Another "leak" by an "employee" of PSM UK....

[TreeFitty 2631]

I don't think it's real, but I'm sure you people will drool all over it:

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.

Original source is hard to find. Everyone is pointing at everyone else. Might be Swedes trying to get attention. *shrugs*

Weapons part and fuel trails are too far fetched for my taste

[OptimumPx 329]

Here's the original source.

It all sounds very nice, and certainly plausible but...its just way too detailed to be all from just one 30 minute video.

Basically I'll take it with a whole shaker of salt.

[Rayge 689]

Some of it sounds believeable and realistic. I would say about 60% of it seems plausible. I think it's just trying to cater to what everyone wants, with some flaws to throw them off the scent of it being fake.

I highly, highly, HIGHLY doubt that the city of Los Santos will be 4x the size of Liberty City, at least if it's still on Xbox. No way DVD would be able to handle that.

[TreeFitty 2631]

Here's the original source.

That's not the original.

[DahPain 0]

Seemed too good to be truth, and i dont beleive it 100%, rather 50%.. Everything was good, but i really wanted hair cuts and such..

[OptimumPx 329]

Here's the original source.

That's not the original.

Welp, Psy said it was.

[Guest Marney1]

To be quite honest, I'd expect nothing less in GTA V. It almost sounds like he's been reading fans' wishes too and just gone all out to 'confirm' them.

We'll know soon enough whether he's going on the Shit List though.

[DahPain 0]

Haha, i really dont beleive in anything less its confirmed by R*

But if dogs, and if there is, i really hope there could be some different dogs to pick from, and you could like have a relationship with it xD

[Rayge 689]

different dogs to pick from, and you could like have a relationship with it xD

O_O

But I can see what you mean, how badass would it be to walk the streets with a fucking Doberman, commanding it to kill anyone you don't like. I really, really hope animals are in the game, especially police dogs. That would be AWESOME. They included dogs in RDR, and you were able to lasso, slash and shoot them so I don't see why it can't be incorporated into GTA V.

[DiO 4730]

its just way too detailed to be all from just one 30 minute video.

Yah i was thinkin BS as I was reading it. It was enough go give me a half-chub but you killed it with that comment.

[Mercy 30]

Sorry but if this is going to be R* biggest games then that's a load of rubbish. Plus going back to san andreas, with a lead charcter that is basically cj, would be rubbish. I mean its not a remake its a new game, at least I hope x

[Alex Rees 2]

I can't wait I would like to see Cj return but i doubt it

[Guest Marney1]

Sorry but if this is going to be R* biggest games then that's a load of rubbish. Plus going back to san andreas, with a lead charcter that is basically cj, would be rubbish. I mean its not a remake its a new game, at least I hope x

"...the largest and most ambitious game Rockstar has yet created" - source

[Mercy 30]

Marney is ur point that its large and not best. Well tbh I will be disapointed if that rumour is true but hey ill prob still love it,

[Guest Marney1]

Marney is ur point that its large and not best. Well tbh I will be disapointed if that rumour is true but hey ill prob still love it,

No, I'm just countering your claim that GTA V isn't going to be Rockstar's biggest game.

[ViceMan 1380]

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

A 2ft long purple dildo?!!

[JamieMilne 489]

jet pack perhaps haha. that sounds like an awesome game. its everything I want V to be lol. not sure if its real but. plausible

[Grizzly 9]

Doubt it all. Not that it's all too far fetched, but that had to be the most action packed 30 minute gameplay video ever.

And doubt we'd play as a CJ look a like.

And I don't believe any man who spells museum wrong.

[Guest Marney1]

Don't care what anyone says, I can see him being on the Shit List very soon.

[DuPz0r 5361]

Very nice to read. But too early to care if it's real or not... I'll just wait until Rockstar Games release any real info, before I start caring about information like this.

[Guest Marney1]

Very nice to read. But too early to care if it's real or not... I'll just wait until Rockstar Games release any real info, before I start caring about information like this.

Same here, I'm done with rumours. Stick your rumours up your ass.

[GTAFan001 0]

Cars can be upgraded/repaired and it has been considered to have a car have fuel forcing the player to fill her up - So hope this is true would love to fill up cars just like in Mafia

[Tahkyn 12]

I fail to see why an employee of a Playstation magazine would leak all this information, they'd keep it for the eventual 'GTA V Revealed!' edition of their magazine knowing they can shift a lot more copies by keeping such details exclusive..

[IloveGTA 0]

Some of it sounds believeable and realistic. I would say about 60% of it seems plausible. I think it's just trying to cater to what everyone wants, with some flaws to throw them off the scent of it being fake.

I highly, highly, HIGHLY doubt that the city of Los Santos will be 4x the size of Liberty City, at least if it's still on Xbox. No way DVD would be able to handle that.

a blu-ray disk for ps3 can easily handle 4x the size of liberty city :-P

[Rayge 689]

Some of it sounds believeable and realistic. I would say about 60% of it seems plausible. I think it's just trying to cater to what everyone wants, with some flaws to throw them off the scent of it being fake.

I highly, highly, HIGHLY doubt that the city of Los Santos will be 4x the size of Liberty City, at least if it's still on Xbox. No way DVD would be able to handle that.

a blu-ray disk for ps3 can easily handle 4x the size of liberty city :-P

Yeah i know that, but if you read the whole sentence you would realize I said XBOX. Xbox uses DVD, and DVD wouldn't be able to handle a map of such detail at such a size, and GTA has become a multi-platform game now, so it would have to be made for the weakest link (xbox) and ported to PS3.