the entirety of Los Santos.