Return to Los Santos in the long-awaited standalone release of Grand Theft Auto Online and engage in heists, races, and adversary mode. With more than 40 updates included, you can experience everything the world of GTA Online has to offer. The new Career Builder feature allows you to start your criminal careers as either an Executive, Gunrunner, Nightclub Owner or Biker.
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A hidden 'Golden Peyote' plant lets players transform into Bigfoot, but it only appears at Raton Canyon on Tuesdays between 5:30 and 8:00 AM, and only once every prior peyote plant has already been consumed. It was one of the last major single-player secrets fans uncovered after release.
In the GTA Online character creator, players can choose Claude from GTA III, Niko Bellic from GTA IV, or John Marston from Red Dead Redemption as their custom protagonist's father, quietly tying the online world into the wider Rockstar universe.
Between 11:00 PM and midnight, a stationary female ghost appears on the eastern peak of Mount Gordo. She won't move or react to being shot at, and simply fades away, one of several ghostly sightings Rockstar seeded into the world.
Buried in GTA V's game files from launch was a glowing alien egg that only third-party trainers could ever spawn, completely unreachable through normal play. Years later, Rockstar brought it back for real in GTA Online's Gunrunning update, hiding it behind an absurdly specific condition: finish 600 resupply missions, then start one more between 9pm and 11pm and hope the game rolls it for you.
Merryweather Security, the ruthless private military contractor that hounds all three protagonists throughout the story, is a clear stand-in for real-world firms like Blackwater. Rockstar leans into the satire hard, giving Merryweather every trapping of a legitimate defence contractor while making it obvious they're just as amoral and trigger-happy as anyone else in Los Santos.
Years before rapper Danny Brown got his own dedicated station added to the game, he'd already snuck into GTA V in a much smaller way, voicing a random NPC hanging around the Los Santos beachfront who reacts in his own voice if players decide to mess with him.
Franklin's final choice lets players kill Trevor, kill Michael, or talk the whole crew into fighting their enemies together instead. For over a decade Rockstar left it ambiguous which ending actually 'happened', with fans piecing together clues from GTA Online, until a later in-game update finally confirmed once and for all that the option where everybody lives is the canon outcome.
Trevor's entire meth operation is run out of the upper floor of a run-down liquor store called Ace Liquor in Sandy Shores, with the shop itself acting as a front and headquarters for Trevor Philips Enterprises long before the main story even kicks off, quietly establishing his criminal empire before players ever set foot inside.
