Missions Will Be Musically Scored in GTA V

Not only will GTA V not see any characters appearing prior to GTA IV due to the fact that anything and anyone pre the switch to HD (including CJ) "mythical characters from a bygone era", there's a change to the way the music works as well - a major change.

Yes, in a thematic change to the series, that once paid money to license tracks (and probably was also paid to play tracks) Rockstar is going with soundtracks to theme missions in GTA V. This reflects the generally acclaimed use of themed musical scores to maintain a cinematic and emotional texture in games such as the might Red Dead Redemption.

According to Dan Houser in a recent interview:

"We though could do something interesting if we scored missions in GTA. Obviously we didn't want to lose radio stations, so we thought we'd do both.

"Exactly how we're going to balance between the two we're not entirely sure yet – we're still trying to figure that out. But we have some very cool people doing the score, different people, who will work in the same stem-based system that we used in the other games".