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Home News Rockstar VP Dan Houser Leaks Major Grand Theft Auto V Story Detail In New York Times Interview

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Rockstar VP Dan Houser Leaks Major Grand Theft Auto V Story Detail In New York Times Interview

Posted on Monday, November 12 @ 18:44:35 Eastern by

Despite the onslaught of Grand Theft Auto V previews in the past week, the studio's managed to keep fairly quiet about the intimate details surrounding their trio of protagonists. Players will take control of three separate characters, but where they'll go is still up in the air.

That is, until Dan Houser, Vice President and brother of Rockstar Games CEO Sam Houser, spoke with The New York Times and blew a key detail. If you'd like to remain in the dark, hit that back button and check out some other news.


Still here? In the interview, Houser is asked how the trifecta of playable characters affects the writing process in video games. Houser responds:

Just at the conceptual level, the idea was three separate stories that you play in one game. The next bit was, let's not have the stories intersect once or twice but have them completely interwoven. It felt like it was going to be a real narrative strength: you get to play the protagonist and the antagonist in the same story.

Now we'll have to wait and see which is which. Michael is the older character, pulled back in to crime for "one last job." Trevor is a drug-addicted pilot. Franklin is an upcoming gangster. Which do character is the good guy? Which is the bad guy? How will Grand Theft Auto V blur the lines between "protagonist" and "antagonist" in the grime and grit of Los Santos?
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Tags:   Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto V


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  • Stickyellowsock
    Stickyellowsock
    Joined: Oct 2009
    Posted: Nov 12th, 2012 at 7:02 pm
    HOOK IT TO MY VEINS!!!!
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  • tinymhg
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    Posted: Nov 12th, 2012 at 10:37 pm
    "Please log in to vote!" I did and still got the same message. So Thumbs up from tinymhg.
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  • Alex_Osborn
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    Posted: Nov 12th, 2012 at 7:22 pm
    Alright. Now I'm interested :D
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  • Ranim
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    Posted: Nov 12th, 2012 at 10:48 pm
    I miss fun
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  • cheesegod99
    cheesegod99
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Nov 12th, 2012 at 10:56 pm
    Sounds like they learned from the narrative slog that was GTAIV. Then again, this is the team that brought us RDR, so this may very well be a mature, thoughtful look at the violent urban lifestyle.

    Ah, what the hell. I just wanna shoot stuff while on a jet ski!
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  • Kakulukia
    Kakulukia
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Nov 13th, 2012 at 7:34 pm
    RDR was made by the San Diego studio, not North. But yeah, hopefully they'll have learned from it's success.
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  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Nov 13th, 2012 at 2:06 am
    I loved Sand andreas, Lost and the Damn and even the ballad of gay tony. GTAIV had a fairly uninteresting story. I have high hopes that this will be the san andreas of this generation. Even though pc version is going to come out after consoles :(
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  • napsterxxl
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    Posted: Nov 13th, 2012 at 5:19 am
    i dunno. i loved good old Vice City, but GTA IV really turned me away from the franchise :/
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