{"id":80518,"date":"2015-04-16T19:34:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T17:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=80518"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:14:06","slug":"app-of-the-week-grand-theft-auto-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/app-of-the-week-grand-theft-auto-v\/","title":{"rendered":"App of the Week: Grand Theft Auto V"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Softonic&#8217;s App of the Week highlights some of the coolest, most unique, and popular apps that have been released for Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac.\u00a0This week, our patience finally has been rewarded as<strong> <\/strong>the hugely anticipated<strong> <a title=\"GTA V Review\" href=\"http:\/\/gta-v.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grand Theft Auto V<\/a> <\/strong>arrives on PC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It has been a long journey<\/strong>. A wait of two years followed Rockstar\u2019s first announcement of the game before its PS3 and Xbox 360 launch in 2013, and then another 20 months had to pass before its final PC incarnation.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that most people interested in GTA V will already have played it, so<strong> what does the PC version add to this open-world, crime-fiction epic?<\/strong> Well, quite a lot it turns out.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<div>\nDefault player\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\nBy use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C \nfound at https:\/\/accounts.brightcove.com\/en\/terms-and-conditions\/. \n--><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nThis script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon\nas the line is read by the browser. If you wish to have the player instantiated only after\nthe rest of the HTML is processed and the page load is complete, remove the line.\n--><br \/>\nbrightcove.createExperiences();<\/p>\n<p><!-- End of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<p>Visual improvements are a given of course, with the <strong>high resolution graphics <\/strong>seen in the PS4 and Xbox One versions, further improved upon, allowing resolutions up to a staggering <strong>4K <\/strong>running at <strong>60fps<\/strong> (providing you have the PC to run it). Other carry overs from the recent console release include the <strong>first-person camer<\/strong><strong><strong>a<\/strong> view <\/strong>and improved online options, such as <strong>the fantastic Heist mode <\/strong>that lets you pull off dramatic bank jobs with your friends.<\/p>\n<p>There are features completely unique to the PC version too. The most important of these is the <strong><a title=\"See the Rockstar Editor in action.\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/rockstar-editor-making-movies-is-easy\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rockstar Editor<\/a><\/strong>, which lets you create your own movies from the in-game action. With the ability to edit all of the footage recorded around your character, change camera angles, depth of field, focus, and the type of camera you use \u2013 this tool lets you create beautiful videos to upload and share. There is also a Director mode that enables you to manipulate your character and environment to ensure you have <strong>complete creative freedom<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This version of GTA V also includes <strong>two new radio stations<\/strong>, FM Lab and Radio Self \u2013 the latter of which lets you add your own mp3 so you can listen to your favorite music as you cruise the city of Los Santos.<\/p>\n<p>Finally we have <strong>the definitive version of GTA V<\/strong>, letting you relive this fantastic game again in the best way possible \u2013 <a title=\"Download GTA V\" href=\"http:\/\/gta-v.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">download it for PC now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Rockstar Editor: Making movies is easy\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/rockstar-editor-making-movies-is-easy\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rockstar Editor: Making movies is easy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Grand Theft Auto V Review\" href=\"http:\/\/gta-v.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grand Theft Auto V Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"App of the Week: Battlefield Hardline\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/app-of-the-week-battlefield-hardline\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">App of the Week: Battlefield Hardline<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a title=\"Alex on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/dofuss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@DoFuss<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Softonic&#8217;s App of the Week highlights some of the coolest, most unique, and popular apps that have been released for Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac.\u00a0This week, our patience finally has been rewarded as the hugely anticipated Grand Theft Auto V arrives on PC. It has been a long journey. A wait of two years followed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/app-of-the-week-grand-theft-auto-v\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;App of the Week: Grand Theft Auto V&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2049,"featured_media":80574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2618],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-80518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongrand-theft-auto"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329619,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80518\/revisions\/329619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80518"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=80518"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=80518"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=80518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}