To get a better idea of the characters you'll be controlling - since there are three of them - you can check out our guide on Franklin, Michael and Trevor. The developers, Rockstar Games, did a good job of easing you into new features and providing tutorials, but it can still be rather intimidating. GTA 5 and Online can be a lot to process for new players. Between this and its ever increasing popularity even after all this years, it is reasonable to assume that going standalone is a deliberate move to ensure that Online will outlive GTA 5, and will continue to be supported even once the franchise moves on - provided it'll still have the playerbase to warrant it.

Unshackled from the main, singleplayer experience, Online will live an independent life as a dedicated multiplayer game.

On Maalongside the release of the Expanded & Enhanced port, GTA Online will undergo what just may be the most significant transformation and change in its history - it will go standalone. We're going to take a look at everything both have to offer. Though fundamentally the same in broad strokes, there are several key differences between the two modes that change how you approach them as a player. Stepping over to GTA Online, you get to create your own character and hop into a pseudo-MMO that takes place in the same map, but with completely different activities and features, which have been expanded with several DLC packs over the years, big and small. Once the possibilities of GTA 5 have been exhausted - or you're just more of a multiplayer person - there is a whole other side of this world to explore.

When not playing story missions depicting their various escapades, you can spend time managing their businesses, playing side-missions, engaging in common criminal activity, hunting collectibles, and seeing the sights while taking fancy looking screenshots. Returning to Los Santos, which also appeared in GTA: San Andreas, the feature-rich open-world action adventure game follows the criminal exploits of Franklin Clinton, Michael De Santa and Trevor Phillips as they plan and pull a number of daring heists while getting mixed up in conflicts that run much deeper. GTA 5 is the latest game in the long-running Grand Theft Auto series.

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