GTA 3/Vice City/San Andreas Players: Don't you think GTA is like an RPG?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

Your player goes on "quests" given by other players at various sites, and accumulates money, experience, and better weapons and armor. The only difference is that the various levels of criminality don't confer extra ability and armor.

It would be rather cool if you could go on multiplayer runs, with a driver, "soldier" characters, sneaky recon characters.

[Ravenseye]

1. Nah I don't think so

Was Tomb Raider an RPG? How bout Resident Evil.

GTA is more open, but in essence it's a platform shooter / Driving game. Instead of going level to level though the whole thing is open.

RPG's usually consist of characters that you develop over the course of a game, in the same sense that tabletop D&D games are RPG's. You take one or multiple characters and develop them over time.

After that it's pretty simliar to GTA.

Now if GTA allowed you to create a character with stats, you'd level up and be able to take bigger baddies then maybe.

Thing is that you pretty much stay the same. Sure you get more money and more weapons, but essentially there isn't a scenario late in the game that you couldn't fullfill with the starting character.

You need that character development for it to truly be an RPG in my mind.

But i love GTA and RPG's as well.

[7th_Sephiroth]

2. Resident Evil

Biohazzard in japan, is a cinematic RPG

[bvar22]

3. I'm hopeful that GTA 4

will go there.
It would be a natural evolution (or Intelligent Design. whatever!)

I see HalfLife evolving in that direction also.

However, Doom is doomed.

[DrWeird]

4. It transcends RPGs.

There is multiplayer in SA, fyi.

[DrGonzoLives]

5. No

San Andreas more than the others, but I don't get the feel of an RPG from it.

And it is criminal that Fernando is not on any of the San Andreas radio stations.