GTA V Hollywood - Gameplay Predictions

Rumour has it GTA V is set in Hollywood. Here's what we want out of the supposed sequel.

10. Lights, Camera, Auto!

Because of the rumoured Hollywood setting, or ‘Vinewood’ if you recall the San Andreas version of the city, the game would have to have some sort of links to the movie industry. We want the lead character to be a wannabe actor, rising up through the movie industry’s seedy, corrupt underbelly. This means drug-running, approaching actors for protection money and getting up to mad stuff like stuntman duties or ‘accidentally’ offing someone on set with a gun that was supposed to be filled with blanks.

Phil Collins in Vice City Stories. Still feels weird.

9. Cameos

It’s potentially a game set in the movie-making capital of the world. We’d have to assume that the game would include some big-name cameos. GTA: Vice City Stories had Phil Collins, San Andreas had Samuel L. Jackson but we want more dammit! We’re going to have to ask Nolan North to sit this one out, because he’s had enough game roles to last a lifetime.

“We want our lead character to do some dirty work for a newly-elected or canvassing actor looking to”

8. The Governator

The citizens of California have a bad habit of electing people completely unsuited to the task of, oh we don’t know, running an entire state. We want our lead character to do some dirty work for a newly-'elected' or canvassing actor looking to run the state. We’d also like him to be Arnold Schwarzenegger, but then again we’d also like Sega to make Shenmue III. We can but dream.

7. Earthquakes

Rockstar North always makes its GTA locales feel organic. What better way to reinforce that feeling than to have the city thunderously split and crack with you still in it? As California is known for earthquakes, we’d like to see a mission that involves a section of the city levelled and our character either helping survivors or using the chaos to pull of a heist or big score of some kind.

A stadium like this, but for baseball

6. Dodger’s Stadium

Imagine the scene; your character has been tasked with taking out a VIP or criminal of some kind at a bustling baseball game at the infamous Dodger’s Stadium. We’d love slipping our way past patrolling security, climbing up to the roof of the building then setting up our sniper rifle for the kill. The next pull of the trigger could make or break your character. Tense no?

5. No Mobile Phones!

We get why Rockstar North implemented mobile phones in GTA. They’re a great way of having mission intel relayed to the player without having to travel across an entire city to meet with NPCs. But please, we’re sick to death of annoying phone calls from Roman and his ‘teetees’ and the constant need to keep up appearances with your mates. Keep them strictly for mission data and we’ll be golden.

4. GTA: Pro Skater

We found an empty skate park in GTA IV. Imagine our dismay when we found out we couldn’t do very much with it. Riding our Faggio scooters over the jumps was fun, but we want a proper skating or rollerblading mechanic in there. The real-life beaches of Beverly Hills are full of rollerbladers, so we’d like the chance to do a skate-by with twin uzis in hand, while ginding a rail and mowing down bronzed surfer jocks for making us feel unhealthy.