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GTA - San Andreas Looks to be Next
Rayonic writes "US publisher Take-Two Interactive went on a pre-Christmas trademark registration spree, the products of which point us tantalisingly towards the likely name of the next installment of the massive Grand Theft Auto series." Of course it won't actually be out for many many many moons, but expect much speculation on this one. I s'pose great game sequels deserve it.
I wonder if there is going to be some post earthquake looting in the game. That would be a nice feature.
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Next thing you know, people are going to file lawsuits against the creators of GTA because their car got damaged in an earthquake...
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I always thought GTA: Baghdad would be an interesting concept.
Other ideas game companies have ignored include Pilotwings 911, Dale Earnhardt's Championship Racing and Columbine Online.
"GTA: San Andreas" - It's our fault.
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Deformable terrain. When I shoot a building with a rocket launcher several times, it should fall down :P
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The same minority they exploit with all their other titles: geeks that don't have a life, and are therefore forced to spend $49.95 on software to try to spice up their otherwise boring, meaningless existence....
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I knew i was wasting my time at my college. I just take courses like math and science and physics. I wish i could get credit for playing video games at school. Your parents money hard at work!
They sell them off to lesser crime game lines: Double-Parking: Portland or Jaywalking: Kansas City.
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I've thought that a great sequel to GTA would be where you play from the cops' perspective. You could start as a rookie out of the academy, and they'd stick you with a partner and you'd have a beat.
At first it'd be just simple stuff like traffic violations, and work up to more serious stuff like robberies, gang fights, murders, etc. Maybe your partner could be just a tinge on the bad cop side, and you'd get to choose whether to play it by the book or bend the rules.
It would be sort of like the way "Knights of the Old Republic" does it with Light/Dark Points. If you accept a bribe to let a speeder off, you'd get a "bad cop" point for instance.
There could be several paths for your character. The good cop path might lead to you becoming police commisioner, and the bad cop one might lead to being a drug lord or mafioso type.
So many possibilities. Wish I was a video game designer... 8-)
1. Cars and people that don't flat out disappear when they leave my field of view.
2. Intelligent enemies that don't cheat, and that can figure out stairs / ramps / etc.
3. Newspapers that don't blow around the street and under a building through a crack in the polygon structure.
4. Allies that aren't just sitting ducks.
5. More vehicles. Real ones.
6. A system for vehicle generation that doesn't suck ass (get in a truck, drive around, pretty soon 90% of the cars out are trucks).
7. The ability to aim with ANY weapon.
8. You know that guy who just runs in a corner endlessly? Get rid of him and all his clones.
9. Missions that take thought, and aren't just impossibly difficult or arcane. (Messin' with the Man, anyone? I could get 5 stars and not fill the gauge. I finally passed when somebody told me to 'just shoot a car until it blows up, and keep shooting at the twisted wreckage').
I could go on, but I would like some money first.