Claim: Grand Theft Auto V is a game.

The development of Grand Theft Auto V began after Grand Theft Auto IVs release in April 2008 . Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto V on 17 September 2013 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 , on 18 November 2014 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One , and on 14 April 2015 for Microsoft Windows , as the fifteenth entry in the Grand Theft Auto series . Their flagship Scottish studio Rockstar North oversaw the work , sharing it with other studios around the world . The development team considered the game a spiritual successor to many of their previous projects like Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne 3 . Grand Theft Auto V was unexpectedly announced in 2011 ; it was heavily promoted and widely anticipated .   Rockstar overhauled their proprietary Rockstar Advanced Game Engine -LRB- RAGE -RRB- to increase its draw distance rendering capabilities . The game uses the Euphoria and Bullet engines for further animation and environment rendering tasks . The developers tried to use all of the potential power of both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 , having become familiar with the systems ' architectures over several years . The development team conducted extensive field research in Southern California while creating the game 's open world , set in and around Los Santos , a fictionalised depiction of Los Angeles .   Grand Theft Auto V is the first game in the series that allows players to control three protagonists , to distinguish the game from its predecessors and let players explore the open world with fewer constraints . The team used motion capture to record the facial and body movements of the characters . Like previous games in the series , Grand Theft Auto V has an in-game radio that can tune into fifteen stations playing more than 241 tracks of licensed music , as well as two talk radio stations . The game also features an original score composed over many years by a team of five music producers .