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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEW RELEASE
Video gamers welcome highly anticipated 'Grand Theft Auto V'
Over 250 Lawrence residents and students waited outside their favorite Lawrence video game retailers Monday, Sept. 16, for a new product from Rockstar games. It was the next chronicle in a series that hasn't released a game title for a major console since 2008: "Grand Theft Auto V."
TOM DEHART
fdehart@kansan.com
"Grand Theft Auto IV", released in 2008, told the story of a Russian immigrant in Liberty City, which had been used in previous titles such as "Grand Theft Auto III" and was heavily based off New York City. However, that game left some students unwilling to play to the end.
“Grand Theft Auto 1V” took me too long to beat; I didn't really play
it," Cody Flitzercraft, a freshman, said Monday night at the Hastings Entertainment at 23rd and Iowa streets. With a production and marketing budget of $265 million, "Grand Theft Auto V" cost more to produce than most Hollywood films. This sort of hype has made University gamers eager to see what Rockstar Games has up its sleeve for this fall's release.
"I have been a major fan of every Rockstar game ever made and they have yet to disappoint, so I'm looking forward to seeing what they do," senior Evan Hurley said as he waited outside the GameStop at 33rd and Iowa streets. "One of the things that I loved most about 'Red Dead Redemption' was roaming around in the wilderness, so I'm looking forward to the free-roam map"
Set in the fictional city of Los Santos, "Grand Theft Auto V" gives players the ability to play as three separate characters. Each character has a sub-story that helps develop their role in the game's overall plot. The characters include Michael DeSanta, a retired comman, Franklin Clinton, a repo-man for a car dealership and Trevor Phillips, a drug-addicted psychopath. All three characters are pulled into organized crime for one personal reason or another.
But organized crime and mayhem are not the only things a player can pursue in this game. Players can choose between an array of mini-games, which include golfing, mountain-biking, scuba-diving for virtual treasure
and base-jumping, among others. Like previous "Grand Theft Auto" releases, the game features a satirical viewpoint on American society, reflects the latest culture and mocks it in a way that is signature to Rockstar Games and "Grand Theft Auto."
"In one of their trailers they showed something from the movie 'Heat,' where an armored car hit another car to knock it over." Hurley said. "So they obviously have drawn some influences from movies for this game." All movie references and cultural spin-offs aside, "Grand Theft Auto V" will be a game that many University students will enjoy throughout the entire school year.
— Edited by Kayla Overbey
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PRINCE POPSICLE
Harry spends night in deep freezer
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Britain's Prince Harry warms his hands after a cold chamber training exercise with the Walking with the Wounded South Pole Allied Challenge 2013 British team at Nuneaton, central England, on Tuesday.
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LONDON — Prince Harry spent the night in a giant freezer to simulate the conditions he will face when he treks to the South Pole in November. The 29-year-old royal, who will race with a team of injured British servicemen and women against groups from the United States and the Commonwealth, spent around 20 hours in a cold chamber where he was subjected to temperatures of -31 Fahrenheit, with wind speeds of 45 miles per hour. Alongside four teammates, $ ^{a1} $
amputees who lost limbs after sustaining injuries in Afghanistan, Harry tested the clothing he will wear on the 200-mile expedition and learned how to avoid frostbite. When asked Tuesday what the worst part of his overnight experience was, Harry joked: "Going in." The challenging expedition is set to begin in late November and is expected to last about 15 days. The teams plan to trek between nine and 12 miles each day. Actors Alexander Skarsgard from the "True Blood" series and Dominic West of "The Wire" will also participate in the race.
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