Yes, Grand Theft Auto V is set in Los Santos and will have multiplayer

by Ben Gilbert on Nov 3rd 2011 9:15AM

You've likely gleaned as much from yesterday's big Grand Theft Auto V debut trailer, but this morning's official announcement of the game from Rockstar confirms a "Los Santos" (Los Angeles-ish) setting, as well as the return of online multiplayer. "Grand Theft Auto V focuses on the pursuit of the almighty dollar in a re-imagined, present-day Southern California," the release reads, specifically pointing to "Los Santos and surrounding hills, countryside, and beaches" as the locales.

Predictably, the announcement calls GTAV "the largest and most ambitious game Rockstar has yet created," and company co-head Sam Houser characterizes the project as "another radical reinvention of the Grand Theft Auto universe." From that debut teaser, we're ... awaiting further evidence of that "radical reinvention" Houser promises. But hey, at least it looks like planes are back in the mix!

Despite making the game even more official, Rockstar has yet to announce a release window or platforms for the Rockstar North-led project.

Source: Rockstar Games

Tags: grand-theft-auto-5, gta5, los-santos, microsoft, multiplayer, playstation, ps3, rockstar, rockstar-games, rockstar-north, sam-houser, take-two, take-two-interactive, xbox

Reader Comments (93)

I just want it now.

@Guzzy2792

Me 2 lol.

The "radical reinvention" is that it's set in San Andreas not Los Santos. From what I've gathered it appears to be the whole state. Why show plates that say San Andreas. Why show and interstate highway. Why show a jet. Surely a jet is not feasible in a one small city environment with the GTA style.

I dunno obviously but I'm guess this is going to be a hard drive install only game and require a DECENT amount of space to include all of San Andreas. Watch.

I guess no San Fiero and Los Venturas then. I didn't care for the Los Santos setting. Hopefully they can leave out most of that gangster bullshit.

@ItsameMatt03

@ItsameMatt03 I liked that gangster bullshit tho

@Tommy758 Me too.GTA San Andreas was alot more fun and had more variety in missions and things to do than GTA4.The characters were awesome in San Andreas also Big Smoke,The Truth,Kent Paul and good ol O.G Loc "I'm Gangsta" to name a few lol.

@Chanka

Wow. Did you just call all black people "gangsters?"

Yikes.

@stiqlol

Not so make-believe anymore, apparently.

@ItsameMatt03 @stiqlol @Zoot Suit Jedi Grammar Hammer En

I think your parents may share the same blood.. and I mean the SAME blood.

@Chanka

Classy.

@ItsameMatt03

this just went from Grand theft auto to Gran torino...wtf.

@ItsameMatt03

if only instead of "report this post" we had "abort this user"

@Zoot Suit Jedi Grammar Hammer En

I'm merely reciprocating.

I'll miss SF but Venturas sucked so bad. I hated that part of the game and will gladly take only LS island if I dont have to spend a significant chunk of the game in LV again.

@Chanka

I, in no way endorse what ItsameMatt03 is saying right now, but you are the one who made the generalization that he meant "black people." I did not personally attack you or your family, but commented solely on what was said, which in any context is inappropriate.

@Chanka
Race-baiting at its finest.

@ItsameMatt03 Chris Rock you are not.

@Chanka I'm going to go out on a limb and assume he meant to say "gangsta bullshit", notably with an 'a'.

I'll take amixture of gangsta and gangster for my GTAV though

@ItsameMatt03

Wait, so your black friend is the spokesperson for all black people now? Who does he think he is, Al Sharpton? You friend just sounds like a pretentious asshole to me.

So if all lower class black people that act like that are n**gers? Then what does that make lower class white living in trailer parks with no education? I'm sure you'd just call them rednecks. A lot of them take that as a compliment.

@Zoot Suit Jedi Grammar Hammer En

In that case I DO apologize if I came sideways at you but honestly... what ELSE could he have really meant by "gangster bullshit" ? COME ON THIS IS GTA...

@Zoot Suit Jedi Grammar Hammer En

You missed the point of his post entirely then. He was pointing out that what ItsameMatt03 had some suspicious undertones of racism or was completely stupid because every single GTA game has always been about gangsters. It gets even worse when ItsameMatt03 proceeds to make himself sound even more of a racist with his follow up post.

It's not like Chanka used any derogatory terms or anything. Are you offended when someone says the words 'black people'?

@ItsameMatt03

Every so often we have to be reminded that people like you exist. Kind of like, "Hey, no, this bad people still exist and the world really isn't as nice as you would like to think."

So, thanks. I was running a little low on cynicism.

@Chanka

We're good.

"Another radical reinvention". Another? I'm waiting for the first radical reinvention. GTAIV has a very detailed city, and better (though still crap) controls, but it's the same core experience as GTAIII.

@Dick Socrates
They'll include an #OCCUPYLosSantos mission for LuLz.

@Dick Socrates

As you must've noticed in your own post, dear sir, GTA III (3) was not the first in the series, and you even said that it has tight control schemes, so I get that The 3rd GTA was the one that started it, right? So GTA 2 and 1 must've been radically diferent, correct? Then, if you put everything together you get that GTA III was the first radical reinvention of the franchise, and their statement is that this one is ANOTHER, so if they're touting that it must be that they believe the same that i stated above or more.

Ok, now I must run, there are other cases to solve in the world.

Multiple playable characters is a major departure from the old games, this could mean any number of things to the gameplay and gameworld, what if each character is set in a different era like the 80's and 90's? That character is pretty old, maybe the game will chronicle their lives and theyll start out young.

This game has been in development for 4 years compared to 2 for the old ones, there must be a reason for that.

@Dick Socrates
"but it's the same core experience as GTAIII."

I'm sorry, but I don't exactly understand this logic. Of course it's going to be like a GTA game because it is a GTA game. It's like complaining about a Mario game for being a Mario game or a Halo game for being a Halo game.

There are core elements to these games that must be retained in any future installments. So when another GTA game comes out, there are certain expectations that must be achieved: It has to be open-world, it must have some crime element involved, etc, etc. But take those elements out and then there's no point. Why make a GTA game when it's not even going to be like GTA? You might as well just make a new IP at that point.

As I mentioned before in the last GTA thread: There is nothing wrong with working on familiar territory, provided, of course, that the game still is of quality. GTAIV proved that there is still life in the franchise, and I'm confident that Rockstar will put out another fantastic installment.

@singleandlovinit

Or maybe it could be just like GTA4 and the Multiple Character could be from the expansion packs i.e. TL&D's Johnny, TBoGT's Luis.

Just looks like what you would expect from another GTA game. I don't see how it could possibly reinvent the franchise.

@Darki Dreamside I don't either. I guess I'll pick it up eventually when the release the "complete" version and it goes cheap. But honestly I have never finished a single one of the Grand Theft Auto games. I just lose interest long before they are done.

Which makes waiting for the complete version to go cheap kind of silly...

RDR was the best game Rockstar's ever made. It's going to be tough to beat that in terms of polish/quality.

@JakeAuditore Quality, maybe. Polish, though? It had the most weird glitches of any game I've ever played. Some were pretty entertaining though, such as my horse having the body of a snake. YouTube has tons of clips of crazy stuff happening in RDR (cougar man, donkey lady, and gunslinger dog are three pretty awesome ones).

@JakeAuditore

Well if it is one thing Rockstar does is that those devs keep raising the bar, I will have to say hands down Red Dead Redemption has the best ending by far of any game I played this gen.

I can all but bet GTA V will blow our socks away.

Was hoping it would be at least as big as San Andreas, or bigger.

@EIranzer I'm hoping the same. San Andreas was the only GTA game that I really liked, so it's awesome we're revisiting that part of the GTA universe.

@EIranzer From what I read elsewhere it seems like Los Santos is part of San Andreas

GTAVI vice city?

Cool, more unneeded multiplayer that myself and most people will ignore.

@houstons85
I've spent more time in GTA IV's multiplayer than singleplayer. Hilarious times were had. You just don't like fun.

@houstons85

Good to know I won't be seeing you online then

@houstons85
and by "most people" you mean yourself.

@houstons85

haha "most people", like if you knew that many..

I just want the game. NOW!

I'm calling it now: Holiday 2012 for 360, PS3, PC, and eventually Wii-U.

If Nintendo wants hardcore gamers on the Wii-U, they HAVE to have a GTA.

@MLC
Not gonna happen. 2013 at the earliest.

@jozanovic
.why?

@Chanka

Because GTA, that's why.

@squallgengar
dat logic.

@Chanka I think there was a discussion about GTA V getting into the next-gen consoles.. if next year they make the announcement of next Xbox or PS (which I doubt).. 2013 doesn't sound too bad.

@MLC By the looks of the trailer, I'd say the game is already quite far into development. I wouldn't be surprised if this game was out within 6 months. I'm not sure what Rockstar's track record is in terms of how soon they announce games and when they're actually released, but it seems like poor practice to unveil a game that is more than a year out if you plan on keeping the hype alive.

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