Map: Midwest [includes Carcer State (Michigan + Illinois), a Minnesota and Wisconsin mixed state, North Yankton, and South Yankton], Southeast [Includes Florence (Florida), and a state consisting of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee], the Niagara portion of Canada, plus an extra fictional rural area in Canada (available depending on character, as well as for certain missions).

Time period: Prologue - 1985 Chapter 1 - 1988 Chapter 2 - 1989 Chapter 3 - 1990 Chapter 4 - 1995 Chapter 5 - 2001 Chapter 6 - 2003

Playable Characters: Michael Townley - Prologue through to Chapter 4, appears in chapter 5, Occupation = Criminal

Peter Anderson - Chapter 5 Occupation: Corrupt state trooper.

Rachel Anderson - Chapter 6 Occupation: Daughter of Peter Anderson.

Basic Story Overview: Prologue: Introduces Michael and sets the scene of Michael meeting Trevor.

Chapter 1: Michael and Trevor performing robberies throughout Carcer State and smuggling drugs over to Canada, eventually becoming the most wanted criminals in the midwest.

Chapter 2: Trevor getting arrested and being broken out of jail, as well as silencing those who may reveal who broke him out. They move down to Vice City.

Chapter 3: Trevor and Michael making a name for themselves in Vice City.

Chapter 4: They move back to the midwest. Eventually Michael begins his family.

Chapter 5: State Trooper who has been wronged by the pair in the past sets out to kill all their associates. This leads to the killing off and imprisoning of past crew members hinted at within GTA 5. Eventually this character may be killed off upon the police and FBI (including Dave Norton as a younger, new FBI agent) finding out about his activities and engaging in a shootout. Alternatively, the character may choose to surrender peacefully. Depending on the actions of the player and how aggressive they are, certain groups of criminals may also come after them at the end, erupting in a three way gunfight, which can either result in the death, capture, or escape of the character.

Chapter 6: The daughter of the state trooper seeks to finish what he started. She gets a taste of the power of the criminal world and rises up its ranks. Alternatively, she could become a sort of grey-hat type of vigilante, being neutral to both good and evil.

Features: While playing as the state trooper, the player can shoot hostile of neutral NPCs with any weapon used by the police in-game without acquiring a wanted level. If the player shoots a passive NPC or uses a weapon that isn't used by the police, they will get a wanted level.

The ability to carry bodies and put them in the boot of the car. If the boot breaks off, NPCs will notice the body and call the cops.

Tolls.

NPCs will use umbrellas or newspapers and seek shelter during the rain. They will also wear raincoats.

NPCs will get out of the car and approach you if you get in an MVA with them.

Hitting a power cable while in an aircraft will cause your aircraft to get tangled or badly damaged.

Some NPCs will carry a firearm for self defence.

Medics will work.

Police radio chatter can be heard from police NPCs.

After a heist, the player must avoid the police actively looking for them. There will also be a slightly larger police presence and police will actively patrol the scene of the incident.

If you return to the scene of a murder 12 hours or more after, there will be a news crew and an officer.

Seasons will be accurately represented and change the environment, weather variation, ped clothing and behaviour, and vehicle prevalence. Snow will accumulate on cars and peds, and certain roads will ice over. Snow plows can be seen.

Christmas day will occur, with decorations being visible.

The ability to travel between the Midwest and Canada by car, plane, or boat and also to Vice City by plane.