What initially started as a visual mod that aimed to give GTA V's already impressive Los Santos a cutting edge sheen, has also added things like new weapon load-outs for police, new physics, and even rejigged car handling and destruction. Called GTA V Redux the impressive mod is also the work of one man, Josh Romito. And it looks incredible.

In a recent Reddit AMA, Josh pointed out that the mod was made possible through editing existing game files.

The entire project consists solely of edited game files and data. Xml, meta, dat, and texture files! No scripting was done for the development. All features were made possible, only by editing the core game data files.

And it's available now.



Naturally you'll need a serious rig to be able to run this at any sort of playable frame-rate. As it adds all new 4K textures, global illumination, and some very pretty and lifelike shrubbery. In addition to the high-def violence.