After more than five years of hard work of the machinery of making games of Rockstar, a historical budget and a delay of several months in the planned launch, we finally have in our hands one of the most desired games and the ones that will be talked about the most in the coming months.
Grand Theft Auto V has finally seen the light in PlayStation 3 y Xbox 360, establishing itself as the most extensive, varied, complete and profound chapter of a saga that has been giving something to talk about since 1997.
One of the first novelties that are obvious from this GTAV is the inclusion of up to three main characters, each with their own personality and abilities: Franklin, a slum gang member who dreams of landing the hit of his life; Michael, a failed family man, ex-criminal, billionaire, and FBI snitch; finally, we have Trevor, the most charismatic of this trio, as well as being a dirty bipolar junkie. We will not have access to the three characters from the beginning, be careful, and it will take us a few hours to get their stories to cross so that we can switch between them in real time.
Everyone is already familiar with the playable scheme of a GTA, an essence that is maintained, how could it be otherwise, in this fifth installment, but where a lot of emphasis has been placed on the robbery planning method -the main activities of the main story thread-: studying plans, making photos… it will be necessary to avoid finishing a sieve. In addition, we will have the support of other robbers who will help us to perpetrate our misdeeds, being able to upload their own statistics. And in the meantime, we can enjoy what has most characterized this game: freedom. Freedom to buy clothes, change our haircuts, play mini games, play sports ... or simply goat around the city.
And it is that the variety of secondary activities that we can find in Grand Theft Auto V You will not find them in any other sandbox, without forgetting the situations that always raise blisters, such as drug use, prostitution or even gunning down immigrants. Although we can also opt for healthier activities, such as practicing yoga or training Chop, our dog, another of the novelties of this GTAV, a game that will transfer you to a life that we can only have in that virtual world.
The game's gunplay has improved over what we saw in GTA IV and if you have played Max Payne 3, the previous game of Rockstar, you will see that part of the mechanics of their shootings has been transferred to GTA V, with an automatic aiming that makes things much easier -although we can deactivate it- and an automatic coverage system that, unfortunately, on some occasion will leave us sold. And as if they were trying to please each other, the health system is a hybrid between regenerating health (up to 50%) and the need to get hold of first-aid kits, in the old school way. Regarding driving, each vehicle behaves differently, with its own physics, and we can modify them in aspects such as suspension or acceleration. To curl the loop, there are more than 120 available with which to roam the streets, soar through the sky or sail.
One of the most accomplished aspects of GTAV is the recreation of the environments, which do not feel synthetic, but full of life, with characters that act independently, animals in freedom, dense traffic at rush hours, architectural variety ... And more when checking the extensive mapping of the game, the largest you have ever seen in a GTA never. And of course, the brand of already mythical films and series have their mark on this GTAV: The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Heat… Something that the good movie buff will recognize instantly. Nor can I forget that made in Rockstar touch that always makes their games unique by touching taboo or controversial topics, such as prostitution, sex or xenophobia, without neglecting the special black and sarcastic humor poured, for example, in the parodies of Facebook or the inventions of Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),.
Focusing on the technical level, it is quite surprising that a sandbox of this size and level of detail runs on already exhausted ones PlayStation 3 y Xbox 360, leaving far behind what we saw in GTA IV. But beware, I'm talking about technical complexity, not graphic impact, because of course you don't expect to find characters with models on the level of the greats, such as Uncharted 3 o Killzone 3. The defects are numerous and visible: blurry textures, saw teeth, popping or even a dubious framerate (which drops a lot in situations like having the police alert level at five stars or crossing a busy road at full speed)
In the sound section, as is customary, we do not have dubbing in Spanish, keeping the original voices in English of the actors, some of them known: Ned Luke -Michael-, Steven Ogg -Trevor- and Shawn Fonteno -Franklin-. Rockstar remains true to its tonic, which will prevent many from echoing some ingenious dialogues that they have been unable to translate correctly, because everything has to be said: the translation is not very well worked. We will have to settle for the subtitles, although I also have a problem with these: they are a bit small in size. Regarding the musical variety, as always, we will have several stations where we can listen to everything from rap to rock classics, through country songs or electronic music, and as a novelty, for the first time we will have background music in the missions of the game.
There is no doubt that this Grand Theft Auto V is the most ambitious game of Rockstar and the most complete of the saga. You will not find another title in the sandbox genre where you can enjoy a greater number of activities, although it is true that GTA V He does not invent the wheel, he continues to polish and improve it.
It has some charismatic characters -Trevor is my favorite - and it's amazing that a game of this size comes to life in old-fashioned PS3 y Xbox 360, although with the technical flaws he mentioned, as well as a gunplay that should have been spoiled a bit more. Make no mistake that this has just begun: GTA V It is going to be talked about for a long time and take for granted that we will have juicy dlc content in the future, and I even bet on next gen versions. If you are devotees of the genre, visit the state of San Andreas it is an obligatory pilgrimage.
FINAL NOTE MUNDI VJ 8.5