Top 26 quick facts about GTA 5

1. The game was produced by former Rockstar North President Leslie Benzies and was partly written by brother Sam and Dan Houser, the co-founders of Rockstar Games.

2. GTA 5 has won 135 awards and had 108 nominations. One of these prestigious awards includes an academy fellowship at the British academy of games awards.

3.GTA 5 is the most expensive video game of all time.

4. Grand Theft Auto 5 generated approximately 800 million dollars in sales worldwide during its first 24 hours on sale.

5. GTA 5 is not only the fastest-selling video game it's also got the Guinness world record for the highest revenue generated by an intimate product in 24 hours.

6. GTA 5 records in total including most of the used trailer for an action-adventure video game and fastest and semi property - gross 1 billion dollars.

7. GTA 5 also at one point evolved like a Pokemon to become a next-gen version of itself with versions being released for the ps4 Xbox one and pc.

8. GTA 5 introduced the concept of multiple playable characters to the franchise. Also in story mode, you can play as much with the Sansa Franklin, Clinton, and Trevor Phillips. Players can switch between the characters and each has its own missions, vehicles, homes, etc.

9. Many districts in Los Angeles County have been recreated and renamed in GTA 5. Hollywood is now known as Vinewood. Downtown Los Angeles becomes downtown, Los Santos. Koreatown turns into little Seoul and Venice becomes vest Buchi.

10. The actress who plays Will's aunt Vivian in “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” is also the voice of Franklin's aunt Denise.

11. It's the first game in the GTA a series in which the open world is open. Meaning you can go anywhere on the map right from the beginning.  

12. The GTA 5’s map is bigger than Red Dead Redemption, GTA IV, and GTA San Andreas combined. It is around 48.7 square miles which are twice the size of Manhattan.

13. Famitsu, A highly respected Japanese gaming magazine has only given perfect scores for two Western games. GTA 5 is one of them the other one is Skyrim.

14. The rival gang in GTA 5 ‘The Ballas’ and ‘The Family’ had colors based on two rival soccer(football) teams in Scotland. The heart of the Midlothian team wears purple and Hibernian is green.

15. The rundown desert town sandy shores in GTA 5 were inspired by Bombay Beach.

16. Rockstar actually hired real gangsters to voice background characters in GTA 5. The gangsters would sometimes change the script to be more authentic and more akin to what they would actually say in real life.

17. The GTA 5 also features Director mode that was introduced in 2015 which allows players to essentially direct their own mini-movies within GTA 5.

18. If you rob more than once in GTA 5, the clerk will remember your face and have cops waiting for you the next time you visit just like in real life.

19. Ever wondered what is the fastest time was to complete the whole GTA 5 game. well, wonder no further as ToriksLV from Austria managed to get a 100 percent completion rate in 11 hours and 15 minutes. That's all the missions, collectibles everything.

20. Lazlo Jones makes an appearance in GTA 5 as a version of himself. He's also appeared in GTA 3, GTA vice city,  GTA San Andreas, Liberty City Stories, Vice city stories, and GTA 4.

21. A lot of research was put into Grand Theft Auto 5 open-world. The city structure and road of Los Santos was even placed on LA’s real-life road maps.

22. Dan Houser, the co-founder of Rockstar Games, claimed that the team spoke to undercover FBI agent mafia and Street gangster experts to get an idea of the lingo and shady world of criminal enterprise purely for research.

23. The only two movies that cost more to make than GTA 5 are the third and fourth Pirates of Caribbean movies at World's End which costs 300 million dollars and on Stranger Tides which cost 378.5 million dollars which were definitely worthy investments.

24. There's also the ghost of a woman that forms at 11:00 p.m in the southern side of Mount Gordo.

25. The deep-dive project is using GTA 5 as a playground to test out the coding of its autonomous vehicles, making it the ultimate driverless car simulator. Amazingly with the open AI project, you too can actually help out with it and create the future of later transportation.

26. The audio director of  Rockstar North, Alastair McGregor has stated that the game has around 160 thousand lines of dialogue according to an interview with dan Houser. The script with those lines is 10,000 pages long.