Here's a quick list of what players can expect, according to the Entertainment Software Rating Board, from the year's most anticipated video game:

  • stealing cars
  • executing heists
  • assassinating targets
  • pistols
  • machine guns
  • sniper rifles
  • explosives
  • the ability to shoot non-adversary civilians
  • Blood-splatter effects
  • rare depictions of dismemberment.
  • depictions of sexual material/activity
  • implied fellatio and masturbation
  • various sex acts that the player's character procures from a prostitute
  • various sexual moaning sounds can be heard.
  • Nudity
  • a topless lap dance in a strip club
  • male cult members with exposed genitalia in a non-sexual context.
  • myriad sex jokes
  • depictions of raw sewage and feces on a worker's body
  • a brief instance of necrophilia (no nudity is depicted)
  • narcotics
  • smoking from a bong
  • lighting a marijuana joint
  • cocaine use is also depicted
  • The words “f**k,” “c*nt,” and “n**ger”

And yet, despite (because of?) the controversial gameplay, Grand Theft Auto V is the best Grand Theft Auto yet, Stephen Totilo writes at Kotaku.