Grand Theft Auto 5 lets you play both good guy and bad guy
Now that Game Informer's Grand Theft Auto 5 cover story has been released into the wild, fans of the series are scrutinizing details with a magnifying glass. But Rockstar's creative VP has let slip another juicy tidbit: You can play the good guy and the bad guy in the game.
Now that Game Informer's Grand Theft Auto 5 cover story has been released into the wild, we've found that the game is massive, and there are three playable characters in the game. But Rockstar creative VP Dan Houser has let slip another juicy tidbit: One of those characters is the game's main bad guy.
Houser, who is also the game's head writer, said in an interview with the New York Times that story lines of the three characters are completely interwoven: "It felt like it was going to be a real narrative strength: you get to play the protagonist and the antagonist in the same story."
The game, which is due out sometime this spring, still has some work to be done, he said. "We are editing, fixing, removing, replacing, adding, avidly. It's the equivalent of, if you wrote a book, and you had two million spelling mistakes. And you had to do them by hand, in a language you didn't understand."
Pre-orders for the game have already started for both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and a new trailer is coming this week.
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Now that Game Informer's Grand Theft Auto 5 cover story has been released into the wild, fans of the series are scrutinizing details with a magnifying glass. But Rockstar's creative VP has let slip another juicy tidbit: You can play the good guy and the bad guy in the game.-
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Yeah, good call. He does look like trouble.
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This is starting to sound a little goofy, but as long as I get my huge sandbox with tons of places to explore and side activities to do, I'm golden.
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Grand Theft Auto Heat. sounds great, i might actually play this.
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God damn it Rockstar. I said with GTA IV, no more. It was realistic, but it wasn't fun.
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I rather play good girl bad girl.
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From what little I've read, you can switch between characters at any time when not in an actual mission. And occasionally multiple main characters will take part in a single mission with you controlling one of them, and some missions will be different for each of the characters. Whether or not you have to do multiple runs to see all the content is unknown. I would assume the character specific missions just stay on the map until you do them so you won't miss anything.
It seems like the perfect recipe for 3 player coop, though. Where if you have 2 other people in your game you are each locked to a single dude. It's Rockstar though so I really doubt that will happen.
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In typical Rockstar fashion, I'm sure the game will also be 150 hours long, with the first 80 being the tutorial.
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Will you actually have to play as a good guy or will it tell you you're a good guy and it will be ok for you to run over and shoot people? I felt like that's what GTA4 and San Andreas did.
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Major spoiler :(
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