After GTAIV I'm not going anywhere near this thing, no matter how good the trailer is.

As for the money connections in the logo, it looks like it may be about bank robbers.

@Cincaid said:

@Seppli said:

@Cincaid said:

@Seppli said:

Release in late Spring 2012. That's how Rockstar rolls.

I want to believe that as well, but releasing it so close to Max Payne 3 is not likely. My guess? Winter 2012 / Spring 2013.

I'm taking GTA IV and Red Dead Redemption as a precedent. They pretty much went from announcement directly into release within just a couple of months. Both those games were announced around this time and released in spring.

Well, the first trailer for GTAIV was released in March 2007, and the game wasn't released until April 2008. The first trailer of RDR was released in February 2009, and the game wasn't released until May 2010...

You mistake facts for memories. I remember clearly - these games were announced, I blinked once or twice, then I played them for myself.

Bunch of whiners on this site now a days.

Just chill out, bro. Or noone is allowed to post even vaguely negative posts any more?

I 100%-ed GTA IV and now the thought of starting over in another GTA game makes me want to vomit, then shit all over myself, then vomit again from the smell of the shit. It was like getting put off cigarettes after you Dad catches you and makes you smoke a whole carton.

We'll have to see what the tone of this game is like. San Andreas was my least favourite GTA so far, the story was uninspired and the city was drab and boring.

I'll play the game anyway because it's a GTA game but what they've shown so far isn't all that promising.

I just want some areas outside of a city and a better soundtrack. It looks like at least one of those is happening.

Rockstar still make the best trailers in the business. Hope they keep on the atmosphere that they established in IV.

It looks really close, graphically, to GTA IV. Hopefully they have taken the criticism of that game into consideration for this one and have gotten rid of the crap that bogged it down. Also, a more arcade-y driving model would be nice!

@Seppli: My bad, you're right! :)

It looks great, I cant wait for more

amazing, bro.

Just when I thought they lost me with GTA IV, they bring me back in by bringing me back to the place that made me love the series, hell, the genre of open-world games. Very happy to see that it's Los Santos/San Andreas again. Will buy it when I can.

Response to the video - 'Eh'

Going to need to see more to get interested after GTA4

Visually it looks nice, but I can't help but feel it'll take itself a bit to seriously for it's own good. Kind of like how GTA IV had a massive stick up it's ass at times. I mean it'll have the same physics engine and everything, so I'm not really expecting a massive deviation. What it boils down to is if they actually add in things to do in the game. GTA IV really didn't have a damn thing to do after you beat it other than going with fat queer Roman to see big American titties. I finished with a million bucks that I couldn't spend on ANYTHING.

But whatever. It's Rockstar. They could wrap up shit in tin foil and I'd still buy it.

That... I mean, I guess no one should really be surprised.  But that looks (and sounds) more like GTA4: San Andreas than it does a numerical step in the series.  It just feels entirely underwhelming.  Maybe I'm beginning to understand why people are bummed out by Drake's Deception being 'just another' Uncharted game, because this feels like just another GTA.  GTA3 changed everything, and GTA4 added a level of stark realism where it had never been... what is the hook for GTA5?  
 
The MGS2-style excitement for this trailer just feels completely unearned.  It looks no different than any other big name sequel reveal at the VGAs.  In fact, I wonder why they chose now instead of then.

Can't really say much of anything until I hear a PC port confirmed.

@AhmadMetallic said:

@phrosnite said:

Just chill out, bro. Or noone is allowed to post even vaguely negative posts any more?

No, it's that you get special attention when you do it because 2400 of your 1659 posts are about how a game is dull, a sell out or how a franchise is in a rut. Yes, you broke math with your complaint spamming.

/facepalm

Awesome, I am down to play another GTA game set in San Andreas.

@Xabu said:

Can't really say much of anything until I hear a PC port confirmed.

What. Why wouldn't there be one?

Looks amazing also Planes! and Jets! and dogs! ... looks really cool I love the tone they set and the look of Los Santos can´t wait to disect every frame of the video,

I hope it's crazier than GTA4....less grime and sad, more wacky, rip-roaring and over-the-top is what I want.
 
GTA (3 - San Andreas) was about largesse. Bigger meant better, more was more....more cars, bigger maps, more stuff to collect, more stuff to do.....everything but the kitchen sink.
 
Hopefully, a return to the west coast and some palm trees will bring that back. Colour me optimistic.

I haven not watched it yet because I'm sure it'll be pressed into my face at every turn soon enough.

It's GTA IV with a San Andreas skin. Not impressed.

Saints Row bitches! Strap it on

i am thinking also you may play as both? or the voice over guy is the boss and the african american is the guy your playing as..my guess would be your playing as both or maybe 2 guys from an old game.. though i dont know a whole lot about the old GTA's before 4

I never understood why people loce the GTA games, GTA4 was a kinda crappy game imo, the gunplay was bad, the driving even more so, I put 16 hours in to GTA4 I really wanted to like it, but unfortunately it wasn't a good game in any respect, and this just looks like more of the same....

Hmmm... so that spot-on information I read before the trailer was out had better have gotten one part wrong... otherwise I've had the twist to the game spoiled for me. I've been Brad-ed! It was Atlas all along!

...Call me crazy, but "Why did I move here?" is the kind of question that I picture being answered by multiple people.

i don't even want trailers anymore. post a trailers about 3 months before it comes out. who knows when its gonna be released.

Damn, I was really hoping they'd go with a female protagonist

Looks good. I'm hoping for a late 2012 release.

Am I the only one, picking up some mexican accent in the narrator?

I'm desperately hoping that quick glimpse of a jet is hinting at a return to some more outlandish stuff; they had armored vehicles with cannons, golden helicopters, and base jumping in Ballad of Gay Tony, so maybe we'll be starting from that point in this one? Also, the bank heist mission in GTA IV was pretty excellent, so I'm glad it looks like they're doing at least one more heist-y thing in this one.

We've clearly got Saints Row for all-out insanity, but I'll still have interest in GTA if they've got snappy writing and that sense of verisimilitude that makes it extra fun when you do something just kind of crazy. Everyone seems really tired of GTA, but I genuinely loved GTA IV and the expansions when they came out. As long as they've tightened up the controls like they did for Red Dead and Noire, I don't see why I won't enjoy this one. Even if the main plot takes itself deadly serious, for me it's a lot of fun to just explore the worlds Rockstar and the Housers like to make.

So,was that spoiler post right then? The one that spelled out the plot of the game, as well as the ending?

@Homeslice said:

I hope it's crazier than GTA4....less grime and sad, more wacky, rip-roaring and over-the-top is what I want.

Let me introduce you to Saint's Row ...

I think I got myself over-hyped for the trailer, it didn't have much impact on me (but then I don't have any particular attachment to GTA: San Andreas, either). The environment looks like it's going to be as well realised as Liberty City, though, and I'm looking forward to it.

I want this game so much! This trailer has given me exactly what i wanted. Bring on GTA V!

I have to say I'm honestly surprised at the number of negative and indifferent posts aimed at this trailer and gta in general. My guess is that most of the people complaining weren't interested in gta to begin with, or they're complaining yet are going to buy it anyway. You should know by now what this series is about and this trailer shows what the series is about.

We have a fantastically rendered, sprawling open-world city that beats the pants off any other city based game. It's going to be about crime and murder and driving, all staples of gta. It's most likely going to have a good story. The protagonist sounds interesting as he has a family which could play a key part of the story. Is it entirely original? Not really but it is new for gta and I'm intrigued to see where it goes.

As for the game being set in a familiar location, I actually like it. I remember playing San Andreas and wishing that Los Santos was larger and more realistic. This trailer seems to confirm that. I'm also of the opinion that if they tried cramming the whole state in there like they did last time it would cheapen the effect. As it is there are mountains, fields, beaches, and empty countryside confirmed. This is already a huge step up in variety of locations from gta IV.

What I would also like to know is how some of you complaining think you know everything about the game from a minute long trailer? All it showed was backdrop, no gameplay. How do you know from that purely expositional trailer how the game is going to play? Is it going to be as crazy as Saint's Row the Third? I very highly doubt that and it's probably for the best. Saint's Row can be fun, but it's also entirely stupid. I have confidence that R* will make the game as fun to play as they always have been.

Some games I like to just mess around in and create havoc, others like gta I play to immerse myself in a virtual world. The fact that you can do zany things in some of them is icing on the cake. I happened to like gta IV quite a bit and was not too disappointed by the cutting of some previous features. There is just something about the way that R* crafts worlds that make them so eminently appealing. If you didn't already guess, I can't wait to hear more about this game.

I think Saint Row The Third will be a good conter point to this and a frash alternative to this version of GTA as, for me at least, the GTA series is becoming a little long in the tooth for me. Still great games, but when there is such a wacky alternative out there in the newest Saints Row, I would have more fun in said universe than yet another by the numbers GTA game.

@loopy_101 said:

It's GTA IV with a San Andreas skin. Not impressed.

What a baseless opinion.

This is probably the only game that can make Call of Duty change its release date. I hope that whatever year this game comes out in, they release this game the same week or the week before Call of Duty, just because they can.

I just don't know what I am supposed to be impressed with.

I have very fond memories of GTA: San Andreas, but that was because it felt like something new and fresh. It was a big world I wanted to explore. The RPG hooks made even the most menial task have some gameplay value.

This trailer has a more-of-the-same vibe. It's certainly not a looker. The narration doesn't put anything interesting forward. It's in an old setting for the series.

@RuneseekerMireille said:

So,was that spoiler post right then? The one that spelled out the plot of the game, as well as the ending?

that post said it was set in the 1960. i don't think you saw a lot of wind turbines, yoga classes, compost bins and SUV's in the 1960s.

This looks fucking awesome. San Andreas is my favorite of the GTA games, and the mountains and different aircraft (BLIMP!!!) have me believing that either you'll get to visit San Fierro and Las Venturas or the area will be big enough in scope that it won't matter.

Looks a lot like GTA IV in LA and more of that same GTAness but hey what do u expect, right? Anyways, i looks forward to seeing more. PREDICTION: Holiday 2012 release as the current gen consoles will now have their swan song. Spring 2013 will be too late IMO

I got my wish. Well, mostly. I hope SF and LV are in it, too.

Looking forward to revisiting San Andreas, but I'll be missing the 90's gangsta rap vibe from the first time we went there. That's what made that entire game for me to begin with.

I love GTA San andreas, and I'm super excited to be going back to (I pray) all of San Andreas- but what I loved about that game beyond the world was the endearing wacky characters and the epic but fun tone of the story. Can it match that? GTA4 was an excellent experiment in what video games are really capable of as far as emotions and real choices, with an incredibly powerful story, but I'll always go back to San Andreas for a fun time. Can GTA5 merge those two aspects?

@StriderNo9 said:

Rockstar more than almost any company today pushes boundaries on what is acceptable in video games. In terms of scenarios, dialog, and content. I was hoping for a female protagonist, but I'm still happy with what we got.

@Naplam said:

Heavy Rain has already pushed shit further than Grand Theft Auto ever has.

Y'all motherfuckers are funny.

Well, I never said GTA specifically, I said Rockstar. That includes Bully, GTA, Red Dead, and Manhunt. I'm not saying you are wrong, but I'm curious to why you say that.

Wow, a 360p version of a trailer that is available to everyone in 720p. Thanks a lot, Giant Bomb.