GTA V: Seedy side of a sunny state

MASSIVE FIREPOWER: Be prepared for a dosage of lead normally reserved for world wars in GTA V.

With a huge open-world to explore, three playable characters and a wealth of side activities, GTA V is the gift that keeps on giving.

SEEN through the lens of Rockstar Games’ sardonic wit, Southern California is a kaleidoscope of American culture. Populated with self-important hedonists and self-improvement gurus, the luxuriously wealthy and startlingly poor, vanity plate liberals and border-patrolling conservatives, the region captures an impressive number of American idiosyncrasies.