IGA is clearly a superior being to me. He is all knowing, a true genius. I shall never question his greatness again.

At this point in the mission the player is given the ability to swap between Trevor, who is perched in an elevated position with a sniper rifle and an RPG, and the two other characters, who are both armed with machine guns near the truck. When the characters are this close together, player-activated switching happens nearly instantaneously, with the world slowing down for a split second so the player can reorient before rejoining the fray. To showcase the speed of these transitions, the play tester fires a rocket with Trevor and switches immediately to Franklin. Before the rocket even reaches its intended destination, he's in full control of the new character.

After disposing of several waves of cops, a brief reprieve allows the crew to gather the money and make off in the getaway vehicle, marking the end of a thrilling score.

Jumping from one character to another repeatedly may sound disorienting on paper, but watching Grand Theft Auto V in action quells any worry I had about the system. Smooth transitions make it easy to orient yourself after a switch, the cinematic sequences add another layer of drama to the proceedings, and being able to rotate between the characters gives the players a new level of control in dictating their play style. For Rockstar, this may be the greatest heist of all.

You can save up money to buy a fighter jet. YES!

The heist missions musical score is described like the opening scene of TDKs bank job music.

The mission had scripted between characters at the start but it does so in such a cinematic way, it goes from first person, to third person, dynamic shots. Later you get full control of who you want to control.

The three characters are supposed to provide players three different experiences in the game's massive world and they're designed to make my playthrough feel a little different than yours. We can customize our characters (tattoos, clothes, haircut, statsthings like strength, shooting, driving and flying acumen that can all get better with more use), but we also can meet different characters as different characters. Rockstar expects us to be comparing notes. Oh, you met him while playing as him? I did that differently. You robbed that place how? That's not how I did it. That sort of thing.

For the big heists, Rockstar told me, players will be choosing a lot of the variables: how your guys approach a place you want to rob, who does what, whether to go in guns blazing or with stealth, which other characters go on the mission. See, you'll be able to hire support characters and, if they survive, they'll be able to help you in subsequent heists. The more money you have, the better support characters you can get. Heists will end with an after-action report and the money from the haul divided among the crew.

Rockstar says that each character will be able to have different experiences in the game world. Some events that pop up in the game world will only pop up for one of them.

I am listening to a description of the planning of the heist. You will have a whiteboard where you can plan the heist entirely. You choose the cars, the weapons, the disguises and the biggest one the crew. The board keeps track of all your choices. You can plan to do the mission stealth like, you can choose to do it by brute force. You can hire people, the more expensive the guy the better skills he has so the better he does in his part, like say cracking a safe.

This sounds absolutely incredible, fresh, unlike anything we have seen.

Dvader said:

Well I just need one game this year. I will take that week off work. THE KING IS BACK BABY! I hope this game outsells CoD.

I would love for any game that is not a FPS to outsell COD just to get all these assholes to stop trying to copy it.

With all the talk of the graphics, it must be said that GTA 5 DOES look much much better than GTA 4 does at this point. Go back and play GTA 4, it doesn't look anywhere near as good as GTA 5.

Woah when I beat Blood Dragon I will have beaten 666 games in my life time.

Finished God of War III.  The fith GoW game I played in a row. I need a beer.

bugsonglass said:

Finished God of War III.  The fith GoW game I played in a row. I need a beer.

You deserve a lapdance from one of those GoW chicks.