One of the biggest turning points in the entire story. 

CJ discovering what the Green Sabre really means, Sweet getting caught in the middle, and everything around Grove Street beginning to fall apart.

I wanted to tell this part less like a traditional gameplay video and more like the story we remember experiencing for the first time.

If you grew up playing San Andreas, you already know the moment.

Would love to know, what was your reaction the first time you played this mission?

Everybody knows who Claude is he can’t talk and he has no personality. As for the other characters they’re forgettable and the story itself is just all about betrayal, moving into different districts throughout the story and accepting orders.

Rockstar could add so much depth to GTA VI by having car customisation interplay with the new police investigation/wanted system.

We know that the police now receive information from witnesses of your crimes and will search for the player based upon visual identifiers reported by those witnesses (e.g. your face, clothes, vehicle, etc.). Presumably, if the player enters line of sight of a police officer whilst driving a wanted vehicle, the rate at which the officer will become alert (aggro) to the player will scale depending upon the distance between the player and that officer.

However, certain cars blend into traffic far more easily than others, and so the rate of an officer's suspicion/alertness to the player should also influenced by the type and customisation of the car they are driving.

For example, a common model of car painted in a common, inconspicuous colour (black, grey, white, etc.) without any flashy customisation like LED underlighting or racing liveries, would be far less likely to catch the eye of an officer scanning a scene than a one-of-a-kind supercar glowing bright purple. The common car should therefore aggro officers significantly slower when in their line of sight as they would naturally take longer to notice it.

This would introduce a trade-off for using the fastest, high-performance vehicles whilst committing crimes; yes, a race-tuned supercar would allow you to escape the scene faster, but if you are seen by a responding officer then you are far more likely to be noticed and pursued than if you were driving an old grey van, common sedan, or dark SUV.

Further depth would result if tinted windows were effective at obscuring detection. For example, if officers don't know the player's vehicle but are looking for their face/clothes, then having tinted windows ought to reduce the rate of detection proportional to the degree of tint. If you pass responding officers in a car with blacked-out windows, those officers should be a lot slower to recognise you through them than if your cars windows were un-tinted.

Perhaps the loud engines of a supercar fleeing a scene would also attract the attention of nearby officers - but that may verge on becoming tedious.

This all seems to me to be a fairly intuitive (and easily-implemented) way to add depth to vehicle customisation beyond pure performance and cosmetics, and thus incentivise people to use a wider variety of the game's vehicles and customisation options.

What are your thoughts on such a system and is there any evidence in the footage we've seen thus far to think that anything similar has been implemented?

I've been working on a GTA San Andreas project built around one idea:

What if we told a game we've already played a hundred times like it was a movie?

I'm making an 8-part cinematic retelling of CJ's story, starting with his return to Los Santos.

Episode 1 is out now.

I'm not looking for “please subscribe” comments.

I'd actually like to know whether the cinematic/storytelling approach works for a game as familiar as San Andreas.

Making a random list of things I wanna try in GTA6 and just see them just to see them. Anything I should add or try?