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"I've Been In This Game For A Lot Of Years..." - A New Trailer For GRAND THEFT AUTO V Rides Into Town!!
The Kidd here...
One can't ignore the influence the GRAND THEFT AUTO series has had on the film and television industry since its inception, and likewise, you can't become immersed in Vice City or San Andreas or Liberty City and not see signs of the films and TV shows that have helped pave the way for GTA to have gotten to this incredible level of popularity. I know video game news only pops up on here when it's something really worthwhile, and today is one of those days with Rockstar giving us a much deeper look at what they have heading our way next Spring with GRAND THEFT AUTO V.
If you've got yourself an Xbox 360 of a PS3, you know you're picking this thing up next year on launch day, and, with the prospect of not one... not two... but potentially three character storylines to follow as the open sandbox gets a lot bigger, GTA V... well, I don't need to tell you how many awesome hours this is going to eat up of our collective lives.
-Billy Donnelly
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I googled it earlier but couldn't find anything.
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you have all just failed your geek test.
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the GRAND THEFT AUTO series has had on the film and television industry since its inception... What are you talking about? Like what? You really do say the dumbest shit.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 12:03 p.m. CST
Wait, so can I still behead hookers with a katana or not?
by kidicarus
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Which, in my opinion, is such a good thing.
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Rockstar noted that they didn't hire any names for the voices this time around.
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is he ill or something?
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May breathe a little life into the formula that's gettting a little long in the tooth. Didn't care for IV found it to be pretty boring and cumbersome. No sold on V yet either.
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True true
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Nov. 14, 2012, 12:14 p.m. CST
Kidd is excited for the trailer but will shit on the game when it's released.
by kindofabigdeal
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doesn't mean no recognizable names, though. There are plenty of well-known and extremely talented VO artists I would love to hear in this game who couldn't be considered celebrities. And to be honest, when I'm playing a great game, I would much rather be hearing Steve Blum or Nolan North than Ray Liotta or Ice-T anyway.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 12:23 p.m. CST
The only celebrity voice I would like in EVERY GTA game is Samuel MuthaFuckin L Jackson. You could hire Billy West for the rest ...
by openthepodbaydoorshal
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Nov. 14, 2012, 12:24 p.m. CST
Sorry...it should read Samuel L MF Jackson..just sounds better.
by openthepodbaydoorshal
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Nov. 14, 2012, 12:27 p.m. CST
"can't ignore the influence the GRAND THEFT AUTO series has had on the film and television industry"!?
by Talkbacker with no name
If you have ever played any of these games, you would know it is the other way around.
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Game Trailers on AICN? L A M E - O Super lame.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 12:31 p.m. CST
disfigurehead, can I ask you a serious question about that?
by Talkbacker with no name
Why so early? I don't think they are going to run out of copies.
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LIIIIIIMMMIIIIIITTTTT
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The people want to know. A 10 year life cycle is too long in a world where everything else evolves every couple of years. Just look at the difference in TVs, PCs, laptops/tablets and smartphones compared with just 2-3 years ago. I read somewhere a while ago hat the PS3 is expected to last 12-15 years before its replaced. I hope that's not true.
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Fuck - I'll have to... GTAV - FTW!!!!!!
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Next year at a guess, but while systems are still selling at the rate they are, companies are not in a rush to put out new product. Simple as that really.
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Like.. none? Now, I will credit them with cribbing a lot from the film(Scarface) and television(Miami Vice) industry, but not the other way around. Even something like Fast and The Furious had little to do with GTA and was basically a remake of Point Break with street racing.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 12:46 p.m. CST
Color me interested. I'm digging the multi-protagonist structure - I hope it's designed that way so all 3 characters are playable. The old GTA story formula of the rags to riches low-level newbie climbing the ranks of his criminal organization has become
by Joey Stars
Plus the odd ball pairing of an Al Bundy type, black urban male, and tired, middle aged Tony Soprano has me intrigued. Oh man, Al Bundy jumping off a crashing train during a heist. Fucking awesome!!
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The only way they can pique my interest at this point is if they pull off a 3D version of the '60s mod London expansion pack of GTA1. That would breathe some new life into the franchise. This looks like same shit, different roman numeral.
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What...you thought the graphics and framerate in that trailer sucked? Even if a newer console can have more power in all aspects, games still are made my humans and require lots of time and patience. If this released on a newer console, it would look exactly the same. I don't know what the big rush is. Games are still looking great on 360 and PS3.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 1:08 p.m. CST
I haven't played GTA since Vice City but this has me interested
by Wcwlkr
I'm loving the aspect of 3 different storylines. Color me intrigued for this sequel.
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Look I've played every GTA, and after playing Sleeping Dogs, I gotta say GTA really has to up their game this time. They've got to throw some Fable like stuff in there, make what you do and your reputation actually EFFECT the game, throw some Skyrim kind of structure in there, have what you do have actual repurcusions.
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Look I've played every GTA, and after playing Sleeping Dogs, I gotta say GTA really has to up their game this time. They've got to throw some Fable like stuff in there, make what you do and your reputation actually EFFECT the game, throw some Skyrim kind of structure in there, have what you do have actual repurcusions.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 1:26 p.m. CST
Nice to see Tommy again, havent really played since Vice City
by DidntPullOutInTimeCop
Say what you will about celebrity voices, Ray Liotta was the right prick for that role (that's a compliment), he should've been back.
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Influence on film and tv? What the hell are you talking about?! I think your confusing cultural impact with "influence".
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Such a boring game, lacking all the fun stuff that was in San Andreas.
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@talbaker, you're right of course. They won't rush one out if they're still selling which they probably are. I'm just impatient. @Professor, I do think it looks very good. I don't buy that it wouldn't look better on a next gen console though. They have boundaries that they have to work within. Look at the difference between ps2 and ps3 releases of the same games etc. People are capable of producing FAR better looking CGI than this, obviously. It's budget, console capabilities and storage space limitations that stop them.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 1:39 p.m. CST
A few lazy GTA jokes when someone gets run down by a car in a movie...
by Grammaton Cleric
...is a "huge" influence in the industry?
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Nov. 14, 2012, 1:41 p.m. CST
Pls make a futuristic GTA with flying cars, robots and lazer guns. It could be GTA Coruscant Star Wars even.
by DarthBlart
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...are the only real legitimate crime lords now, everybody else (Russian/Italian) might be involved in petty crime, but the CARTELS run the gangs that run the drugs in the US, without a CARTEL storyline, this might be a weak GTA, since we have waited so goddamn long for a new one, I hope they add one, unless ROCKSTAR is scared, which if they are, I don't blame them.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 1:42 p.m. CST
If this is their idea of Christmas, I *gotta* be here for New Year's
by davidwebb
To me, Skeletons will always be the music playing in Argyle's limo.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 1:43 p.m. CST
Looks way better than GTA IV. I bet there's no entertain your cousin minigames.
by David Cloverfield
Then again, I was so fucking sold on Assassin's Creed 3 too, and look how that turned out.
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I think I heard that line 100 times before I passed that mission. Fuck you, Smoke!
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Part IV was god awful -- and near bloodless (for a GTA game). The shooting aspect is always sub par in these games, as are the graphics and story writing. The real appeal has always been the ultra-violence one could inflict, shooting off heads/arms/legs, puddles of blood, bloody tire tracks, etc.... and the assholes toned that way down, so there's no real point to these games anymore. If I want the best shooting experience, I'll go with CoD or Battlefield 3, or even Gears of War. If I want the best story, I'll go with Mass Effect type games. If I want the best graphics, I'll go with something like Rage. Action/Adventure, there's Uncharted and God of War. GTA is just sub-mediocre in every aspect, or at least has been lately.
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I know that staring at some dude's ass for 60+ hours may appeal to the God of War fans, but a female player character would definitely give GTA the shot in the arm it needs...
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YOU FUCKING KNOW IT. ROCKSTAR IS THE BEST. SHIT JUST GOT REAL IN VIDEOGAMES
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Nov. 14, 2012, 2:09 p.m. CST
Blood, instanity, an ass to look at... That's what Saints Row 3 is for.
by David Cloverfield
They both have their own thing now. IF you want crazy violent, bloody, colorful, dirty sandbox, go Saints Row. From what I see, if you want realistic, epic crime drama, you go GTA. I chose Saints Row the last time, but I think both games have their audience and place. V needs some great characters and less fat that IV, and it could be a return to form, without the crazy bloody insanity of Vice City. We have another series for that now.
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but nobody is going to be able to play it. Remember? The world is ending this year. heheh John Cusack showed us all that a couple of years ago.
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...GTA stopped being about crazy sandbox stunts and douchebaggery a long time ago, when every single other sandbox game did that for you. If you just want a city to play around in and kill random people...then play saints row and fuck off. Since GTA4, rockstar have toned down the excessive, and amped up all the satire, and put in through the city design, the insane amount of branding, the radio stations and it's perfectly formed and designed characters. It's also delved into stories that ranged from the comedic to the outright novelistic. If you play red dead redemption you see the gta 4 formula perfected and put into the west, that game has the right amount of derivative elements mixed in with originality, the right amount of satire and comedy mixed with dark gritty violent tones...and it's populated with plenty of memorable characters. This is what GTA is about, the amosphere...i can't wait to play as (what seems to be) a surburban man, getting back into the life of crime with his upstarter black partner and his wild drug dealer best friend...and seeing their story draw allusions to the heavily rumoured focus on the 99% movement, and the economic crisis...this is a story thats ripe for personal, allgorical and satirical goodness that only Rockstar can provide. Colour me psyched. Or...i could be wrong and it could be just jetpacks and blowing up shit like a saints row game, in that case...you can have back your GTA.
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That is all.
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Going by past Rockstar efforts, a fuck lot I would imagine. Their games are usually worth putting up with such hassles, though GTA 4 was pretty damn mediocre, both in regards to the GTA series, and Rockstar releases in general. Wonder if they'll finally have shooting and driving mechanics that are worth a damn?
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Nov. 14, 2012, 2:21 p.m. CST
Don't hate the little man, cuz he's carrying a six shootah!
by AzulTool
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Titties flopping all over the place as I dodge bullets... nah... Looks really interesting. You get a variety of stories this time and perspectives on life. The real draw for me will be if the characters are actually interesting and make me care about their eventual outcomes. I didn't give a shit about Niko or CJ or that other black guy in vice city stories. They were interchangeable, bland, pieces of shit. Though I love that they included a black guy. This should lend itself to some interesting drama if they truly want to explore the complexities of being black. How crazy it is for one thing. You got white people hating you. You got Black people hating you. It's insanity. I hope his story culminates into him wanting to be a good guy, but the world drags him down into becoming a thug. No sugar coating life... yeah...
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Nov. 14, 2012, 2:25 p.m. CST
How about a futuristic dystopian future where you either joing a cannibal gang or become a scavenger.
by kindofabigdeal
GTA: Judgement Day!!!
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Nov. 14, 2012, 2:25 p.m. CST
Yes, I realize "futuristic dystopian future" was retarded to write. :(
by kindofabigdeal
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That game was better than any of the GTA games.
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Easily one of my top 3 games this gen. However after my Fiance had a movie night, the case for RDR now contains some shit called Water For Elephants. I should make her go through every DVD case in the house till she finds my disc.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 2:48 p.m. CST
Gimme gta bladerunner. Steal me a spinner and fuck some replicant shit up
by UltraTron
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Nov. 14, 2012, 2:49 p.m. CST
Anyone know what that song is? I heard it on DIE HARD once
by Kyle DeMattio
Anyway, Can't wait for this game to come out
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Nov. 14, 2012, 2:52 p.m. CST
James Caan in Thief. Total gta movie. Even stores the car in the remote garage
by UltraTron
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the best open world ever just got 5 times bigger!
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Nov. 14, 2012, 3:12 p.m. CST
Anyone catch the "see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil" at the end?
by openthepodbaydoorshal
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Nov. 14, 2012, 3:14 p.m. CST
Yes, EVERYBODY caught the "see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil" at the end.
by loafroaster
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Nov. 14, 2012, 3:16 p.m. CST
Red Dead Redemption had a great story, but every mission boiled down to "ride your horse here, shoot some people". GTA's gameplay is vastly superior.
by loafroaster
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and I'm a moron
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Nov. 14, 2012, 3:24 p.m. CST
When exactly did AICN become a gaming site, or start accepting advertising revenue from games publishers? Time to find another movie site...
by Aiden Blackwell
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when it gave the player more agency and emergent possibilities in carrying out missions. With GTA4, Rockstar wanted to show of their script and set pieces instead of letting the player show their ingenuity. Common story among big budget games these days.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 3:26 p.m. CST
Wake me for GTA VI ce City. Set in the 80's.
by Bedknobs and Boomsticks
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Nov. 14, 2012, 3:39 p.m. CST
GTA VIII: New Vice City....set in the gangsta rap 90's era.
by kindofabigdeal
In this one, if you sleep with too many prostitutes you get the AID's and your health begins to decrease. You can also go to the studio and put out an album. It's kinda like rollin the dice but if you make it big an entourage follows you around everywhere. You can control your party like Knights of the Old Republic. On one of the missions your crack head momma gives birth to your baby sister in a back alley and you have to rush her to the emergency room witin the alloted time.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 3:41 p.m. CST
The aiming and weapon feedback were far superior in RDR.
by NotEnoughBiehn
GTA has always had poor kinesthetics and unpolished control. You know, the important fundamental things that make up "gameplay," not mission objectives
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But older? We'll see. My biggest beef with the GTA games is the lack of replayability. Once you won the game... what the hell do you have left to do? You can't get anymore missions, you can't start a new set by running a drug gang to cartel and you can't run for politics to run the city you (pretty much) now control. I agree with the FABLE angle someone mentioned earlier: give a reputation to your guy and show some consequences (people tailing you and bugging your phones; doing things to decrease your reputation to get the heat off, etc).
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YES!!!!!!!!
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I will play it and cause massive destruction in Los Santos/San Andreas. I like the stories and all that in these games, but some of the best times in GTA are just riding around like an idiot and seeing what you can blow up. So far it looks like next year will be pretty great for games: Aliens: Colonial Marines Bioshock Infinite GTA V The Last of Us
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Now I can drive around pretending to be James Bond.
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and make them crawl around on the floor doing my sexual biddings? I mean, how open ended is it this time?
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It's fun being able to play more than 30 minutes at a time without your fucking Xbox locking up on you. I don't see how you guys deal with consoles.
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I'm not sure why they bothered to make a new one. We've moved on to the Call Of Duty series, thanks.
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Sorry but we've moved on to Battlefield 3.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 6:25 p.m. CST
If you want to know how the 3 playable characters work check out ..
by ShakaLaka Lambo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LwzlQ7vZLQ I can't wait
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Nov. 14, 2012, 7:31 p.m. CST
Looks incredible ... GTA4 had the looks but was very flat and limited ...
by GINGE_MUPPET
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You will be able to drop in and out of the three playable characters any time, and during missions you get the option to switch during key moments. For example, you can choose to pilot a chopper as one character, or you can be the guy firing the machine gun out the back, or you can provide sniper support and kill the enemy chopper pilots.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 7:37 p.m. CST
Wow, senatorjeffersonsmith... you're kidding, right? How can you not look at that trailer and NOT be stoked?
by Chris
Not only for the campaign, but the fact that the map is bigger than San Andreas, GTAIV, and Red Dead Redemption COMBINED. I can't wait to explore the free roam in multiplayer... There's also going to be a fully rendered sea floor that you can dive to and explore, helicopters, planes, bicycles, BMX bikes, motorcycles, ATVs, dunebuggies, VW vans, mountain bikes, sports cars, fighter jets...
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Before San Andreas again. Vice City was great fun, I played that forever. By the time IV came out i was GTA'd out, so even the jump from PS2 to PS3 graphics didn't really hold my attention too long. I will have to check out this one though. "Lets do this thing!" says 8-Ball!
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Nov. 14, 2012, 8:12 p.m. CST
Hope they return to Red Dead on the next gen ... Loved that game so much, played on and off for months.
by GINGE_MUPPET
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Nov. 14, 2012, 9:48 p.m. CST
"One can't ignore the influence the GRAND THEFT AUTO series has had on the film and television industry"...
by Hardboiled Wonderland
Er, the other way around, Kidd, I counted a kazillion -- yes, a KAZILLION -- nods to movies and tv series in that trailer. Ripping off Ray Winstone's Sexy Beast is blasphemous!!
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Nov. 14, 2012, 9:51 p.m. CST
GTA has influenced The Sopranos, The Wire, The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Transformers 1, 2, *and* 3, Glee, Frankenweenie, Justin Bieber's Never Say Never, Prometheus, and Werner Herzog's new documentary.
by Hardboiled Wonderland
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Nov. 14, 2012, 9:53 p.m. CST
In his acception speech at this year's Academy Awards, Michel Hazanavicius thanked Rockstar & GTA for inspiring The Artist
by Hardboiled Wonderland
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Nov. 14, 2012, 9:56 p.m. CST
At the 2002 Academy Awards afterparty, Roman Polanski said GTAIII's prostitute scene inspired his romantic life.
by Hardboiled Wonderland
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Nov. 14, 2012, 9:57 p.m. CST
Shortly before his death, Steve Jobs said he would never have co-founded Pixar if it wasn't for GTA
by Hardboiled Wonderland
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Nov. 14, 2012, 9:58 p.m. CST
The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman says season 2 completely sucked donkeys balls because Frank Darabont didn't like GTA.
by Hardboiled Wonderland
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Nov. 14, 2012, 10:06 p.m. CST
Ridley Scott: "I wish I had have hired GTA's writers instead of Lindelof, Prometheus would have rocked!"
by Hardboiled Wonderland
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Nov. 14, 2012, 10:07 p.m. CST
Michael Bay: "Hardboiled is wrong, GTA did not influence Transformers in any way. NONE of the vehicles in any GTA game transforms into a giant fucking robot."
by Hardboiled Wonderland
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Nov. 14, 2012, 10:14 p.m. CST
The Kidd: "You're cruisin' for a bruisin', hardboiled."
by Hardboiled Wonderland
Just teasing, dude.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 10:16 p.m. CST
I admit, that trailer is excellent. I'll wait for PC though, not a console man. I keep thinking Jackie Brown/Robert Forster for the dad character.
by Hardboiled Wonderland
This looks like one of those games where its more fun to spot the pop culture references than actually playing it. The graphics look fantastic though.
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FACT
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Featuring: A dog jumping over a car! A man jumping over a car! A car jumping off a trailer! A man jumping off a boat on a trailer! A man jumping out of a car jumping out of a plane! HAVE I MENTIONED THE JUMPING YET??!? WE HAVE A BUTTON DEDICATED TO JUMPING!
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Although they said there would be cameos from GTAIV. But SA, VC, and III are in a separate "universe" and won't cross over.
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I just want to ride a horse through South Central. Please make me happy Rockstar.
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If there is no PC, it's not GTA, it's just GTFO!!! It sucks that they make it for 5 yard old console tech, they should be making it on state-of-the-art current PC tech.
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Nov. 15, 2012, 5 a.m. CST
Wow, the map is bigger, so it takes you even longer to drive from point to point, passing mostly buildings that are merely unenterable fascades...
by Stegman84
Give me a smaller, but more alive and interactive world over a huge, but largely hollow one any damn day.
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Nov. 15, 2012, 6:14 a.m. CST
uncle_billy The song is Skeletons by Stevie Wonder from 1987, featured in Die Hard from 1988. I will take paypal or cheque, which ever is easiest for you.
by Bradly Durant
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Nov. 15, 2012, 6:19 a.m. CST
Been here before, but okay, has to be better than yet more regurgitated COD action. COD is dead to me. Dead as a dead fish. Dead. And gay. A gay dead fish that is COD.
by Bradly Durant
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Nov. 15, 2012, 8:26 a.m. CST
I always tell myself the last GTA is 'it' for me...then I buy the new one!!! ARGH!!!!
by Matthew Schlotman
Trailer is cool - GTA is still cool - can anyone imagine a world without a GTA in it? I can't
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Nov. 15, 2012, 10:30 a.m. CST
stegman84, I AGREE 100%!!! GIVE ME A SMALLER CITY BUT WITH MORE INTERACTION AND LAYERS LIKE SEWERS THAT YOU CAN TRAVEL THROUGH AND BUILDING YOU CAN ENTER!!! I GET BORED OF WANDERING AROUND A GIGANTIC MAP!!!FACT!!!
by CreepyThinManForever
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Nov. 15, 2012, 10:39 a.m. CST
creepy - have you played Dead Island? The maps are much more manageable, and youcan use sewers for shortcuts in the city section.
by openthepodbaydoorshal
But I agree. When half of your gameplay is taking at taxi, or driving across town....thats no longer tolerable.
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Nov. 15, 2012, 10:49 a.m. CST
That's all I'm asking for. You can keep your Dishonored playpens.
by Baked
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Nov. 15, 2012, 10:50 a.m. CST
openthepodbaydoorshal, UNFORTUNATELY I CAN'T PLAY FPS GAMES BECAUSE OF MOTION SICKNESS!!!FACT!!! IT'S WEIRD AS IT ONLY EVER HAPPENS WITH FPS GAMES!?!FACT!!!
by CreepyThinManForever
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There are more rendered interiors in this game than in any other Rockstar game.
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Some of the highlights from Game Informer say that in this game we can expect the following AND more... BMX bikes, Mountain bikes, Road bikes, Dune buggies Dozens of cars, Dozens of trucks, Vans, Motorcycles, Dirt bikes Biplanes, Private jets, Fighter jets, Helicopters Boats, Jet skis Deep sea diving with a fully rendered ocean floor, Wet lands, Deserts, Mountainous terrain, Forests An 18 hole golf course, Yoga and various other activities/minigames More interactive A.I., More random events/missions
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I don't know what you're thinking when you say that GTA has had an influence on Hollywood. Most of the games are homages to various films. It's the other way around than what the article says. That said, I'm glad to see people making a big deal out of something that isn't another bullshit Halo/Call of Duty game.
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