The Guns N' Roses song "Welcome to the Jungle" can be found on Radio X, an alternative rock station. Interestingly, Axl Rose does have a song in San Andreas, but it's not from K-DST. They still hold resentment over their former bandmates, who achieved more afterward. However, their careers went downhill after they left their bands to perform solo. Both of them were former musicians who were once widely successful. Tommy Smith shares striking similarities with his real-life counterpart. He hosts the radio station K-DST in San Andreas. The lead singer and guitarist for Guns N' Roses assumes the role of Tommy "The Nightmare" Smith. Players cannot help but laugh at what he says.Ĥ) Axl Rose Axl Rose (Image via Rolling Stone)Īxl Rose certainly made a name for himself in the world of rock and roll. While his advice is questionable, he says it with such a calm and collected demeanor. Despite his age, Loggins sounds like a 20-year-old with his comforting reassurances. His smooth voice guides the rock tracks in Los Santos radio. The American singer and songwriter is known for catchy songs like "I'm Alright," "Meet Me Halfway," and "This Is It."Ī fixture of various musical genres, Loggins has won an Emmy and two Grammy awards for his work. In GTA 5, Kenny Loggins plays himself as the head DJ for Los Santos Rock Radio.
GTA SAN ANDREAS RADIO STATION SERIES
Rockstar understands the significance of these stations, so they hand out the checkbook for celebrity appearances.Īlthough their role is relatively minor, these radio DJs serve an essential function - breathing life into the world of GTA.įive celebrity radio hosts from the GTA series 5) Kenny Loggins Kenny Loggins (Image via Grammy) Radio personalities add flavor to their respective stations. One prominent example is the posh Cara Delevingne from GTA 5.
However, this rule doesn't necessarily apply to their radio stations.įrom San Andreas to GTA 5, careful listeners might recognize a few voices. Since GTA 4, Rockstar Games prefers to limit celebrity voice acting to lesser-known talents. Given its high-profile status, celebrity involvement is inevitable. ( You can listen to the latest soundtrack on Spotify here.One of the defining aspects of the GTA series is the soundtrack. This is sneakily on point: This kind of eclecticism and sonic mishmashing is a pretty accurate representation of The Way We Listen Now, flitting between genres and eras on Spotify or Pandora or iTunes. (Could anything feel more like 1993 in Southern California than driving a lowrider down the street in fictional San Andreas while listening to The Chronic?) The newest GTA has a contemporary setting, and the music that adorns it seems less tethered to a particular era - from Aaron Neville and the Doobie Brothers to N.W.A.
The soundtracks have done much of the heavy lifting in terms of evoking the feel of a time and place. GTA isn't a game like BioShock, which is trying to make a political statement about the world, but it says something that the developers felt that this was an area where they want to dive deep. (There are even fake public radio stations, as in GTA: San Andreas: "Lulling you to sleep with liberal soft-pedaling," the announcer says during the station ID.) It's that kind of detail that makes GTA's fake worlds feel almost real and playing it so much fun - you can imagine their digital inhabitants banging some Fela Kuti on their commutes to work on the other side of the city, far away from all the mayhem you're causing. It's Latin music and black music from a time when the parameters for those things were much more rigidly defined - and the stations played not just the obvious hits from that genre but the kind of dope music that might have bookended those megahits on a real-life radio station. In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, set in a fictional analog for 1980s Miami, the Spanish-language radio station would play the Cuban percussionist Mongo Santamaria and the post-disco station would play Teena Marie and Earth Wind and Fire. Oh, but the music! The music is so good and so much fun, clearly curated by people who are deeply familiar with the various genres that play on the fictional radio stations that blare out of the games' many stolen cars. There was also the smarmy Jewish lawyer, Ken Rosenberg, in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The GTA series has become a shorthand for all the putative social ills associated with video games, and it's come in for a lot of justified criticism for its portrayals of women (you get money for killing prostitutes) and people of color (Haitian and Cuban groups protested the way they were portrayed in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City).
That's a whole lot of money and ignored spouses. The latest entrant into the Grand Theft Auto franchise dropped this week, raking in an obscene $800 million in sales in just its first day. A billboard at the Figueroa Hotel in Los Angeles advertises Grand Theft Auto V, released this week.
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