How Gameplay Animation In GTA V Will Look

As you are all probably aware, Rockstar officially announced GTA V today. However, all the chaps over at Rockstar teased us with was a logo and the date of when the initial trailer for what is most likely the most highly anticipated title right now.

Fortunately enough for you though, due to a chance encounter with an industry professional about two weeks ago, we here at StickTwiddlers are able to bring you a brief glimpse of what gameplay animation in GTA V will most probably look like.

[Oldman100]

Great investigation work. He seems to be a pretty talented animator. Oh and holy crap! Check out a this new hd eight days trailer that was uploaded a few months ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Pintheshadows]

Oh my god, I want that! Why did you cancel it Sony? Why?

Did you notice the Die Hard 4 chase music?

[StickTwiddlers]

Latest word on Eight Days is that it's still on hold.

Believe me, I'm wanting to find out exactly what's happening with it! The gameplay looks incredible.

[MaxXAttaxX]

Hope it comes out at some point.

[HappyGaming]

This means nothing though for GTA V...
He is the lead animator but for example ND have made other games in the past and the characters did not move in the same way. He has to adapt for the style of the game!

[hiredhelp]

Eight Days Will be back not canned its been picked back up works on going.
Just if and when we hear anything hopfully next year.

[ABizzel1]

Whoever thought making Move, Eye Pet, and Singstar were a better ideas than Eight Days need to be fired.

[StraightPath]

Pretty nice animations, kinda funny how they run looks really coool :D Can not wait to see GTA 5 in action.

[xPhearR3dx]

They animations look fantastic, but at the same time they're kind of annoying because it doesn't look that seamless. You can tell when the player hit the button to perform a certain animation.

[dktxx2]

I think that's just a lack of polish. If they ever finish the game I'm sure the animations would be more seamless.

[thehitman]

Oh wow i never seen that vid of 8days that was pretty amazing UC status gameplay.

[KaBaW]

It was really disappointing when they put Eight Days on hold/cancelled.
I Was looking forward to that game for the longest time, it looks phenomenal.

[cb4g]

That really was some good investigation work from the journalist. Kudos to Sticktwiddlers for actually reporting something constructive.

[specialguest]

Eight Days is technically no longer that impressive in my opinion. This was stuff that wowed us all during the launch of the PS3, but now games like Uncharted 2 or 3 trumps it.

[Legion]

Wow, that is the largest clip I have ever seen in a gun! He must have had over a thousand rounds in that baby, because he kept shooting those cars and didn't reload once! ha

Good visuals, hopefully their won't be too much rail shooting as the most of that clip was one long rail shooter sequence. Cinematic... but I don't care for rail shooting portions in games too much.

In Ghost Recon (or any war game for that matter) it was always the helicopter rail shooting. Gears of War had the part were you first get your flying mount. And a pseudo rail shooting portion in Rolling Thunder where you are basically on a rail but can move from place to place on the Rig you are riding.

Game developers seem to love to throw these types of sections into their games but I would rather forget these scripted portions and get a little better game play added in.

8 days looks promising... I like the way the 2 characters reacted to each other when changing positions in cover. With the guy that was covering on the car treating his partner as an object when passing by him. Even had character interaction that looked realistic.

[slavish]

i was kind of hoping this would stay in development as a next xbox ps4 title... oh well

[b163o1]

Its does look better then a lot of current games. Excluding the usual......

[DeadManMcCarthy]

lol rockstar rubbing it in the face of sr the thirds faces with this announcement.

[StraightPath]

Imagine if they released the trailer on the day Saints Row The Third was released? Oh my that would be a killer...

Saints Row influence is GTA but SR Third is looking pretty fun and ridiculous too :D But Ill pick it up later. Skyrim number 1 priority.

[Quagmire]

I would buy both games. Just saying. Plus releasing a trailer on SR3 release may be funny, but it wouldnt make people hold their money for a game which will take about 2 years to release after SR3

I wish they would release a GTA HD Collection first, though

[StickTwiddlers]

I'm hoping that Rockstar keep GTA V down the more serious route and leave the crazy, over-the-top fun to Saints Row.

RDR really showed off with how well Rockstar can tell a story and have some great gameplay.

[KROBOS9393939]

@Quagmire why do you people keep saying that the game will take two years to get released ?
they've probably started working on it right after gta iv and maybe it would take a little less than a year and a half for it to get released

[Quagmire]

I read somewhere they were using the Mocap facial tech once used for L.A.Noire by a developer know as Team Bondi before they were shutdown.

[Me-Time]

Ch'yes.

[KaBaW]

Team Bondi was shut down? Why? o.O

[Pintheshadows]

They owed a lot of money to various debtors due to the astronomical cost of developing LA Noire.

[scotchmouth]

No one really liked the way they treated employees. Costs aside they blackballed themselves once word got out of the working conditions.

[LoneWanderer09]

Holy crap hopefully the Trailer for GTAV will show some real gameplay

[LoLZoRz]

I just hope you don't need to hold (X)/(A) to run. It was so annoying in GTA IV when you needed to run and control the camera but you couldn't without stopping.

I hated that.

[Undeadwolfy]

Agreed. One of my many gripes with GTA4.

[Blaine]

Was worse in RDR when you wanted your horse to gallop but couldn't turn the camera at the same time. R* REALLY need to improve their control scheme.

[YodaCracker]

I actually liked that about the game. Sometimes you just want to walk around and be part of the world. Take in the scenery. And with the insane level of detail in GTA IV's Liberty City, there was a lot to see. I hate having to hold the stick half way in other games if I want to walk slowly.

But I'm sure GTA V will handle it just like RDR. It will be like GTA IV where you have to hold A to jog and tap A to sprint, but when you are in a combat situation, you will automatically jog just by holding the stick.

[Blaine]

I HATE actions that change automatically depending on the situation you're in. Let *me* control my movement, don't do it for me. Rather than make everything context sensitive, R* really needs to fix their damn control scheme.

But I've come to understand that what I want is very different from what most other gamers want. I want precision and control; others just want pretty animations and hand-holding.

[AngelicIceDiamond]

It's nice to see we're moving along to other game news The Battlefield stuff is stressing. GTA 5 huh, its been along time. I didn't like GTA 4 at all to be honest.

[Tonester925]

They need to stay with that Natural Motion's Euphoria Physics engine! It was crazy life-like. Imagine how upgraded it'll be now?

[colonel179]

Hold on, they announced GTA V, but then what happened to Agent? It was announced in 2009, and is supposedly being develop by the GTA dev team.

So did they cancel Agent?

[T3MPL3TON]

I wish I wasn't right way back when but it's growing more and more apparent that Agent wont ever come out. We never got any real info and they never talk about it.

[bobrea]

So an animator who worked on 8 Days working on GTA V means the animations will look the same? That doesn't mean that at all, just that they got a talented animator on their team.

[HardCover]

He's the "Lead Animator."

It's relatively safe to speculate that he'll use his best work as an example for his new work. It's better than nothing, believe it or not.

[bobrea]

Woops. I must not have read the "lead" part. My bad.

[Perkel]

still this doesn't mean anything..

Euphoria is a must for this game.

[blakstarz]

I wouldn't be surprised if 8 days is resurrected now that he works for R* North. I certainly hope so, because the game's animation and graphics looked to be way ahead of its time at that moment.

[NnT3291]

Omg this is going to be HUGE ! I hope its still realistic like GTA4 and has all the crazy stuff in SA.

[Xenial]

GTA V! I still play GTA IV regularly so hearing about GTA V from Rockstar is amazing. Can't wait to see the trailer.

[ArtificiallyYours]

It can only go up from here, cannot wait to see the final results (assuming they are heavily modifying the engine).

[MikEyG]

There's no way ps3 can pull off graphics that nice, that's ps4 territory. The destruction and level of detail far exceed what we have seen to date on consoles that's why 8 days was canceled for ps3 years ago because they couldn't pull it off with the hardware. Just another two years i'd say till ps4 is released, can't wait till E3 2012!!!

[SneeringImperialist]

I call BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLL LLLLLLLLLSHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT on that one!

[ivanjp1882]

hahahahahaha lol lmfao, the day gta look like that, is the day pigs and all your mamas fly. lol. keep dreaming. that rite there is late ps4 technology.

[Hazmat13]

Eight Days looks fun ass hell the obly game that came close to those animations was Uncharted.

[SephirothX21]

Release Eight Days Sony. It looks fantastic and will sell shltloads.

[Venjense]

Talk about interactive cinema 8 days wow.

[nobrakes07]

The games called eight days and the trailer for GTA 5 is in eight days :0 i think im thinking this whole thing to much...

[Shadowaste]

it just better be a next gen game, after playing gtaiv with all the tasty graphical mods, there is zero way i can go back to that grungy, last gen looking game, even on pc, if the assests are not also made with next gen consoles in mind it won't even look nearly as good as gtaiv on pc with mods!!

[Blaine]

Am I the only one who *doesn't* want movement to be like that?

Seriously look at it; it's all wobbly. That was the main issue with GTAIV's movements: they were imprecise. If you simply wanted your avatar to head in the direction behind and to his left, for example, he wouldn't just head in that direction; he'd perform some idiotic semi-circular jog until he was facing in that direction. This was especially annoying in tight quarters (or in RDR, on a narrow dock near insta-kill water).

But maybe it's just me? Everyone else wants wobbly "cinematic" looking animations while I don't care what they look like as long as they're responsive and precise. If I'm playing a game, I want to be in direct control; if I want pretty animation I'll watch a movie.

[ScytheX3]

as much as id like to think that the fluid animations could be in gtav, i doubt it, seems more like cutscene>gameplay shift than full on gameplay animations too fluid for rockstar.

[C0MPUT3R]

The Getaway cancellation/back burner announcement was more disheartening for me.

[Bubblemachine]

Why can't GTA just die.

[zero_cool]

Three words rockstar!..."User Generated Content"

[blakstarz]

Why would anyone say this is for PS4 "territory" when 8 days obviously was running on a PS3 at the time, so therefore, why wouldn't PS3 be able to run it now? Duuuh....and that old game-play was showcased when the PS3 was still in its infancy stage, some devs already showed what the PS3 can do already at this stage in the game, no need to state the obvious, so there is no reason whatsoever, why 8 days can't run on PS3, hell there is a SPU core that is reserved for whatever reason, so I call bullshit on these statements.