GTA 5 now expected in early 2012

hybridfan said:

If it has the facial animations seen in L.A. Noire I'll be a happy chap.

Yeah, I haven't got L.A. Noire yet, but I have seen a lot of videos and the graphics look amazing. The face details, the vehicles, the damage system. Please Rockstar, don't mess it up this time. Make it look like L.A. Noire. It's a piece of art.

Was just playing GTA4, and for once the sun was shining over liberty city! With this car, the tire smoke, the sunshine and 'heart of glass' playing on Independence FM, it made me hope that GTA5 will be set in Vice City, as even with just GTA4 style graphics it would look AMAZING, and be a lot more pleasant place to be than LC.

Looks wise, it will be very similar to GTA IV as it's going to use the same engine. (hopefully tweaked and prettied a little)

I don't want to see it set in another dingy city either, although I don't want it in Vice City either. I'm sick of rehashes. Some new and original content would be nice.

Realistically, as long as it's big and fun to drive around like it is in GTA IV - I'll be happy.

(More realistic car damage would also be awesome. I'd love to see cars have a 'grip' meter that is worn out as you handbrake etc. Popping tires from excessive handbraking would keep me amused for hours.)

the slight addition of realism in GTA4 for tires was better (pop after ages spinning them, if a tire catches fire when you drive through flames, the tire will pop leaving you with rims and if you shoot a tire, after driving for a while, it will pop), but yeah, some complete realism would be nice, ESPECIALLY with the handling. The GTA4 handling seemed ok for me on the PS3, but for PC it's unbearable. They're all bouncing about on their springs like some 80s cop show

Yeah, I too would like a big map, perhaps a bit bigger than LC? San Andreas size would be great, but probably get dull (well, wh knows, if they sort out vehicle physics, it could be a joy to drive miles and miles)

Expect it to run like a pile of poo(no matter the hardware) and rockstar come out with a sad excuse like....... it's made for hardware that's three generations away.