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Confirming months of hearsay, Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive have announced that the next installment of Grand Theft Auto is in the pipeline. The companies have posted a teaser page for the upcoming entry, aptly titled Grand Theft Auto V, but details are scant. As of writing, Rockstar's homepage displays the game's logo, which includes the Roman numeral "V" encircled by a banner with the word "Five."
It looks like what you'd expect to find on a bank note, but we're not sure what that means -- if anything. Wikipedia's GTA V entry claims the logo is stylized after British currency, but we haven't been able to confirm that (feel free to comment if you can say otherwise). If true, perhaps that implies the game will be based in England, which would be somewhat of a first for the series (the original had two London expansions).
That doesn't seem particularly farfetched considering GTA has been primarily developed in the UK. Rockstar North (formerly DMA Design), Rockstar Lincoln (formerly Tarantula Studios), and Rockstar Leeds (formerly Mobius Entertainment) are all UK-based and have been responsible for producing virtually every GTA game, barring one Game Boy Advance title and the occasional help from US or Canadian studios.
Hopefully we'll know next Wednesday, November 2 when the company is expect to release the game's first trailer. Regardless of its setting, if past entries are any indication, GTA V will be one of the best-selling games of 2012 -- assuming it isn't poised for a holiday 2011 release. GTA has been a big earner, selling more than 114 million units since 1997. GTA IV and its expansions alone have sold over 28 million copies.
A vast majority of those sales are on consoles as the PC versions of GTA undoubtedly receive less development attention and they tend to feel wonky with a keyboard and mouse. In fact, starting with GTA III, PC versions have routinely received lower review scores. GTA IV in particular had lousy optimization issues at launch. Besides smooth gameplay, what do you hope Rockstar's latest addition will bring to the franchise?
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Come on make it a Wii U launch title! Give it some nice exclusive second screen content too. Do it!
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i am sorry to post on this thread but when will battlefield 3 performance review will come i am eager to see that just checking techspot website about every 10 min.
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lawfer said:
Am I the only one that thinks GTA IV sucked?
I loved Vice City and San Andreas; IV tried too hard to be realistic.
I 100% totally agree, I loved San Andreas because of the way it played, the latest one felt too real which is not a good thing when it comes to GTA. It felt like they had replaced some fun for realism
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Guest said:
i am sorry to post on this thread but when will battlefield 3 performance review will come i am eager to see that just checking techspot website about every 10 min.
I am in the same boat as you! eagerly awaiting for it to pop up as well!
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If the gameplay rumours are true, boy i can't wait!
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GTA 3 for me was the best. The main character didnt utter a word, and left you to put ya thoughts in place of them. And it was mafia like, fun and silly in places.
Vice city was alright but too pink. And i wasnt a fan of the maps really.
San Andreas was huge. You felt you bought a great big game full of gta fun but sometimes driving through all that countryside was just dang tedious. And I was awful at that remote control plane level that infuriated me for what seemed like an eternity.
GTA 4 was pretty cool. Some good and bad points. Some cars fun to drive some awful. Too much realism? Maybe. Clothes shops with awful clothes that make you think, why did you bother adding shops if you were going to fill them with such limited crap?
I believe GTA belongs at home on the playstation, xbox can go swing, but then i also love it on pc and hope too like many here its not an awful port.
The community of gta providing mods and funky new cars is just amazing. Makes you wonder why rockstar cant make them that nice and shiny in the first place.
Hopefully GTA5 will rock though we will have to wait and see if the london setting is both true and well done. The Getaway on the PS2 was a good london gangster game.
Lets start on a rumor about the obligatory pet that will be obtained after the mission where your ex dies in a fire and you adopt it in her memory. But remember to return to your safe house to walk and feed it or it will die thus ending the game. Realism can be fun
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Guest said:
Vice city was alright but too pink. And i wasnt a fan of the maps really.
It was the voice acting and music what made Vice City for me; Stepping onto that moped for the first time when MJ's Billie Jean kicks in was just great. Plus Ray Liotta owned the role of Tommy Vercetti.
SA was just an envelope pusher IMO, that obviously went too far because of the shear amount of annoying bugs it has. Still an ok game though.
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I miss the parachute...
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BMfan said:
I loved the size of GTA-SA ,i missed that in GTA IV.
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Rockstar North is based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Not England. Both Countries are in the UK, which would have been the correct terminology to use (UK, or United Kingdom is the more official term, whilst England/Scotland/Wales/Northern Ireland is generally used for more colloquial discussion, or when relating specifically to that particular country).
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BMfan said:
I loved the size of GTA-SA ,i missed that in GTA IV.
I was a sophomore in high school when the events of SA took place. And living in LA, that game was awesome in terms of scope and the nostalgia factor. The music and everything was awesome.
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StaffGuest said:
Rockstar North is based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Not England. Both Countries are in the UK, which would have been the correct terminology to use (UK, or United Kingdom is the more official term, whilst England/Scotland/Wales/Northern Ireland is generally used for more colloquial discussion, or when relating specifically to that particular country).
Duly noted. I've updated the post.
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