Switch between three protagonists at any time
Concept of doing iit like the Liberty City Episodes - three charas
Multiple perspective - clear advantages
Constantly switching - not rotating 5 missions as one character, then 5 as another
Allow them to create more diverse style of lead protag, tie certain behaviors to certain charas
Gameplay side - if charas lived apart, players could experience more of the qorld more quickly
Rockstar eliminate flat spots during missions - allow players to switch perspectives press of a button
Lets you play as both protagonist and antagonist - Dan Houser
Less wide-ranging characters "a lot of the time, the people you're not necessarily fighting with, but bickering with, are your other lead characters"
 
Michael
[Retired, Early 40s, livesin Rockford Hills, Nice Clothes]
Houser: idea was for an older, successful guy getting sucked back into the game
Voiceover character in the first trailer
retired bank rober living more lavish life than most people in witness protection thanks to deal with FIB
Demo opens with him resting comfortably in a pair of flip-flops next to a pool in the neighborhood Rockford Hills (Bev Hills)
Distance: his private tennis court
Smoggy horizon: Los Santos downtown
Isn't content with life, wife spending his dough (he hates her), doesn't know how to communicate with his kids
Kids: Tracey (teenage daughter), we see her playing Just Dance-style game, son named Jimmy
Wife: Amanda, we see her heading out the door on a shopping spree - shopaholic
Wife drives Sentinel XS sports car
Michael hops on bicycle rides down the street
Neighborhood has "manicured lawns, sprinkler systems, rolling hills," and luxury cars
 
Trevor
Rockstar tester calls up menu to switch charas, camera zooms out in Google Earth style thing, and drops to "ramshackle trailer" in "desert region" of map
Michael's longtime friend
Trevor is first seen fighting a battle with toilet
Hops in Bodhi large truck (looks like Jeep Wrangler JK), drives down the road
Lives in Blaine county, region filled with bikers, meth heads, walks of life on fringes
Trevor drievs down road, parks, and flicks off building loiterers
Rockstar suggests you do this in various cases to see different people's reactions
Teseter grabs gasoline, douses a parked truck, pours a trail away, drops a lit Zippo, and boom - flame travels towards truck, sets tires on fire, then chassis, then finally the gas tank, and explosion
 
Franklin
Cruising Vespucci Beach (Venice Beach) looking for car to take back for his boss
Waterfront filled with activities: muscle beach gym
Franklin finds his target: a 9F (Audi R8), gets in, drops top, rides off
Los Santos familiarity: Ammu-Nation is back
 
Each chara has own personality, motivations, skillset
When not in control of one, they go about their daily business
You may be surprised what situations they're in when you switch back to check up on them
 
"The contrast between three different experiences, geopgrahics, and vibes to eeverything should be really strong, and I think it's something that gives the game a unique feeling when you're visint gthese people's lives and seeing what they do," says Houser. "Within the story, you're going to know information about a character before they know what the other people know when you play as them."
 
SUNNY LOS SANTOS
Idea of a proper Los Angeles
Thought San Andreas was very small and sketchlike
Hollywood, the porn industry, marijuana, immigration battle, gated communities, luxury pockets, homeless people, bankrupt government - enough topics for Rockstar signature style
Largest open-world playground to date
Interior and exterior spaces together: bigger than Red Dead Redemption, San Andreas, and GTA4 worlds combined, with room to spare
Enviro includes: beachfronts, wine country, large wilderness area, Salton sea region, military base, suburban hulls, urban center
Scuba to explore detailed ocean floor along Los Santos coastline
 
More vehicles than any GTA to date: BMX bike, mountain bikes, road bikes, dirt bikes, huge amount of cars and trucks, helis, planes, ATVs, jet Skis
Trevor is former war vet with flight experience, so he can fly a plane at any time - dont need to wait until endgame
 
Characters come together
Pursuit of mighty dollar
Each chara has full story arc
Peppers several complicated, multitiered hests in vein of GTA4's popular "three Leaf Clover" mission across narrative
Heists are a big theme
People love bank jobs, especially when they feel prepped
Rockstar addressing mission diversity to leverage different pairings of the protags
"We want to move from having one character in a mission to having two to having three" - akes missions feel more distinct, high in action, diffeerent tone depending on who's on them
 
Making the switch
Playing as Franklin, GI meets up with Trevor and Michael, who have already reunited. Mission: perform a snatch-n-grab to get the FIB off their case. Meet at a helipad to pick up civilian chopper FIB is supplying. Trevor is talking to sec guard with Mike pulls up, how he's just standing there while everyone is out having fun, Mike urges him to cal down, but Trevor doesn't listen.
This appears to be Franklin's first encounter with Trevor.
Everyone hops in choppper.
Arrive at IAA HQ (CIA), Franklin is ready with sniper rifle at nearby building, ready to react. Trevor hovers overhead. Players become Michael, who rappels down the side of the sky-scraper to locate the correct office. See into every office, where people are going about busiess. Music ramps up as Michael goes downward.
Michael locates target, smashes threw window, grabs him, holds hostage, points gun at interrogators, then ICON appears to switch
You could either stay in the same role as Michael and wait for Franklin to snipe these guys, or switch to Franklin
You're now Franklin, after a smooth transition, and can snipe the targets
Trevor picks up Michael and the target, helocopter chase ensues, players can either pilot the plane as Trevor, snipe other pilots as Franklin, or fire assault rifle from the back of the chopper as Michael
 
 
KILLING TIME IN LOS SANTOS
GTA4: Bowling Strip Clubs Live Stand-up comedy Interenet Cafes TV shows
Greater degree of variety in GTA5: different side-missions, more sophisticated mini-games
Will use characters and the rest of their lives "Michael's family, Franklin's crazy franks, or Trevor out in the desert with access to planes very early on"
Each protag will have unique hobbies only they can participate in "one or two key minigame activities per character" to separate one from another
Customization like San Andreas (RPG traits, gain or lose weight) impossible, but you can customize with diff clothing
TV returning in GTA 5 - "funny new stuff that's pretty odd to do in a game"
Outdoors: yoga, triathlons, jet skiing, base jumping, tennis, full golf game on full golf course
No romance because of nature of characters
Each protag has own cast of friends they can hang out with: Lamar is Franklin's crazy friend; Kimmy is Michael's lazy, pot-smoking 20-year-old son; Ron is Trevor's best friend and a paranoid conspiracy theorist; Amanda is michael's wife who he can't stand
Familiar faces from GTA 4 will appear, but dont expect Niko or anyone for the PS2 games - they never existed in this world
Economy: "very vibrant and fun economy", no property, but loads of other stuff to by
Cell phone concept still there, but no calls from friends all the time, phone will surface some of the acitvities, phone will be "more contemporary," use it to acces internet, activities moved to map
Occassionally bump into pedestrians you could interact with. In demo: Jesus-looking preacher with white robes encountered by Franklin, has more to offer than one-liner
Dynamic Missions: drive around, see broen-down car or hitchiker on road, you can pull over and see what happens. Go off road in desert, maybe you'll come across two parked cars and a bunch of dead bodies. In Los Santos, if you seee a cash van, you can steal it and make a quick score. Or, catch the mugger who knabbed granny's purse.
Multiplayer: it's there, but reveal at another time. Rockstar pleased with direction.
 
ALIVE WORLD
clouds roll over the sky
helicopters fly about
birds fly
cars drive
pedestrians hang around
dogs jump against fences if you walk too close
sprinklers wet the grass
puddles gather around carwash hoses
neighbors lie in the sun by the pool
dodgy guys hang around outside stores
inside 24-7 store: everything on the shelves are modeled and textured
 
GAMEPLAY EVOLVED
Cars hold to ground better - not "big and boatlike in GTAIV"
More physics to cars, feels more like racing game
Racing game itch will be scratched
shooting has evolved in terms of core mechanics of how you play
melee is better than past - but will never be as big a deal as shooting

Rumeurs (issues du topic PC, merci à Bauer et Scrypt) :  
Citation :
 
- Le personnage principal s'appelle Adrian et est d'origine espagnole.  
- Le jeu prend place à San Andreas en 2012. Le choix de cette année a été choisi pour parodier la fin du monde annoncée par le calendrier Maya.  
- Après s'être fait battre et volé, Adrian commence son aventure à Los Santos sur le territoire d'un gang rival : les Varrios Los Aztecas.  
- Il sera énormément question d'argent autour d'un gros deal.  
- Le multijoueurs sera de retour avec une flopée de nouveaux modes de jeux. On annonce de la coopération avec pas moins de 32 à 64 joueurs sur consoles et PC. La version PC aura des serveurs dédiés.  
- Contrairement aux bonnes vieilles habitudes où la version PC des GTA arrivait un peu plus tard que les versions consoles, cette fois-ci la version PC arrivera bien en même temps que les versions consoles. Elle est actuellement en développement chez Rockstar Leeds à Londres et sera mieux optimisée que GTA IV.  
- San Fierro et Las Venturas seront également présentes dans le jeu mais seront beaucoup plus grandes et plus détaillées que dans GTA San Andreas.  
- Grand Theft Auto V contiendra beaucoup de références au quatrième opus et il se murmure que Niko Bellic fasse quelques apparitions.  
- Retour de la customisation des véhicules.  
- Retour du parachute et des avions et bien plus encore...  
- 9 stations de radios avec des styles plus diversifiés que dans GTA IV.  
- Comme GTA IV, il sera possible de prendre des décisions morales qui auront un impact sur le déroulement de l'histoire. Elles sont quatre : deux mauvaises et deux bonnes.

On reste fixé sur Los Santos

No romance because of nature of characters  
Dynamic Missions
Cars hold to ground better - not "big and boatlike in GTAIV"
More physics to cars, feels more like racing game  
shooting has evolved in terms of core mechanics of how you play

no property, but loads of other stuff to by

no property