6. Itll Feature RPG Elements
Again Im going back to previous sales figures here, but if you look at Rockstars most popular GTA to date San Andreas and then ask yourself why it did so well, one factor surely had to have been the RPG elements. San Andreas gave you a sense of ownership over your CJ simply by giving you access to marvellously subtle ways to customise him. You could make him fat by over-eating; muscular by hitting the weights daily or even lean by having him bike everywhere. My prediction for GTA V is that theyll look, in some way, to reintroduce these RPG elements; after all, when it was absent from GTA IV, many fans (myself included) wondered why and to where it had disappeared, felt that it represented regression as opposed to progression. Of course, conjecture is a marvellous thing, but Rockstar are wily, that you cant deny, and reintroducing these features would certainly please many returning fans. This prediction is based on simple logic. San Andreas broke their previous records; by comparison GTA IV underperformed (despite still doing extremely well of course). Why wouldnt they look to recapture some of the numbers from their number one title?