The central theme to the story of Grand Theft Auto V is the "pursuit of the almighty dollar". In gameplay, the three characters' differing personalities and qualities are intended to appeal to a broad spectrum of players, while offering players the option to learn more about the characters throughout the game. Houser said he felt that Grand Theft Auto V is their "strongest plotted game because the characters are so intertwined" and that the "meeting points are very exciting". According to Benzies, the team made the multiple-character formula "integral to the structure of the gameplay as well as the narrative". Eventually, the concept evolved into three interconnected stories that intertwined through the game missions. Later, the idea that story trajectories would meet throughout the game was developed from the stories of Grand Theft Auto IV. In early conceptualisations, the game would have told three stories each through a different protagonist. Garbut said such a radical change to the gameplay's core structure was a risk, recalling the team's concern that a departure from Grand Theft Auto 's traditional, single lead character set-up "might backfire". Ī single-player story revolving around three protagonists was one of Grand Theft Auto V 's earliest design objectives. The three interwoven stories had a positive critical reception and confirmed the team's confidence that building Grand Theft Auto V around this model was an innovative decision.
After the release of Grand Theft Auto IV (2008), the team developed episodic content packages, The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony (both 2009), each of which introduced a new protagonist. The game's art director, Aaron Garbut said, "It didn't work from a tech point of view because the three characters need three times as much memory, three types of animation, and so on". The concept of having three interconnected protagonists was devised during the development of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004), but the team felt they did not have the technical capabilities to realise it. The game's co-writer, Dan Houser said, "We didn't want to do the same thing over again".
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The team's main motivation for including three protagonists was for Grand Theft Auto V to innovate game storytelling and to prevent the series from feeling stale by not evolving the core structure of the gameplay. Grand Theft Auto V was envisioned to exceed the core mechanics of the Grand Theft Auto series by giving players three protagonists to switch between. According to Houser, each of the protagonists is unlike any primary character that has appeared in a Grand Theft Auto title to date: Michael represents a protagonist who "won" in life, and is now trying to readjust to a normal one after his story has come to an end Trevor is a supporting psychopathic, bloodthirsty character recast as a central protagonist and Franklin is someone who has had no real exposure to a life of crime until the events of the game, and his attempts to avoid such a life end up launching him right into the heart of it. The three acquaintances are drawn into Los Santos' criminal underworld "in the pursuit of the almighty American dollar". The three main playable characters in Grand Theft Auto V are Michael De Santa, a retired bank robber who lives with his dysfunctional family on the proceeds of his former life Franklin Clinton, a gang member who is working as a repo man at the start of the game for an unscrupulous Armenian car dealership and Trevor Philips, Michael's former partner-in-crime, who lives alone in a trailer in the desert town of Sandy Shores, where his reckless and psychotic behaviours are fuelled by substance abuse. The use of multiple protagonists, as well as the cast in general, has received critical and popular acclaim from gaming magazines, players and websites. The game's characters were created by writers Dan Houser and Rupert Humphries. Additionally, Grand Theft Auto V was voted Game of the Year from several gaming publications. Three days after its release, Grand Theft Auto V had earned more than US$1 billion in sales, making it the fastest selling video game in history. The game's use of three protagonists is a break from series tradition.
Rockstar North's 2013 action-adventure game Grand Theft Auto V, published by Rockstar Games, deals with a trio of criminals and their efforts to commit heists while under pressure from a corrupt government agency.
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