Multiplayer in GTA?

[Lord Nepenthean]

I was discussing this with a couple friends the other night.  Would online multiplayer work in the GTA series? Personally, I can't think of a way that it would.  It seems to me that there would just be utter chaos and that the whole Grand Theft Auto play mechanic would be destroyed.  It'd be a completely different kind of game...  more like online State of Emergency with cars.  (Shudder.)  None of us could think of a way that Grand Theft Auto would work online and still play like Grand Theft Auto.  Can any of you?  I'd honestly rather see the series stay just how it is: single player, but these friends of mine think online multiplayer GTA would be awesome.

[Zimbacca]

i don't think it would either. how would you be able to do the missions and shit?

[thx1138]

Missions aside, it wouldn't work, because people would set out to wreck it.

You'd never get anywhere in a car, as some loser would always shoot you from up high, groups of players would stake out their turf and shoot everyone else etc etc

the whole concept of a mostly driving game would be lost.

[Arrrhalomynn]

Part one and two of the series could be played online and it was supposedly pretty good. Part 3 and Vice City are quite different of course, but I'm sure Rockstar would know how to make a good multiplayer game.
They could always change the gameplay slightly. Just look at games like Splinter Cell, the multiplayer in that game is quite different from the single player.

[thx1138]

yeah, okay, if you took the city enviroment, and the cars, and then changed the rules, a lot, it might work.

[Sureshot]

You can play GTA3 & GTA:VC online via mods, but it's stunt & race type affairs rather than doing missions.  I'm not entirely sure how well co-op would work, they'd have to make quite a few changes.

[Geondp]

There is a mod for the pc ver (vice city i think) that lets you do mp, tho im prdy sure its all PvP
http://www.mtavc.com/downloads.php?ordner_id=2

[Lord Nepenthean]

Yeah I've heard about that mod but never played it.  I think it is just PvP though, like you said.  To me, that just wouldn't work as a GTA game.  After a while, it'd just turn into Vigilante 8 meets State of Emergency.  Yuck.

[Boshamp]

I am not entirely sure exactly when GTA Online officially became a thing, but the fact that this discussion took place at least a decade prior to it becoming a reality is pretty amazing.

[shaggy]