1. The protagonist will be one character, and one character alone. His name is (as some rumours said) Albert De Silva. He's a half hispanic man who was once part of a crime family in Vice City. He decided to settle down and have kids in Los Santos. He has one son called Kevin De Silva who is your stereotypical CoD player. He's lazy, useless and shouts racial abuse online and is really into FPS games. Kevin does admire his Dad though.
2. Multiplayer will hold 32 people on the Xbox and PS3. I wasn't told how many were able to be on the PC. Just like in RDR, players will be able to form Gangs. These gangs are not ranked through XP anymore, but via Reputation. Instead of gang hideouts, you can do jobs that range from robbing a launderette to breaking into a military base and stealing state-of-the-art weaponary. The Gang leader has much more control over his or her gang by being able to rank members of their gang and setting more specific objectives to specific members of their gang. Gangs can have their own terratory but this only applies to areas inside the city of Los Santos.
3. The map is about 5x as large as the GTA IV map and the City of Los Santos takes up just under half of this area (so it's a bit bigger than 2 GTA IV Liberty Cities).
The map is (like most GTAs) seperated into three different sections. 4. Planes are flyable, they range from World War 2 fighter planes to Private Jets.
5. Cars and guns are customisable to an extent, for example, you can cusomise a gun to have a supressor on it and you can install nitrous into cars.
Here's some stuff you might like:
1. The protagonist is the "rich guy" from the GTA V debut trailer. You get to learn more about this man in the second when he talks about his troubles. You only see the protagonist twice in the trailer. First time is the side of his face and second time is when he is driving a Deceptor (Audi Rhttp://www.xboxmb.com/images/new_smilies/cool.gif. The people robbing the jewellery store are just with the protagonist. He is driving the van ready to get away.
2. Gunfights are more realistic. When you are shooting a gun out of a window of a car, depending on how fast it's going you will have troubles aiming due to shaking cameras.
3. The game is due in May 2013. A more specific date has not been decided because the game is still needing 6 months to be fully developed. They will have a playable demo at E3.
4. Police chases are now way more than either running or driving. Depending on how wanted you are, police may bring out riot shields and flash bangs.
5. When someone reaches 4 star wanted level, there will be a radio warning on some stations.
6. Radio stations now do traffic reports that are actually correct. So if you don't know what route to take, you can check the traffic reports on your phone or the radio.
7. The in-game TV now has many more channels
8. The protagonist DOES NOT die unlike in the last two Rockstar games.
9. The underworld actually has a working economy that you can contribute too by buying and selling drugs, weapons and illegal cars in single player.
10. The protagonist can take drugs which will have some effects. But smoking weed on the streetwalk will lead to getting a one star wanted level.
11. Police cars will go after you if you're obviousely breaking the speed limit. Having high speed crashes will also damage your health.
Wanted levels:
1 star - police follow you on foot and try to make an arrest. No sirens, no car chases (unless you are speeding).
2 star - police will still attempt to make an arrest. If a weapon is drawn then the police will begin opening fire. Police will use stun guns if a weapon is not drawn.
3 star - Chases begin and the police don't care how they stop you, they just want to do it.
4 star - road traps, radio stations and much more hostile police.Even when you have evaded them, they will still search for 24 in-game hours for someone matching your description.
5 star - shoot to kill, arrest only if it's made very possible. Even when you have evaded them, they will still search for 48 in-game hours for someone matching your description. Few missions become unavailable if you are wanted.
6 star - military vehicles come after you. Even when you have evaded them, they will still search for 72 in-game hours for someone matching your description. Some missions become unavailable if you are wanted.
I highly doubt it's legit, but it sounds amazing if true.
28-04-2012, 03:31 PM
Zuth
If this is true then I cant wait, it sounds bloody awesome!
28-04-2012, 03:35 PM
dirrty
may 2013? too far away tbf, push it up to may 2012 :P
28-04-2012, 04:54 PM
Chris
Hopefully thats all true, some good info in there,.
28-04-2012, 05:47 PM
Mikey
Hopefully most of this is true! I can't wait D;
28-04-2012, 06:25 PM
j0rd
Sounds really good and quite legit. Only bit that doesn't seem believable is #10
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10. The protagonist can take drugs which will have some effects. But smoking weed on the streetwalk will lead to getting a one star wanted level.
Doubt they will allow this to happen?
28-04-2012, 06:25 PM
Chippiewill
No legal speeding? Do not want.
28-04-2012, 07:22 PM
Neil
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Originally Posted by J25T
Sounds really good and quite legit. Only bit that doesn't seem believable is #10
Doubt they will allow this to happen?
Saints Row 2 did it, I imagine they probably can't have hard drugs but the drug use warning was made for a reason, I don't see why they can't do it really.
28-04-2012, 07:56 PM
Lee
I can't wait for this - loving the article it sounds amazing! I hope it's legit.
28-04-2012, 11:35 PM
The Don
Am I the only one who read this months ago? I think it was actually posted here a few months back...
Either way, I'm buzzing and can't wait for its release
29-04-2012, 12:46 AM
Misawa
"My friend worked at Rockstar"...
Yeah, okay.
29-04-2012, 06:53 AM
Milarz
This is old news. Was created & wrote up just under a couple of month ago. Some of it "is" true, but some of it i don't think we'll see, such as the speeding thing.
29-04-2012, 03:04 PM
Oleh
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Originally Posted by Milarz
This is old news. Was created & wrote up just under a couple of month ago. Some of it "is" true, but some of it i don't think we'll see, such as the speeding thing.
As it wasn't posted on here it isn't old news as far as HXF is concered. Sick to death of people saying that when it isn't on here in the first place. Yes it is a month old, but it is fresh to the forum.
29-04-2012, 06:21 PM
Lee
I can't decide if the speed limit enforcement is a good thing or bad thing tbh, probably bad :(
29-04-2012, 09:12 PM
Milarz
Quote:
As it wasn't posted on here it isn't old news as far as HXF is concered. Sick to death of people saying that when it isn't on here in the first place. Yes it is a month old, but it is fresh to the forum.
In that case, the game could be released tomorrow, yet only giving out info on the release date on the forum now. Yet, it's ok because it's fresh to the forum. That's pretty much what you're saying. The fact is, it's old news, i'm reminding him it's old news, because by the post, it looks like they think it's new.
29-04-2012, 09:42 PM
GommeInc
I can see the speed limit enforcement existing, but only as a setting of some sort. It would be odd if they did add it, considering GTA has never really been too realistic when it comes to the police. The car-collision-character damage seems interesting too, it reminds me of The Getaway :P
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Originally Posted by Milarz
In that case, the game could be released tomorrow, yet only giving out info on the release date on the forum now. Yet, it's ok because it's fresh to the forum. That's pretty much what you're saying. The fact is, it's old news, i'm reminding him it's old news, because by the post, it looks like they think it's new.
It's new-news to me and many others by the looks of things, so this thread is serving a purpose. It may be old beyond the realms of the forum, but if this is the first time people have come across this then it's all good.. If it promotes discussion we should be all for it!
29-04-2012, 10:26 PM
Neil
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Originally Posted by Milarz
This is old news. Was created & wrote up just under a couple of month ago. Some of it "is" true, but some of it i don't think we'll see, such as the speeding thing.
So what if it's old? I have never seen any of this before, so it's news to me, it's not on the forum so it's not hurting anyone, damn some people.
I think it's interesting, I'd like to see some of this featured in the game, it would be nice if they gave you an option that you can turn on speed limits, hell it'd be sweet if they could just implement a whole way to detect whether you're driving legally at all in the first place, that would add to the world a little bit.
30-04-2012, 07:41 AM
Milarz
You people should stop ya *REMOVED*, for a change. All i said it's old news, + i'm not the only person on this thread that has said it. i never said "er.. this is old.. why post it up?" get over it & move on.
Edited by Lee (Forum Moderator): Please don't avoid the filter, thanks.
