Grand Theft Auto V

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Continuity mistake: Casing the Jewel Store: When Lester sticks the final photo to the cork board, an error occurs with the pictures when Michael walks in front of it. The last photo that Lester sticks on the board is one photo with nothing sticking it, but Michael then walks in front of it, and multiple photos and a piece of tape above it suddenly pop-up on screen.

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Continuity mistake: The Jewel Store Job (Smart Approach): After stealing the jewels, Michael heads for the exit. Just before Michael makes it through the front door, Franklin is seen talking to a police officer who has his arms by his side. The cutscene then starts playing where the police officer suddenly has his arms raised.

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Continuity mistake: Prologue: Michael and Brad starting talking after escaping the bank and Trevor shouts to stop them. When the shot is on Trevor, the outside of the car can be seen through the back window, and it is driving on the right side of the road. The shot then cuts to an exterior angle behind the car, where the car is driving on the left side of the road.

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Continuity mistake: Prologue: After Michael and Brad have been shot and the three extra police cars arrive, Trevor turns around and notices a woman standing in the far background. The woman is standing out of the shadow, but when the shot cuts to a closer shot, she is suddenly standing much closer to the shadow.

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Revealing mistake: In the opening establishing shots of Los Santos, there is a shot on the beach showing a woman lying down, and a dog running past her. In the shot, many objects in the background are suddenly animated partway into the shot, making it look as if they appeared onscreen out of nowhere.

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Revealing mistake: After the establishing shots of Los Santos are shown, Michael is walking along a street. Whilst this is happening, many details in the background are suddenly animated part way into the shot.

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Continuity mistake: Prologue: When the car crashes into the tree, the left side back door begins to open slightly, but in the next shot, the door is suddenly closed.

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Other mistake: Marriage Counselling: The opening shot of the intro cutscene is shown partway up the staircase of Michael's house looking down on the hallway. In the foreground of the shot, there is an ornament suspended from the ceiling, hanging around the staircase. The ornament starts off a very shaded colour, but an animation error occurs, causing the ornament to shift to a much lighter colour within a frame.

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Other mistake: Marriage Counselling: When Franklin arrives at Michael's house to find the tennis coach jumping off the balcony, there are numerous animation errors shown around the balcony, notably when the player shifts the camera angles. First, there are flowers around the balcony when the coach jumps off, but there are some frames in which the flowers have not been animated. Second, there are some frames in which the door to the balcony has not been animated, leaving a colourless arch shape. Third, numerous rendering layers of the balcony door will pop-up on screen during each individual key frame when the camera angle is altered.

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Revealing mistake: Marriage Counselling: Just after Michael and Franklin return to the house after thinking they have outrun Martin Madrazo, the game cuts to a cutscene showing a wide shot of them approaching the house, and Michael thanking Franklin. When this happens, an animation error occurs where the shadows of the house and trees alter on-screen.

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Continuity mistake: The Big Score: Once Franklin has drilled down the wall between the underground construction site and the bank's vaults, Franklin will have to blow down the cages where the gold is contained. After blowing down the cages, there will be a hole in the door for the others to take the gold out of the vaults and the NOOSE team will appear to take everyone out. If Franklin is killed by the NOOSE team, he will have to drill down the wall and blow the cages all over again. When Franklin goes to blow down the cages, the cage doors are now in the position they were in when they were blown off during the previous attempt, even though Franklin hasn't actually gotten to this part yet.

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Audio problem: Parenting 101: Once Michael reaches the car Jimmy is being kidnapped in, Michael receives a call from Jimmy's phone and the kidnapper is heard asking Jimmy who the man chasing them is. Jimmy is then heard yelling at the kidnappers, telling them it is his dad, but Jimmy is banging on the rear windscreen yelling at his dad and isn't even talking with the kidnappers.

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Continuity mistake: The Bureau Raid: After celebrating at Lester's house, Michael leaves whilst Franklin and Lester are celebrating together. Michael then receives a call from Dave. Franklin is never shown exiting the house, but if you choose to switch to Franklin after making the call, he is suddenly shown walking around Los Santos, even though he was just shown celebrating with Lester.

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Bug: Reuniting the Family: After Michael and Jimmy have picked up Tracey from the tattoo parlour, Michael drives them in his car to Dr. Friedlander's office. On the way, if Michael chooses to do a stunt jump off the Jetty Hotel, the car is mostly invisible, and the only part actually visible is the car's outline. As the jump progresses, the car becomes more visible, until the car is fully shown.

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Revealing mistake: Just before you enter the Jetty hotel, there is a short driveway you drive up before reaching the parking garage. There are yellow lines along the side of the driveway, however, they are never shown from each angle of the camera. If the shot is rotated around, there is an angle where the yellow lines will just vanish, and there is an angle where the yellow lines will appear.

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Continuity mistake: The Merryweather Heist (Offshore Approach): In the ending cut scene, Trevor bangs his head against the wooden crate lid at the airstrip. Due to him banging his head on it, blood appears on the crate lid. The game then announces the mission is complete and cuts back to the game. After it cuts back to the game, the blood on the wooden crate lid has vanished.

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Other mistake: The Merryweather Heist (Offshore Approach): At the end of the mission, Franklin, Michael and Lester exit the airstrip and Trevor is still there. Trevor, in rage, bashes his head repeatedly on a wooden crate lid. Blood visibly appears on the crate lid. However, there is not a single drop of blood visible on Trevor's face.

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Continuity mistake: Paparazzo - The Sex Shoot: Franklin and Beverly run back to Beverly's car with the sex tape footage, they then enter the car and drive off. When Franklin enters the car, he is shown entering the door to the left back seat, behind the driver's seat. We don't actually see him enter, but he is not shown entering the right side door of the back seat and he was definitely on the back row, as shown when he then tries to film Poppy driving, so he definitely entered through the left back seat. After they have filmed the footage of Poppy chasing them, Beverly stops the car to allow Franklin to exit. Franklin is now sitting in the right hand side back seat.

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Continuity mistake: Paparazzo - The Sex Shoot: Franklin walks up to Beverly just before the opening cut scene begins. As Franklin is walking up, Beverly is shown holding his camera pointing forwards, slightly to the right. The scene then cuts to the opening cut scene and Beverly is suddenly holding the camera much more to the right.

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Michael De Santa: Can you stop being an asshole, please?

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Trivia: The motion capture performer for Franklin is Shawn Fonteno. Shawn Fonteno is the cousin of Young Maylay, who voiced the character CJ from the earlier Grand Theft Auto game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

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Question: What is the name given to those cart things that can be driven around San Andreas? For a detailed description, the carts being referred to kind of look like a golf cart, but without the roof on it and they are only shown in San Andreas, and not shown in Los Santos.

Chosen answer: It is called a Civillian Caddy. Also the location being referred to is not San Andreas, but in fact Sandy Shores.

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