{"id":58301,"date":"2013-09-11T17:59:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T15:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=58301"},"modified":"2013-09-11T18:00:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T16:00:35","slug":"grand-theft-auto-online-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/58301-grand-theft-auto-online-details","title":{"rendered":"Grand Theft Auto Online details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Game Informer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.GameInformer.com\" target=\"_blank\">Game Informer<\/a> has secured a hands-on preview of Grand Theft Auto Online, the multiplayer component of the upcoming GTA V. The preview was published in the latest issue of its magazine, and <a title=\"CVG\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/428953\/gta-online-details-character-creation-activities-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\">CVG went through the legwork<\/a> of listing the important details.<\/p>\n<p>The preview revealed loads of information about the characters, gameplay options, vehicle collection, crew formation, and a gamut of over 500 mission types.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the extensive list below (source: <a title=\"CVG\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/428953\/gta-online-details-character-creation-activities-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\">CVG<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No &#8220;overarching narrative&#8221; for multiplayer characters, but definite progression flow.<\/li>\n<li>Your purpose in GTA Online is to get more money in the bank and accumulate assets (cars, real estate).<\/li>\n<li>Characters appear in cutscenes when interacting with other characters in the world (no recorded dialog)<\/li>\n<li>Female characters playable in GTA Online<\/li>\n<li>Most activities from the campaign are available in GTA online (heists, missions, robberies, assaulting gang hideouts, hijacking armored vehicles, races, tennis, golf, and base jumping).<\/li>\n<li>Over 500 missions. Some can be completed solo, others require a team.<\/li>\n<li>GTA Online takes place after the main story<\/li>\n<li>Online game progression includes making contacts and delving deeper into the criminal world\n<ul>\n<li>Franklin&#8217;s friend Lamar may introduce you to a car dealer named Simeon Yetarian, who wants you to steal cars for him<\/li>\n<li>Biker gangs my support you during missions if you&#8217;re friendly with them<\/li>\n<li>A tech-savvy character you&#8217;ve befriended may hide you on the radar during multiplayer<\/li>\n<li>Security firms that have taken a liking to you may be used to deliver airstrikes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Rockstar populates GTA Online, starting with your friends and crew members, then similarly skilled players in the same part of the world.<\/li>\n<li>GTA Online can be setup to allow full player control of who joins them in the world, or left to Rockstar&#8217;s matchmaking system.<\/li>\n<li>The game presents missions that appeal more to your style.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a crew ranking system and a personal rank<\/li>\n<li>Character creation involves choosing your parents and grandparents. Players then choose a lifestyle, make choices about the things the character does (partying, couch potato, criminal, athletics nut).<\/li>\n<li>Starting skills are based on the chosen lifestyles, but can be upgraded, as can the look of the character<\/li>\n<li>Players riding shotgun in cars can also control radio station, set waypoints, use a cinematic camera, or attack others<\/li>\n<li>Holding the select button (on a PS3) pulls up a menu where outfits and gestures can be changed<\/li>\n<li>Phone camera&#8217;s can be used to take a selfie<\/li>\n<li>During a liquor store robbery the player can shout at the cashier to hurry up through a mic and the character will respond<\/li>\n<li>Escaping cops involves keeping yourself out of the police&#8217;s vision cone<\/li>\n<li>After each GTA Online mission cash rewards and Reputation Points are awarded. The crew leader decides who keeps the loot.<\/li>\n<li>A leader can choose to hog the spoils but, obviously, other players might not take that very well<\/li>\n<li>Invites are received through the character&#8217;s phone and accepting seamlessly transports the player to the activity<\/li>\n<li>Players can customise the way a vehicle handles at shops found around the city<\/li>\n<li>In missions involving bigger teams a lobby window opens up. From this the roles such as sniper, look-out and transporter can be assigned. The crew leader can tweak settings such as time of day, weather, difficulty and how many lives they have to complete the mission.<\/li>\n<li>Everyone is given priorities suited to their role when missions begin<\/li>\n<li>When you have enough cash to purchase a &#8220;high end residency&#8221; you gain the ability to set up heists like the ones in the solo campaign.<\/li>\n<li>These missions involve multiple phases, including a set-up phase. In the mission shown prep involved buying guns from Ammu-Nation and procuring a helicopter. The tasks can be split between players.<\/li>\n<li>Passive mode can be activated if you want to enjoy Online without being troubled by other players, this is automatically deactivated when you fire your gun however.<\/li>\n<li>Players can kill you and take your cash, so you are encouraged to put money in the bank and use ATMs.<\/li>\n<li>Purchases can still be made using the money even if it&#8217;s in the bank<\/li>\n<li>If you are robbed, you can put a bounty on a players head for revenge<\/li>\n<li>Each house you pruchase has space for storing cars. Modest appartments have space for two, but high-end homes can store ten.<\/li>\n<li>Garage areas can be treated like showrooms. You can walk around and admire your cars and hire a mechanic to keep them in good condition. You can also insure them to avoid big payouts should you damage them badly.<\/li>\n<li>You can invite friends to your home and drink, call strippers, watch Rockstar&#8217;s custom created TV shows (or your friends in high-speed chases).<\/li>\n<li>Missions are controlled through Rockstar&#8217;s Social Club, which means the developer tweak them regularly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rockstar has now given us the initial\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/47460-gta-v-trailer-prepares-you-for-chaos.html\" target=\"_blank\">announcement trailer<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/videos\/53417-gta-v-meet-the-antiheroes.html\" target=\"_blank\">character video<\/a>, \u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/videos\/56134-gta-5-gameplay-video-finally-unveiled.html\" target=\"_blank\">gameplay reveal trailer<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57329-gta-5-online-gameplay-details-revealed.html\" target=\"_blank\">GTA Online video<\/a>\u00a0that was released earlier in August, and a new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57850-gta-5-gameplay-trailer-unveiled.html\" target=\"_blank\">gameplay trailer<\/a>\u00a0which dropped last week.<\/p>\n<p>Rockstar also released some details about the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57839-gta-5-online-crew-structures-revealed.html\" target=\"_blank\">crew structures and hierarchy in GTA Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Theft Auto V will arrive in stores on 17 September 2013 for PS3 and Xbox 360.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hvoD7ehZPcM\" height=\"339\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More GTA 5 news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/58273-gta-5-entire-los-santos-map-leaked.html\">GTA 5: entire Los Santos map leaked<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/58226-rockstar-on-gta-5-male-cast-authenticity.html\">Rockstar on GTA 5 male cast, authenticity<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/58213-gta-5-wheres-the-cheapest-in-sa.html\">GTA 5: where\u2019s the cheapest in SA?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/58199-gta-5-cost-r2-6-billion-to-make.html\">GTA 5 cost R2.6-billion to make<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/58108-gta-5-price-increase-in-sa-distributor-retailers-respond.html\">SA GTA 5 price increase: distributor, retailers respond<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/58052-gta-5-more-gorgeous-screenshots-released.html\">GTA 5: more gorgeous screenshots released<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57850-gta-5-gameplay-trailer-unveiled.html\">GTA 5 gameplay trailer unveiled<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game Informer hands-on preview reveals juicy details about the online mode in GTA V<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":57345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,627,3309,2603,3308,2009,2219,193,745],"class_list":["post-58301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-dan-houser","tag-grand-theft-auto-5","tag-grand-theft-auto-v","tag-gta-5","tag-gta-v","tag-megarom","tag-rockstar","tag-rockstar-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}