Saturday, 17 August 2013
Grand Theft Auto Online will have 16 players in each online city, and
they'll be able to work together on missions or explore the city alone.
It will have regular game modes, but progress will be separate to single-player mode.
The online game will be available to customers who buy the upcoming Grand Theft Auto V, which is due to launch on October 1.
It is f**king cool. Rockstar build the best worlds, and they've been crying out for a co-operative online aspect for years. Before, players had to take matters into their own hands, creating mods like Multi Theft Auto for III, Vice City and San Andreas. Now, Rockstar is doing it for them, and appears to be doing it well.
Persistency is the key this time around. No longer are you locked into just running and gunning, or escaping crime scenes, with a definite start and end point. There will be smaller, more contained stuff of course, but at the moment it all seems to feed into a bigger picture.
With only 16 players, it seems unlikely that is feasible. But if Rockstar is creating an online universe that is persistent - and that there are actually far more people in the world, just not in your 'lobby' - then I'd love to be able to band together and exert some influence in a larger, meta conflict. Something akin to GTA's gang wars, played out on a vaster scale with real people
It will have regular game modes, but progress will be separate to single-player mode.
The online game will be available to customers who buy the upcoming Grand Theft Auto V, which is due to launch on October 1.
It is f**king cool. Rockstar build the best worlds, and they've been crying out for a co-operative online aspect for years. Before, players had to take matters into their own hands, creating mods like Multi Theft Auto for III, Vice City and San Andreas. Now, Rockstar is doing it for them, and appears to be doing it well.
Persistency is the key this time around. No longer are you locked into just running and gunning, or escaping crime scenes, with a definite start and end point. There will be smaller, more contained stuff of course, but at the moment it all seems to feed into a bigger picture.
With only 16 players, it seems unlikely that is feasible. But if Rockstar is creating an online universe that is persistent - and that there are actually far more people in the world, just not in your 'lobby' - then I'd love to be able to band together and exert some influence in a larger, meta conflict. Something akin to GTA's gang wars, played out on a vaster scale with real people
