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On November 2, Rockstar will release the debut trailer for the fifth main game in the Grand Theft Auto series.
Previously unconfirmed, the above logo is our first official sight of anything to do with the game, though there have been strong rumours for a while now that the title would be based in Los Santos, the series’ version of Los Angeles.
Call of Duty is an old franchise in that it has had many installments. Call of Duty (1) was actually my first foray into FPS games (previously most had been RTS), and there was something in there that appealed to me. That thing was the lives of the soldiers you played.
Gameplay mechanics? They were passable. Scripted, but passable. I didn’t know any better, and got frustrated in one particular mission (the dam), but nevertheless the core that really appealed to me was the humanity Infinity Ward managed to intersperse throughout the game. The first inkling of this was the names every soldier was given. Then the excellent voice acting. The desperation of high-stress situations causing adrenaline to course through the veins. Best of all, it was fluid and never corny.
Call of Duty 2 followed likewise. Soldiers playing chess? Ah well, grenade and a volley of bullets for them. Men taking a break from the war? Shoot them all. Meanwhile, the game became amazingly fluid and truly cinematic.
And then waltzed in World of War, and I hated it. Yet people who had never played the previous games praised it highly. What was I missing? Surely I knew best, having completed both 1 and 2 in veteran. I could just discount the sales to the success of COD2, but that would force me to assume the people praising the game knew nothing; essentially, that they didn’t know how to have fun.
Since then COD has changed. It’s probably been milked for all it’s worth, and Infinity Ward no longer exists as its original entity. I still remember, though, the enjoyment people derived from playing the game at all levels of the franchise. Just because I didn’t like it, didn’t necessarily make it bad, and it certainly didn’t invalidate others’ opinions or give me any right to protest its evolution.
Tl;dr: if people who aren’t fanboys play an installment for the first time and enjoy it, it’s probably a good game. Maybe not the game you would have expected, but nevertheless a good game in its own right.
Well said, I found SR2 and JC fun but I didnt find the HEY HAVE WHACKY FUN! appeal to be very long lasting. The real fun of GTA has always been to make your own, and the more subtle and complex the world, the more fun I’ve had. There is a level of interaction with the physical environment in GTAIV that is still unmatched.
The way GTA crafts is humour is just so unique and great, I really found no great difference in tone between San Andreas and GTAIV as a whole.
I mostly enjoyed Vice City & San Andreas, GTA IV was good in terms of story line, Collectibles, Secrets and side missions but i dislike not being able to fly planes and the fact that you were stuck in the ‘big city’. no country side, no farm vehicles, no funny hicks chasing after you when you steal their ride on mower and ride off into the sunset.
A few other things i would like to see in the upcoming GTA V is planes, the ability to purchase different properties all over the zone, Collectibles with decent rewards (Similar to vice city), Purchasable vehicles, Mod-able vehicles, Multi-Character protagonists, Online co-op possibly.
I loved the country side in San Andreas, I’d love more than anything to have that aspect back in 5! was so good causing a ruckus then heading for the hills and out of the cities, haha ah the memories.
Planes are tricky, being able to very occasionally (in the scheme of the whole game) move fast and high has a pretty big impact on the technical design for a small percentage of the gameplay.
YES!! I loved being able to cause trouble in the country side or go exploring! Just the diversity of the game in general, The wide variety of missions, vehicles, (girlfriends), recruiting gang members to get on your pink scooter and mow down some fools. pumping it at the gym etc. etc. lots to do, fun game. Would appreciate a bit of that diversity with GTA V but i guess we will see when the trailer is released.
Rockstar grew up. The type of gameplay most of you want has a very limited appeal while IV was the best Gta because it was different. I hope V is like IV
If it has limited appeal, why do they want it? There are quite a few people who had more fun with Saints Row 2 than GTA4, were they wrong to do so? Something about this just doesn’t add up.
would it be too much to ask for a main character like michael western from burn notice?
that would be an awesome character for a game like GTA.
Come the actual trailer next week, the topic i reckon will be on everyone’s mind is “GTAV and R18 and what will it mean for us”
GTA FIVE! Notice not GTA 4: random city.
Is it going to be as big as a leap as GTA 3 engine to GTA 4? Doubt it
No way. The GTA4 engine must’ve come close to maxing out the hardware; I doubt they can go much further in this generation. GTA7 on the PS4, that’s the one to look forward to.
Eh, forgot to add one thing: I hope they make more buildings you can enter. I wouldn’t mind paying an extra 20 dollars if most buildings were at least superficially able to be interacted with.
Screw entering them, I’d pay an extra 200 if I could burn them to the ground or topple them over with a bulldozer. And then instead of the buildings just respawning when I turn my back, they’d stay demolished until NPC’s rebuilt them in real time. I might be asking a bit much, though.
It’s GTA, they have all been awesome and all are in the list of top games ever. I AM SO PUMPED FOR THIS. Here’s hoping it doesn’t get delayed massively and the release date is actually mid 2012.
I can’t wait for this… I agree that GTAIV was not the best. I have 100% of Vice city and San andreas and didnt even bother getting close in GTAIV. They need to go back to their roots, which includes planes and parachutes and bmx bikes and country areas and just allowing the freedom to have fun…
Im a fan for life so ill always get this, but interested to see what they’ve got in store.
Crossing my fingers that this time they figure out how to deliver good combat/shooting gameplay and driving that isn’t horrid. Also, the ability to walk and/or run through doorways without running into walls and doorjams all the time 😛
GTA IV had lots of potential but I couldn’t stick with it because of the frustrating little hitches in gameplay that happened so very often.
That being said… GTA IV was leaps and bounds better than any of the previous GTA games when it came to combat, controls, general glitchy behavior.
They were fun, but I’ll be damned if all of their gameplay mechanics weren’t constantly glitched all to hell.
There’s lots of people here saying what they think made the GTA series great, either story, or the wackiness or characters or the world, i think its the combination of all of them, when i think of GTA i dont think of vice city, or 3, or 4, i think of the series as a whole and as its grown over the years. i have memories of adoring all the games individually, but i couldn’t pick one over another, they all had their own charms, even 4, you just had to find it (low eddy anyone?). We can pretty much presume this game is gonna be fucking incredible no matter what direction they decide to go in, please have faith in rockstar they deserve it don’t they?
Wow, I can’t believe how many people can’t appreciate the subtlety of GTAIV, I mean, GTA has always been about satirising america, similar to how the simpsons does. But GTAIV took that and ran with it. To me, GTAIV is the video game worlds Clockwork Orange, controversial, but artistically sound.
I agree, more freedom and extreme stuff is great, but they did start with a new engine, so maybe 5 will be a big leap towards San ANdreas style scale, but with GTAIV’s superior storyline.
When I first looked at that poster the V with the banner across the front just screamed ‘ireland’ at me.
The green V in conjunction with the scroll like banner. I doubt the new game will be set outside of the US but could it possibly be set somewhere with a large Irish population, or a city that has irish influences like the boston celtics <- thats just an example.
It actually reminded me of the text and imagery on the U.S. paper currency… which made me think of Washington D.C…. but I can’t imagine they’d wanna dive into *that* particular minefield… ;-P
To elaborate, initially I thought someone had just MSpainted over the top of the GTA4 logo, but then I realised it was legit!
Nice to see them going for a properly named sequel rather than GTA:Some City, hopefully that means it’ll feel like a sequel to 4 rather than a spinoff (not that there was anything wrong with Vice City and San Andreas)
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