GTA 5 is heartless in that way, and as a result I found the narrative difficult to care about. Trevor's introduction, in particular, amounts to a particularly explicit 'fuck you' to the characters and themes of Grand Theft Auto IV. I get the impression that this is deliberate, part of the game's relentless skewering of southern California and indicative of Rockstar's waning interest in romantic anti-heroes.
stereotype you might imagine-the bored Beverly Hills housewife, the corrupt fed, the bottom-rung fraudster, the smug technology exec, and so on.Īgainst this backdrop, it's only Michael, Franklin and Trevor that appear to have any kind of internal life. The campaign explores their relationship through a series of heists and misadventures as they clash with every L.A. Trevor is a desert-dwelling, meth-dealing psychopath with a homebrew morality that sits uneasily alongside his capacity for violent cruelty and sexual aggression. Franklin is a young hood, purportedly principled but willing to do almost anything for money. Michael is a middle-aged former bankrobber, unhappily married and on the edge of a breakdown. Its trio of protagonists occupy a city full of vapid, two-dimensional caricatures, and they flirt with that boundary themselves. Grand Theft Auto 5 does away with all of that, deliberately but to its detriment.
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