Thu, Nov 03, 2011 | 09:06 GMT
Grand Theft Auto V to take place in San Andreas
Rockstar’s released the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto V, as promised last week, confirming it will take place in San Andreas.

The confirmation of the game’s locale comes a year after speculation, first started by VG247 last summer and backed up by Kotaku last week, that Los Angeles – or an LA-like city, like San Andreas – would be where it took place.
The San Andreas we seen today looks completely different to the one we seen seven years ago on PS2, similar to the overhaul Liberty City got between GTA III and GTA IV.
One familar landmark that’s shown in the video, however, is the Vinewood sign.
The end of the trailer still doesn’t show a date or any platforms, however. We’ll get onto Rockstar about it now.
[Original story by Patrick Garratt, contributions by Johnny Cullen]


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#51
Talkar
02/11/11, 4:06 pm
That actually looked pretty good. It looked like it isn’t another screwup
#52
StolenGlory
02/11/11, 4:06 pm
Who the fuck is the main character? The dude from GTA 3?
Is that him @00:40?
#53
Dark
02/11/11, 4:06 pm
WANT!!!
#54
ShakaCarnage
02/11/11, 4:07 pm
Didn’t have the same epic feel as the IV trailer. That said, looks shit hot.
#55
Anders
02/11/11, 4:07 pm
OH YES!
#56
Mike
02/11/11, 4:07 pm
Looks like IV, which was rubbish.
#57
Fin
02/11/11, 4:07 pm
Animals maybe? There’s a dog in the first shot.
FRAME-BY-FRAME, NEED IT.
#58
joshua nash
02/11/11, 4:09 pm
san andres, i can’t wait to be back cruising your roads, swimmin in your waters and shooting the shit out of your cops and crooks!
#59
Shubb9
02/11/11, 4:09 pm
Some out of town non-urban locations would be good to mix it up a bit. Looks promising but not much of an evolution since IV
#60
StolenGlory
02/11/11, 4:09 pm
A local version of the file? They allow you to download it from the site.
#61
DSB
02/11/11, 4:09 pm
Rockstar still does embarrassingly good tech, but I hope those action sequences weren’t just representative of 3 minutes of the game, to be replaced by an ocean of inane bullshit dialogue and boring chores.
#62
Anders
02/11/11, 4:09 pm
@52: Claude? Sure doesn’t look like him. Could probably be the player character though. He seems like the big cheese in the robbery scene.
#63
IL DUCE
02/11/11, 4:10 pm
why the need to spoil the trailer before we watch it?
Assholes
#64
Mike
02/11/11, 4:10 pm
@61: That’s exactly what it will be.
#65
Gekidami
02/11/11, 4:10 pm
@61
Its a GTA game, thats what they’re all about.
#66
Yoshi
02/11/11, 4:10 pm
@52 No way dude, I see were you are coming from but that ain’t the dude from GTA3. Likely the main character though, just not the GTA3 guy. Looks a lot older than the usual character which will be a nice change.
#67
DuckOfDestiny
02/11/11, 4:10 pm
Lets hope it’s more like The ballad of Gay Tony and less like GTA4. It would be cool if the dog is a sign that there will be more animals in the game.
Also glad they’ve re-introduced planes, I hope you can steal jumbo-jets again
#68
Patrick Garratt
02/11/11, 4:11 pm
I’m uploading a YouTube version now. Be a few minutes yet.
#69
Colin Gallacher
02/11/11, 4:11 pm
@57 DOG DLC CONFIRMED?
#70
Quiiick
02/11/11, 4:12 pm
Great colors and beautiful lighting!
Way better than in GTA IV.
http://videos.rockstargames.com/streams/V-en_us-trailer1-mp4-1280.mp4
#71
Razor
02/11/11, 4:12 pm
YEAH BABY, YEAH!!
#72
Yoshi
02/11/11, 4:12 pm
@63 Don’t read comments then dumbass XD It was inevitable we were going to talk about it.
#73
daytripper
02/11/11, 4:13 pm
San Andreas? wow very disappointed
#74
Patrick Garratt
02/11/11, 4:13 pm
First impressions: that looks fucking sick. So much better technically that GTA IV. I’m such a sucker for these trailers, but that really does look a lot better.
#75
bluffbluff03
02/11/11, 4:14 pm
San Andreas is a great setting. But I didn´t like this rapper-style. But the music in the trailer makes me hoping that the new story is not about a mtv-gangstar-rapper xD xD
#76
Yoshi
02/11/11, 4:14 pm
@73 Not SA just part of it, VineWood… unless they got more to reveal. It looks more like they’re going the VC theme but just changing the location slightly.
#77
Mike
02/11/11, 4:14 pm
@70 good graphics doesn’t make a good game.
#78
viralshag
02/11/11, 4:14 pm
Not working for me on the PC at work or my phone
#79
monty12345
02/11/11, 4:15 pm
youtube version..
http://youtu.be/QkkoHAzjnUs
#80
Patrick Garratt
02/11/11, 4:16 pm
Upload’s finished. Just processing now.
#81
Edo
02/11/11, 4:16 pm
GTA:San Andreas 2(we ran out of locations).
#82
Anders
02/11/11, 4:17 pm
@70 Big surprise considering GTA IV is three years old.
#83
daytripper
02/11/11, 4:18 pm
@76 yep having just watched the trailer again i’m hyped
thought he sounded like tommy vercetti
#84
Quiiick
02/11/11, 4:18 pm
@77 did I say that? *facepalm*
#85
Fin
02/11/11, 4:19 pm
@81
Well Liberty City, San Andreas and Vice City all featured in GTA 1, so they’ve been using them all along (and presumably we can see Vice City again in VI?).
#86
Erthazus
02/11/11, 4:19 pm
Well, visuals are impressive. But i’m not pumped at all. Don’t know why.
But i hope it will be closer to GTA IV with San Andreas stuff.
#87
Patrick Garratt
02/11/11, 4:20 pm
Local HD version added.
#88
Unlimax
02/11/11, 4:22 pm
Isn’t the graphics remind you The Sims 3 game !
looks pretty Badass !
#89
Mike
02/11/11, 4:22 pm
Comma instead of full stop in title on FP.
#90
Erthazus
02/11/11, 4:23 pm
“Isn’t the graphics remind you The Sims 3 game !”
ahaha. Yeah, there is something in that. Lol.
It’s more of a color pallete.
#91
bubiz
02/11/11, 4:23 pm
So there are Los Santos signs all over the place on the golf club and other places. The car plates are from Sand Andreas. There are open areas so I believe that you start in Los Santos like in GTA:SA and then travel the other regions.
#92
Quiiick
02/11/11, 4:25 pm
Sure, Los Angeles isn’t very “nouveau” but still a great place for GTA.
Any eastern-europe capital (like Prague, Budapest or Moscow) would have been better though …
#93
DSB
02/11/11, 4:25 pm
@76 I’m pretty sure they have a lot more to reveal. Making a game set just in Hollywood wouldn’t be very interesting, especially since they’ve done most of the Bay Area in San Andreas before.
#94
Gekidami
02/11/11, 4:25 pm
The main character looks like Frank West, in fact he sounds like Frank West… I think it is Frank West…
#95
Fin
02/11/11, 4:25 pm
@91
Nah I think they would’ve showed other cities if they were there – I’d say it’s just Los Santos and surrounding area.
#96
Patrick Garratt
02/11/11, 4:26 pm
That’s Niko Belic at .59, right?
#97
Erthazus
02/11/11, 4:27 pm
By the way, if i’m not mistaken there is Tommy Vercetti
#98
Anders
02/11/11, 4:28 pm
@92: The GTA series are built on referencing and ridiculing American pop culture. I’d be interesting to see the result, but I doubt that the series would work as well without the USA setting.
#99
Kloudrunner
02/11/11, 4:29 pm
Looked sweet. Cant wait for more info on main character (looks like its that hispanic looking dude in the car and running away from the cops ). Planes are back it appears and the buildings look bloody huge as does the mountain those back packers are walking up.
I think it will focus on Los Santos with Vinewood and surrounding small town locations.
If they have remade ALL of San Andreas i’d be amazed.
#100
Anders
02/11/11, 4:29 pm
@97: It would be great to play as Tommy Vercetti again. My favorite GTA protagonist after Niko.
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