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Why GTA 5's lead character could be an FBI agent, and why that's brilliant

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DigitalRaptor4269d ago

This would be sick as... hope their hunch is true.

Jam_sponge4269d ago

How would they justify things like the player shooting random civilians in the storyline, though?

dirigiblebill4269d ago (Edited 4269d ago )

Easy - sadly inevitable collateral in the war on terror/drugs/whatever Fox doesn't like right now.

rdgneoz34269d ago

Undercover? Maybe that granny you ran over in a hummer was actually a pimp...

yoshiroaka4269d ago (Edited 4269d ago )

What happens in the free roam world of gta you could say is actually non canon to what happens on the missions.

I mean even in previous games when you go on a rampage and then lose your stars and then start a mission. That is pretty unnatural too.

Once he doesnt kill any grannies in the main story missions it should be fine. Or maybe he is undercover cop that lost his way and went too far. Start as a cop and end as a crook. Lots of great themes to explore there.

Pentex4269d ago

Getting a BJ from a prostitute, run her over with your car and beat her corpse with a baseball bat...

Inevitable collateral damage.

iamnsuperman4269d ago

True but that doesn't matter too much as when you die/run away from the police anyway no-one is looking out for the mass murderer that just ran down and blown up X amount of people.

I personally do not see this being true. I am not sure how it would work. The link between the trailer and this theory is very weak considering pulling off an operation like that is not that hard to do if you have the right resources and past GTA games feature mobsters with big connection.

It doesn't fit to have him as the FBI. The amount of people and different operations you do in GTA makes an undercover FBI agent infiltrating the gang seem very unlikely. You always delve into different gangs build and lose relationships with different gangs.

jon12344269d ago

simple, its a video game

xXBlondieVanHarlowXx4269d ago (Edited 4269d ago )

"How would they justify things like the player shooting random civilians in the storyline, though?"

Technically John Marston (RDR) & Niko Bellic (GTA 4) were "nice family type guys" yet it didn't stop them from tearing the old west & liberty city a new one. respectively. lol

Pentex4269d ago (Edited 4269d ago )

Not quite the same.

Both of those characters were established from the start as outcasts or outlaws. The fact that they need to kill some people in their way is expected.

GTA doesn't really place us between moral choices, you already know that your character is a criminal and it's up to you to set how cruel of a bandit you are. The only major rewards are for being more immoral.

RDR has a moral system, your character is an ex-criminal and it's up to you to choose if you were just trying to live a peaceful life and become moral or if you really were a bastard all along and still found pleasure in killing and robbing civilians. Besides, there's rewards for being a moral person and punishments for being immoral.

A game that chooses to have a main character as an undercover law force agent needs to take in account the fact that they're establishing the character as a good guy and that if he's allowed actions in complete contradiction with his personality, then they're breaking its believability.

I don't see how anyone would ever be able to come up with an excuse to make us believe we are controlling an FBI agent while we're driving on the sidewalk killing dozens of people.

MrDead4269d ago

Mike Toreno from San Andreas was a government agent and he didn't give a rat’s ass who got killed as long as the job gets done.

It would be awesome to play as him as James Woods voiced the character.

Panthers4269d ago

Prostitute?! You told me those women were raising money for Stem Cell research!

Kevin ButIer4269d ago

Come on is GTA... it doesnt have to be believable at all

SephirothX214268d ago

Doesn't have to be a good FBI agent. Hell most of them aren't good anyway.

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Knight_Crawler4269d ago

God I hope not..hate playing pigs in games.

doogiebear4269d ago

There wasn't a damn thing in that article that convinced me that he's a FBI agent. Makes no sense in a game like GTA. None.

Moncole4269d ago

So like how Sleaping Dogs protagonist is an undercover police?

They should still to making the protagonist a convict.

FragMnTagM4269d ago (Edited 4269d ago )

You can if you have GTAIV on the PC.

chak_4269d ago

I'd like that. Starting as a nice guy, having a nice day and being forced to get dirty, alas JACK BAUER §

That could be fun and completly change from being the gangsta' again.

Nocturne1474269d ago

Yea, Jack Bauer rocks. But he works in CTU not FBI.

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FarCryLover1824269d ago

In season 7 of 24, there was no CTU and he was working for the FBI. So for a season, he was an FBI agent ;)

Bonerrr4269d ago

He's an Ex FBI agent.
DeSliver...

Nexgensensation4269d ago

I was getting a little uncomfortable seeing one of american's majority as the main characters of gta, knowing gta is all about the minority pursuing the american dream.

if you believe this comment is racist then reply...

doogiebear4269d ago

No one is falling for your flame bait. F*ck off.

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boing136d ago

Cost of realistic looking movement.

lucasnooker36d ago

Rockstar need to learn that 12 years of work and 5000 employees doesn’t account for one persons opinion on the internet…

Profchaos36d ago (Edited 36d ago )

Oh and hundreds of millions of dollars in revanue to boot.

Lots of complaints about gta ever since the hd era started and yet it's bugger than its ever been with gta vi up to 180 million trailer views alone. The next game is shaping it be be another genre defining game

MetalGearsofWar36d ago

They already learned they dont have to actually make a great game

sagapo36d ago

The controls of RDR2 felt a but cluncky indeed, but it’s not as bad as some make it out to be. At no point did I get the feeling my experience with the game was held back or ruined by the controls.
But it can never hurt to optimize them a bit, sure.

Zhipp36d ago (Edited 36d ago )

I did accidentally beat someone to death a couple times. An unfortunate mistake but besides that I didn't have any problems with the controlls

jznrpg36d ago

Red Dead Redemption felt clunky at first but I got used to it fairly quick. I thought 2 was easier to control but it could be my experience with the first game helped me out. Great games

Profchaos36d ago

I wouldn't call Rockstar games characters clunky instead they feel like they move with Weight they are not twitch controls press x to instantly snap onto cover the characters instead move like a actor would ducking behind cover they are exposed while they get there.

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