The game will take place in North America and South American, currently under the codename "Project Americas", for the next generation systems. It will include 3-4 major cities:
- Vice City / Everglades
- Havana, Cuba
- Somewhere in Panama / Brazil / Columbia -- These parts of the map are still under development.
Vice City will serve as the major focus but we may not start out there. All the cities/islands outside the US will be named by their real names. As far as the map size, I am not sure how much bigger it will be to GTA5, but the map will be very spread out. So it will "feel" bigger. From what I've been told "the cities will have depth as oppose to scale". Meaning more enterable buildings and interactability. And each city will be separated by large distances of water. I'm assuming we'll likely be able to fast travel, but on your own it will take you 10-15 minutes to fly to each city across the map. I thought that was interesting.
The game is in very early stages of development, and not much is known about the story. But it will span over multiple decades (70s, late 80s, and Present day) and will revolve around a drug smuggler named Kacey. There's been a rumor that time will progress through the game as you play it. So each "chapter" will be set in the 70s, or 80s, and as you play through the mission... songs will change, buildings will become closed, cars and characters will decay with time. This was concluded by my source because cars that predate 2000 are being designed in multiple "stages" to mimic the progression of time. And there's A LOT of vehicles being made that predate present day. At the moment, almost 70% are before 2020. 30% are present day.
Weather is being modeling to create category 4-5 hurricanes. Hurricane Heist?
There is a HUGE prison in the game, possibly a variant of Guantanamo Bay. I have zero info on story, but due to the sheer size and interactability, I would expect the prison will play a major chapter in the game. Break out missions?
Drones are being modeled in the game