With GTA IV's release looming on the horizon, it has left me wondering more about the online aspect than the single player game. GTA has always nailed the larger than life, rags to riches, criminal aspect and with the next generation of console having arrived I expect something special from GTA IV other than a larger play area and radically overhauled graphics.

This has left me wondering mostly about what form the online aspect of GTA might take. For this release to be something truly special its needs a strong single player story and a fully fledged online play mode. The online side of things could be awesome, just think if you could start your own gang, or join a gang and go on a campaign to outclass or outnumber a rival gang. It could be very special, and would need to be something more than say a one hour campaign, how about lasting gangs that people join and stick with until their character is dead, where you can formulate trusts with other gangs, or find someone who can supply select items, all the time these being real people.

These are things I would love to see and the scale of which may just be too much this time around, but if the online mode was even close to some of the things I have suggested it would be fantastic. The online mode has been kept very much under wraps at present, soon we will see exactly what Rockstar have in store for us with GTA IV and if some of the previews I have been reading are anything to go by then it may well be the best GTA game yet.

I do wonder what other possibilities Rockstar may have in the pipeline for GTA?

Regards
Bazza T