The rumor mill has been abuzz for quite a while, dropping little dinks and dunks posing as hints as to GTA V’s looming arrival. The good news is that GTA V is coming. It’s only a question of when. The bad news: not only are details of a plot sketchy, but rumor has it that they haven’t even cast the characters for the game.
Regardless of the incomplete nature of even the rumors, much less the actual game, every GTA fan from here to the alien hiding in Antarctica is definitely excited about its release. This craze wasn’t just born yesterday either. Although the first GTA in 1997 wasn’t exactly as graphically astute as the last full console release (The Ballad of Gay Tony), the love affair with senseless violence and car-jacking and police-rammin’ is over a decade long.
The undying devotion for the GTA series started in 2002, when Rockstar took over the reins from DMA and put out Grand Theft Auto III, our first look at Liberty City and our first grounded view brought down from the bird’s eye view.
All good games evolve. Have you seen a Zelda or FF game lately? Even online blackjack games and games like poker evolve. But the heights GTA has reached as a franchise in only a few short years are mind-boggling. By the time Vice City morphed into San Andreas, the entire gaming world was stealing techniques from Rockstar to up the appeal of their games.
There have been four legitimate GTA releases, along with six other sub-stories of the franchise. GTA V, following the logical path of the series, promises to be more intense and more entertaining than ever.
Amongst the characters we were able to find through research, you have: Matthew – a young sissified liberal kid who is certain of a nationwide (USA) conspiracy; James – a pedo activist fresh out of a prison in Indonesia; Anthony – the proverbial young partier; Jose – a woodsman who believes technology is the devil; and Samantha – a sex-obsessed female dreaming of becoming a Hollywood starlet.
Rockstar will have a field day with these characters and undoubtedly introduce dozens more as time passes.
Until the game is finally released, we could all kill some time via the internet casinos, or we could load up Liberty City Stories in the PSP. Any way you go, you’ll want to do like Adam Sandler and fast-forward through the mundane tidbits of life until the new GTA hits the store shelves.
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