The release of the much anticipated Grand Theft Auto 5 has thrown sanity out the window as the date September 17, 2013 came and went for many avid gamers. Pre-orders and delivery food were the meals of champions as souls fiendishly fed on the epic graphics and endless gore. Hours turn to days and days turn to weeks as you progress through this three character carousel of robberies, trafficking, and murder.

The overlaying goal of this game though is no secret! Make money and make it at all cost. The other worldly detachment from self morals and the average person’s belief of wrong and right is difficult to overcome at first, though the farther you succumb to the chaos it seems the more advancement is made throughout the gameplay. It’s either watching fifteen hit-and-runs in a period of five seconds or seeing a police officer hurl his partners corpse from a moving vehicle to continue the pursuit.

This is one of the first GTA’s to feature multiple customizable aspects of the game. From the ability to upgrade your personal vehicles to being able to dress your character to impress. The map of Los Santos is one of the largest GTA maps ever built and features real time city speeds as well a modern day population. This game is no stranger to the theatrical with hundreds of cut scenes as well as personal character customization crossover in every cut scene

Following classic Grand Theft Auto gameplay they kept the ability to activate cheats in the old fashion of actually typing the cheat using the controllers buttons in pattern code. This allows for on the run code activation and reduces the frustration of trying to find a bullet free airspace to take out your cell phone. With activated codes like “Bang Bang” or “Sanchez” you could have explosive rounds screaming down a train track on the hunt of a metal snake. All the while being chased with a four star wanted level and fending off attack helicopters with a police fleet in pursuit.

The addition of a few more cheats have revolutionized the game forever. With “invincibility” and “moon gravity” the start to a new generation of marauders who go on endless kill streaks with the constant view of bodies floating into the sky. This game has changed the world of gamers and with the addition of online play it shall be the most chaos seen on a screen for almost five years.

None of the mission’s hold comparison tho to arriving on the airbase and leaving a four star behind as you zoom over the wings of a stationary B-52 into the sky with a fighter jet with a resemblance to an F16. Equipt with target locking missiles and heavy machine gun fire this jet is the fastest vehicle in the game without a doubt.

An experience of a lifetime held packed onto a single disc and lived by millions around the world. Grand Theft Auto V holds an insane mans mind free for as long as those three psycho’s still walk the pavement of Los Santos.