My wishlist:
- Official mod support from devs
- Clothing customization making use of multiple layers like SR2 - undershirt, overshirt, coats etc...
- More clothing in general with less crap
- Fleshed out character body sliders, muscle/fat on separate sliders, change specific areas of body rather than global slider
- More hairstyles, especially for females
- Better car/bike sounds (something that both SR and GTA suck at), I want real sounds not synthetic ones
- Better gun sounds - again real sounds (watch the movie HEAT bank scene and you know what I mean)
- Official in car first person view with HD interior and working dials (maybe that would be a HUD option)
- First person shooting? (not too bothered but would be nice at times)
- Longer story, minus the "padding" missions (side missions)
Strongholds/Houses: I would like to see more meaningful strongholds, SR3 had a tonne of them but who cares? I would much prefer only 1 stronghold and a few houses (yes a distinction between the two) and be able to *customize* it not just upgrade it. Then have enemy gangs assault your strongholds and you can have a massive battles inside them.
Improved gang control: I want to tell gang followers to wait, move to position, attack position, attack specific person/object, wait inside car etc. Perhaps hold a button over object/position and it would give you a wheel to select orders from. I want to order them to drive me places or patrol an area in a car so I can jump in the back seat and shoot stuff or even use the gatling gun on vehicles that have them.
Also I want to be able to organize my gang properly; put these 6 guys in a specific squad and assign them this specific vehicle (from MY garage vehicle selection) and then add them onto the phone as an option to call in. The same would apply for other vehicles, I want to be able to call in a chopper full of gang members and see them get dropped off and the helicopter fly off back to the base.
Being able to have more than 3 followers at a time is also high on my wishlist. I want to have massive raging street battles between huge gangs, with reinforcements and special vehicles/abilities being called in on both sides. Call in one of your attack helicopters you have in garage and get your pilot to perform a strafing run of area/location.
More atmospheric gun battles: By this I mean a combination of drawing fights out longer, improved gun sounds (HEAT) and environmental sounds (bullet snaps, ricochets, glass shattering) being clearer and much more intense. Also vehicles shouldn't blow up simply because they get shot in the door or something, they need to last longer in general and only blow up if they get shot in a particular area (and make the chance low).