[kupoartist]

Well, story-wise the possibilities are endless and i'm sure they can get something out that's just as good... Otherwise, my guess on a GTA4 will be that it is simply a better looking game. Graphics wise, the series needs an overhaul. New areas of Eye-Candy are just over the horizon (like, one week over the horizon), when games are going to start shipping with realistic and dynamic facial expressions, software shaders (think textures that are nearing the stuff in Pixar films), massively complex lighting, dynamic shadows and all the rest of it.

Beyond that... well, It seems that San Andreas put in a hell of a lot of new features, which makes it hard to top really. The only new thing I could imagine is the use of realistic physics. That seems to be very much in vogue right now... That and a new approach to AI, where entities on screen are a lot more random in their actions and interact with the environment a lot more. The only problem with all this, is that GTA's appeal at the moment is it's doing a lot of things that aren't available elsewhere - these things are very popular. Yet, I'm sure they'll come up with something - never underestimate what new designs are waiting around the corner. If we could think them up just like that, they'd already be in every game that's due soon.

An online GTA doesn't sound like that good an idea to me... it doesn't really make sense... However, putting the ability to steal cars into other types of MMO game would be a good idea.