Rockstar Games Nonchalantly Confirm ‘Grand Theft Auto V’

Video Games — November 16, 2009 at 16:20 — no comments

It might be a long way off but Rockstar co-head-honcho Dan Houser has dropped the first hints that the team’s ready to start conjuring up ideas for Grand Theft Auto 5.

Clark Kent says: I definitely can’t wait to see what these folks come up with.

VIA VGR:

The build up to Grand Theft Auto saw fingers reduced to bloody stumps, and it looks like Rockstar’s planning to put gamers through it once more after Rockstar co-president chatted briefly about GTA 5.

But don’t plan that pre-order just just. It’s barely in the design stage. There’s still the matter of where to set the carjacking follow up.

“We’ll think of a city first, then the characters.” According to The Times the script will be up to or around 1,000 pages long. That’s ten times as many as a feature film, apparently.

Houser also hit out at those eager to chastise video games for encouraging bad behaviour. “Look, video games are a popular and easy enemy,” he said, adding that the controversy is all part of doing stuff that hasn’t been done before.

He suggested that there’s a double standard when it comes to so-called violent games and movies.

“Manhunt 2 was banned in the same week that Saw was released. The arguments become quite ludicrous quite quickly when people argue that games are somehow more dangerous than full-motion video.”

“Within Rockstar, sometimes we feel that some of our games get singled out and held up as pariahs. All we want to do is tell a story with rounded characters. Like GoodFellas, which is a key film for us, our rounded characters happen to be criminals.”