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8 things we want to see in GTA V single-player DLC
Dear Rockstar, when you announce single player DLC for GTA V, can you include these things? Regards.
Where is Grand Theft Auto V’s single player DLC? It’s the question we’ve all been asking for months/years now, and despite a steady trickle of rumours, there’s been no definitive news from the hallowed halls of Rockstar North. Still, you can’t deny that the GTA V devs have been awfully busy over the last couple of years – they’ve brought us new versions for PC, Xbox One and PS4, and numerous GTA Online upgrades to keep us busy as well as slew of vanity updates letting you deck that plane you stole in gold or plaster your car with a tasteless vinyl wrap.
But where is our new Ballad of Gay Tony, the huge single player campaign Rockstar released for Grand Theft Auto IV back in 2009? Our HD The Lost & Damned? Well maybe not the latter, since its protagonist Johnny Klebitz was trampled to death by Trevor in GTA V. But with the latest Heists update now live for multiplayer, we reckon it’s about time Rockstar turned its attention back to the single player. And because we’re just so super helpful, we’ve come up with a few ideas that Rockstar can totally have for free. Read on…
New characters
Grand Theft Auto V
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The end of GTA V left our three main characters in a bit of a pickle – which is to say that any of them could be dead – but regardless of your choices, it’s definitely time for some new blood in Los Santos. GTA V was the first time Rockstar gave us three main characters at once, and Trevor, Michael and Franklin will surely be tough acts to follow, but Rockstar are experts when it comes to compelling characters so we’ve no doubt that whoever follows those three will be equally interesting. After Ubisoft announced that Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate will have a playable female protagonist, could GTA V be in line for the same treatment?
A new perspective
Remember how GTA IV’s ‘The Ballad of Gay Tony’ DLC gave us a completely new look at Liberty City? Whilst Nico Bellic was joyriding and shotgunning his way through the city’s grimy underbelly, Gay Tony let protagonist Luis chink glasses with the urban elite, as well as BASE jump off the city’s highest points. GTA V’s three characters gave us triple the perspective of Los Santos, but perhaps the upcoming DLC could see us pulling off complicated drug busts as a police officer – as in the awesome GTA V PC mod pictured above – or tracking down Los Santos’s most notorious criminals as an agent in the FIB. We’ve always wanted to play GTA from the other side of the thin blue line.
New heists please
Rockstar are experts when it comes to single player story, and whatever we get from new GTA V DLC should be an absolute blast. But if we could request one thing, it would be more heist missions. The co-ordinated bank robberies were standout moments from the original campaign, and though there were actually six of them in the game, it still felt like there could have been more, such was the satisfaction in pulling them off – the levelling system for your accomplices for instance never felt meaningful since you were only able to employ them a handful of times. In fact, the whole Heist mechanic could be expanded to let you intricately case a joint and plan your own angle of attack and escape, and perhaps even a whole network of accomplices with their own specialities.
New areas
Grand Theft Auto V
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Don’t get us wrong, the state of San Andreas is enormous, and packed full of things to do. But if you’ve been playing GTA V for nearly two years, as we have, a few new locations would go down pretty nicely thanks very much. In fact, there are a couple of points in the original campaign when we’re jetted out to other locations for the sake of the story. So, why not create a few new locations? Perhaps Los Santos could be expanded to include a few more surrounding towns, such as San Fierro and Las Venturas, the stand-ins for San Francisco and Las Vegas from 2004’s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Or Rockstar could make use of the airport and let us jet back to, dare we say, Liberty City? We’d love to see what happens in a showdown between Trevor and Niko.
Expanded property system
Grand Theft Auto V
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Building up a property empire in GTA V was great fun, but it wasn’t until GTA Online that we could actually buy our own house! A new single player mode could bring us a load more property to own, but also a whole sandbox built around protecting your businesses from petty thieves and rival moguls. If GTA V can offer digital tennis, triathlons and yoga, why not a tower defence game too? On top of that, being able to buy and decorate your own house would be great… but what if you could actually build your own house? Like Skyrim’s Hearthfire DLC, you could just nab a prime plot of suburban land, and create your own mansion as you see fit. No horse armour DLC though please.
Jetpack and PC mods
If you haven’t already seen the jetpack mod created for GTA V PC, take a look at the video above, and then try to tell us you don’t want that on PS4 and Xbox One. Jetpacks legitimately look like the most fun Los Santos has seen in a while, so why not bring them to consoles via DLC? In fact, PC modders have created plenty of great ideas, from opening up the interior of every building, to adding gravity guns and car cannons, so lets bring the best of those to PC and let everyone wage war among the clouds! Rockstar would not be the first to experiment with the option: Bethesda is bringing mods to the Xbox One version of Fallout 4, after all.
Zombies
A zombie-based expansion has been rumoured for GTA V for some time now – hardly surprising given the superb job Rockstar did on Red Dead Redemption’s ‘Undead Nightmare’ DLC. GTA V offers a whole different sort of playground for the ravenous undead horde, and zombie DLC could emulate the likes of ‘The Walking Dead’ and ‘The Last of Us’, with a story that sees the last remnants of society teaming up to survive the streets of Los Santos. That, but, you know, with more laughs. Spoiler alert: if you chose to kill any of your characters at the end of GTA V, they could come back from the dead too.
Ocean’s Eleven
Grand Theft Auto V
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This is another one that has been heavily rumoured, and we’d welcome any casino-based gambling DLC with open arms. For a start, we’d get a whole resort’s worth of gambling mini-games to fritter away our virtual fortune, but there’s a whole load of other possibilities besides. An Ocean’s Eleven-style heist of the casino would be fantastic if done in enough detail, and could be converted to GTA Online as well. Or you could buy the casino yourself, and play through a set of story missions that involve protecting your dollars from petty thieves and hardened criminals alike.
