Listen to the voice in the trailer.

I think this is Rockstar North's last GTA game...

and they are bringing back an all star cast of characters for it.

The background song in this trailer: Small Faces - Odgen's Nut Gone Flake :D

im guessing this dude will be the main guy and the 'other playable characters' will be DLC

@WinterSnowblind said:

I'm disappointed in the location and what appears to be the lead character. Rockstar have usually been known for taking risks, so having another American dream "I want to settle down" story, in the most popular location of the entire series, is a very safe move. Something a little different would have been nice.

Other than that though, I'm pretty excited. Los Santos was a great location and if the hints of the countryside mean there's going to be more to explore outside of the city.. and possibly even multiple cities again, then fantastic.

When has Rockstar ever done this? He's a family man. He mentions he has kids. When has this shit been done?

Rockstar games are always about young douche-bags who want to be the best criminals in town. It's never been about "the American dream".

@Meowshi: Actually having a family makes him slightly different, but he's still just trying to make a better life for himself, which has been the essential story to almost every single protagonist.. CJ, Niko, Luis, the two from the PSP stories games and even Tommy, to a certain degree. Part of the problem is the fact they're always whining about wanting to live normal lives, but then do these missions that take them on murderous rampages.

Not impressed yet.

I'm looking forward to GTA: V Five.

Rockstar press release says we're going to present day Los Santos, surrounding hills, country side, and beaches: http://t.co/bxmNNH3N

I guess San Fiero and Las Venturas will be opened up via DLC like The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony.

@sofacitysweetheart: So what? Sounds good to me.

@Meowshi: being the best criminal in town is the american dream

Looked good, hopefully it wont be boring like the last game

I didn't want to watch this because i knew i'd be like a giddy little kid on christmas. Now i can't wait for it to come out.

Aside from looking gorgeous, this trailer does nothing for me. The voice over is just bland and from what they let-on, the story is just silly seeming. Also, I have very little interest in returning to Los Santos. Between the reused locale and the stale storyline (reluctant criminal who cant escape his past?), Rockstar is missing a chance to do something unique and fresh.

I'm sure I'll still play it, but this initial trailer is very disappointing. Odd for Rockstar.

3 protagonists, 3 cities in San Andreas. That's all I'll say.

Wishing it was Vice City, that'll be VI i guess...

Nice.

The GTAs were never quite my thing, but I usually end up buying it nonetheless due to the hype machine. Im sure Ill do the same with this one.

IF we can deduct that what we see in this trailer, we can do in the game, then I only have one thing to say at this point:

A rocket launcher, a sniper rifle and a blimp sounds like, "oh, the humanity" to me!

1. OMG yes a new GTA. As long as it is as interesting as 4 was but more scope i'll be happy.

2. It's kind of a bummer it's taking place in Los Santos. I, like many others would probably love to return to Vice City instead, but this will all depend on the story and gameplay.

3. I have a weird thought: This could be a launch game for the Wii U.

I've seen the trailer for more than 20 times already, and still think it's awesome. This is the first big game that focusses around the recession we're in at this moment. This could be a master piece!

Great trailer, the music really made it. Excited for this...

All I wanna see now are just San Fierro and Las Venturas and Im good :D

I know it probably won't, but anything in this game that has that 80's flair to it like Vice City had will be totally welcomed by me.... Matter of fact, I'd be totally and completely cool with Rockstar just re-releasing vice city running on the GTA IV engine.

Oh man I am so fucking excited for this game. Rockstar makes some quaility shit.

After enjoying Red Dead, I'm going to say I'll start caring about Rockstar open world games again when they find a way to put their tongues less obviously in their cheeks and portray supporting characters as something other than SNL skit stereotypes.

@Sanious said:

Not impressed yet.

Yeah, the trailer didn't do it for me neither BUT it's a new GTA game so chances are even if you aren't sold just yet ... it'll happen.

Trailer's awesome. I expect nothing less from rockstar*.

San Andreas was some of the most fun I have EVER had playing a Grand theft Auto game. I honestly think it is a game that changed the way I personally play games.

I can not FUGGING wait to go back to Los Santos and put some slugs in some purple balla asses! Grove Street!!!!

(I know the above sentence is a bit childish, but let a man rejoice!)

Neat.

Looks pretty dope, looking forward to it.

It looks like another epic from Rockstar.

So you're Frank West?

I'm pretty excited, loved San Andreas for many reasons (still a toss up with VC as favourite though). The trailer seems to combine the sunny, wallowing-in-riches side of San Andreas and the recession ridden suburbs and downtown. I found Liberty City to be very vast and interesting, but dull.

This looks to be a much wanted mix of the two generations: the realistic, gritty rebirth of the new GTA and the fun of the old.

Looks very similar to Red Dead in terms of graphics and rendering and if the gameplay is anything like Red Dead, just set in modern times I'm on board.

This video does nothing for me. I guess I no longer want a game like GTA4 and that's the vibe I got from this. I'm so glad that there is a Saints Row and I couldn't be more excited for that one!

it essentially seems like a sopranos style storyline: family man trying to have normal life while being a criminal. Surprising it actually took this long for GTA to do a direct sopranos story, as GTA3 focused on an unattached cypher and the rest of the characters had different issues to contend with while trying to get the american dream.

Oh, and GTA games will always, in some way, be about the american dream as almost all crime drama and what have you is about people trying to achieve the american dream.

I'm just really glad to be going back to San Andreas. That was my favorite GTA of them all. I can't imagine that they wouldn't include San Fierro and Las Venturas seeing as Los Santos was the least engaging area of San Andreas. Anywho can't wait.

If it is as big a jump in features and playability from GTA IV that San Andreas was from Vice City, GTA V will be sort of a swan song for the current generation consoles.

I noticed that there were no mobile phones anywhere in the trailer.

It got me thinking about what part of modern culture that Rockstar could make satire of. GTAIV was very much set in the post-9/11 fear. I imagine hipsters and annoyingly smug health fanatics could be one of the parts of it.

Area 51. Now.

And here I was going to correct you that GTA is not using the RAGE engine so I go and wiki it and low and behold it is called that, wonder if John Carmack raged when he found that info out also.

GTA IV was quite heavily criticised for the narrative revolving around Niko's desire to get out of the criminal lifestyle, yet the game was nothing more than a 30+ hour crimespree, with no attempt to even appear that this was the case. Seeing the reference in the GTA V trailer to the protagonist wanting to be "a family man" makes me think this is going to be the same thing; a fumbled, misleading attempt at adding depth to what is essentially a detestable, one-dimensional character, and a wafer-thin excuse to become a mass-murdering psychopath.

GTA V would probably pique my interest more if it just dropped the whole pretence of your character trying to be a nice guy, and was honest about what it is/is trying to do.

I would like to see rockstar do a gta outside of america, How many times are we going to see the same cities in gta, It's about time they moved to other cities for their jollies.

I've heard this will be a downloadable only ps3 exclusive with microtransactions and Move support! just saying..

Same game, different city. GTA never had good gameplay, they just supplement it by giving you a lot of it. No thanks, Rockstar.

@jakeh said:

And here I was going to correct you that GTA is not using the RAGE engine so I go and wiki it and low and behold it is called that, wonder if John Carmack raged when he found that info out also.

Found that out? What out, that there is an engine out there with the same name as a game he eventually would work on? The Rockstar Advanced Game Engine was released in 2006, and is an acronym of course. John Carmack's game engine is called id Tech 5 and was only demonstrated on '07, was released with the Rage game in 2011.

@Meowshi said:

@WinterSnowblind said:

I'm disappointed in the location and what appears to be the lead character. Rockstar have usually been known for taking risks, so having another American dream "I want to settle down" story, in the most popular location of the entire series, is a very safe move. Something a little different would have been nice.

Other than that though, I'm pretty excited. Los Santos was a great location and if the hints of the countryside mean there's going to be more to explore outside of the city.. and possibly even multiple cities again, then fantastic.

When has Rockstar ever done this? He's a family man. He mentions he has kids. When has this shit been done?

Rockstar games are always about young douche-bags who want to be the best criminals in town. It's never been about "the American dream".

Someone didn't play GTA4 at all.

Looks p. good to me.

I am ready for this. Not too soon, not too late.

These games never excite me because I don't want to role-play as a scumbag drug dealer or terrorist. :(