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November 7th, 2011, 12:25 GMT · By

Lots of GTA V Details Leak, Mentions Huge World and Its Protagonist

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Just as the dust was settling on the first trailer of Grand Theft Auto V released by Rockstar Games, a batch of massive details have been leaked on the web, with information about the game's open world, its protagonist, as well as all of the things that you can do through the experience.

Grand Theft Auto V was announced a couple of weeks ago and the first trailer of the new open world title from Rockstar made its debut almost a week ago.

Since then, the studio confirmed that GTA V takes place just in Los Santos, the franchise' own version of Los Angeles, and that it's the most ambitious project it has ever made.

We dissected the GTA V trailer for every bit of information we could find, but now a huge list of details were posted on the GTAForums by an employee of a "PlayStation magazine from the UK" who revealed that some of his colleagues were able to check out a 30-minute video about GTA V before its trailer premiere.

He went on to present a huge list of details, some regarding the game's world, which, while featuring just Los Santos and its immediate vicinity, is four times bigger than Liberty City from GTA IV.

The protagonist is an 30-year old African American guy, who will be able to interact in all sorts of ways with the world of GTA V. Mini-games like bowling or darts have been replaced with basketball, weight lifting, cage fighting or triathlons, while all sorts of animals are present, from dogs to cattle, although it's not clear how you can interact with them.

Check out the full list of presumed details below, as found on the GTAForums.

1: The game world is absolutely massive and will push both Xbox 360 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 wilderness 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, 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/building to use as a weapon. There is also a museum 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 triathlons, water races, canoeing, rock climbing, base jumping, ski diving. More to be confirmed.

6: Character customization 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 neighborhood houses.

8: No children NPC at all. Ever.

9: There is now an ability to grab people and use as shields 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 customizable 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.

While most of these details aren't that surprising, take them with a grain of salt as Rockstar Games has yet to confirm any of this, although most our speculations from the trailer dissection are featured.

Expect some more official GTA V details in the near future straight from Rockstar.


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Comment #1 by: the gta guy on 07 Nov 2011, 18:49 UTC reply to this comment

this news is fake !!!
the guy who posted it himself told that it is fake !!
faker than pamela andersons boobs

Comment #1.1 by: fedrich on 07 Nov 2011, 20:10 GMT

dude really,,,, Fake? What a * , if its true.

Comment #1.2 by: jk on 17 Jan 2012, 22:53 GMT

if its fake who cares gta has a good reputation theyll do fine


Comment #2 by: fefrich on 07 Nov 2011, 20:03 UTC reply to this comment

Who wrote this???? This is just outstanding information, if even a quarter of this info is real, this will be the best video game Ever made.


Comment #3 by: Kyle on 08 Nov 2011, 21:37 UTC reply to this comment

You know, i think it is possible for the map being 4x the size, even though this post is fake. On a bunch of other website everyone is saying its impossible and the xbox 360, and PS3 won't be able to handle that size. But i have seen this one game and the map is HUGE. its the biggest i have ever seen, some guy was saying it took him almost an hour to drive from one side of the map to the other. So that rumor could be very legit.


Comment #4 by: Robert Hughes on 10 Nov 2011, 12:50 UTC reply to this comment

The protaganist obviously isn't African-American....


Comment #5 by: hotjeff on 11 Nov 2011, 00:57 UTC reply to this comment

"The re-loading animations for new ammo also look cooler, less static."
So why did he notice the reloading animations in the first place? How cool does a * RELOADING ANIMATION have to be that you'd decide to write about it rather than leaking relevant information like what the names of other towns are aside from Los Santos?
No children npcs, since when is that considered "real juicy info"? and why isnt the jetski sewer chase mission juicy info? how did jetskis get in the sewers to begin with?
So * fake.


Comment #6 by: Junior on 13 Nov 2011, 23:59 UTC reply to this comment

5: There are planes to pilot and they can be crashed into buildings if you choose to do so....

Great. Now terrorists have a simulator =)))))

Comment #6.1 by: Yourmom on 31 Dec 2011, 05:24 GMT

You can do this in microsoft flight simulator. Not a new feature.


Comment #7 by: LesserCure on 14 Nov 2011, 17:00 UTC reply to this comment

This one has been confirmed to be fake.


Comment #8 by: Shaw on 19 Nov 2011, 15:24 UTC reply to this comment

if you can't kill dogs the game will be * . because if you attack a person and the dog comes at you (will be a mission in there as well) and you can't kill the dog then it will suck balls. and we should not ruin a great feature of this game for some boarder-line terrorists.


Comment #9 by: jjet on 30 Nov 2011, 10:53 UTC reply to this comment

the narrator does not sound black

Comment #9.1 by: someone12536 on 12 Jan 2012, 09:00 GMT

Why do you think the narrator is the protagonist? Maybe the protagonist works for that man or something.


Comment #10 by: Wink on 09 Dec 2011, 08:58 UTC reply to this comment

That's great to hear all this things about GTA V .
I think it's very good that action is in San Andreas (Los Santos)
By the trailer game become MORE AND MORE realistic.


Comment #11 by: GTAfan98 on 19 Dec 2011, 14:25 UTC reply to this comment

even if this is fake i think its gonna be awsome anyway


Comment #12 by: Saab on 11 Jan 2012, 06:01 UTC reply to this comment

OMG IF THIS IS TRUE ITS A DREAM GAME COME TRUE!! LUV U ROCKSTAR


Comment #13 by: jk on 17 Jan 2012, 22:50 UTC reply to this comment

awesome my friend was telling me about all this some things he forgot but it does sound like fun


Comment #14 by: Mazio on 06 Feb 2012, 16:12 UTC reply to this comment

i want:
- bicycle
- diving underwater
- being able to sit on chair, bench, etc...
- gym
- graffiti, collect treasure stuffs ,...
and some of the features u mentioned are cool hope they will appear in the game
p/s: and i want Cesar from GTA-SA to be the protagonist


Comment #15 by: bamby on 10 Feb 2012, 15:57 UTC reply to this comment

Filling up a plane in mid flight thats a challange


Comment #16 by: Eminem on 28 Feb 2012, 14:39 UTC reply to this comment

Will you have a gang to roll with?


Comment #17 by: Ayman on 29 Mar 2012, 13:50 UTC reply to this comment

what about internet?


Comment #18 by: Jeff on 18 May 2012, 06:40 UTC reply to this comment

Saints row is more than this


Comment #19 by: mistadoyle on 05 Jun 2012, 06:10 UTC reply to this comment

I REALLY HOPE THIS IS TRUE!!!!


Comment #20 by: Gta v on 05 Jun 2012, 14:56 UTC reply to this comment

Gonna Be an good game Gta v hope there re real cars in this game that will be sick bro sick

Comment #20.1 by: made on 25 Jul 2012, 10:26 GMT

Wait & see bro...

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