As long as I don't have to drive my ronery cousin around, we're good.

But will there be bowling?

Meh I need to see more.
Only game I'll get pumped for with no info Is HL3

There better not be any of that pilot school bullshit.

No full co-op, no sale.

I'd rather have 1 city with a shit load of activities and detail than 3 cities and minimum activities and detail due to the lack of disc space they have to consider.

Remember, this is what made IV so bland.

^Wow, I meant to say the trailer and this info has not got me excited for this game.

GTA V will awesome, and then the next Saint's Row that makes fun of GTA V will be awesome.

Whenever I hear "new direction" and "reinvention", I get scared. They better not fuck this up.

Will the more include playable female characters who can be given huge muscles,orange skin, cat eyes and feline face paint? Customizable vehicles? A rocket pack like in GTA:San Andreas, at the very least?
If no to two out of three, then I'm not interested.

they should have done a new vice city this time round - and saved a FULL San Andreas for next gen...
this is some half assed bullshit...

Fuck my life. Sofik said something I agree with. Excuse me while I go pray or something.

You will be playing as more than one character. Trus' me on dat. Like LA fucking Noire (spoiler).

I hope the matchmaking will be like RDR and not like GTAIV

and take out the phone/dates completely out of the game.
Seriously, how many people didn't know about putting your phone status to busy, and never having to deal with that? fuck sakes, RTFM people.

@geezy - What? San Andreas had orders of magnitude more to do AND three cities, tons of square miles of landscape to fly over and explore, and a few towns in that rural area. If one city is supposed to be better, GTA4 absolutely disproves that.

If there is a return of planes (and enough space and places to fly over and to), real estate, character customization, car customization, bicycles & all types of motorcycles, and non-mission related campaigns like turf wars, breaking and entering into house at night, and a dozen mini games, THEN we'll have as much as San Andreas had.

I don't really care if we get all of those specifically, I just want there to be as much stuff total to do by myself in the game. Once that foundation is lain, build co-op and multiplayer modes on top of it.

They're reusing San Andreas? These games are always fun but I still can't believe so many people fell all over themselves praising GTA4as the best thing since sliced bread when really, it was GTA3/Vice City/ SA with a few improvements. They really need to do something to make this fresh. I'd rather see another Red Dead Redemption than the same ol' GTA.

@Lenigod,
that fact alone proves that it was retarded idea. GTA4 already at launch was mostly archaic with obscure and dated gameplay and design choices. if they won't move forward and yet again give as same ol bullshit i'm done with Rockstar games. Volition surpassed GTA franchise with Saints Row 2 putting in the game great ideas that made overall gameplay and experience more entertaining - there was no bullshit known from GTA games(loosing everything after death, all BS regarding house and garage etc.).

@oot - I can't really see the comparisons of 4 to the previous games... 4 was smaller than SA, yet ended up having only a sliver of the possible activities to do. The only definite improvements were the graphics, the rest would be better defined as different. Different driving controls, different themes and tone of story, different focus.

I can't wait for Rockstar to take the darker tonality of 4 but combine it with enjoyable aspects of the PS2 era games.

Please make some multiplayer aspects like RDR's free roam. Expand on that and you will own!

I was a tiny bit disappointed when I learned Rockstar were going back to San Andreas so soon (relatively), but this focus on one city along with everything else they've said has gotten me really excited.

As for more pure conjecture, I don't think that the protagonist being Claude is entirely implausible. That guy in the header does look a bit like an older version of him, and he'd provide a neat link to the past, whilst being a blank slate for further development.

@bubmaria

All you've SEEN/HEARD is a single trailer that came out yesterday. So yeah. Calm down.

They're not doing themselves any favors by saying it's going in a new direction, I'm already expecting so much from this game, lol. If they want the added pressure, though, then be my guests.

Calm down people. We've got a title, trailer, setting and a few minor details. We don't know how big the city is or if there are more city's. I spy mt chilliad in the trailer. On San andreas mt chilliad was on the second island so there might be more to this than y'all are assuming.

What a disappointment. San Andreas' biggest selling point was how huge its game world is. Sure, it din't have as much polish as GTA IV, but it was a fun world to explore, even if the only recreational activities outside of missions were murder, driving and murder.