GTA V, the Game of all records

GTA V comes out today: video game, the most expensive in history, has required an investment of 236 million dollars for its development. Its trump card? The city of Los Santos, where the story unfolds.

This is the event of the day would be one that would affirm deaf not to have heard ... The latest installment of sulfur video game Grand Theft Auto (GTA) released today. It is currently available on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 at a price of 65 dollars. The fifth episode of the series that began in 1997 (it was originally called Race'N'Race), presents itself as the most expensive video game and the second most expensive production of cultural history.

The total cost of development of GTA V is estimated at 265 million dollars, including the marketing and promotion of the game that are not reduced. The development of GTA V was more expensive than the production of the film Titanic! More expensive than the video game, the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," which cost 300 million dollars. A total of 300 developers worked on GTA V for five years.

The purpose of the American publisher, Rockstar Games (Take-Two Interactive subsidiary) is to sell 25 million copies in one year, reaching a turnover of 1, 5 billion dollars. The previous episode had generated 310 million dollars in just 24 hours, when it was released.

Two weeks before its official release, 2.89 million pre-orders had already been observed by the site vgchartz.com, nothing that the United States and 7 million worldwide (3.7 for the Xbox 360 version 3,4 for the PS3).

The game is known for its violence and causes scandals at each output. "Let me talk about good or bad, whatever. The important thing is to talk to me! "Said Leon Zitrone. The business of this series of games is also a well appointed storytelling: when the output of the first episode in 1997, the director of media relations at the time, hired by DMA Design, the former name of Rockstar felt the game would be controversial. So he himself orchestrated the scandal voluntarily talking to politicians and journalists sensitive about violence ... The PEGI rating for over 18 years is not removed in provocative series.

Map, the treasure

This last episode of GTA V takes place in the city of Los Santos, which is a hyper-realistic replica of Los Angeles. This is the first open world to be as big. In aerial view map of Los Santos is four to five times bigger than Liberty City, GTA IV city, two times larger than the map of GTA San Andreas. 
 

In black, the previous GTA IV map superimposed on the map of Los Santos the latest installment.

This card is fully unlocked early in the game (except for a few protected areas) as the three persons, the hero of this new scenario, live in different places of the city.