Have you already seen GTA 5 in action? And will it be co-op?

There’s an interesting story over at sticktwiddlers.com where they report that an ‘industry professional’ tipped them off to a former animator who used to work for Sony, and is now at RockStar.

Jim Jagger was a former principle animator at Sony London who’s been lead animator on a ‘TBA’ project at Rockstar North since 2009. You know, the year after GTA IV came out, meaning there’s a big chance he’s was hired to work on GTA V. He mentions ‘involvement’ with LA Noire but that’s not secret. Plus he’s based in Rockstar’s Edinburgh mothership.

While at Sony Jim worked on Eight Days, a cover-based shooter with a combat mechanic very similar to GTA IV. It’s not much of a reach then to expect a similar look and feel to the cancelled PS3 shooter. It was also a co-op adventure involving a lot of interplay between the two characters during gunfights – throwing each other guns, passing each other against walls (cut to about 3m30s in the second video below). Is he doing something similar in GTA5? There’s one other thing to consider, Jim’s got a lot of PS3 experience too. I’m just going to whisper ‘lead platform’ and run…