Grand Theft Auto V Legacy

Intense overall intensity
Highest flag: Crime & lawlessness — rewarded for crime against innocents
Modern/RealisticSandboxShooter
🏆 The Game Awards 2013 — Game of the Year

What's in it

Language slurs/hate speech
High

Strong profanity including frequent 'fuck' and explicit sexual language runs throughout the scripted dialogue.

Violence graphic & gore
High

Realistic gunfire, melee and explosives against human enemies with blood spray and lingering corpses; high-caliber weapons and blasts can tear bodies apart.

Nudity full
High

Topless dancers are shown directly in strip clubs, and full-frontal nudity appears on some characters in the world.

Substances player uses or trades
High

The player character drinks alcohol, smokes cannabis, and story missions involve manufacturing and trafficking drugs.

Dark themes graphic
High

The plot depicts murder, kidnapping, a graphic torture sequence and other cruelty carried out and witnessed on screen.

Crime & lawlessness rewarded for crime against innocents
High

The core loop is criminal — armed robbery, carjacking and killing — and the open world rewards attacking unarmed civilians and police.

Spending real-money purchases
High

Real-money Shark Cards buy in-game currency that can be spent on weapons, vehicles and property that affect online play.

Torture player commits it
High

In one mission the player directly performs torture on a restrained captive, including electrocution, waterboarding and pulling a tooth.

Prostitution / sex work player can engage
High

The player can solicit street sex workers as an optional world interaction.

Sexual content strong
High

Solicited sex is shown as clothed simulation with movement and moaning inside a car, and strip-club dances place the camera on performers.

Spending pressure pay-to-win or energy gating
High

Online progression is grind-heavy with rotating limited-time offers, and paid currency lets players skip the grind for competitive gear.

Gambling simulated gambling
Moderate

The online casino offers blackjack, slots and roulette played with in-game chips that cannot be cashed out.

Animal combat combat mechanic
Low

Wildlife can be hunted and animals can be killed with weapons or vehicles as ordinary play.

Mutilation / body horror referenced
Low

Explosive and high-powered weapon deaths can dismember bodies, and the torture scene shows a tooth being extracted on screen.

Who can reach your kid

Voice chatChat with strangersDirect messagesUser-created contentStranger friend requestsReal-money spending

What it is

Grand Theft Auto V is a large open-world action game set in a satirical version of Southern California, where the player follows three criminal protagonists through a story built around planning and pulling off heists. Play moves freely between driving, gunfights, and roaming a detailed city and countryside on foot or by vehicle. It contains sustained realistic violence with blood, frequent strong profanity and crude dialogue, drug and alcohol use, strip clubs with nudity and implied paid sex, and a story mission in which the player carries out torture. An online mode connects up to 30 players with open voice and text chat, real-money currency purchases, and casino-style gambling with in-game chips.

How it's framed

The game frames crime as its central activity and treats it with dark comedy and satire, sending up wealth, media and law enforcement while letting the player rob, kill and evade police with only a temporary in-fiction police response as pushback; consequences are dramatic within the story but the world does not present the player's actions as wrong.

Details

Developer
Rockstar North
Publisher
Rockstar Games
Released
Apr 13, 2015
Metacritic 96critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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