The news flood for Grand Theft Auto V continues. The digital edition of Game Informer‘s December issue released today, and Kotaku reports that it bears numerous news nuggets about the upcoming open-world action game.
The first of which is a claim that the game world of GTAV is larger than Red Dead Redemption, GTA: San Andreas, and GTA: IV combined.The game’s fictional Los Santos setting reportedly includes wilderness, a military base, and an explorable underwater ocean floor.
Additionally, the game’s three protagonists are named Michael, Trevor, and Franklin. Players can switch between them at “nearly any time,” the magazine suggests. Further, these characters will sometimes work together, with players able to swap back and forth in a similar way to the Lego series of games.
On top of that, Michael, Trevor, and Franklin each has a distinct personality, skill set, and posse of friends. When players are controlling one of the characters, the other two will leave and do something else on their own.
Similar to Red Dead Redemption, players will find randomized missions and events in GTAV. These include events surrounding hitchhikers, dead bodies, muggers, and others to be named later. Lastly, the GTAV gameworld will include some sort of an economy, though players will not be able to purchase properties.
Rockstar Games last week confirmed GTAV will ship for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 during spring 2013. Preorders for the game opened this week at select retailers in the United States and Europe. The game’s second trailer will arrive November 14.
For more on GTAV, check out GameSpot’s previous coverage.
