An experience actor who's contributed to a number of big-name games in recent years has typed 'Grand Theft Auto V' on his CV in a list of his projects. Has he worked on the unannounced game? He says not.
As you can imagine, his CV's been picked up by the all-seeing eyes of the internet, where it was immediately posted as "confirmation" of Rockstar's next GTA game.
But the typed title is only one letter away from possibly referring to GTAIV. An easy mistake to make? CVG gave the actor in question, a Declan Mulvey of New York city a ring.
It was, said Mr Mulvey, just a typo. He confirmed in a brief conversation with CVG that the listing was made in error - one which the friendly Mr. Mulvey will no doubt speedily fix now that he's aware that his simple error is causing fanboy heart attacks as we speak.
Stand down, kids. Sounds like a false alarm.
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jimsondanet on 27 Feb '11 said:
what are the odds of GTA V being in development?
I put 20 on end of year release, 50 on 013 release
Anytakers? I was right about Elder Scrolls, although wrong on kinect
andy3050 on 27 Feb '11 said:
people are seriously getting way to excited.
i'm all for a new gta sequel, but i'm happy for them to leave it a while before bringing a new one out. they have got some great games such as Red Dead and LA Noire out soon. the thing with GTA is we have gotten to a point where its all been seen and done before, i wouldn't mind them not bringing one out for a few years so they can bring in new things rather than the old cut and paste (GTA 4 seemed to me like 1 step forward, 2 steps back)
Very_Silver_Ownz on 27 Feb '11 said:
'' people are seriously getting way to excited.i'm all for a new gta sequel, but i'm happy for them to leave it a while before bringing a new one out. they have got some great games such as Red Dead and LA Noire out soon. the thing with GTA is we have gotten to a point where its all been seen and done before, i wouldn't mind them not bringing one out for a few years so they can bring in new things rather than the old cut and paste (GTA 4 seemed to me like 1 step forward, 2 steps back) ''
what's wrong with another GTA ? theres not been a huge GTA since 2008 so its not like its been milked.
so what your saying is its okay for games like CoD to release games every year with little to no improvement but for GTA its wrong ?
If your burnt out of GTA then when V comes out heres an idea dont buy it the rest of us have been waiting since 2008 for another GTA game not including DLC.
metallicorphan on 28 Feb '11 said:
i just looked up his IMDB page
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1386500/
I can't see any GTAIV there...i can see games like Red Dead Redemption and Saints Row 2,L.A.Noire,Manhunt,Max Payne 3,Homefront.
but no GTAIV to confuse with GTAV....so what gives?..he has game titles under both Actor and Stunts
CrispyLog on 28 Feb '11 said:
I'll give 3:1 odds against GTAV coming out this year. Want to take it at £20?
Debug1312 on 28 Feb '11 said:
Beside the fact that he appears nowhere in the credits for GTA IV, while he appears in the credits for all the other games listed in his resume, the guy is blatantly lying and here is the proof:
Here is his newest resume from mid 2010:
http://www.actiondeclan.com/Stunts_file ... WebRes.pdf
Here is an older resume of his from early 2010:
http://www.actiondeclan.com/Stunts_file ... resume.pdf
If you will notice, his newest resume includes listings for GTA V, RDR, and L.A. Noire.
His older resume only includes a listing for RDR. GTA V is missing!
If it was intended to be GTA IV, but there was a typo, then why is there no listing for it in his older resume? Even RDR is in that one, and GTA IV came out two years earlier. The GTA V listing is only in his newest resume, alongside L.A. Noire, which shows that this is a new project. Now he is trying to covering it up!
slaney on 28 Feb '11 said:
http://playstationlifestyle.net/2011/02 ... ft-auto-v/
*Crosses every finger + toe at the same time*
jimsondanet on 28 Feb '11 said:
2:1 an its on Crispy Log! errr wait no, illegal gambling on commercial website an all... ummm how about we bet flaming rights?
its been 4 years, but na I agree on a lack of innovation. I suspect they've been using their brand weight to drip feed us updates in gameplay like pokemon.
I mean look at the weapon scrolling and auto aiming, absolutely rubbish! but we have a cover system now.
Or for a game with cars as a core element to its gameplay we didnt get a fraction of the features that saints row gave in their first release! but we have more realistic physics now.
Hopefully with critical critisms and Saints Row gaining momentum well see a change in business strategy (assuming im right) and they will start focusing their selling points on world building and variety of 'things to do' rather than cover mechanics and driving physics.
I loved the driving physics of IV BTW, I hope they dont nubify it for all the tween ragers.
KMakawa on 28 Feb '11 said:
In all honesty, i dont think this is the case.
I think that he wasn't meant to put it on his CV, Rockstar sent him a lovely message ASAP regarding it -- and he put it down to the "oh its a typo." excuse.
Just to easily avert the fanboy raid.
I do think he did work on GTA V and I do think hes lying. trufacts.
Jodmeister on 28 Feb '11 said:
The cover-up excuses point to GTAV being correct. Knowing Rockstar's usual release dates for big games this suggests an April 2012 ish release - they usually take that long for the GTa hyoe to build properly.
flippy1008 on 28 Feb '11 said:
About above comment
R* main release window used to be October time, and only moved it for effectively two games (GTA IV and RED DEAD, and later to be LA NOIRE), but they still release stuff in October. The problem lies in the fact that all these new game developers are moving blockbuster releases into Jan-May season now anyway, leaving Christmas, especially December, quite barren...so who knows what R* incentive is. Although April 2012 does seem reasonable, since they have April 2011 with LA NOIRE.
And yes we are eager to play this, if it comes out in 2012, its been 4 years since we have played a new city...2 or 3 years since we last had new GTA stuff. Exciting!
RandyChimp on 28 Feb '11 said:
So this article, in shortened terms, was basically "Look, this is happening, oh wait, no it isn't!"
Queen Skillage on 28 Feb '11 said:
I think that little typo just made all the mega fanboys j**z themselves.
nuggit3000 on 28 Feb '11 said:
I think that GTA5 will (or at least should) be released on the next gen consoles.
Like the GTA3 engine was used in multiple games last gen, I think the GTA4 engine should have a few spin offs, like Vice City or San Andreas.
They should hold back on GTA5 until it can be a real leap forward.
DEZARC on 28 Feb '11 said:
Maybe the actor was arrested for grand theft auto five times
It is a possibility that he that he worked on GTA V but he could have worked on GTA IV.
pRM8 on 28 Feb '11 said:
He's clearly been working on GTA V and been told to remove it from his cv, hence the "typo" excuse. The game will be well into development but I don't see it being released untill Q1 2012.
That's my predicted release time-frame anyhow.
DEZARC on 28 Feb '11 said:
It is possible that it could come out next year but at the moment they're working on L.A. Noire and Max Payne 3 which hopefully will come out this year.
Also they have kept another game very quiet which is called Agent which was announced years ago
r0bb3d-up on 28 Feb '11 said:
who cares! they fluffed the series in gtaIV was a snooze fest!!!!! played better online games with stickman wars on iphone
metallicorphan on 28 Feb '11 said:
craziest comment yet...GTA4 was a great game,even two years later,no game has come close to reproducing a realistic city like GTA4...sure it didn't have as many laughs or some of the fun missions that GTA past titles are well known for,but it was still a great title
ace9846 on 28 Feb '11 said:
if gta v is in development my colon would explode
gmcb007 on 28 Feb '11 said:
R* sat behind him with a gun pointed at his family and made him correct his 'error'
andy3050 on 28 Feb '11 said:
at what point did i say any of that, i don't even buy COD anymore for that very reason. so get off your high horse and let people have a god damn opinion you smug little sh*t.
all i was saying is if we have to wait another 4 years for a new GTA because it means we will have a truely epic game then i'm all for it. they are doing well with NEW games with NEW ideas so why should we want them to stop that GTA. anyway as i was saying GTA4 was great but to me we got the great next gen graphics and physics (one step forward) but they got rid of alot of cool things that made vice city and san andreas great (2 steps back)
Very_Silver_Ownz on 28 Feb '11 said:
@andy3050 It may have came out the wrong way what I meant was its been long enough. almost 4 years now.
I know what your talking about GTA IV sucked arse and it burnt me out as well but GTA IV basically came out at the start of PS3/360 so Rockstar was basically testing out what they could do so GTA V will be epic.
Its just frustrating that back on the PS2 Rockstar would basically release a GTA game every year GTA 3 came out 2001, GTA VC came out 2002 and SA came out at 2004 and they were still amazing games.
and please '' smug little sh*t '' ? you mad bro ? cool yourself down, get a drink and please for the love of god shut it.
r0bb3d-up on 28 Feb '11 said:
nope, im gonna disagree, bought it midnight launch day...played it waiting for something remotely interesting to happen.....traded it in!
suberbard on 17 Apr '11 said:
OMG how come no one noticed GTA 5 has been in development since 2009 why do you guys think rockstar vancouver developed the ballad of gay tony instead of rockstar north why do you think team bondi are developing la noire instead of rockstar north its obvious because they are busy working on GTA 5 and by the amount of time they are taking to develop i would guess only san andreas would take that amount of programming