

Contracts include rescuing wealthy clients from hitmen, protecting expensive stock from gunmen or evading gunfire whilst retrieving expensive items sadly, they’re all essentially missions stuck in the mould of tired fetch quests. Now the owner and proprietor of a ‘celebrity solutions agency,’ Franklin employs you as new employee-cum-business partner, tasked with maintaining the faux-glitz and glamourous veneer hiding Los Santos’ underbelly.

The banterful interplay between Franklin and Lamar is as comical as ever, with Franklin still the subject of a frequent roasting. On the plus side, The Contract sees the delightful return of original series protagonist Franklin and wannabe bad boy Lamar. Enter Dr Dre, whose appearance in the all-new expansion story The Contract is generally quite good, despite more than a few ramshackle missions. Of course, it’d be nice if some of their earnings went into refining GTA 5’s clunky core gameplay mechanics and dated world building. Seriously, Los Santos is practically crumbling under content. There’s an increasing number of players growing impatient, weary of GTA 5’s bloated online experience. Indeed, GTA 6 still hasn’t been officially announced, despite rumours of its development gathering momentum.

Surely Rockstar should pool their resources into the series’ next instalment. A quick check on player statistics, and the numbers are as high as they’ve ever been. Booting up Grand Theft Auto 5 for the first time in a couple of years, and I have to wonder who is still playing this game in 2021.
