[Concept] Grand Theft Auto: British Blood

[DaltonWilliams123]

Creator Note

Before I start this I am going to say a few things. Graphical images are nice to have in a concept thread but it is not my priority so these will be added gradually. I am not going to take note of any people who criticise this concept just because they wouldn't like GTA in the UK. Working with real place names at the moment, might create fictional names if you really want me to.

 

Introduction

GTA: British Blood has three protagonists, all from a different part of the United Kingdom. The game is set in London and some of Kent, South Wales (Cardiff and Swansea) with some of the surrounding area and Edinburgh with the surrounding area. Each character will start out in their home area but will come across each other in their business and eventually work together. Equal amount of missions will be in each place with side missions and activities available in all areas.

 

Protagonists

 

Name: Steve Daley

Age: 24

Description: Born and raised in the East End of London. Got arrested for stealing a car at 12 years old. His mother and father were killed in a car crash while he was 15. Taken in by his friends after his granddad got tired of the drug dealing he took part in. Works in a Chop Shop for a living.

 

Name: Gareth Bowen

Age: 18

Description: Born in Swansea, moved to Cardiff for university purposes at 17. Got kicked out at 18 due to being framed for drug dealing on campus grounds. Goes to living with parents again and works as an employee in a local shop fighting for business with another couple of small stores.

 

Name: Scott McCraven

Age: 32

Description: Scottish man born in Edinburgh. Retired from the military after thinking that he had more to life than shooting terrorists for a living. Was not the most obedient soldier, got given disciplinary action for disrespect and misbehaviour 10 times while out on his tours of duty. Now has no job with money running out fast.

 

Activities

The activities in this game will be based on what people from the United Kingdom do in their spare time. Some things that American's do will also remain. Colour of the text shows which characters can do the activity.

 

Drinking - Various bars and nightclubs will sell different drinks. Each bar/nightclub has 3 tiers of drink. Level 1 will give the screen a slight blur and the character will walk normally. Level 2 will give the screen a medium blur and the character will stumble around a bit. Level 3 will have the screen almost impossible to see and the character will be falling even on the slowest walking you can do. Each level lasts a different time with 1 the shortest and 3 the longest.

 

8 Ball Pool - Pool tables can be found in most of the bars/pubs in the game. Each protagonist has the option to buy one for their safehouse's. When interacting with a pool table, you have the option of 1 frame, 3 frame and 5 frame matches. The player will get a pool cue as a melee weapon after a game has finished. Players can buy different cues at sport shops.

 

Pub Darts - Dart boards can be found in a lot of bars/pubs in the game (though not as common as Pool Tables). Each protagonist can buy one for their safehouse's. When interacting with a Dart Board, you have the option of 301 or 501 games with either 1 game, 3 games or 5 games. Players can purchase new sets of darts with different abilities at sport shops.

 

Betting Shops - Betting shops have three different ways to gamble. There horse racing which can be done at any time in between 10:00 and 17:00 hours. There are slot machines which can be done at any time of day, each shop has different machines. There is also Football/Soccer score betting which can only be done on Saturday or Sunday in between 12:00 and 17:00.

 

Restaurants - Can be used to eat food on your own or with friends. Food will replenish your health. Can steal a knife from these as a weapon which may result in a wanted level, can also kill the chef in the kitchen for a meat cleaver although other chefs will attack you with them. Three levels of meal. Level 1 will refill 1/3 of health, Level 2 refills 2/3 and Level 3 refills 3/3.

 

Soccer Scene - Steve or Gareth can get involved in the Football/Soccer scene by playing a 5 vs 5 game once a week for the team they have joined. Scouts will notice their talents after taking part in some of the soccer scenarios such as "Can you take over for our injured player" or taking part in training sessions. There are different leagues and they can get paid for playing for a team. They can also play a kick-about game with friends. If they wants to watch a game of football in a stadium, it can be done.

 

Tennis - Steve or Scott can play Tennis in various places such as in sports centres, outdoor tennis courts and indoor tennis courts. Sports shops can be used to buy racquets with special abilities. Tennis courts can be built on the grounds of some safehouse's. When interacting with a Tennis court, there are options for 1 game, 3 game and 5 game matches. There are many levels of opponent and some tournaments can be given to the player by email or Lifeinvader. After playing a game of tennis you get a racquet as a melee weapon.

 

Golf/Mini-Golf - Golf can be played from the 3 golf courses in the game and the various other miniature golf courses that you will find in fairs or seaside piers. Sports shops can be used to purchase clubs with abilities to help out on the course and also golf balls that have a cosmetic difference. A putting/chipping green can be built on any of the land on a safehouse property as well as a mini golf course.

 

Weapons

This is a list of weapons. As said in the notes at the top of this page, graphical images will be coming later on which means that the pictures to these will have wait a while. Key - Melee Pistols Sub - Machine Guns Shotguns

 

Unarmed - Available all of the time.

Knife - Can be found on members of street gangs. Can be taken from restaurants and fast food outlets.

Pool Cue - Given one after a win in a game of pool. Available for purchase in sport shops.

Tennis Racquet - Given one after a win in a game of tennis. Available for purchase in sport shops.

Meat Cleaver - Given to the player after entering a "Meat Man" delivery vehicle. Used by chefs.

Smashed Bottle - Found in bins around bars and nightclubs.

Chainsaw - Found in construction yards and from the Hardware store.

Screwdriver - See Chainsaw.

Sledgehammer - See Chainsaw.

Cricket Bat - Can be found in sports shops and in the grounds of a cricket club.

 

9mm - Can be found in some street gangsters. Can buy it in Gun Shops around the UK.

Desert Eagle - Can be found in the Underground gun dealer. Police officers carry it.

Stun Gun - Police officers carry this weapon. Buy it from the Sports shop. Automatically get it from marked police vehicles.

Auto Pistol - Available from Underground gun dealer. Some gangsters may have it.

 

Micro SMG - Many gangsters will have this weapon. Available from Gun Shops around the UK.

SMG - Found in the Underground gun dealer shop. One is given to the player after entering a Stockade.

 

Pump Shotgun - Police officers use these on the player at 2 stars. Given to the player if entering a Police vehicle.

Sawn Off Shotgun - Found on the grounds of farms. Members of some biker gangs have them. Gun shops have them.

Auto Shotgun - Found in Underground gun dealers.

 

 

 

More coming soon...

Edited October 6, 2014 by DaltonWilliams123

[Onett]

Meh. I would set it in the North West, really.

[universetwisters]

I'm not sure how Wales & Scotland count as "British" blood.

[ADropInTheOcean]

Hard to judge the quality of your concept when you have so little about it

 

Even so, I'm digging the characters, which is a good start.

[DaltonWilliams123]

I'm not sure how Wales & Scotland count as "British" blood.

 

Wales and Scotland are part of the British Isles/ United Kingdom. That is like saying LA doesn't count as America. Thank you for your opinions guys. I will try to update this as much as I can.

[universetwisters]

 

I'm not sure how Wales & Scotland count as "British" blood.

 

Wales and Scotland are part of the British Isles/ United Kingdom. That is like saying LA doesn't count as America. Thank you for your opinions guys. I will try to update this as much as I can.

 

 

I get that they're part of the United Kingdom, but seeing as the term "British" usually pertains to something relating to England (at least over here), you could rename it to "United Kingdom Blood" or whatever floats your boat.

[Onett]

 

 

I'm not sure how Wales & Scotland count as "British" blood.

 

Wales and Scotland are part of the British Isles/ United Kingdom. That is like saying LA doesn't count as America. Thank you for your opinions guys. I will try to update this as much as I can.

 

I get that they're part of the United Kingdom, but seeing as the term "British" usually pertains to something relating to England (at least over here), you could rename it to "United Kingdom Blood" or whatever floats your boat.

Well, he shouldn't have to. England is England, Scotland is Scotland etc..

[ClaudX]

 

 

I'm not sure how Wales & Scotland count as "British" blood.

 

Wales and Scotland are part of the British Isles/ United Kingdom. That is like saying LA doesn't count as America. Thank you for your opinions guys. I will try to update this as much as I can.

 

 

I get that they're part of the United Kingdom, but seeing as the term "British" usually pertains to something relating to England (at least over here), you could rename it to "United Kingdom Blood" or whatever floats your boat.

 

"United Kingdom Blood" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

[universetwisters]

 

 

 

I'm not sure how Wales & Scotland count as "British" blood.

Wales and Scotland are part of the British Isles/ United Kingdom. That is like saying LA doesn't count as America. Thank you for your opinions guys. I will try to update this as much as I can.

I get that they're part of the United Kingdom, but seeing as the term "British" usually pertains to something relating to England (at least over here), you could rename it to "United Kingdom Blood" or whatever floats your boat.

Well, he shouldn't have to. England is England, Scotland is Scotland etc..

 

 

Lordy.

 

Lots of folks I know usually use "British" as an umbrella term for England. If he wants to keep it that's fine, I'm just giving my two cents for a concept thread that's so far just some characters and activities.

[ClaudX]

Just a suggestion, but I'd change the activities colors to just one color. It's hard on the eyes, especially the green. The blue is also sort of difficult to see.

[DaltonWilliams123]

Just a suggestion, but I'd change the activities colors to just one color. It's hard on the eyes, especially the green. The blue is also sort of difficult to see.

 

I think I will do that, have you another way of easily differentiating who can do what?

[Severe]

 

 

 

 

I'm not sure how Wales & Scotland count as "British" blood.

Wales and Scotland are part of the British Isles/ United Kingdom. That is like saying LA doesn't count as America. Thank you for your opinions guys. I will try to update this as much as I can.

I get that they're part of the United Kingdom, but seeing as the term "British" usually pertains to something relating to England (at least over here), you could rename it to "United Kingdom Blood" or whatever floats your boat.

Well, he shouldn't have to. England is England, Scotland is Scotland etc..

 

 

Lordy.

 

Lots of folks I know usually use "British" as an umbrella term for England. If he wants to keep it that's fine, I'm just giving my two cents for a concept thread that's so far just some characters and activities.

 

Well, they're wrong, but who to call British is a little difficult.

British could be used for anyone from any of the British Isles and that technically includes Ireland (Although I'd not recommend saying this to any Irishman).

Great Britain is the larger of the islands, counting England, Wales and Scotland. They're definitely all British.

The United Kingdom is Great Britain and Northern Ireland and calling someone British in the latter location could be bit of a gamble. It's still technically correct and the army of the UK is called the British Army and has servicemembers from Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland.

Technically, the Falklands and Gibraltar are also part of the UK, but people from those places are not (necessarily) British (depending on their heritage, I guess).

 

In short; British Blood is fine.

Pedant-mode:

And it's not really an umbrella-term, if it's used to denote one thing, is it? Umbrella-term would mean that it coveres several different things - like how British can be used to cover people from any of the British Isles.

 

NOW, as for the actual concept:

Very bare-bones, you really should've put in a lot more work before posting.

Also, regarding Scott: How is one 'bought out' of the military? And why? Also, I can assure you, no one would get court martialed (not marshalled) 15 times and still be in the military. Furthermore, disrespect and misbehaviour (or insubordinance, as it would probably be called) doesn't warrant a court martial, but is dealt with differently.

[DaltonWilliams123]

 

 

 

 

 

I'm not sure how Wales & Scotland count as "British" blood.

Wales and Scotland are part of the British Isles/ United Kingdom. That is like saying LA doesn't count as America. Thank you for your opinions guys. I will try to update this as much as I can.

I get that they're part of the United Kingdom, but seeing as the term "British" usually pertains to something relating to England (at least over here), you could rename it to "United Kingdom Blood" or whatever floats your boat.

Well, he shouldn't have to. England is England, Scotland is Scotland etc..

 

 

Lordy.

 

Lots of folks I know usually use "British" as an umbrella term for England. If he wants to keep it that's fine, I'm just giving my two cents for a concept thread that's so far just some characters and activities.

 

Well, they're wrong, but who to call British is a little difficult.

British could be used for anyone from any of the British Isles and that technically includes Ireland (Although I'd not recommend saying this to any Irishman).

Great Britain is the larger of the islands, counting England, Wales and Scotland. They're definitely all British.

The United Kingdom is Great Britain and Northern Ireland and calling someone British in the latter location could be bit of a gamble. It's still technically correct and the army of the UK is called the British Army and has servicemembers from Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland.

Technically, the Falklands and Gibraltar are also part of the UK, but people from those places are not (necessarily) British (depending on their heritage, I guess).

 

In short; British Blood is fine.

Pedant-mode:

And it's not really an umbrella-term, if it's used to denote one thing, is it? Umbrella-term would mean that it coveres several different things - like how British can be used to cover people from any of the British Isles.

 

NOW, as for the actual concept:

Very bare-bones, you really should've put in a lot more work before posting.

Also, regarding Scott: How is one 'bought out' of the military? And why? Also, I can assure you, no one would get court martialed (not marshalled) 15 times and still be in the military. Furthermore, disrespect and misbehaviour (or insubordinance, as it would probably be called) doesn't warrant a court martial, but is dealt with differently.

 

 

I will do some research into a few things in your reply. Thank you for the feedback. There are a few things in Scott's profile that need to be addressed which I will do.

[ClaudX]

 

Just a suggestion, but I'd change the activities colors to just one color. It's hard on the eyes, especially the green. The blue is also sort of difficult to see.

 

I think I will do that, have you another way of easily differentiating who can do what?

 

I have two ways that may help.

One, you simply state it in the description ,like, "Drinking-Drinking can be done by all protagonists." "Darts-Darts can only be played by..." So on and so forth.

Two, you could split the activities into different sections, one for each of the three protags and then another for activities that all can do. See:

All Protagonists

Drinking-.........

Steve

Darts....

Gareth

Bowling......

[universetwisters]

The new description you gave for Scott is better and stuff IMHO from what you had before. I'm interested in which British bands you're gonna have on it and stuff

[Sasuke Uzumaki]

I really like how you're creating the activities to have a lot more depth than they usually have. Being able to play in a football league is an amazing idea. Good luck on the road to making this!

[DaltonWilliams123]

Fixed the colours of the activities. Do you guys think that the coloured text for the weapons is ok? I have finished Sub-Machine Guns and done some of Shotguns.

[ClaudX]

Fixed the colours of the activities. Do you guys think that the coloured text for the weapons is ok? I have finished Sub-Machine Guns and done some of Shotguns.

Yup. The colors are fine by me.

[DaltonWilliams123]

Going to be updating at the weekend. I have a lot on at school this week.

[ocd]

What police officer carries a Desert Eagle?

[matajuegos01]

What police officer carries a Desert Eagle?

a badass one, like the ones in london

[Tyla]

I'd get rid of the coloured text. They're a pain in the arse to read.

 

There's a few things that gripe me:

 

No British cop uses a Desert Eagle. Actually, who even carries a Desert Eagle as any kind of sidearm anyway? They are tat. Have them carry Glocks and SMGs as actual police do. Gun shops -- not needed, stick with the underground dealers and blokes who will sell to you in pub car parks. No UK shop is legally going to sell you a machine gun over a counter, no matter how much you want to appeal to an American audience.

 

Activities -- tennis and bookie shops are nice and all, where's the cage fighting and burglary? There's a total lack of any criminal side activities. Give me those over GTA + Fifa, cool as it sounds.

 

Keep working at it. I want to see more UK GTA ideas around these forums.

[AndyC-M]

i dont really see the point of using all 3 countries, especially considering gangster life in all 3 countries are different, although again, gangster life between the south east and the north west of england are both different as well, you would have problems getting the voices of the characters right

 

how about dropping their footballing and add the 'english cancer' that is football hooliganism? nobody is brave enough currently to subject on that

Edited October 13, 2014 by AndyC-M

[universetwisters]

how about dropping their footballing and add the 'english cancer' that is football hooliganism? nobody is brave enough currently to subject on that

I believe Tyla's old concept set in London did that and handled it quite nicely. But yeah, I'd do that and take into consideration what Tyla said.

[Tyla]

That I did. And this concept with the larger map, football hooliganism would be a perfect side mission. Think of it like Gang Wars only restricted to melee weapons.

[AndyC-M]

that would be fun, using things like a chelsea kiss (also known as a glasgow kiss) or lobbing house bricks, and introducing stanley to the argument...