I never really understood why people thought it was going to be a sandbox game, I guess it's because idots just see the rockstar name on it and think it must be like GTA, everything I have heard about this game makes it sound like an adventure game with branching plot more like Heavy Rain than GTA.

I think the others are right, its open world but there will probably not be that much to do in the world.  you will probably just be moving through the story in this one.

Does every game have to be like GTA??

sounds fine to me.

When did this game stop being a PS3 exclusive?

I knew it wouldn't be a sandbox game because technically it isn't made by a Rockstar studio so I assumed it'd be not a sandbox right away.

I am really looking forward to this, I like story driven games like true crime, they are not exactly sandbox but they are open.

Well Midnight Club was made by R* San Diego, who are now working on Red Dead, which is probably just going to absorb the MC team

and also, one bad game made by Rockstar was Manhunt 2, but other than that, they have been pretty briliant

More on topic, I don't care. GTA IV kind of went half way towards this, but I think it is better if GTA V goes back to being a proper sandbox, and LA Noire is the more story driven game