Grand Theft Auto V is a crime.
Grand Theft Auto ( officially abbreviated GTA ) is an action-adventure video game series created by David Jones and Mike Dailly ; the later titles of which were created by brothers Dan and Sam Houser , Leslie Benzies and Aaron Garbut . Grand Theft Auto V . It is the first main entry in the Grand Theft Auto series since 2008 's Grand Theft Auto IV . Open world , free roam , or ( more loosely ) sandbox are terms for video games where a player can move freely through a virtual world and is given considerable freedom in regard to how and when to approach particular objectives , as opposed to other video games that have a more linear structure to their gameplay . A single-player video game is a video game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session .