I’m a sucker for washed up has-beens in any kind of fiction, and Michael’s the epitome of that. (Is this still too mean?)īest: Michael De Santa (Grand Theft Auto V) I'm changing my answer to Robbie Williams for the intolerable pop drivel that is Angels. He performs Kids with Kylie Minogue on GTA V's Non-Stop-Pop FM. Is it too mean to include a real-life celebrity in a list like this, just because I don't find him funny? Wait, I've just realised… Robbie Williams is also a character in the GTA series. Therefore, he's a legitimate character in the world of GTA IV. Ricky Gervais performs part of a stand up routine at the Split Sides club in Algonquin's Star Junction. Worst: Ricky Gervais (Grand Theft Auto IV) Vercetti is pitched just right-at home with the life he leads, but with enough heart to keep the story interesting. There's none of the awkward dissonance of Niko, or the arbitrary randomness of Trevor. He's Scarface-obviously so-and that's fine. His ascent to the throne makes sense: it's part necessity, part desire. Vercetti is violent and dangerous, but surrounded by people more violent and more dangerous. He's the perfect GTA lead-a sociopath, but not hateful. We're saying best, not most likeable, right? In that case, Vice City's Tommy Vercetti is the obvious choice. We’d have been better off without you, Steve.īest: Tommy Vercetti (Grand Theft Auto: Vice City) And that torture mission was just garbage. Steve didn’t have much personality beyond stereotypical corrupt cop, so he was mostly just a mechanism to push the characters into missions. It was in poor taste and Rockstar wholly failed to justify the scene’s existence. It’s an ugly, failed attempt at being edgy that Rockstar weakly tries to excuse after the fact with some Trevor dialogue about choice and blah blah blah.
From those two, my least favorite character is FIB agent Steve Haines, mostly because he set up the tasteless torture scene GTA V forces you play as Trevor partway through the game. I’m sure there were great and terrible characters in GTA III, Vice City and San Andreas that I’ve long forgotten-only IV and V are really fresh in my mind. Bull shark testosterone was a hell of a drug. Everyone’s in on the joke that Brucie is an idiot except for Brucie, and he cracked me up every time he was on screen. Brucie was the best of the latter: an insane bro obsessed with his pecs and afraid of anything that jeopardizes his alpha manhood. There’s rarely been much depth to Rockstar’s GTA characters-they’re amusing, over-the-top caricatures pulled from Goodfellas and other crime flicks or conduits for satirizing pop culture. In fact, he’s the only character in the entire game, aside from Niko, whose name I even remember. I think I’m probably in the minority here, but unlike Sam I loved GTA IV’s Brucie.
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