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1. When/Where Does This Game Take Place?
2. What Are The Names Of The Characters?
3. What’s The Storyline?
4. Where Can I Find Screenshots
5. When Well This Game Be Released?
6. What Kind Of Music Will Be In The Game
7. Who's The Voice Actors Of The Game?
8. Will This Game Have Online Features or Multiplayer?
9. Well San Andres Be Flat and Scenic Like Vice City or More like Liberty?
10. Is There Going To Be Any New Forms Of Transportation In This Game?
11. Is My Appearance Going To Matter?
12. Can I Swim In This One?
13. What Type of Missions Should There Be
14. Will Shooting Be As Easy In Vice City?
15. Will I Be Able To Hire "Helpers" On Missions?
16. What Gangs Are Going To Be Involved?
17. How Big Will This Place Be?
18. How Many Death Animation Will There Be?
19. Online Capabilities?
20. Any Characters coming back?
21. What's Going To Be On The Radio?
22. Will Buildings Take Damage?
23. How Much Will AI Improve?
24. Will Pay N' Spray Be Improved?
25. Will My Parked Cars Disappear This Time?
26. Will The Time of Day Change The Flow Of Traffic?
27. Will The Time of Day Change Anything Else?
28. Any Other Drugs Implemented In the Game?
29. Speedometer?
30. What’s Some Differences between Liberty, Vice, and San Andreas?
31. Will Children and Animals Make Appearances?
32. Will There Be Any Edited Versions?
33. Will Hand To Hand Combat Change?
34. Is San Andres Making a Return On The X-Box or Even the Game Cube?
35. Will There Be A Completely New Game Engine?
36. How Many Guns Will There Be?
37. Is It True That D12 Will Be In The Game?
38. How Will Food Effect My Character?
39. How Far Can I Change My Appearance?
40. What Are Some Examples Mission-wise
41. What Kind of Outer-City Environment Well There Be?
42. What Activities Well Be Taking Place There?
43. Has The Draw-Distance Been Improved
44. How Many Disks Well This Game Take?
45. What Are Some Improvements in Character Models?
46. Well Shadows and Stealth Be Used?
47. With All of This on the Game, How Long Well Loading Time Be!?
48. Well First Person View Be Implemented?
49. Well Stats Play More Of A Factor?
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1. When/Where Does This Game Take Place?
The new Grand Theft Auto will take place in "San Andres", a fictionalized state containing three cities: Los Santos (Los Angeles), San Fierro (San Francisco), and Las Ventura (Las Vegas), with city outskirts in-between. The time Will be the early 1990s
2. What Are The Names Of The Characters?
So far we only know are Carl Johnson (Main Character), Kendell (Sister), Sweet Johnson (Brother), Ryder and Smoke (Long Time Friends), Frank Tenpenny, and Eddie Polaski (Both Corrupt Policemen), Brian Johnson (Dead sibling, Sweet blames CJ for death), rumored to have Don Salvatore returning.
3. What’s The Storyline?
Carl Johnson finds himself coming back to San Andres after spending five years in Liberty City. He left his neighborhood in the ghetto of Los Santos after the death of his brother, Brian, who died in a tragic incident. Carl's older brother Sweet Johnson blamed him for the death, leading to a period of estrangement that is broken by the sudden passing of his mother. On returning home for the funeral, Carl finds his family, both blood and gang (The Orange Grove) in disarray. Sweet Johnson and his sister Kendall are at each other's throats. His former crew -- Sweet, Smoke, and Ryder -- have fallen from power on the streets, and now are besieged by both rival gang factions and internal quarrels. Carl, not wanting to get back into the street life he was once in, corrupt cops play heavy upon them. Events come to a downward spiral, Johnson soon finds himself on a frantic adventure across San Andreas to preserve his family, gang, and his own life. (Paraphrased from Game Informer Issue 134)
4. Where Can I Find Screenshots
The Full Information thread should have all available screenshots.
5. When Was This Game Be Released?
26th October in the US, 29th October in the UK
6. What Kind Of Music Will Be In The Game?
The Grand Theft Auto series has always used a large variety of music on the radio stations. Given the time setting and place, expect hip-hop and rap stations.
7. Who's the Voice Actors of the Game?
So Far: Frank Vincent, who provided the voice of Don Salvatore in GTA3, Rockstar has yet to announce any other voice actors or actress', they have stated that they won't use big names just for hype, but they want the most well suited.
8. Will This Game Have Online Features or Multiplayer?
No online or multiplayer as such, but there are a few 2 player icons around the map which will allow a second person to participate for a short amount of time.
9. Well San Andres Be Flat and Scenic Like Vice City or More like Liberty?
San Andres will be more geographically sophisticated than Liberty, they felt that the flat terrain of Vice City took away the feeling of depth. Expect mountains, hills, and flatlands.
10. Are There Going To Be Any New Forms Of Transportation In This Game?
Bicycles, ATVs, and other non-city vehicles well make an appearance.
11. Is My Appearance Going To Matter?
Yes, Pedestrians well react to your appearance, whether it be your haircut or how big you are, see #38.
12. Can I Swim In This One?
Your prayers have been answered. Yes. For the first time in the series swimming is now available, although it well requires stamina. When you wreck your car into the water, you'll have a chance to bail out through the window.... Besides, everyone in L.A should learn to swim
13. What Type of Missions Should There Be?
House robberies, gang wars, multi-man missions, stealth, racing, and any other you can think of. As Houser stated "...But this time the whole game is happening all the time. Obviously, you still have missions you have to do, but when you're not in a mission, not only are there a thousand things to do, but what you can do relates to where you are in the story.... The side missions have relevance; you'll learn skills that you'll need on a mission."
14. Will Shooting Be As Easy In Vice City?
In some ways, yes, in some ways, no. Houser said it's an upgraded version of what we saw in "Manhunt". Meaning when you aim the target well be green, which means full health, yellow, wounded, and red, one more shot to kill..
15. Will I Be Able To Hire "Helpers" On Missions?
Yes. "The first time you slowly roll down the street with a three-deep crew hanging out the windows with pistols cocked and ready for action, you'll never want to go back to being a lone gunman again."
16. What Gangs Are Going To Be Involved?
Rockstar has stated the main gang, "The Orange Grove Families" and a rival gang "The Ballas"
17. How Big Will This Place Be?
Pushing the boundaries, Rockstar expects the game to be five times the size of Vice City.
18. How Many Death Animation Will There Be?
Nearly unlimited. Ragdoll are confirmed, Each limb is independent, think of it as throwing a stuffed doll around. It's been featured in games like: Max Payne, Manhunt, Hitman 2, and Hitman Contracts.
20. Any Characters coming back?
Yes: "There will be lots of stuff that [players] can pick up on some really fun stuff. Weird characters turning up again, other people mentioned... as well as some more well known people making an appearance..."
21. What's Going To Be On The Radio?
No specific artists or talk shows have been mentioned.
22. Will Buildings Take Damage?
Other than confirmed house robbery, nothing has been mentioned.
23. How Much Will AI Improve?
AI has been greatly improved, each NPC now has a "Brain", and each will react in an intelligent fusion. Police have also been improved, at times the helicopter blades may come down to cut pieces of your car or maybe even a cop well jump off his bike to latch on to your car
24. Will Pay N' Spray Be Improved?
It still functions as it always has done, but there are certain times and places when it will not save you from the law.
25. Will My Parked Cars Disappear This Time?
They will sometiems turn up at an impound garage for you to reclaim.
26. Will The Time of Day Change The Flow Of Traffic?
Again, more than likely, Rockstar hasn't stated anything.
27. Will The Time of Day Change Anything Else?
Crime tends to happen more at night, Rockstar looks like they've taken note of that.
28. Any Other Drugs Implemented In the Game?
Rockstar hasn't stated anything of this
29. Speedometer?
Again, No word as of yet.
30. What’s Some Differences between Liberty, Vice, and San Andres?
San Andres is a combination of the two and a lot more. SA has outskirts of cities, mountains, and many other things like that to play around on. San Andres is a state, not a city like the other two. Keep that in mind.
31. Will Children and Animals Make Appearances?
More than likely no to both, except for the birds
32. Will There Be Any Edited Versions?
Maybe not sold as an option, but the Australian version usually gets edited.
33. Will Hand To Hand Combat Change?
More fighting styles have been put in that need to be learned at various gyms.
34. Is San Andres Making a Return On The X-Box or Even the GameCube?
San Andreas for the Xbox is a possibility, but not for at least several months yet. Very doubtful for the GameCube.
35. Will There Be A Completely New Game Engine?
Not a new engine, but a completely revamped one.
36. How Many Guns Will There Be?
Houser's simple reply: "A Shitload"
37. Is It True That D12 Will Be In The Game?
Nope, that is only a rumour and not true.
38. How Will Food Effect My Character?
Food is going to be a major factor in San Andres, not just because of health either. "Consuming fast food and avoiding exercise will actually may Carl gain weight, which affects everything from your speed to the character's physics-to humorous effects." NPCs will call you "Fat Bastard" if you've gained too much weight. Going to the gym, working out, staying busy will make you more fit, running faster and longer. San Andres has more than one ace up it's sleeve, it's got the whole pack.
39. How Far Can I Change My Appearance?
If you eat healthy and work out in the gyms, you'll be fit and look thin. If you eat fatty foods and ignore working out, you'll slowly become fatter. You can even go as far as getting a haircut and changing clothes.
40. What Are Some Examples Mission-wise
The first mission Carl is picked up from the airport by the two corrupt cops. They drop him off in rival gang territory where you have to steal a BMX and get away as soon as possible. Another you pull up to "rival gang, "The Ballas", territory where you open fire with the new four-person drive-by, while shooting your job is to attempt to dodge a few bullets by moving back and forth. The cops start the chase and you run your way to Pay N' Spray. And, by far the most impressive yet, a mission where you meet up with your gang in a hotel, but things go wrong and police show up with cops pouring out and helicopters on watch. Your job is to save Ryder and get away. When driving away, cops well come from all directions, even ones on motorcycles well jump out and latch onto your car, where your forced to shoot from point-blank, another jumps on the front, where Ryder sharply turns the corner and finds a helicopter with it's blades downwards waiting for him. He speeds up, and at the last moment dives out, watching the latched officer on front being mutilated.
41. What Kind of Outer-City Environment Well There Be?
Anything from a deep desert with tumbleweed to a near mile tall mountain, takes half a minute to fly to the top of with a helicopter. Lush rolling fields, anything you can imagine from real life.
42. What Activities Well Be Taking Place There?
Redneck biker-gang like NPCs well accompany the desert road houses, asking to do missions to suit the environment. Off-road racing and what not well be a factor played with the new ATVs as well.
43. Has The Draw-Distance Been Improved
Yes, draw distance has been increased an incredible two times since the last time we've seen it in Vice City, so take out those sniper rifles kids, we're going to have two times the fun.
44. How Many Disks Well This Game Take?
I know, with all the information it'd be impossible to fit it all on one disk. Rockstar has already filled up one full DVD, they're expecting to put in a dual layer disk.
45. What Are Some Improvements in Character Models?
Not much has been mentioned, improved graphics and idle motions such as CJ swaying and moving his jaw while chewing gum
46. Well Shadows and Stealth Be Used?
Taking a few tricks from its dark sister, Manhunt, Rockstar intends on using the same stealth effects, hiding in shadows when running from cops is going to be of definite use.
47. With All of This on the Game, How Long Well Loading Time Be!?
I know what you’re thinking, "But Smoke, I don't want to make the game load every 10 seconds!" Not to worry my uneducated friend, big-brother Rockstar solved your problem. Unbelievably, there is very little loading time and it's onlyt when entering a building or loading up a game when you first switch your PS2 on.
48. Well First Person View Be Implemented?
Yes, at some points in the game FPV well be a needed.
49. Well Stats Play More Of A Factor?
Apparently, the higher your accuracy stat is, the better you shoot. Kind of works hand-in-hand though I suppose.
Credit to Smoke - Originally Posted Here.
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