Fri, Nov 09, 2012 | 09:32 GMT
GTA 5 Game Informer cover: see it here, get the details
Grand Theft Auto 5 is Game Informer’s December cover reveal and details have begun. Check out the cover below and all of the details from the magazine’s whopping 18-page gameplay feature on Rockstar’s latest.
First, here’s the cover.
Keep checking back for updates. We’re writing and updating as we go.
Well there it is. Rumours have long-persisted about GTA 5 featuring three main, playable characters, and as it happens Game Informer’s cover features three protagonists. None of them are the famed ‘Albert De Silva’ that has been rumoured as the game’s protagonist, according to the magazine’s managing editor Matt Bertz:
Game Informer said along with the cover reveal, “We introduce the three main protagonists, discuss the groundbreaking way you use them, and explore the reimagined Los Santos – the biggest open world Rockstar has created to date.”
A second piece of character art can be found at the Game Informer reveal hub, showing the character on the right brandishing a kitted out assault rifle. Check it out here.
The full Game Informer is expected later today when issues land on the site’s digital newsstand at around 5.00pm EST/8.00pm GMT, but some of the information has already been leaked out of it.
According to Kotaku, here’s just some of what’s covered in the December GI issue:
- Los Santos is bigger than Red Dead Redemption, San Andreas, and Grand Theft Auto IV combined. It contains a wilderness, military base, and underwater exploration on the ocean floor.
- Players can switch between the three main protagonists “nearly any time.”
- The protagonists names are: Michael (older guy), Trevor (a red neck, apparently), and Franklin (the African-American). Each has its own personality, skill set, and group of friends.
- Characters you are not currently controlling will “g off and do their own thing.”
- It’s the same world as Grand Theft Auto 4 and Liberty City, so recurring characters could occur, unless hey are form the PS2-era titles.
- Randomized dynamic missions are back, and include “hitchhikers, muggers, and dead bodies.”
- Players can form friendships, but there won’t be an romancing this time out.
Meanwhile, NeoGAF has posted the following, extra information:
- Vehicles in the game include trucks, BMX and mountain bikes, ATVs, helicopters, cars, WaveRunners, dirtbikes.
- Heists will be predominant.
- Players can customize their look, but not through RPG elements such as with San Andreas.
- Missions will be more fleshed out, and side missions will be more complex – think Red Dead Redemption.
- Better driving controls were promised, as were improved shooting mechanics.
- Melee combat has been refined.
- Players can base jump, play tennis, a full round of golf, and participate in yoga, triathlons and jet skiing for recreational purposes.
Almost makes this feel like it dropped only yesterday, doesn’t it?
Check out more of our most recent GTA 5 coverage:
- GTA 5: rapper teases return of San Andreas character B Dup
- GTA 5 protagonist is an ‘East coast gangster’ – report
- GTA 5 artwork appears, shows man on a WaveRunner
- GTA 5 will sell 25 Million units in first year, analyst claims
36 comments
#1
TD_Monstrous69
08/11/12, 5:13 pm
Trying to get my digital subscription working…now.
#2
Yoshi
08/11/12, 5:14 pm
So exciting
This is the gamers Christmas 
#3
Moonwalker1982
08/11/12, 5:17 pm
Three protagonists!!!!! SO it was true after all. I wonder how that’s gonna work.
#4
NocturnalB
08/11/12, 5:19 pm
Gamer Boner (gay-mur boh-nur)
To become sexually aroused at the site of, thought of, or prospect of a highly sought after video game(s), gaming device(s), and/or any media in relation to video game(s) or gaming device(s).
“Dude i just saw the December cover of G.I. and got an instant gamer boner!”
#5
Erthazus
08/11/12, 5:21 pm
Three protagonists? Now that is awesome.
#6
Goffee
08/11/12, 5:27 pm
Isn’t the one of the left a riff on Jack Elam? http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001181/
#7
fightclubdoll
08/11/12, 5:28 pm
If one of the protagonists was female, I’d be more excited. But this is cool. (They’re bad guys anyway.) And I look forward to playing no matter what… Multiplayer GTA is too fun to miss.
#8
Dralen
08/11/12, 5:28 pm
“and explore the reimagined Los Santos – the biggest open world Rockstar has created to date.”
Wow! Didn’t think they would be able to beat the size of San Andreas. That’s a big statement.
#9
NocturnalB
08/11/12, 5:31 pm
In all seriousness though this is great. I am pretty bummed though because it looks like they are leaving out the San Fierro and Las Venturas Islands, Las Venturas was always my favorite.
But hey i can live with it if this map is the supposed 13 square miles it’s claimed to be. When R* drops big statements like “our biggest map ever”, you had best be believin’.
#10
ballz
08/11/12, 5:33 pm
only one guy is the main dude, the other 2 you can call in missions to help you and such, they are optional
#11
Dave Cook
08/11/12, 5:34 pm
@9 Maps that are too big put me off unless that are good at driving progression. I fear that I’ll get GTA 5 and like the rest of them (bar 3 and VC) I won’t finish it.
Not enough hours in my busy days any more
#12
KAP
08/11/12, 5:34 pm
See, all the bullshit early reveals were indeed “fake”
#13
Dave Cook
08/11/12, 5:37 pm
@12 even the one from last year about there being three main characters?
#14
UuBuU
08/11/12, 5:41 pm
@9 ~ San Andreas was a little under 14 square miles ~ I sure hope gta v is bigger than that.
Just Cause 2 really upped the scale of sandbox maps at 400 square miles. While I don’t expect that for gta v, 14 square miles is far too small.
#15
NocturnalB
08/11/12, 5:43 pm
@Dave
So have they confirmed that San Fierro and Las Venturas are out then? And never say never man, San Andreas was the first GTA i ever beat all the way. I did everything, every side mission, every story mission, got 100%.
I wonder with how they have this map laid out if they plan on some sort of zombie DLC, or maybe even a cheat, remember the riot cheat? That was the best game mode ever.
#16
Dave Cook
08/11/12, 5:45 pm
@Nocturnal I hope you’re right man, I want to see one of their games through without feeling pressured by other things.
Nah no confirmation yet although so far all chatter our of Rockstar leans towards Los Santos only. We won’t know fully until the GI feature drops.
#17
Maximum Payne
08/11/12, 5:46 pm
Possible coop maybe ??
Imagine that epicness.
#18
TheOutcastWolf
08/11/12, 7:54 pm
During the trailer, when they are about to rob the store, someone was driving that car… 50 bucks say it is that chick from the pre-order…
#19
Hcw87
08/11/12, 8:06 pm
3 characters would be bad, i want to be connected to 1 character. Nico and John Marston were awesome characters, i doubt they can create the same magic when you play as 3 different persons.
#20
Moonwalker1982
08/11/12, 8:19 pm
I’m reading about the game now and well……
SPEECHLESS!!!!!!!!
#21
Stephany Nunneley
08/11/12, 8:29 pm
Some details have been posted online. Post has been updated to reflect the new information.
#22
ejams
08/11/12, 8:29 pm
Kotaku got their hands on the issue and details have been revealed…
GAME IS BIGGER THAN GTA 4, RED DEAD AND SAN ADNREAS COMBINED HOLY SHIT
http://kotaku.com/5958949/rockstar-says-grand-theft-auto-v-is-bigger-than-red-dead-redemption-san-andreas-and-gtaiv-combined
#23
mistermogul
08/11/12, 8:34 pm
That is INSANE!
#24
Dark
08/11/12, 8:35 pm
http://imgur.com/a/GsODP#zh9gT
full scan set.
#25
mistermogul
08/11/12, 8:53 pm
@24 – cheers bud
#26
Hcw87
08/11/12, 9:01 pm
How is that possible on current platforms though? With limited RAM etc. This sounds almost too good to be true, like a next gen title.
#27
TheOutcastWolf
08/11/12, 9:11 pm
@26 Then comes this guy…
#28
Phoenixblight
08/11/12, 9:11 pm
@26
You just limit amount of draw distance and detail in the area and add more disks for content. Its coming out next spring on current gen.
#29
LuLshuck
08/11/12, 9:33 pm
Thank god you can choose which character you want to be, wasnt so keen on the red neck as they are always stereotypical just like Elis off L4D2
#30
kratos53kc
08/11/12, 9:45 pm
@24 awesome, bout to read and then text everyone i know. The 3 main characters thing is gonna be great, 3 very different types of people with different perspectives to play from. Ima roleplay the shit out this game, whether they intended it or not. That redneck guy gon kill any mexicans he sees. yup.
But in all seriousness, the hitchhikers and muggers idea is awesome, i hope some earlier stuff i read about is true tho. Like driving waaay too fast will get cops attention. Smoking weed and drinking out in public will too. But im expecting these to be things that arent in, since even the name of the guy was wrong. Al De Silva. sounded cool at the time.
#31
YoungZer0
08/11/12, 9:45 pm
“Los Santos is bigger than Red Dead Redemption, San Andreas, and Grand Theft Auto IV combined. It contains a wilderness, military base, and underwater exploration on the ocean floor.”
To be quite honest this sound really terrible. Underwater exploration? Bigger than three games? Wow, that is definitely something i wasn’t asking for.
#32
kratos53kc
08/11/12, 9:53 pm
@31 Could be real bad, depending on how they use the large amounts of space. If theres like almost nothing to do in the world, and its basically just long ass drives from point a to b, like LA Noire, then yea, no matter how great it looks or historically accurate, its gonna suck.
But i remain hopeful that they wont torture us like that.
The underwater exploration on the ocean floor sounds cool tho.
#33
NocturnalB
08/11/12, 10:05 pm
@24 Thanks!
@31 ….Seriously?
#34
Moonwalker1982
08/11/12, 10:09 pm
I’m always skeptical when i read such things and i will believe it when i see it. But what i’m reading so far and the screenshots…it’s mindblowing. All that on this old hardware? I’m pretty sure there will be some open spaces where there’s not much to see but i think they will try to make it as interesting as possible. Rockstar is known for crazy attention to detail and i don’t think they will fail with this one.
#35
Keivz
08/11/12, 11:47 pm
GTA IV is one of my all time favorites. From the looks of it, this could be the greatest game of all time! I can hardly wait (for the PC version anyway)…
#36
JAVAD_MUSIC
09/11/12, 2:59 am
I think San Andreas was an entire state, it was seriously big. I wouldn’t worry, it’ll be big enough whatever imo.
And maybe by bigger they mean more stuff in it, god knows?