GTA V's huge map designed to 'accommodate flying'
Last week Houser was quoted as saying that GTA 5's world is bigger than Red Dead Redemption, San Andreas and GTA 4 combined.
Now Houser has told The Guardian that players will be doing a lot of flying in GTA 5 so it was important to the studio that there's plenty of airspace.
"We wanted to make a big place, as much as anything, to allow you to fly," he said. "A lot of the decisions, we're talking about them here on a philosophical level, but they're also practical decisions, too: we're making a game. You have to understand the medium.
"On an obvious level we wanted somewhere big so you can fly properly - we have a lot of missions that involve flying, in helicopters or whatever, it was logical. Also, Jet skis work better around LA than they would in New York.
"We're using the environment to let us have toys we couldn't have had otherwise," Houser added. "And equally, we're using the story and environment to introduce missions that can be more extreme. In some ways we wanted the game to have a larger-than-life Hollywood feel; the stories we heard in LA, we wanted to capture them in the game. If the place isn't informing what we're doing, we're not using it correctly."
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GrownPosted:
Man flying those old planes is gonna be sweet and I will have a lot of space to fly around cannot wait!
MortarPosted:
Nicasus When you have a world that is bigger than RDR, GTA SA and GTA IV combined it better be designed to accommodate flying. In San Andreas I often went from one city to the other by plane because I couldn't be bothered to drive for 20 minutes.
I hope they bring back that jet/harrier from San Andreas, because that one was a beast.
I agree, back on the PS2 it was all about using the cheat to spawn a harrier jet to fly about, causing mayhem and then being a badass and flying over Area-51. Hopefully the selection of air crafts will be nice.
NicPosted:
When you have a world that is bigger than RDR, GTA SA and GTA IV combined it better be designed to accommodate flying. In San Andreas I often went from one city to the other by plane because I couldn't be bothered to drive for 20 minutes.
I hope they bring back that jet/harrier from San Andreas, because that one was a beast.
I hope they bring back that jet/harrier from San Andreas, because that one was a beast.
Third_EyePosted:
Bigger than RDR's, SA's, and IV's map combined? Damn..that's freakin huge. It would be cool if they had Stunt Planes again where you can press 2 on PC or click RS on consoles to have red smoke come out of the back. Hydras would be impressive to see again too. Those might come in an "episodes" DLC as a new vehicle like the tank did for IV, as it came out with TBoGT.
IglesiasPosted:
The graphics look amazing, hopefully it won't take up that much space. GTA 5 is like GTA: SA and GTA: IV ! Cant wait !
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