The characters of GTA V are some of the best written yet, and though later entries on this list play more to a new direction Rockstar seem to be taking in giving their characters adequate motive and a sense of place within the evert-chaotic world of GTA, Franklin is the last to be cast from the mould of old. Feeling like the least developed of the three alongside family-man Michael De Santa and the tornado of foul-language and faux-philosophical garblings that is Trevor Philips, Franklin comes across as a lite version of the San Andreas' Carl Johnson. His opening missions resemble the fetch quests and workingman driving missions of old, before he begins to work for Michael and his world expands in more ways than one. However it remains that by games end, he's still something of a yes-man, and someone who finds himself throwing his arms up for the sake of going along with whatever hair-brained scheme his cohorts have thought up, rather than steering the ship himself.
