nofriendo
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i would even doubt if that was in game footage or just prerendered of graphics engine demo. GTA games have always bored me after a couple of weeks.
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Janer
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Well we wern't going to stop
TenRabbits
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It is in-game graphics in the trailer - nothing faked - although the timelapse is speeded up footage obviously.
Apparently it looks better on the Xbox too..
Apparently it looks better on the Xbox too..
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For me its make or break for the GTA franchise although i'm sure the new one will sell buckets regardless. There needs to be big changes and innovations in the gameplay which i reckon there will.
I'm hoping rockstar are incorporating a big RPG element to it, kinda similar to what Crackdown touched on but to a much bigger and deeper extent.
edit: I just watched the trailer again, is the main character an iraqi?
I'm hoping rockstar are incorporating a big RPG element to it, kinda similar to what Crackdown touched on but to a much bigger and deeper extent.
edit: I just watched the trailer again, is the main character an iraqi?
CitySickness
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Russian.
Lefty Frizzell
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Shit.
I'd love to be an iraqi with a rocket launcher on Time Square.
God really is great.
CitySickness
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Bets on this having multiplayer? After Crackdown, I'll almost be disappointed if it doesn't.
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Also bets on a proper dash-cam view
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I'm going back to my original 'meh' comment...
New details for Grand Theft Auto IV have spilled their way onto the Internet, expanding on what we can expect when the game launches on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this October.
The game will be as significantly different as GTA III was to the previous top-down crime capers, Rockstar founder Dan Houser told Game Informer, and will offer much wider choice and freedom to the player.
As we already know from the trailer, GTA IV will take place in Liberty City (New York) in 2007, and will revolve around an Eastern European fellow. This chap, the main character, is Niko Bellic - an immigrant in search of the "American Dream".
His cousin Roman persuaded him to make the move by boasting a life of luxury, but it eventually turns out he was using this as a cover to hide his own failures. He'll be your only contact until you can find your feet, and ultimately carve out your own destiny.
One of the biggest differences in the new game will be the way you interact with other people. In previous iterations you've been at the beck and call of others, picking up your phone to receive orders. But this time around you'll be able to dial out, calling people to arrange rendezvouses and correlate your own plans. There will still be an element of following someone else's game plan, but the freedom of choice is something Rockstar is proudly standing by.
In GTA IV, four of the five boroughs of New York have been recreated for you to explore, as well as parts of New Jersey. Broker is the equivalent of Brooklyn, Manhattan is now Algonquin, Queens becomes Dukes, the Bronx is Brohan, and New Jersey transforms into Alderney.
While that doesn't give the fourth game the largest geographical playing field in the series, the level of detail and freedom should apparently more than make up for it.
We've already seen the impressive lighting effects, sumptuous skyline, and next-gen sheen from the trailer. What is less evident is the vastly enhanced AI, where NPCs will walk and talk much more convincingly, going about their daily routines around you. And apparently the game will only look better as we get closer to launch.
As with other games you can expect voice acting and an impressive array of radio stations to choose from while you're joyriding in Liberty City. However, it's unlikely we'll see Hollywood actors in the lead roles in this game, as Rockstar is making an effort to choose less well-known talent, both for voices and for the track listing.
Multiplayer is also going to be included this time around, but it isn't going to be an MMORPG. It's going to be something separate to the single-player experience that will be fun, interesting, and progressive.
Technically the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions will look and feel the same, and loading screens should be non existent after your initial entry into the world.
However, Microsoft's console will offer that exclusive downloadable content its boasted about at every opportunity, though there's still speculation as to whether the Blu-ray disc will include more to begin with.
New details for Grand Theft Auto IV have spilled their way onto the Internet, expanding on what we can expect when the game launches on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this October.
The game will be as significantly different as GTA III was to the previous top-down crime capers, Rockstar founder Dan Houser told Game Informer, and will offer much wider choice and freedom to the player.
As we already know from the trailer, GTA IV will take place in Liberty City (New York) in 2007, and will revolve around an Eastern European fellow. This chap, the main character, is Niko Bellic - an immigrant in search of the "American Dream".
His cousin Roman persuaded him to make the move by boasting a life of luxury, but it eventually turns out he was using this as a cover to hide his own failures. He'll be your only contact until you can find your feet, and ultimately carve out your own destiny.
One of the biggest differences in the new game will be the way you interact with other people. In previous iterations you've been at the beck and call of others, picking up your phone to receive orders. But this time around you'll be able to dial out, calling people to arrange rendezvouses and correlate your own plans. There will still be an element of following someone else's game plan, but the freedom of choice is something Rockstar is proudly standing by.
In GTA IV, four of the five boroughs of New York have been recreated for you to explore, as well as parts of New Jersey. Broker is the equivalent of Brooklyn, Manhattan is now Algonquin, Queens becomes Dukes, the Bronx is Brohan, and New Jersey transforms into Alderney.
While that doesn't give the fourth game the largest geographical playing field in the series, the level of detail and freedom should apparently more than make up for it.
We've already seen the impressive lighting effects, sumptuous skyline, and next-gen sheen from the trailer. What is less evident is the vastly enhanced AI, where NPCs will walk and talk much more convincingly, going about their daily routines around you. And apparently the game will only look better as we get closer to launch.
As with other games you can expect voice acting and an impressive array of radio stations to choose from while you're joyriding in Liberty City. However, it's unlikely we'll see Hollywood actors in the lead roles in this game, as Rockstar is making an effort to choose less well-known talent, both for voices and for the track listing.
Multiplayer is also going to be included this time around, but it isn't going to be an MMORPG. It's going to be something separate to the single-player experience that will be fun, interesting, and progressive.
Technically the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions will look and feel the same, and loading screens should be non existent after your initial entry into the world.
However, Microsoft's console will offer that exclusive downloadable content its boasted about at every opportunity, though there's still speculation as to whether the Blu-ray disc will include more to begin with.
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i am really not interested in this game. i liked the first few but san andreas got really boring really quickly. They need to introduce the fun that a game like crackdown had
Lefty Frizzell
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I agree. I read a very interesting article about Rockstar recently, specifically about what a cunt Dan Houser has become since GTA success and money. I wouldn't be surprised if GTA IV is the game that bursts the bubble.
CitySickness
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Give us an oul' link there.
I reckon it all depends on whether they choose to concentrate on the more cretinous elements like "give your character a new haircut" at the expense of more important stuff like, eh, not having to trek half-way around the city to restart a mission.
Also: what happened to all the rampages, Rockstar? There used to be no finer joy than legging it around trying to top up your body count with an infinite ammo rocket launcher. Ah, simple pleasures...
Lefty Frizzell
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Here ya go me aul mucksavage
http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/news/2007/03/FF_160_rockstar/
CitySickness
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Great piece, cheers. Amazing to think that people still think that a hidden minigame portraying blurry, defiantly unerotic, polygon sex is the single thing that represents ALL THAT IS WRONG WITH THE YOOF.
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CitySickness
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Difficult to draw much of a conclusion from poxy scans like those, but the attention to detail seems to be on the money.
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yeah and they could be touched up
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