Rockstar’s upcoming open world action-adventure, Grand Theft Auto V will be much faster than any of its predecessors, according to Imran Sarwar.

In an interview with French website Jeuxactu (translated via Google), Producer and lead mission designer Imran Sarwar said, “We want to surprise people with very intense missions from the start. The pace of the game is much faster than any of its predecessors.”

From the beginning, we want to show off the new game mechanics while creating intense, action-packed gameplay, to capture the player’s attention immediately.

Remember that the three characters in the game are already living in the city of Los Santos and surrounding areas. They are not newcomers like Niko and Tommy Vercetti, or people returning after a long absence like CJ.

They already have contacts, they are integrated with the world and lead a busy life – these characteristics should give players a sense of immediate and total immersion,” he added.

Sarwar further adds, But the danger of creating party as intense from the beginning is that the player did not want to play more than just a part from time to time, just for fun. We tried to improve further the characterization for the characters and the scenario of high quality GTA IV for all first perfectly to this type of exhilarating missions.

So you will see no one doing crazy things for no reason. The player will also have access to enough heave artillery early in the game, but again, in a particular context and not without reason.”

So what do you think?

Grand Theft Auto V will release on September 17, 2013 for PS3 and Xbox 360.

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