JGalligan
Footballguy
Basically, co-op is a 16-player massively open-world GTA playground. You can do pretty much everything you've been reading about us doing in single-player, albeit with co-op play. A la, you can team up with a friend for a fast-paced, dangerously frantic ride to... the golf course for a quick game on the back nine. Alternatively, you can team up with an entire crew of your friends to pull off your own online heists and/or complete other missions tailor-made for the online experience.
I think the most amazing aspect of the entire online experience -- at least in regards to how well Rockstar Games meticulously planned and then coded out this game -- is that in your online world, you can be chilling inside your safe house, feet up on your coffee table on the couch, watching TV. Turn on the special live breaking news TV channel and you can watch, in real-time, as your friend half the online world away makes a frantic dash to escape from police along with his four-star wanted level. You could even get your lazy ### off the couch and try and go find (and subsequently help) him if you wish.
All of the offline staples of the game like the stock market and real estate system also will be making the switch to online play. The stock market, however, is going to be much more realistic and dynamic. While sometimes it's a bit hard to directly effect the stock market all by yourself in the offline version of the game, it can still be done if you've got enough determination -- so just imagine how much the market is going to swing back and forth on -- IIRC -- somewhere between 60-80+ different individualized stocks, but with SIXTEEN anarchic mofos going to town to tear up the status-quo.
Throw in the fact that you can also dive into your standard 2, 4, 8 or 16 player deathmatch -- in addition to there being an online creator tool so that players can literally create their own game types, missions and deathmatch locales/settings, and it's really just frigging awe-inspiring. Even if Rockstar Games hadn't even bothered to do an online component to the game and just gave us the amazing, nearly-damn-flawless experience of the offline version, it'd still be an accomplishment among the likes the video game industry has never seen before. But this online version? It's just straight off the chain, homes.
Oh, I almost forgot. They're also going to be evolving the online portion of the game so that it will be its own entity down the road the further away we get from the initial GTA5 launch. Mainly in that they're going to be creating new settings, missions, storylines and gameplay mechanics completely independent and separate from the GTA5 universe. Think the GTA4 expansion packs -- The Lost and the Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony -- but online and probably much better.
You can also completely customize your own online character complete with a backstory and your choice of one of thousands of different crews to roll with (we're in the process, hopefully, of hammering out the details to create our own FBG/FFA crew to unleash upon the GTA: Online world -- the airliner industry is hereby put on full alert).
I'll stop trying to hard sell it on you now. I think the reactions and comments from everyone in this thread themselves are more than enough to convince you that this game is most certainly worth your while. I mean, all the cool kids are doing it. And they're not doing it just because everyone else is doing it, they're doing it because it's so frigging fun it almost hurts when you're not playing it.
Lastly, you should be able to go to Gamestop in the next few days/weeks and buy a used version of the game for probably around $50ish dollars. Alternatively, if you have any games you don't play or don't really like very much, you can trade these in at Gamestop and they'll give you -- usually a laughably, almost criminally low offer, but still credit nonetheless -- towards any new purchases. And if you don't have any games yourself, just find one of your friends or family members that do and ask to "borrow" some of their relatively older titles in the hopes they'll forget you borrowed them and you won't have to eventually explain to them that you accidentally traded them in at Gametop to get your GTA5 fix.
But yeah, either way, Gamestop is probably your best bet -- at least if you want to get your fix on relatively soon.
And trust me, sir, you definitely want to get your fix in on this shizzle as soon as humanly possible. The best of luck to you!
TL;DR: Online version of game is like online version, but with more crack. Check Gamestop in the next few days for the early traded-in used copies of GTA5, probably around the $50ish price tag. Feel free to steal your friends or families games to trade-in to Gamestop towards your purchase of GTA5 as well.
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