To coincide with the launch of GTA 5, Rockstar has launched a companion app called ‘iFruit’, which is the name of the spoof Apple brand found in the game. The app integrates with in-game features allowing you to keep tabs on and interact with your game while away from your console.
The basic functionality includes integration with the Rockstar Social Club, which lets you see news and content from the game and interact with other players, but it also ties in with GTA V’s in-game Facebook spoof, dubbed ‘LifeInvader’. Presumably this will become more important when the multiplayer component, GTA Online, is released as a free download in the next few weeks.
A bit more substantial are the two mini games incorporated into the app. The first is a virtual pet and training section for one of the character’s in-game pets, Franklin’s dog, a Rottweiler named Chop.
You can use the app to give Chop presents, food and water, play fetch, take him on walks and train him to sit, beg and shake hands. This will unlock interactions with Chop in the main console game and will also improve his happiness levels, meaning he’ll be able to do more and it can make him more effective at helping the player. Allegedly you can customise Chop in-game with different collars and bandanas and there’s some suggestion the iFruit app may help you unlock bonus ones.
The second section is Los Santos Customs, a car customisation tool, it will let you tweak all the car customisation options found in the main game including number plates, paint, window tint, tyre burnout smoke colours, custom wheel rims, car horns and bodywork such as spoilers, bonnets, exhausts, lights and bodykits.
You can also enhance performance with engine upgrades, turbos, nitrous, brakes, suspension, tires and even bullet-proof armour for those particularly risky heists and chases. Apparently changes you make to cars on the app will be saved for when you boot up the main game, we would assume you can only customise cars you’ve already got stored in your garage.
Currently the iFruit app is only available on iOS but Rockstar has revealed it is working on Android and Windows Phone iterations to launch soon.
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