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Seeing as we have a release date of 17th September for this, I now need to actually decide if I'm going to buy this or not. I have always been a big fan of the GTA Games, dating all the way back to the first one on PS1, however I am a little dubious on this one.
I can only really give one reason for this, and it is very simply the fact that we will be dealing with Multiple Protagonists. Go back through the history (since GTA3). We had the silent protagonist in GTA3, then Tommy Vercetti, Carl Johnson, Toni Cipriani, Vic Vance and Nico Bellic. It was, all the way through, someone that you could at least try and get invested in, and follow their story through from start of finish. Now three? Reading through on the GTA Wiki page, I grabbed this quote:
"There are many unique features in the game, one of those features is that when the players are playing as one of three protagonists in the game, the other two are living out their daily lives, and you will be surprised by what you find the characters doing when you switch back into them. Another unique feature is the swapping characters feature happens in a Google Earth styled manner and was displayed during a Game Informer demo, which it showed to have ran smoothly and without lag."
Switching between protagonists seems a bit gimmicky, and surely you'll miss things that are happening to the other characters, otherwise time just isn't passing! It all sounds a bit silly to me. I could be wrong, and it may blow me away, but I'll have to wait and see. Right now, I just need to decide if i'm going to pre-order this one.
In the meantime, here are three short videos introducing each of the Protagonists, just in case you haven't seen them yet:
Trevor -
Michael -
Franklin -
I can only really give one reason for this, and it is very simply the fact that we will be dealing with Multiple Protagonists. Go back through the history (since GTA3). We had the silent protagonist in GTA3, then Tommy Vercetti, Carl Johnson, Toni Cipriani, Vic Vance and Nico Bellic. It was, all the way through, someone that you could at least try and get invested in, and follow their story through from start of finish. Now three? Reading through on the GTA Wiki page, I grabbed this quote:
"There are many unique features in the game, one of those features is that when the players are playing as one of three protagonists in the game, the other two are living out their daily lives, and you will be surprised by what you find the characters doing when you switch back into them. Another unique feature is the swapping characters feature happens in a Google Earth styled manner and was displayed during a Game Informer demo, which it showed to have ran smoothly and without lag."
Switching between protagonists seems a bit gimmicky, and surely you'll miss things that are happening to the other characters, otherwise time just isn't passing! It all sounds a bit silly to me. I could be wrong, and it may blow me away, but I'll have to wait and see. Right now, I just need to decide if i'm going to pre-order this one.
In the meantime, here are three short videos introducing each of the Protagonists, just in case you haven't seen them yet:
Trevor -