
Although I have explored everything in Los Santos, including all of the missions, the side quests, and the activities multiple times, I still find myself going back to the game fairly regularly, and mods help with that.

However, I’m not condoning letting children play the series. I’ve been playing the series ever since 1999 when I got a copy of Grand Theft Auto 1 on PlayStation for my 9th birthday from my Uncle. It is hard to believe that GTA V was released all the way back in 2013 I still remember the excitement leading to the game’s release and finally getting my copy on the Xbox 360 and playing through this absolute masterpiece of a game.Īlthough many people might claim GTA: San Andreas is the best game in the GTA series, I have to give the top spot to GTA V. The game has sold over 160 million copies making it the second best-selling game of all time only behind Minecraft. Grand Theft Auto 5 is one of the best-selling games of all time and one of the most beloved.

Perhaps the trailer above won't really be the "final cinematic trailer" at all. At the time he thought that year's mod update would be his last - something he also said in 2018. We spoke to Razed, aka Jamil Rashid, about his work on the mod back in 2019. Now you can get the Single Player Beta for free via the creator's website,. In 2020, work began on NaturalVision Evolved, with an "early access" release available for subscribers to its creator's Patreon. By comparison, NaturalVision focuses more on tweaking game files like textures and models directly, and is both more consistently improved and has less of an impact on performance.Ī previous version of the mod, NaturalVision Remastered, was first released as many as five years ago and regularly updated thereafter.

The quality is very much down to the preset you're using with those tools, however, and even then the results can vary wildly depending on in-game lighting conditions. Graphics mods are no new thing in Grand Theft Auto games, with tools like ENBseries and SweetFX allowing modders to hijack the game's renderer and tweak its output.

The effort and editing put into this "final cinematic trailer" is impressive all on its own: You can now download a Single Player Beta of the mod - and even if you don't plan on doing that, it's worth watching the trailer below. The long-in-development Grand Theft Auto 5 mod is a comprehensive revamp of lighting, textures, models and much more, but it remains faithful to the art direction of the base game. Most 'realistic graphics' mods make games look worse, but that's not the case with NaturalVision Evolved.
