Grand Theft Auto V made official

[Oobgarm]

Yeah, we all knew it was coming.

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[portnoyd]

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz.

[heybtbm]

Pretty cool. Can't wait to get back to Los Santos/San Fiero/Las Venturas...if indeed the rumors are true.

[fahlim003]

Vice City or bust. If it is in SA I wonder if it's due to the work of Rage Vice City mods...
Oh well, should be interesting to see what's changed if anything.

[substantial_snake]

Cool.

Just keep the "feel" of GTA4 but let you do whatever you want outside of missions. I loved GTA4 but once beaten it got significantly less playtime then every other GTA game I've played, due to the lack of extra anything to do. GTA has always been funnest for me explorign the world and finding random missions and things to interact with. GTA 4 had all the little details down from the cars, TV, and internet but outside of that the game felt stale.

[RARusk]

Considering how they did the V I'm going to guess casinos are involved and therefore it will take place in Las Venturas.

It won't be long until I start getting people asking me if I am going to do a guide on GTA V and my answer will be "Of course I am". This game, along with "Hitman: Absolution", and "The Darkness II", are titles that I am committed to writing guides on upon release.

Right now, though, I am going to do one for "Deadly Premonition" and I am debating about doing one for the remake of "Syndicate".

[Compute]

Maybe they'll come up with a NEW city, instead of re-hashing the same 3 again and again.

[Korppi]

Didn't they say something about only streamlining and focusing the design, as most people don't have time or interest to cruise around? Shame if it's so. For me San Andreas was most fun with all the mini-game type of stuff to do in the vast and varied map. Especially the countryside, I just loved to drive with a truck around the countryside and listen to K-Rose. How easily amused one can be...

[Gamevet]

It would be cool if they had a larger selection of music, or allowed for custom soundtracks of some kind. I had to turn the radio off after hearing the same old stuff for the 20th time.

[kupomogli]

Whatever the city, and I hope it's not Liberty City for the 90th time, but I hope they either keep the Rage engine or atleast a massive upgrade of it.

[jonebone]

I'll probably get it at some point, but I'm not eagerly counting down the days or anything.

[jammajup]

I enjoyed the last one on PS3, if i was bored i used to just load it up to drive around admiring the scenery

[exit]

I enjoyed the hell out of GTA4, despite the fact that I had to start from scratch after my Fat PS3 died, I enjoyed my very long journey as Niko Bellic. So I'm looking forward to Rockstars next offering and hopefully they'll listen to some of the complaints about the city feeling empty at times, which is one of the few commonly talked about faults I agree on.


Didn't they say something about only streamlining and focusing the design, as most people don't have time or interest to cruise around? Shame if it's so.

I've never heard anything about this and if that were indeed true, it would be a really big step backwards for the series and gaming in general. Honestly, I don't know anyone who didn't go exploring the first time they played a new GTA game and of course raising a little hell in the process, so not quite sure how true that statement is.

[BlastProcessing402]

It would be cool if they had a larger selection of music, or allowed for custom soundtracks of some kind. I had to turn the radio off after hearing the same old stuff for the 20th time.

The Xbox version of SA handled custom soundtracks really well. Even would insert commercials between tracks, IIRC.

[Nebagram]

I'm excited by this... a little. I will admit to preferring San Andreas to Vice City but only by virtue of the fact that San Andreas's map is more varied, there's just more to do. GTA4 felt like a huge step back to the extent that I didn't even bother to complete it. Once you've driven down one flat urban street you've driven down them all.

[Colorado Rockies]

I hope it takes place in the 80's. Vice City is still my favorite GTA.

[Patney]

They better not make this all gritty and cinematic like GTA4. That game was a snorefest and not what was expected from a GTA at all.

[Collector_Gaming]

They better not make this all gritty and cinematic like GTA4. That game was a snorefest and not what was expected from a GTA at all.

lolwut?
since number 3 i thought all gta games were like this.
Atleast to me they seemed it (i own vice city, SA, IV, Liberty City Stories)

I loved the appeal of SA alot more then all others too. So much to do. So much to look for (back when it was still big i actually created using my PC copy a "scavenger hunt" game where i would take a picture of something random but unique in the game world and you'd have to go find it and tell me where it is)

And i hope they allow tanks and stuff back again. I missed that in GTA IV. Granted its very unrealistic. But what the hell it was still fun to steal a friggin tank and just go crazy in town.

I hope this game is in SA. I hope they give it that super world that GTA SA had with the 3 cities and various country towns.

[WCP]

The boys from Edinburgh better really bring the noise this time. GTA IV while kinda amazing for it's release window, hasn't really aged very well. The expansion packs were cool and all, but was anybody really desperate to run out and get those expansion packs right away? Most peeps I know played the main GTA IV for like 20 hours and then basically gave up on the main game, and never bothered with the expansions, regardless of how cool they looked.

Rockstar North basically created the open world genre, but other companies have come along and made even better sandboxes than GTA IV had. Red Dead Redemption from Rockstar San Diego and Fallout 3 by Bethesda Studios have shown what true open world gaming is capable of. GTA V is going to need to really up the ante in the gameplay department. Cut scenes and style can only take you so far. The open world game is no longer new, or novel. Open World games come out all the time now. Infamous 2 and Dead Island are two recent open world games that have come out. Skyrim is coming out soon. The stakes have been raised, I hope that the Howser brothers can pull a rabbit out their hat, because if they don't, they might wonder what happened to their unstoppable franchise.

[RCM]

I ran into someone from TT on Monday, a little bit ahead of the announcement. I wish I knew so I could've attempted to squeeze some info out of them!

I wonder if they'll be using the L.A. NOIRE engine on this.

[Leo_A]

I never thought about this today, but what constitutes a numbered GTA game? Vice City and San Andreas seemed like full flegded members of the main series. Shouldn't they of been GTA IV and GTA V?


The Xbox version of SA handled custom soundtracks really well. Even would insert commercials between tracks, IIRC.

GTAIII and Vice City also had custom soundtracks. I think they even did similar things with the commercials and such, didn't they?

This feature dying out is much of the reason I've yet to buy GTAIV. I liked having my own music to listen to when driving (I'd have to constantly be bringing up the dashboard blade to do it on GTAIV) since the games never include anything halfway decent for music.

[Korppi]

I've never heard anything about this and if that were indeed true, it would be a really big step backwards for the series and gaming in general. Honestly, I don't know anyone who didn't go exploring the first time they played a new GTA game and of course raising a little hell in the process, so not quite sure how true that statement is.

Yeah, take that with a grain of salt, I couldn't find anything with a little googling yet. Could be it was said about GTA IV before it's release, but I remember they sort of referred also to the future of GTA. Perhaps it's just my imagination...

[exit]

I never thought about this today, but what constitutes a numbered GTA game? Vice City and San Andreas seemed like full flegded members of the main series. Shouldn't they of been GTA IV and GTA V?

I think it was because they were all the same game engine and they didn't want to add a new entry in the system until there was a significant difference, or something along those lines. I think I remember reading that in an interview somewhere, or it may have just been something speculated at the time, either way it makes good enough sense to me.

[Leo_A]

I think it was because they were all the same game engine and they didn't want to add a new entry in the system until there was a significant difference, or something along those lines. I think I remember reading that in an interview somewhere, or it may have just been something speculated at the time, either way it makes good enough sense to me.

What was significantly different about GTA II, then?

I think it makes sense, too. But I have a feeling this upcoming game will be very much the GTA II or Vice City of its generation and will just offer more of the same, which will kill that theory if it happens.

[Ludwig]

Probably just another stillbirth of a once great series that should have put to rest one sequel ago. I'm not going to touch that after having wasted 50eur on gta4.

[misfits859]

They better not make this all gritty and cinematic like GTA4. That game was a snorefest and not what was expected from a GTA at all.

A snorefest? Wow, we really expect too much these days I guess.

[Nature Boy]

I really enjoyed GTA IV after initially being disappointed. Mostly because it just didn't seem to control as smoothly as San Andreas did. It just felt too tight or something.

But I really got into it by the end and I'm *really* looking forward to GTA V - although I'll likely be initially disappointed again because the map won't match the scope of San Andreas or something (and I will again in all likelihood really dig it by the time I'm finished with it).

In case it's not obvious, San Andreas is still my favourite GTA.

[Mynamesukx]

Booo!!! Grand Theft Auto was fun back when #3 was new. Now it is an old, rehashed game with a different guy each time. Ima go scrape my gums with razor blades rather than buy this one.

[duffmanth]

I was reading that you're gonna be able to play as multiple characters in the game. Hopefully there will also be different city settings to?

[Collector_Gaming]

I was reading that you're gonna be able to play as multiple characters in the game. Hopefully there will also be different city settings to?

that would be interesting. Kinda like how they did the expansions but all rolled into the main story.

Its been done in other games (where you'll be playing as one charecter and then the story switches to another to continue the story and back and ect ect ect). But i'd be interested in seeing what Rockstar can do to make this work better then in other games.

[pixelsnpolygons]

Really looking forward to the next game. My favorite is still Vice City - was kind of hoping they'd re-visit that location - oh well. I'd settle for another game set in the 80s though, there's so much to draw from in that decade.

GTA IV was good from what I played, but I never ended up completing it. I will, but it didn't hook me like the others. I still think there's a ton of potential left in the series and the team behind it is one of the best in the industry. This should be great.

[Collector_Gaming]

What really made me play GTA IV the most was their level of detail to the city this time around. I mean yea there were some of your major land marks and stuff you can find in the games world that play out in its real life city counterpart

GTA IV i could actually play and spot all kinds of locations i actually saw when i went to NYC outside of the statue of liberty and down town manhattan. I mean i even found the mcdonalds i ate at (granted they are called something different due to licensing in the game but still all the lights and signs are there as the real thing).
That really shocked me.

So i wanna see them do the same treatment to San Andreas game world now.

[Compute]

I would like to see a map that feels expansive, like SA. Although IV may have had a large map, you were still stuck in one city. Concrete jungles are fun and all, but there's nothing like trying to drive a tanker truck up a mountain and then jumping it off.

Also I think they should bring back the cheats. Having 3 printed pages of various wacky pedestrian, flying cars, etc make the game an absolute blast to play when you're sick of missions and shoot-everyone-until-you-get-shot.

[Oobgarm]

Trailer just debuted.

Back to Los Santos, and it looks like there's a lot more life in the city.

Would also appear that planes will make a comeback.

All in all, looks like a typical GTA game.

I'll be buying it day one.

[kupomogli]

GTA5 debut trailer looks great. Hopefully the game still plays on a modified Rage engine. I hope it has the either a better cover and shooting system than the one in Red Dead Redemption and sort of heavy feel on the cars like on GTA4 or the same.

[WCP]

Rockstar definitely knows how to make a trailer. Problem is, the trailers can look so exciting, but the games tend to get pretty stale after the first 20 hours or so of gameplay.

Not that 20 hours of gameplay is anything to sneeze at, but usually at 20 hours you're only about 35% of the way thru the game. I've started every GTA with good intentions, played them for tons of hours, but never actually finished any of them. Always got bored at a certain point.

(of course, I can say this about almost all the huge open world games that have 40 or more hours of gameplay)

[BetaWolf47]

Rockstar definitely knows how to make a trailer. Problem is, the trailers can look so exciting, but the games tend to get pretty stale after the first 20 hours or so of gameplay.

Not that 20 hours of gameplay is anything to sneeze at, but usually at 20 hours you're only about 35% of the way thru the game. I've started every GTA with good intentions, played them for tons of hours, but never actually finished any of them. Always got bored at a certain point.

(of course, I can say this about almost all the huge open world games that have 40 or more hours of gameplay)

That's because they do stupid stuff like force you to take boring training, or build up a stat, or do lame escort missions.

[Collector_Gaming]

Just saw the trailer and i am blown away already
can't friggin wait!
Now anyone wanna take bets on celebs casting voice overs?

I have a feeling Kat Von D will make a showing some where.
Cause its not like shes doing anything super big right now and LA is her town.