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Rockstar Answers Our Questions - posted 12th August 2012

Grand Theft Auto V is looking to be another amazing addition to the series, with each new detail or screenshot anticipation for the game increases greatly. Many of us cannot wait for it to finally come out and in order to temporarily cure our impatience we rely on small pieces of information released about the game such as new screenshots. However GTA really is a amazing series so most of us want Rockstar to reveal everything they can to us about the development of the new game, however Rockstar does not do this and instead slowly.

Why is this? Why does Rockstar take such long periods of times between games, after all its been over 4 years since GTA IV was released on April 28th 2008? Why do Rockstar limit content availability to the public? Why were there no jets and planes in GTA 4?

Well Rockstar recently answered all this and many more questions in a recent interview.

“Why don’t you give us more news?” 

"As we have said before, we have often had long gaps between asset releases on previous games and will continue to do so in the future. We are sorry if you find this frustrating, but please understand, we don’t do this because we ‘don’t care about our fans' 'don’t respect our fans’ 'hate GTA fans etc' – precisely the opposite! We do it because we want to make sure we only release 100% correct information, and because we want to keep plenty back for the actual game release so there are still lots of surprises when you play it. The only things we care about are that you enjoy the experience of actually playing the game and that we release accurate information. We just have not been in a position to show more of the game than the trailer and will not be for a while yet.

We did, however, manage to sneak a quick screenshot out for you… it’s not much, but we thought it was pretty fun.Then of course our art team said that no single shot could encapsulate the game properly, so they gave us another...We will try and get some more screens for you soon and then another trailer when we are ready."

"What is going on with GTAV?” 

'We are very busy working on the game! Everything is going well, but the game is a huge project. We should have more information and some new assets for you soon.”

"[Fake Video Link] The above link is a video I have found of apparent lighting test of GTA V. Can you disclose weather this is real or fake. Thank you in advance ”

"Now that we’ve announced GTAV, all the way up until game launch (and probably beyond) there is going to be no shortage of non-stop hoaxes, faked footage and screens, rampant rumors and speculation. As a rule, we are not going to get into the game of confirming or denying each of these as they happen as there is simply too much of it. Half of them we don’t even understand - for example, we have no idea what ‘the build model’ is, so have no idea if it is complete or not! Instead, we’ll leave it to fans like yourselves to decide what’s legit and what’s phony. Please assume if you don’t hear it here, it is probably mostly fakes and almost definitely not the complete truth.One thing we’ll say definitively though is - there is absolutely no ‘beta’ test for the game. If you see ads or solicitations to join a beta program, beware as this could be a dodgy online phishing scam."

"Hey guys hope everything is good over there in Rockstar. Just a question referring to GTA 4, the game was brilliant and I really enjoyed and still do, but what disappointed me was the lack of planes and jets... Can you tell me why you didn't include them, I'm sure you have a very valid reason?”

"The city was simply too small for effective and enjoyable flying. It was the first time we made a high definition open world, and it was a massive amount of work to make something on that scale - we simply could not make an environment big enough for planes to work properly. Fear not, they are returning in what is our biggest open world game to date."

So there you have it, hope it answers some of those questions that have been bugging you!

New Screenshots Released 12th July 2012

Early in July this year the busy people of Rockstar published to new screenshots from the newest installment in the Grand Theft Auto franchise, GTA V. The photos not only show off the amazing graphics that the series is known for, showing that the next installment will not disappoint us with it's visuals, but it also shows various features about GTA V.

What we see from the screenshots:

• Updated police helicopter since first trailer.
• Foreground is based on Beverly Hills with B.H. City Hall being the small tower under the helicopter's tail. Right behind that is Via Rodeo Drive where the Bugstars heist in the trailer took place.
• Off to the left is Downtown. Right of that in the far distance is the Port of Los Santos with the Vincent Thomas Bridge (real life name). This is where the jetski was during the trailer.
• Under the chopper is Little Seoul (real life Koreatown).
• On the far right of the screen is the golf course. Up towards the end of draw distance on the right half of the screen is the area based on Santa Monica with Pleasure Pier at the very beginning of the trailer.