One of the biggest companies when it comes to video games is Rockstar, who put a lot of work into their games - especially their biggest franchise: Grand Theft Auto. It has been a while since GTA V hit the shelves, but we think that people would still be surprised by the amount of stuff that was missed out and left behind, even by those that played it religiously once it finally came out!
The thing about creating a world as big as the one in GTA V is that it’s inevitable that people are going to miss some things about it, as they won’t always run into some of the scripted sequences placed in there by the video game developers. What we’ve done is pull together some of the more difficult-to-find missions, the ones that most people probably didn’t play through originally as they’re optional and a lot more hidden than the story-focused ones!
12 Become A Cult Member
If you go to the Epsilon website while in control of Michael, they’ll find a questionnaire they can fill in. Once you’ve done that, you’ll be offered a chance to take on some rather odd side missions from the Epsilon group. They will start by showing up on the map as a question mark.
These missions include stealing a car for them and donating your own money to the group, before finally being tasked with delivering a car filled with money to someone (although players can choose to steal it if they want to…). Beware of the consequences of betraying the cult, though.
11 Steal People For Food
Throughout the game, you will find people who are lost without a way of getting where they need to be, so they can be picked up and taken to their required destination. However, if these people are picked up by Trevor, the player can take them to a different place: the altruist cult, where a group of sinister people with despicable nourishment are waiting for people to fill their bad desires.
It’s not long before they end up turning on the person who is supplying them with all of these people, though…
10 Hunt Bigfoot
It’s no wonder that most people didn’t end up experiencing this hidden mission, as it actually requires you to reach 100 percent completion. Once you’ve done that, you will be able to start a mission called The Last One as Franklin by meeting up with a hunter who claims to be on the trail of a Sasquatch.
Seeing as it takes so long to get finally get to this hidden mission, we’re not going to spoil anything, but all we’ll say is that it is well worth it!
9 Go Hunting
While it’s not made immediately obvious, players are offered up a side activity to take on as Trevor by his friend Cletus, who gives him a deer call and teaches him how to get the best shot when hunting.
Every time Trevor takes down an animal, he can send a snap of it from his phone to Cletus, who will rate and rank him. Just a nice little side activity for anyone who wants to take a break from shooting people instead!
8 Stop Thelma & Louise!
GTA V is a huge game, so it’s no surprise that Rockstar was able to fill it with easter eggs, one of which is two women in an open-top car that are recreating the final scene from Thelma & Louise.
The iconic duo is stuck with nowhere to go, so they drive off the cliff, escaping the police but ending their lives. Players can stop them from doing this, either by taking them out themselves or pulling them out of the car!
7 Fight Aliens
People who play Rockstar games know that side missions have been given out by “Strangers and Freaks” in all of their games for a while now. These are random NPCs that players can travel to on the map and experience something outside the main narrative path that has already been laid out for them.
One of these strangers offers Trevor and Michael the chance to smoke something that freaks them out, leading them to believe they’re being attacked by aliens with nothing but a minigun to take them out!
6 Work As Border Patrol
This is a chance for players to take part in a bit of border patrol work with Trevor, who helps out two men who believe that they’re taking down some immigrants. It quickly becomes clear that they’re merely harassing people from different countries, but obviously, this doesn’t stop Trevor from taking part.
By the final mission, you learn a lot about the Border Patrol and Trevor. To make up for his part in the racist activities, he takes out his anger on a few CBP officers who are threatening a Mexican family.
5 Recruit Patrick McCreary
Anyone who has played GTA IV will remember Patrick McCreary, as he quickly became friends with Niko, the main character from that installment. The two of them made money through crimes together.
Well, some will be surprised to find out that this guy is in GTA V as well!Players can come across him and a friend without a getaway driver. If the player chooses to help Patrick, he can then be recruited to help on heists later on in the game.
4 Recruit Taliana Martinez
Just like Patrick, you can recruit a woman named Taliana Martinez. She can be found in a flaming wreck off the highway, where you can stop and help her out.
She was the getaway driver for a robbery gone wrong, with partner betraying her by pulling a knife on her and causing the crash. If you save her by getting her to her safe house in Sandy Shores, she becomes a recruitable driver for any future heists later on in the game.
3 Become A Wildlife Photographer
One of the strangers and freaks that Franklin meets throughout his journey is a woman named Beverly, and once he has finished that mission, he can take part in wildlife photography competitions.
Players are tasked with attempting to photograph the right animal in the right conditions. Once Franklin has managed to get a photograph of every animal on the list, the player will be given the Kraken submersible to play around with.
2 Take Down The Therapist!
While a lot of people didn’t enjoy going to visit Michael’s therapist in GTA V, they clearly weren’t aware that Rockstar had included a hidden mission that only triggers by going to see him enough times throughout the game.
He rings Michael to let him know that he is leaving town to star in his own TV show, and the player will be given the option to hunt him down to make sure that none of the secrets he had told him will be able to get out into the wider world!
1 Go Parachuting With Dom
While running around as Franklin, you will be led by Chop to a man who is struggling to get down from a tree. This is Dom, and he had been parachuting before getting stuck.
Once Franklin helps him down, Dom asks him to go out with him in the future, join in on his excursions through the sky. Franklin seems pretty dubious at first, but if the player wants to, they can jump out of planes with this guy, performing parachuting challenges while they do so!
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