The ultimate free-roam game that lets you do whatever escapist fantasies spring to mind; from stealing that never-affordable sports car and hurtling it off a construction ramp down the freeway, to taking part in a series of movie-style heist sequences while spraying rounds into plaster and person as you evade the cops and maximise your profit, GTA V delivers on every debaucherous thought, supplying you with characters to embody that don't feel out of place doing terrible deeds, and more often than not will join in with a quip or one-liner that ends up making the game right there and then. Being the highest-selling entertainment property of all time you'd have to dive into a wormhole and emerge in another dimension to find someone who hasn't heard of it, yet for that exact same reason it simply has to be included as a rather large helping of any gamer's salt shaker. It helps that underneath all the headline-grabbing controversy and ill-thought-out torture sequences is a game that's so polished you'll see your own glee-filled face staring back at you throughout its runtime too. Featuring a world more detailed than around ten of your average other games, you could spend an afternoon perfecting exactly how to get a car up the side of the Everest-contesting Mount Chiliad and still never get tired.
