Grand Theft Auto V
Grand Theft Auto V (commonly shortened to GTA V) is an
upcoming open world action-adventure
video game being developed
by games developer Rockstar
North in the United Kingdom and published by Rockstar Games.[3] The game will be
the first major title in the Grand Theft Auto
series since Grand
Theft Auto IV (2008), which started the fourth "era"
in the series.[a] The fifteenth
game in the series overall, GTA V is to be set in fictional Los
Santos in the state of San
Andreas and its surrounding areas, based on modern-day Los Angeles and Southern
California.[2] A rendition of
Los Santos was previously featured as one of three cities in 2004's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, from the series's third
era.[4]
A highly anticipated game[5], Grand Theft
Auto V was officially announced on 25 October 2011.[6][7][8] The debut trailer
for the game was unveiled on 2 November 2011.[9][10][11]
Gameplay
Multiplayer
According to IGN, Grand
Theft Auto V will feature "Crews" similar to Max Payne 3. The new Social Club functionality connect play across multiple
titles, starting with Max Payne 3 and GTA V. By playing both
games multiplayer, "crews" that the player set up in one will be
carried over to the other. "Crews" will let players form private
crews with friends, or join public crews. Players can be a member of up to five
at the same time, and completing tasks as a crew will gain XP points for the
player.[12]
Development
In September 2009 during an earnings call, Take-Two
Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick answered a listener's question about
the next Grand
Theft Auto. He replied, "We're not going to announce it,
we're not going to announce when we are going to announce it, and we are not
going to announce a strategy about announcing it or about when we are going to
announce it either, or about the announcement strategy surrounding the
announcement of the strategy."[13]
In a November 2009 interview with The Times, Grand
Theft Auto producer Dan Houser
discussed his work, including the future of the series. Houser stated that he
planned to co-write a script that reached about one thousand pages in length.
In the same interview, Houser explained the company's basic workflow of
creating new games in the series, which involves coming up with the city first,
and then the lead character later.[1][14][15]
In July 2010, Rockstar North posted seven job ads related
to a new title. The firm looked to fill positions including Environment
Artists, Physics Programmers and Character Animators. The job ad for the latter
asking for those with "professional experience developing a third person
action game". It was unknown if Rockstar was hiring for GTA V, or
the firm was bulking up its Agent
team.[16]
Pre-announcement
In December 2010, Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick said
that the company "won't annualise" its biggest franchises like Grand
Theft Auto, Max
Payne and Red Dead.
He told Reuters that doing so would
threaten their quality and risk burning out consumers.[17]
In February and March 2011, there were several possible
minor leaks of supposed GTA production, including domain
name registrations,[18] and casting
calls featuring previous GTA characters.[19] The first signs
of the game went online in February 2011, via an actor's CV,[20] which was
followed by the discovery of Rockstar-registered GTA style URLs.[21] In March a
number of casting calls for voice acting in a project codenamed Rush
were leaked onto the internet. Considering one role included James Pedeaston, a
radio personality in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the project was presumed
to concern Rockstar.[22][23][24]
In June 2011, sources allegedly close to the developer
told GameSpot that the title is
"well under way", with final touches like mini-games already being
applied, and a 2012 release "pretty likely". "It's the big
one," they also said of the game, noting that GTA V's scale is
vast.[25]
In a July 2011 interview with PSM3, Team Bondi co-founder
Brendan McNamara was asked if Rockstar (who published Bondi's 2011 L.A. Noire) was
considering the proprietary MotionScan
face-scanning technology for the next GTA game. McNamara replied,
"Yeah, I think they're looking at it for every game. As much as L.A.
Noire is a huge game, Grand Theft Auto is incredibly huge, so you've
got all the problems of how big the cast would be and how many lines would you
have to record and all that kind of stuff. Obviously we'd like them to, and
they're more than welcome to use MotionScan, but if they decide it's not right
for that and want to use it for another game, then that's fine too."[26]
Post-announcement
On 25 October 2011, Rockstar Games announced Grand
Theft Auto V via their Twitter
account, which included the #GTAV hashtag
and a link to their homepage, which displayed the game's logo.[27] The 'V' in the
logo is styled like a bank note.[28] A message was
printed below the logo stating that a trailer would be released on 2 November
2011.[29] The following
day Rockstar put a Grand Theft Auto V trailer countdown on their
homepage.[30] Shares of Take-Two
Interactive, the parent company of Rockstar Games, jumped
seven percent following the revelation that Grand Theft Auto V is in
development.[31] Around the same
time, video game website Kotaku
claimed that it had been told that rumours about Rockstar being set to make a
switch to reality by recreating real-world Los Angeles for GTA V
"are true" by "a source familiar with the game". Kotaku
said that GTA V will be set in "some version of L.A."[32][33]
On 2 November 2011, Rockstar released the debut trailer
for Grand Theft Auto V.[8] Giving fans a
first look at the upcoming title, the trailer revealed the setting to be Los
Santos, the fictional version of Los Angeles and its California surroundings,
including Hollywood
("Vinewood") and rural hills and valleys. Additional features
revealed in the trailer included golf, planes, jetskis, and a working gym. The
song used in the trailer is "Ogdens'
Nut Gone Flake" by the British band The Small Faces.[34]
"Looking ahead,
Take-Two has the strongest development pipeline in the company's history. At
the cornerstone of our stellar line-up is the recently announced next
instalment of Rockstar Games' iconic franchise that has sold-in more than 114
million units - Grand Theft Auto V. The creative team at Rockstar Games
continues to set benchmarks for excellence with every new release and we're
confident that consumers' enthusiasm will be rewarded with a breathtaking
entertainment experience that can only be provided by Grand Theft Auto."
—Strauss Zelnick, Take-Two CEO.[35]
On 3 November 2011, Rockstar Games announced that Grand
Theft Auto V was in full development and that it would take place within
Los Santos and its "surrounding hills, countryside and beaches", and
that it would be "the largest and the most ambitious game Rockstar has yet
created", with Sam Houser
describing it as a "radical reinvention of the Grand Theft Auto
universe".[36] A version of Los
Santos was previously featured in 2004's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, along with two other
cities that were part of that rendition of the state of San Andreas (Las
Venturas and San Fierro, based on Las Vegas and San Francisco,
respectively). Rockstar parent Take-Two called GTA V "a bold new
direction in open-world freedom, storytelling, mission-based gameplay and
online multiplayer," while confirming that its story will focus on
"the pursuit of the almighty
dollar in a re-imagined, present-day Southern
California." No release date or platforms were provided in the
announcement.[2]
On 8 November 2011, Take-Two's second quarter financial
earnings report included an update on future product launch dates, with the
newest game to be added to the list was GTA V, which carried a "TBA" release.[35] On 2 February
2012, during Take-Two's third quarter financial report, CEO Strauss Zelnick said
developer Rockstar is making "incredible progress".[37] On 13 February
2012, in a Question and Answer section on their blog, a nameless Rockstar
representative said that the developer is toiling away diligently and hopes to
reveal more in a few months time.[38]
Oficial
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHVW1RpjH34&feature=fvst
Source:
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