Rockstar have today released a brand new trailer for this year’s Grand Theft Auto V, focusing on the three main characters in the game: Michael, Franklin and Trevor.
Individual ones are also available:
Hands-on previews of the game are expected to appear on Thursday from certain outlets. But not us. Rockstar sent us to the wrong address, sadly, all we got was a mouldy sandwich.
GTA V is out later this year for current gen consoles.
Excited?
Bilbo_bobbins
looks alright. Still hard to tell what its like without some decent gameplay. I’m guessing that will come on thursday
Taylor Made
Did anyone else press play on the characters when they came up after each video lol.
I like the Jay rock song they played for franklin, they should have put kendrick Lamar b*tch don’t kill my vibe it would go together
ron_mcphatty
Yep! I’m a sucker for a clickable button! The trailer made me go wow, I’m very excited.
Mike
Can. Not. Wait. And the fact one of the characters shares my name is icing on the cake. Launch day purchase for sure.
double-o-dave
The name thing has at least got to be worth a trophy. Email Rockstar!
Mike
Haha. Just imagine an in game trophy where only people with the same name as the characters could get. Only a platinum for the chosen few :p
double-o-dave
Deed Poll would be very busy.
cc_star
Not sold on this at all. Yes they’ve got 3 stories, but unless they’ve done something more with the concept & gameplay it could just be same old, same old.
yiddo
How will having 3 different protaganists be same old same old?
This may not be directed at you, but I feel like alot of people want to dislike GTA purely because it has reached that point in its franchise where it is known by everybody and is so successful. People jumped on COD as soon as MW2 was released and started the hate train with that, and I feel GTA will go the same way.
Of course, you may just dislike the gameplay of the last few titles, and that’s fair dues. But some people just hate for the sake of hating – at least that’s the feeling I get.
cc_star
For me personally, the gameplay peaked with Vice City after the almost equally excellent III.
3 or even 23 protagonists can easily be the same old same old, if the entire game consists of going somewhere on the map, robbing something or killing someone before going the other side of the map to do pretty much the same thing whilst a story plays out around those repetitive scenarios in rather weak looking cutscenes.
What R* do excellently however is craft a brilliant city that really does look like it’s living & breathing, but even here Ubisoft may have the march on them with something like Watch Dogs (an open world, city based game which will invariably feature a branching map based mission structure) which features proper interaction with all the non-playable characters and even interacting with loads of stuff in the city itself – Then there’s the way your single player ‘campaign’ overlaps with other players through shared instances.
GTAV could have a lot more gameplay to reveal with bringing new stuff to the table, but I just don’t see it yet, so for now, I’ve filed it under same old same old & it’s just not for me.
yiddo
The 3 protagonists alters the gameplay entirely. You can shift to them during missions to do different things, and each one of them is specialised in what they can do.
The initial gameplay preview (where Trevors in a helicopter, Michaels in the office building and Franklins sniping) further proves that. I’m sure it will be great. Rockstar games always are. Many people said RDR would just be GTA in the West. It proved them wrong :)
Klart
Agreed.
rht992
Different perspectives on missions sounds really interesting to me. Not only for the difference in gameplay but the chance to see the story unfold from different view points. It Could totally change which characters you favoured and distrusted.
colmshan1990
Watch Dogs might beat GTA’s world?
Sleeping Dogs already utterly outdid it completely.
skibadee
no sandbox game has come close to GTA imo.
fattyuk
have to agree with skibadee on this one!
Origami Killer
Liking the little insight into the three characters. Pretty funny too. Looking forward to this
Origami Killer
After another watch theyre all very stereotypical as well. Should be a bundle of fun to play as Michael and Trevor if you can.
Joshua Hood
Haha, that Michael trailer is awesome.
Tuffcub
That’s the only one that looks vaguely interesting to me, looks like playing a character we’ve not got to experience in a game.
Franklin is a walking stereotype and Trevor is just nasty and slimey, why would anyone want to “be” him.
XisTG
Never played a GTA game before (yeah, I know), maybe this is the right time to do it. Trevor style :)
Tuffcub
Ooh look the the black character is all hip-hop and has booty shaking ladies and guns.
*yawn*
double-o-dave
Well they’re hardly gonna make him head of the KKK are they? lol – Joke!
yiddo
Because it’s based on the Compton gangs which, if you like it or not, are PRIMARILY black.
Let’s not stir things up from nothing.
fattyuk
well yeah it’s a GTA game!
lol.
What else would a character like that be based on giving the setting and theme of the game?
Would you like him to be a version of django(Jamie foxx) based in the 21st century or something?
Nate
Franklin’s couldn’t have been a less interesting trailer.
hazelam
gotta love a bit of Queen.
at least i do. ^_^
MadJunkBoy
ALL WE HEAR IS, RADIO GAGA! RADIO GOGO! RADIO GAGA! ;)
blackredyellow
This looks great. I haven’t really been following the news with this game, I suppose that’s because the previous installment bored me.
I’ll pick this up when it comes around, especially looking forward to some MP carnage.