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10 Mods We Want For Grand Theft Auto V PC
The Grand Theft Auto games are great on any platform they come to, but like the Elder Scrolls series, you get more bang for your buck with the PC version thanks to all the brilliant mods the community creates after the game releases. Now that this version of the game has shipped, we're dreaming up some cool mods we'd love to see come to the game. You can always count on the modders to come up with graphical improvements, car spawners, and realistic vehicles, so we wanted to venture beyond these welcome changes to think more outside the box. Here's what we came up with.
Spotify Integration
No developer has better music taste than the Rockstar collective, but even their fantastic curation can get old after playing the game hundreds of hours. The custom soundtrack is a great feature, but we'd love for someone take this a step further and crack the conundrum of integrating your own Spotify playlist into the station rotation. Think of this as the Sirius XM of Los Santos.
Full Destructibility
This mod won't be easy given how few professional developers get destructibility right, but we're just spit-balling pie in the sky ideas here, so why not? Imagine the hijinks you could create in this fantastic open world. Barreling tanks through the first floor of skyscrapers, taking out trailer homes with rocket launchers, and shooting off the wings of fighter jets is just the tip of the iceberg.
Kaiju
This ties directly into the last wish list item. If the buildings are destructible, then we want to emerge from the depths of the ocean with a 100-foot tall, fire-breathing monster and wreak havoc on the city, squaring off against the full might of the military and maybe even battling other monsters on the streets of Los Santos.
Gang Wars
We would love to take a walk down memory lane and resurrect the gang wars of San Andreas in modern day Los Santos. Let us create and customize our own gang (paging SAMCRO), jockey for territory, and fend off waves of rival gang members to take over the city. Combine this with the drug dealing mechanic from Chinatown Wars and we'd have another deep mechanic to spend dozens of hours enjoying.
LSPD Mode
Players spend the majority of their time imposing their own will on the denizens of Los Santos. Why not flip the table and let us be one of the boys in blue to do the same thing from behind the safety of the badge? Real world Los Santos analog Los Angeles is notorious for police corruption, so letting us play Bad Lieutenant by hunting down criminals and keeping the spoils for ourselves could be a great alternative experience.
An Online Permadeth Server
Games like Dark Souls have demonstrated demand for punishing experiences that push player skill to the max. What's more punishing than an online mode where once you die, you lose all your hard-earned assets? I would love to see how this would change player habits in the open world. Maybe then players would think twice before trying to run down that random stranger who's just trying to shop for hats.
Superheroes
A city with as much crime as Los Santos needs a hero to protect its people. Imaging flying through the city as Iron Man, tossing criminals hundreds of feet with Hulk, or saving all the sealife as Aquaman. Just kidding about the last one. Actually, can someone develop an Aquaman we can hunt as Trevor?
A Sci-Fi Arsenal
Saints Row specializes in bats**t crazy extravagance, but I'd much rather run through a Rockstar developed open world with jet packs, hover bikes, laser weapons, and heat seeking grenades than the relatively barren locales of Stillwater.
Moon Physics
Altering the planet's gravity would obviously add a fun wrinkle to combat, but we're almost more interested to see how it would affect the non-player characters who are going about their regular routines.
Oculus Rift Support
We've found the best VR experiences to be stationary ones where the player is manning a cockpit, but that doesn't mean we wouldn't like to see someone attempt to make GTA V playable with the Oculus Rift. This seems all the more plausible now that Rockstar is introducing the first-person mode.
Those are our ideas, what mods would you like to see in GTA V?
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