Thread: GTA5 officially announced to be announced

Fans of GTA will be happy about this..

Personally, Ill prefer it next week the an initial teaser trailer for GTA 5 is released (announcements of intention to do something? fuck off)

Whilst GTA4 graphically looked impressive, and the fictional New York brought a charm to the game, I personally thought the characters where (mostly) the detraction to the game.. I couldn't give a shit about some immigrant Russian & his fat cunt of a cousin.

But the potential for stories with GTA4 was huge, resulting in 2 expansion packs that grew 2 minor characters that previously existed within the main game's story and actually fleshed out the other stories at the same time.

GTA4 from announcement to Release was a long time, (2006 - 2008 If I remember correctly), and this might ultimately be similar (perhaps a dying swansong for the 360/PS3?), but then again, they don't have to write the engine this time & can utilise learnt progress since then.

Will we be seeing a return to a previously visited city? San Andreas? Vice City? London? (yeah, they dropped the naming ball on that!) Or someplace new?
Does the logo give any hints?

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Usual lettering for GTA, unusual V with the FIVE in what feels to me to be a 'gang' style logo. Whats with the green V? (Roman numeral 5 btw) Is it money? two well balanced flower pots? Perhaps a metaphor for the next Dan Brown novel?


Whilst you think about the possibilities, heres the sorta equivalent trailer from GTA4 :

Did the trailer show much that ended up in GTA4? Yeap.. theres still a number of places I recognise..

Lets wait & see for the 2nd of Nov.

if the trailer is anything like that one at least it will concrete the location for sure... i mean the trailer for GTA4 there showed damn near every "liberty city" landmark you can name.

as for timescale this article (GTA 5 may steal into 2012 | Technology | guardian.co.uk) seems to think (although fuck knows where they plucked it from) that the game has already been in development for 2 years, and will be released in 2012. im doubtful though since rockstar have pretty much cemented the "start of summer" slot at the end of may, i think 2012 summer is too soon.

the article also says that rockstar did a casting a while back looking for characters like wannabe stars and movie agents, suggesting hollywood/ LA and therefore san andreas... again dunno where this article has drawn its sources from. although this would be a bit suspect considering they just accurately modelled 1940s LA for LA nwaaaaaar.

and yeah, the V/five sign is definately supposed to resemble a 5 dollar bill. im guessing the plot involves money in some way. lol. also kinda rules out london, or anywhere other than the US