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The 5 Most Insane Things I Did In The First Five Hours Of Grand Theft Auto V

Grand Theft Auto V is not just a game. More than any other sandbox title before it, GTA V is a living, breathing world, and to say it is fun to drop into that world is a vast understatement. This game is the virtual version of what it must be like to bring a searing hot crack pipe to your lips and take a drag. You have, never in your life, felt addiction like you will feel once you start playing this glorious game. If you want to read our full review, you're going to have to wait just a bit longer until we've really had the proper amount of time to sink our teeth into it. In the meantime though, I just wanted to take a chance to tell you some of the most insane things I have experienced in the first five hours of the game.

[h2]Doubled My Money In Virtual Stock Market[/h2]

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The real reason I am so proud of this is because of all the people I’ve talked to about this game, no one is messing with the stock market yet. But as soon as NPC Lester let me know I could use the stock market as Michael, I started to. What you need to understand is the stock market in Grand Theft Auto V performs two ways. One, it is virtual, and plays out dependent on what happens in your game. If you steal all your guns, the Ammu-Nation stock will go down in the game. It is insane, and forces you to pay attention to little details in the game if you plan on making more money.

The other aspect of the stock market in this game is that it actually plays off of what is trending and what people are actually talking about. You can actually make money depending on how well you know what is going on around you. Suffice it to say, I am pretty good with that stuff, so I invested all my money as the Michael character, went and played as Franklin for a day, and then came back to Michael, checked, and sold all my stocks, which doubled my in game money and also got me the “Trading Pure Alpha” achievement in the game, which made me feel pretty damn good about my investments.

So, as you can see from the above list, most of these things were specific to me, and THAT is what makes GTA V such an amazing game. It is LITERALLY your world to play in, and you can do anything you want, at any given time. Like right now, for example, I am about to go get kicked out of a virtual strip club.

Some would call that rock bottom. In Grand Theft Auto V, I call that just getting started.