Grand Theft Auto IV

[ThaGenecyst]

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[Kearnzo]

Re: Let's talk about... Grand Theft Auto 4

Wow. After all this new info, and these new screens, I now constantly have two games on my mind: The Show and GTA4. For some reason before, I wasn't really that excited for this, as it seemed like they took some of the fun out of it when they went next gen. I look to be completely wrong. Just the little things in this that weren't in the others, like the GPS, ability to drink, the euphoria engine, city scarring, etc. will make this game amazing.

Can't wait! I just don't know how i'll make time for both The Show and this once its out. Each year, it's either a baseball game or a GTA that take up all my time. Before, baseball season was over before GTA came out, or close, but now, i'll be amped to play a baseball game, and then a month later, will be hit by GTA4. Looks like some sick days are in line.

[ninjamonkey]

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What did you think they had taken out for next gen?

[Tomba]

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The lighting in that looks like NY at night....

man this is going to be interesting. i just hope that when you play it feels and looks very real like you're in an actual city. all photos and preview vids make it seem like that but I really hope the day to night cycle lets you free roam and just walk around

[Kearnzo]

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What did you think they had taken out for next gen?

I just had a feeling that in order to make the graphics and animations next gen, they would have to remove some of the size of the game, and thus remove some of the explorability. Obviously, they have plenty of things to do in the game however, so I was mistaken.

[Flawless]

Re: Let's talk about... Grand Theft Auto 4

• If Niko gets shot - or shoots someone - near the camera, it'll get splattered with blood.
• Niko can push people out of way. (Assassin's Creed style)
• Spunk is back.
• Liberty City includes a subway that you can use.
• Hail a cab.
• There's a new 'dashboard view' available on cars.
• You can see the lights of planes as they fly overhead.
• Niko's cell phone is on the 'badger' network.
• You can dial 911 to get a police car to steal.
• Some streets are named after strange celebrities - we noticed Jim Jones St and Hubbard Ave.
• Characters will communicate with Niko via headset in certain missions
• Niko's health is shown in a semi-circle around the radar - you can complete the circle by getting yourself a bulletproof item to wear.

• you can see a character's breath when it's cold.
• the Mafia, Triads, Jamaicans and Irish are some factions you'll meet.
• Some pedestrians will wee up walls.
• One of the radio stations advertises a cartoon called "My Drunk Uncle".
• There are missions where you'll be encouraged to kneecap your enemies.
• Strip lights flicker.
• Cluckin Bell has outlets across Liberty City.
• Shoot a tire and you hear the air escaping.
• You wear a helmet while you're riding a motorbike.
• You pay tolls on the bridges.
• Some pimped out cars have spinners on the wheels.
• You can see reflections in your wing mirrors.
• You can hear other car's stereo.

• The radio reports on missions you've just done.
• Niko's feet land on every step when you go up stairs.
• Run somebody over and you get blood on the bumpers and windscreen.
• Drivers will duck under their dashboard and try to drive away if they're caught in a gunfight.
• In a minor collisions, pedestrians can put a hand out to steady themselves against cars.
• You can see passengers in the backs of cars.
• Some billboards shuffle electronically between adverts.
• You can see cockroaches scuttling along the kitchen floor in some of the dodgier houses.
• Shoot people and the blood splatters.
• you can see car exhaust fumes.
• Bodies float off in the water.
• Drive on a flat and the tire will shred off showering sparks.

• You can shoot the chains holding logs together on flatbed trucks to spill them across the road.
• Vans belonging to the same company will honk to acknowledge each other when they pass
• Apart from picking up first-aid kits and buying food, there's apparently one other way to earn health
• Characters wear different brands of jeans and dress differently every time you see them
• Holding down the cinematic view button during chases locks the camera onto whoever you're after.

GTA IV: Reinventing a World

Grand Theft Auto IV is, its creators tell me, the biggest leap forward in experiential sandbox gaming to ever come to the franchise, larger even than the one that brought the once 2D top-down series into the third dimension.

"In many ways it's a bigger leap going from San Andreas to GTA IV than it was going from 2D to 3D," Barrera says.

That shift isn't delivered in one mighty leap, he adds, but rather in a collection of tweaks and changes made to the basic nature of the franchise.

"It was about hitting reset and reworking a bunch of things," he said. " We reworked everything from locomotion to targeting."

They did tell me that there won't be cooperative multiplayer because it wouldn't really fit in with the game's story.

'There's really only one main character, so it wouldn't fit," Barrera said.

[Holic]

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I can't take it anymore! Atleast The Show will ease the wait for GTA4...some.

[Jeffx]

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Only thing missing is snow!

[DTX3]

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My god, this game sounds like its going to set the bar for next gen gaming.

[eDotd]

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Will it have Giants fans parading around the city in 8 degree weather in replica jerseys? That would put it over the top as far as resembling NY.

[Blzer]

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Only thing missing is snow!

And a replay feature.

[SPTO]

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Reading over those features makes me DROOL!

This game is going to blow the doors off next gen gaming to the extent that everything before it will look and sound like crap. I'm one of those people that can take or leave the GTA series. I've rented past incarnations and had fun but this one sounds like i'll be playing for a LOONG time.

[ninjamonkey]

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And a replay feature.

Damn, I've been wanting that since GTA III

[poster]

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Wow the info just keeps getting better and better. Almost half way to March.

[Spectre]

Re: Let's talk about... Grand Theft Auto 4

Holy...

This game is going to be phenomenal. I'm going to do the midnight release thing for this like I did for Halo. I doubt it will have as big of a release as Halo but this game is going to sell like crazy.