You can rappel down buildings, although it’s not confirmed whether this is specific to certain missions.
Pedestrians are fully mo-capped and more interactive.Melee combat “never going to be as big a deal as shooting,” though, warns Houser. One screenshot shows a fighter equipped with missiles, as a helicopter explodes in the background. More vehicles than in any GTA to date, including BMXs, mountain bikes, road bikes, dirt bikes, cars, trucks, helicopters, planes, ATVs and Jet Skis, but vehicle manufacturers are still fictional.Improved vehicle handling and physics – “The cars hold to the ground better… It feels more like a racing game,” Houser says.Big advances to lighting and shader model.“You may be surprised by the situations they find themselves in should you switch back to check up on them,” says Game Informer. Even when you’re not controlling them, each character will still go about their own business across Los Santos.Missions will have a “very different tone depending on who’s on them, how many people are on them, and how much we’re using switches”, says Houser.For example, during a chase sequence you can pilot the getaway helicopter as Trevor, snipe pursuing pilots as Franklin, or fire an assault rifle as Michael. Characters will work together during missions, and you can switch between characters mid-mission to fulfill different roles.Heists and bank robberies are a big theme to the game.No major actors cast as any of the main characters.“The five PS2 games are one universe, and this is the high definition universe, so they don’t co-exist,” he says. Rockstar’s Dan Houser says we’ll never see characters from the PS2 era, though. Certain characters from GTA IV and Episodes From Liberty City will also make an appearance.Character 3 – Franklin, a repo man in his mid 20s described as a “young and ambitious hustler”.Character 2 – Trevor, a former war veteran and a “drugged out psychopath”.He’s also the narrator of the original GTA 5 trailer. He has two teenage children and hates his wife Amanda. Character 1 – Michael, an ex-bank robber in his early 40s who retired after making a deal with the FIB.Camera zooms out to a “Google Earth-style” perspective when switching characters.Each character has their own specific abilities and story arc, with all three stories intertwined.Three playable characters who you can switch between “at nearly any time”.Features the biggest open world in the series' history – GTA 5’s world is bigger than the worlds of Red Dead Redemption, San Andreas and GTA IV combined.GTA 5 “evolves nearly every mechanic” found in previous games in the series.A bold new direction in open-world freedom, storytelling, mission-based gameplay and online multiplayer, Grand Theft Auto V focuses on the pursuit of the almighty dollar in a re-imagined, present-day Southern California That is an astonishing sales rate and GTA 6 will have to go a very long way to have any chance of matching that success.Trouble taps on your window again with this next chapter in the Grand Theft Auto universe, set in the city of Los Santos and its surrounding hills, countryside and beaches. Indeed, the most recent entry into the franchise has now sold in excess of 165 million copies, which equates to roughly five million copies per quarter, every quarter, since 2013. It has previously been reported that Rockstar are currently focusing exclusively on the development of GTA 6, even pausing their development on Red Dead Redemption 2’s multiplayer mode to ensure that the next GTA hits the heights of GTA 5. Video Games Chronicle has picked up on the news and they claim that the financial guidance that was posted in January by Take-Two, Rockstar’s parent company, alludes to a potential release date of March 2024. They said: “Over the past few years, we have been steadily moving more development resources towards the next entry in the Grand Theft Auto series - understanding more than ever the need to exceed players’ expectations and for this next entry to be the best it can possibly be.”
And they have again reiterated just how ambitious they are being when it comes to the game, which looks likely to release on both PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.