Grand Theft Auto has always been over the top, but not to the point players have seen in GTA Online.
If you wanted to access jetpacks or other ridiculous kinds of weapons or vehicles in older GTA titles, cheat codes were the way to go. However, in the present day landscape of GTA Online, no such codes are required.
Hover bikes, flying cars, submersibles, lazers and more are all readily available, making the multiplayer seem more like an off-shoot of Saints Row than a compliment to Rockstar's flagship franchise.
What was wrong with simply having cars, helicopters and other real life vehicles to mess around with? GTA has never been a bastion of realism, but it does feel as though the multiplayer has jumped the shark in a bid to capitalise on nostalgia for other franchises, like Back to the Future, Batman, or James Bond.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
