With its 195 million copies sold, GTA 5 is a timeless success that is second only to the efforts made by the guys at Rockstar Games in transforming their enormous open world into a digital treasure chest overflowing with mysteries, Easter eggs and secret details.
More than ten years have passed since the launch of Grand Theft Auto V and the Big R blockbuster never ceases to reserve surprises, with the emulators of Michael, Trevor, Franklin and their ‘colleagues’ from GTA Online who continue undaunted to sift through every hidden corner of Los Santos to discover its most unfathomable enigmas .
After having explored the Frontier to discover the mysteries and hidden secrets of Red Dead Redemption 2, we return under the scorching sun of San Andreas to try to resolve the last doubts that grip the fans of GTA 5.
The mystery of the Frozen Alien: here’s where to find it!
Do you know the story of the frozen alien from GTA 5? This is one of the most interesting and, at the same time, most absurd Easter eggs to discover during the main campaign. Although it is linked to the journey undertaken by all (really all!) Grand Theft Auto V players, curiously, few have discovered the Easter egg of the extraterrestrial entity frozen in the ice.
To live this experience, all you need to do is restart the main campaign of GTA 5 and deviate from the path indicated by the mission featuring Michael and Trevor as they try to escape from the North Yankton police. The road that leads to the frozen river leads to a bridge, under which it is possible to admire the alien hibernating in the ice for a few seconds as a warning for the visits of the UFOs of GTA 5 which recur cyclically in the lore of the series.
How many inhabitants does Los Santos have?
In the frantic search for the secrets of Grand Theft Auto V, the theme of the exact number of inhabitants of Los Santos recurs cyclically in the discussions started by the community, for a whole series of reasons. In fact, there are those who wonder whether the traffic in the main city of GTA 5 is related to the actual population, while others wish to discover this detail of the development of Rockstar’s blockbuster in terms of what awaits us in the future with GTA 6.
The most accredited theories are linked to the undeniable similarities between Los Santos and Los Angeles: the metropolis of GTA 5, moreover, is nothing but a highly stereotyped but scaled version of the Californian city which currently has around 3.84 million inhabitants. Having made the necessary proportions, therefore, the fictional Los Santos of Grand Theft Auto V should host around 4 million inhabitants, to which must be added (always hypothetically) the citizens of the rural communities and villages that adorn the San Andreas region.
On the trail of the Infinity Killer
The mystery of GTA 5’s Infinity Killer is certainly one of the most disturbing elements of Rockstar’s monumental open world lore. Since the weeks following the launch of the blockbuster shooter, the discovery of the cryptic messages scribbled on the walls of Los Santos has pushed many users to transform themselves into real ‘virtual detectives’, probing the possible clues left by an elusive NPC who reports having stained himself of eight murders. The few pieces of the puzzle put together to date by the community tell a chilling story but do not clarify the identity of the self-styled serial killer.
According to some, behind the messages scattered across the map by the Infinity Killer there could be a huge plot or even a hoax, while others believe that there is still a hidden story of the GTA 5 free roaming experience waiting to be discovered, a a bit like what happened with the conspiracies in the shadow of Mount Chiliad or the references to Scientology in the fictitious Epsilon program.
Here’s to Roleplay! Phenomenology of Los Santos Life
The stories of the participants in the crazy activities carried out by fans of GTA 5, GTA Online and Roleplay contributed (perhaps in a decisive way) to the success of the multiplayer experience parallel to the main campaign of Rockstar Games’ open world masterpiece. The Los Santos Life described by Roleplay enthusiasts is full of absurd anecdotes, from the battles between Santa Clauses and guys in tights disguised as aliens under peyote to the pure spirit of adventure offered by the mod servers, in the shadow of the skyscrapers of Los Santos there is always a part to play.
The only limit for fans of this kind of activity is their imagination; the undeniable charm of roleplay lies in the users’ ability to empathize, with small narratives that are intertwined in a broader story that involves all the other participants in the online games.
The mine of source code secrets
To the initiatives carried out by the dataminers of the official updates in the last decade, there have been added the activities carried out by those who obtained the source code of GTA 5, extrapolating a whole series of secrets from the over 100GB of data stolen by hackers in 2022.
The new material found and shared by those guilty of this crime has revealed hidden details of the work done by Rockstar Games in giving shape not only to Grand Theft Auto V but also to other projects. The source code of GTA 5, in fact, seems to contain portions of Python code from GTA 6 and all the files from the now canceled Bully 2. Between now and the next few months, consequently, other behind-the-scenes or unexpected details about GTA 5 could appear online .
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