GTA5: Playstation Magazine 'Juicy Info'

[Masi_23]

Apologies if this has been posted before:

From GTAForums.com by GTA4RULESALL (Link)

Hi all, I am new to this forum and what I am writing here is not to spam/troll, etc. I work for a Playstation magazine in the UK ( I will not be disclosing any further details....) and a select few of our team have seen via video links with Rockstar in Scotland 30 minutes of in-game footage. I have not, personally, been privy to this unfortunately but I will relay to you what I have heard so far and I promise you that none of this is BS but that is down to the lot of you fans to judge. Ok, here goes:

1: The game world is absolutely massive and will push both xbox and PS3 to the very limit in terms of what it has accomplished. Yes, the main city is simply Los Santos however is it AT LEAST 4 times bigger than Liberty City in GTA 4 and that is just Los Santos. The surrounding country side, beaches, etc are massive. For instance, we saw the main character ( an African/American, early 30's) travel by car from the center of Los Santos into the wildnerness and it took over 15 minutes. The views were incredible from farmhouses with cattle, huge wind farms, an oil refinery which appeared to be living and breathing with nearly 100 NPCs working on machinery, operating vehicles, lifting and loaded, etc, unlike the gas works in GTA 4 which seemed to only house a few NPC at a time. The forests are more beautiful than those in RDR and featured people camping, young NPC drinking and dancing around campfires, people riding dirt bikes and jumping over logs, streams, etc. The water effects, forna, plants, trees all looked beautiful.

2: The shooting mechanics have been greatly improved with animations for diving, climbing, rolling and crawling all added for better realism. The re-loading animations for new ammo also look cooler, less static.

3: There is much more climbable elements in the world such as ladders, overhand climbing, etc.

4: There are animals in the game from dogs to cattle but at this time it is not confirmed if you will be able to harm the animals. Rockstar were able to get away with it in RDR as it was a true depiction of the world in which the game was set. Allowing dogs/cattle to die in a game sent in current times may cause headaches with PETA. Its unclear if Rockstar were joking here.

5: There are planes to pilot and they can be crashed into buildings if you choose to do so....

6: Rockstar have included many, many more interior locations such as a shopping mall, college campus, police station, a huge hospital and there is also a vast underground sewer network which one mission later in the game involves a jet ski chase that culminates in a Fugitive-esque waterfall jump ( there are nods to the ridiculous but awesome Ballad Of Gay Tony missions)

7: The city is full of NPCs jogging, weight-lifting, hitting on women, being chased on foot by cops, shopping, washing cars, fixing fences, moving home, filling up their cars, etc.

REAL JUICY INFO:

1: Cars can be upgraded/repaired and it has been considered to have a car have fuel forcing the player to fill her up.

2: The dating aspect of the game is gone. You still have a cell-phone but only people you will meet in the game will call you to ask you to do a mission or to ask you to do something else before the mission.

3: Weapons include the usual arsenal you'd aspect but the flamethrowers, remote mines, laxer trip mines and claymores are included. It is possible now to pick up random objects in a street/buidling to use as a weapon. There is also a museam where it is possible to steal old age swords, axes, etc.

4: it is possible to rupture a fuel line and if you shot at the trail of gasoline it will lead straight back to the car blowing it up.

5: mini games such as bowling, darts, etc have all gone. You can play basketball, weight train, arm wrestle, gamble and cage fight, enter triatholons, water races, cannoing, ab-saling, rock climbing, base jumping, ski diving. More to be confirmed.

6: Character customisation is back but only in terms of clothing, body weight, etc. The player you start off which, much like CJ, can't be altered by race, age, height, etc.

7: Rockstar said burglary missions may return but only as part of missions and not on neigbourhood houses.

8: No children NPC at all. Ever.

9: There is now an ability to grab people and use as sheilds or in "hostage" situations.

10: The cops are much, much, much more realistic. If you kill somebody when you know there are no cops around you will not run the risk of a one star as often as you would in GTA4. The cops will use smoke and tear gas, dogs, riot gear and rams to knock down the doors of buildings you are hiding in.

11: You can enter some buildings and lock doors, push objects in the way to barricade.

12: You become better at things as the game progresses. If you only ride motorbikes then you will increase your skills, same as individual weapons.

13: Certain weapons can be customisable and some even home-made.

14: One mission involves breaking out a very familiar GTA icon from a previous game...

15: Torrential rain fall and sunshine and even tremors will appear in the game.


Hope you enjoy smile.gif

 

[Techy]

This is just rumored leaked information. It is unsure if it's valid or not. But it is very odd a journalist would post this on a forum instead on a video game news site..




I used Google, so yeah

 

[UnionStrike]

Old news, I've posted that exact thing in another thread already. #27

 

[TiZzla]

It's a load of ****. You can tell by the way it's written. It covers pretty much everything people have been asking about so I can tell that it's just been written by some goon who reads through the forums.

 

[RetroJohan]

There is also a museam where it is possible to steal old age swords, axes, etc.

**** Skyrim, I will buy GTA5.

I hope this true news. We have to wait when Playstation Magazine comes out or some other games magazines

 

[Alex p.]

If that is all true, I will spend a lot of time with this game.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

This "friend of a friend" thing looks really suspect.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

This "friend of a friend" thing looks really suspect.

I dunno, everyone who always heard something exciting from a friend of a friend in kindergarten always seemed legit to me!

 

[ghostrider135]

Its all just a massive hoax nothing more nothing less.

 

[TiZzla]

"There are planes to pilot and can be crashed into buildings if you choose to do so"

There is loads of info here that tells me that it's fake but this particular line is so obvious. No **** you could fly planes into buildings. What were we all expecting there to be a 5 metre radius of an invisible bubble around all the buildings?

Come on, it's so fake. "triathalons" You really think Rockstar will have a triathalon mini game??? And 30 minutes wouldn't be enough time to show all this. And they would never show exclusive info like this via video stream, they would invite them to there studios to see it.

 

[PHCharls]

Its a hoax according to GTAF members.

 

[GTShadowKing]

I guess we will just have to wait for the next trailer...

 

[ghostrider135]

Its been proven to be complete BS by the editor of Playstation Magazine, Nuff said really

 

[G.T.Ace]

Come on, it's so fake. "triathalons" You really think Rockstar will have a triathalon mini game???

Now guess what GTA San Andreas had...
Of course it's a hoax, but a Triathlon mini game isn't unrealistic at all.

http://www.youtube.com/results?sear...thlon&spell=1&suggested_categories=20,24&sa=X

 

[KieranMurphy]

Come on, it's so fake. "triathalons" You really think Rockstar will have a triathalon mini game???

Have you played San Andreas? There's a triathlon mini-game in that.

 

[TiZzla]

Hahaha, oh wow. Yes I played San Andreas but I never did the triathalon.

Still makes that info seem fake as they are just saying things from previous games.

 

[poolhaas]

Hahaha, oh wow. Yes I played San Andreas but I never did the triathalon.

Still makes that info seem fake as they are just saying things from previous games.

Wrong again

I'll get off your back now.

 

[RetroJohan]

He has made another post

GTA5RULESALL was just a random name I picked. It doesn't mean I am bull****ting. I am one of THE biggest GTA fans out there and if someone came onto a message board and posted a bunch of info I'd be sceptical too but I really have nothing but respect for rockstar and the fans of the series. Naturally, everyone wants official confirmation of what is happening in the game, etc and come 2012 everyone will get that information. For now, read my post, like it, hate it, etc. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I haven't seen the footage personally so I can't comment on my own personal favourite part. However, people commented on how much more realistic the city was in terms of NCP interaction. I don't know, at this stage, if the environment is destructible as coding that on-top of everything else would comprimise the efforts by rocksteady to try new things. I'd imagine the level of destruction is slightly more than that of GTA 4.

 

[VEXD]

I work for a Playstation magazine in the UK ( I will not be disclosing any further details....) and a select few of our team have seen via video links with Rockstar in Scotland 30 minutes of in-game footage.

Hi everybody! Hi Doctor Nick!
I work for a magazine, that's a journalistic type of job, where we write and stuff, and have to make sure other people can read it!
But I can't spell!

Hmmmmmmmmm.......

Have you played San Andreas? There's a triathlon mini-game in that.

Congratulations Kieran, you are the first person in the thread to actually be able to spell triathlon.

That includes our friend here; who worx for a magazine publication...... perhaps......

I have a good record for being able to read.... perhaps I should apply for his job.... I can certainly spell too..... I choose not to do it correctly sometimes... but that's my choice.

👍

 

[Spacegoat]

I love how he is writing about this without actually seeing the footage himself and only hearing about it second hand, but he promises none of it is BS.

 

[sejtur]

I'd say this info is pretty believable. I really like this stuff. The minigames from IV were kind of rubbish IMO. Everything I liked from san andreas seems to be back. The crazy stuff you can do on the mountain, bicycles, car cusomisation. And Los santos is a way cooler place for a game, less static and all. Also nice that there are a lot of interior locations. I think I'm going to enjoy this game for a long time after it has come out.

 

[KieranMurphy]

I don't know, at this stage, if the environment is destructible as coding that on-top of everything else would comprimise the efforts by rocksteady to try new things. I'd imagine the level of destruction is slightly more than that of GTA 4.

Emphasis mine, Rocksteady don't make GTA, they are famous for the recent Batman games. Rockstar make GTA.

 

[buickgnx88]

Rocksteady was also a henchman on the Ninja Turtles wasn't he?