Hereās a special edition of Asked & Answered addressing just a few of the frequently asked questions weāve seen out there from fans recently. Of course weāre aware that there are many more questions and curiosities out there about GTAV, so do stay tuned for more to be revealed about the game in due time. Meanwhile, you can always feel free to drop us a line via mouthoff@rockstargames.com where weāre glad to have a look at what you have to say and help out wherever we can.
āSo can you switch characters? Trevor Michael and Franklin – can you play all of those guys? And everybody has their own missions???!ā ā @GTAVISBEST
“How is changing between characters going to work during missions?” ā HIBMFL
āDo you have to switch characters constantly?ā ā killer772
Michael, Franklin and Trevor have their own separate lives with their own sets of friends and acquaintances, and even their own preferred ways of spending their free time. When youāre not on a mission, you can freely switch in real-time to any of the three characters to drop in and out of their lives letting you see what theyāre up to. And because they have their own schedules, youāll never know what they might be doing ā you might drop in on Michael in the middle of a family dispute, interrupt Franklin chatting up some ladies, or Trevor on the run from the law ā or whatever else these guys do in their free time… How and when you switch between characters when youāre not on a mission is completely up to you.
In addition, each of the guys has their own missions and side jobs. There will be times on a mission when you play as one character, or as combinations of two of them, and sometimes as all three, always being able to switch between the characters mid-action. Off mission, itās up to you. You can play as one character on his own or hang out with either of the other two or both of them, or you can switch between any of them.
“If I play as Trevor, can I zoom out, find out where Michael is, and then go and kill him while playing as Trevor? #GTAV” ā @GTALAD4EVA
In the open world, the characters are meant to be living their own ongoing and unpredictable personal lives, so understandably itās not always easy to track one of them down in the vast city of Los Santos or the many towns spread about Blaine County at any given moment, but you will be able to find them. Having found them, (or simply after calling them up and arranging to meet them), youāll certainly be able to hang out with them, annoy them should you choose, and maybe even assault them, but you wonāt be able to kill them. They all have remarkable powers of recovery and good health insurance. The game is based on playing all sides of these three charactersā interwoven stories rather than having generic, interchangeable leads, so permanently killing a major character in that way wouldnāt make sense. If a player is determined enough though, they may well find a way to badly injure one of the characters and switching to that character would just put you in the hospital to continue where you left off.
āHello, I noticed that the Special Edition of GTA V includes a large “blueprint” of the map. I was wondering if the Standard Edition of GTA V will include the traditional folded paper map that, as far as I can recall, has always been included with GTA games.ā ā received via Mouthoff
“Will a GTA V poster be included when the game is purchased?ā ā @ny718kid
As in all previous Grand Theft Auto games, weāve made a point of including a map of the world to aid players in navigating the city. In all versions of GTAV, the game disc will accompany a map with all the details players will need to navigate the world. One big change though with this game is that with a world of this size, we created a double-sided map based poster to make sure players have all the information they might need to discover and explore the world. The blueprint map in the other editions does contain plenty of additional information and secrets on it.
āMy name is Pedro and I have a doubt. When are you going to release the pre-order links of the Special Edition and Collector’s Edition of Grand Theft Auto V on Brazil?ā ā received via Mouthoff
Hi Pedro, weāre working hard to make the Special Edition and Collectorās Edition available for pre-order in Brazil as soon as we can. Weāre currently waiting on some customs issues to be resolved before retailers in Brazil can start accepting pre-orders. To all others who have questions about whether and where the Special Edition or Collectorās Edition is available in your particular country, weāve been maintaining the www.rockstargames.com/V/preorder page to be as up to date and accurate as possible for all territories shown ā if you have additional questions beyond that, feel free to hit us up at mouthoff@rockstargames.com and weād be happy to investigate for you.
āWould you be able to tell me to what extent are weapons and vehicles customizable?ā ā @kieranmgklaceup
Without going into detail just yet, we can tell you that both will be very customizable ā with a range of weapon upgrades as well as some very deep car customization. Stay tuned for more very soon.
āRockstar, how many discs will the Xbox and PS3 versions of the game have? I am asking because I am just conscious of how many discs I will have to install onto my Xbox 360 HDD.ā ā cj67890
āHi R*, as you said GTAV will be the biggest game that Rockstar ever created, normally it should be the biggest in size too. So how you are going to solve Xbox 360 disc limit issues? I mean will GTAV have many discs (on Xbox 360 platform)ā¦?ā ā youtubos
āIf we install GTAV on Xbox 360 do we have to insert other discs or not?ā ā Persian-boy1995
Grand Theft Auto V is the largest and most ambitious game we have yet created, and takes full advantage of every ounce of processing power available in the current generation of consoles. In order to provide the best possible experience for such a massive and detailed world, the game will have installation requirements on both Xbox 360 and PlayStation®3 systems. For Xbox 360, Grand Theft Auto V will ship on two discs; Disc 1 will be used for a one-time mandatory install and Disc 2 will be used to play the game. After the install, players will be able to enjoy both Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online without any need to switch discs.
This initial install will require an Xbox 360 Hard Drive or an external 16GB USB flash drive with at least 8 GB of free space. If using a USB flash drive it must be at least USB 2.0 with a minimum 15mb/s read speed and formatted for Xbox 360 use. A new USB flash drive is recommended to ensure optimum performance. For PlayStation®3, the game ships on one disc and will install content as soon as you insert the game. The install is roughly 8GB, and players will be able to play as soon as the install is complete.
āWill we ever see some GTA V gameplay?ā ā @ASTR4Lx
Yes. Soon (or in September if you donāt want to see it before you play it⦠itās up to you) ā the first Official Gameplay Video is on its way…
āHey Rockstar, I’m curious whether you are planning on releasing GTA V on the PC…ā ā received via Mouthoff
āYou’ve probably been asked before, but is GTA V coming for next gen consoles also?ā ā @tomtoon2010
The only versions of the game that we have announced are for the Xbox 360 and PlayStationĀ®3 which are set for a September 17th worldwide release. We donāt have anything to share about the possibility of a next-gen or a PC platform release at this time and we are completely focused on delivering the best possible experience for the consoles people have right now.
āWhen will we get information on GTA V multiplayer?ā ā @camronbnl3
Expect to hear some first details soon ā itās called Grand Theft Auto Online and weāre very excited to unveil it for you sometime this summer.
āA healthy GTAIV multiplayer game is really hard to come by nowadays. By healthy I mean players play for good clean fun. Every time I join a game it’s either modded or hacked. When I create a custom game, some abusive d*ck joins my game and ruins everyone’s fun game. I can’t just kick him out unless everyone votes. Do something about this in GTAV, Rockstar.ā ā received via Mouthoff
Ever since Grand Theft Auto IV was released, weāve continued to integrate newer and stronger methods of cheat detection and prevention for each of our games. While we have yet to reveal specifically what new anti-cheating measures we have planned for GTAV, rest assured that weāre focused on creating as level a playing field and as fair, fun (and healthy as you say) an experience as possible for everyone. There will always be some people who want to cheat but we are going to do our best to stop it. We have spent a lot of time and effort making an incredible Online experience and proper support is part of that package.
āHello Rockstar, I have a question: how much difference will there be between the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game?ā ā received via Mouthoff
Players can expect the same great gameplay experience on both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms as they have both been developed in tandem. Like all of our games, trust that weāre committed to making sure Grand Theft Auto V looks and runs as great as possible regardless of whether you pick it up for PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, and we are excited for fans on both platforms to experience Grand Theft Auto V this September. We expect any visual differences to be completely negligible.
āI smell a delay…ā ā SanViceCity
āHope R* will release this game on September 17th. HOPE it will no be delayed AGAIN.ā ā creed_20103
Thereās nothing to worry about, so we arenāt quite sure what youāre smelling! GTAV will be available for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on September 17th.