Rockstar Games today announced that Grand Theft Auto Online is getting a brand new mode called Capture. This is an addition to the many team-based modes already available in GTAV and will go live as part of the latest free automatic update on both Playstation Network and Xbox Live. This will offer 20 new jobs across four different modes, all of which are takes on the classic Capture The Flag multiplayer modes of other games. These jobs are accessible in Freemode and definitely sound a lot more exciting than the races and deathmatches you're used to playing.
For my money, Online is where the latest Grand Theft Auto really begins to shine. The single-player campaign is beautifully done but even with the innovations of the three main characters you're still playing through the same experience that we've been doing over and over since GTA3., a sequence of jobs and sidemissions that just gets exhausting after so many hours. When you talk to a friend about your experiences with the game it's very rarely the embedded narrative of the story that you mention. After all, no matter how well put together and surprising, a scripted story is just that. It's when the game goes off in unexpected and delightfully crazy ways that you really have fun with the game, and a game full of car chases has plenty of opportunities for that. Playing with a group of friends online only increases the chances of hysterical events occuring. After all, with more people there's more things that can go wrong.
Hopefully Capture will give us more opportunities to experience these kinds of events. Here's the full list of games modes you can expect to hit today as part of GTA: Online's title update. As previously reported it will also contain a whole host of fixes and improvements to the service. See you online.
RAID
In Raid, you'll have to fight your way into your opponents' base and steal a package, then deliver it back to your base to score points. Reach the target score, or deliver more packages than your opponents do in the allotted time to win the match.
HOLD
When playing Hold, teams must collect and store as many packages as possible in their base. Packages can either be found on the map, or stolen from the opposing team's bases. Reach the target score, or hold the most packages when the time runs out, to win.
GTA
As the ubiquitous acronym might suggest, GTA mode tasks players with stealing target vehicles located all around the map, before bringing them back to their respective bases. Each team must fight to steal more vehicles in the allotted time than their opponents.
CONTEND
In Contend, there's only one package, situated in the middle of the map. Teams must fight to bring this package back to their respective bases, and once the package is captured it respawns in the middle of the map and is up for grabs again.
