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Development of Grand Theft Auto V

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/September 17, 2017 by Jimfbleak - talk to me?  10:27, 25 August 2017 (UTC)



An approximately 1,000-person team developed Grand Theft Auto V, an action-adventure video game, over several years. Rockstar Games released the game on 17 September 2013 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, on 18 November 2014 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and on 14 April 2015 for Microsoft Windows, as the fifteenth entry in the Grand Theft Auto series. Development began soon after Grand Theft Auto IV ' s release and was led by Rockstar North's core 360-person team, who considered the game a spiritual successor to many of their previous projects like Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne 3. Its release date, though subject to several delays, was widely anticipated. Much of the development time was spent creating the game's open world, modelled on Southern California and Los Angeles. For the first time in the series, players control three protagonists throughout the single-player mode, which the team found to be an intrinsic change to the gameplay and narrative devices. The game features an original score, composed over several years by a team of five music producers. The game's re-release added a first-person view option along with the traditional third-person view.
 * Most recent similar article(s): The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, 20 March 2017
 * Main editors: CR4ZE
 * Promoted: 15 August 2014
 * Reasons for nomination: This article will be my second FA to appear as TFA (after the parent article, Grand Theft Auto V, funnily enough). I would like to run the article on 17 September, the four-year anniversary of the game's release. Would've been great to get a free image of the game's massive worldwide marketing (billboards and murals on buildings, bus stations, taxis etc around various international cities) up along with it, but I've scoured Flickr and found nothing suitable.
 * Support as nominator. CR 4 ZE  (t &bull; c) 15:59, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Support: Interesting article; seems appropriate to me. Aoba47 (talk) 19:31, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Support: Great way to celebrate the game's anniversary, and article is very well composed Snuggums (talk / edits) 04:12, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Support: Article has undergone some great improvements recently, and is a very suitable article for this date. – Rhain  ☔ 04:44, 24 August 2017 (UTC)