GTA IV - SPOILER THREAD!!

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ThomasGOAL said:
A travel to Vice City, priceless, master card

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Wow, I wonder if that's just a poster or a feature...!

El Diego said:
I seem to be the only person in the world who gets bored with GTA after a few days of playing!
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To quote myself from page four of this thread:

Jack Bauer said:
I always get the latest GTA and stop playing it after a month... Been there, done that, shouted "motherfucker" and shot them in the face. Next please...
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And tiktiktiktik says a few posts above that he didn't make it to the second and third cities (neither did I) due to boredom. So you're not alone...
 
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Yay! It's defo a game for kids. It's always my 11 year old brother's favourite game. I rent it just to keep him occupied at summer holidays.
 
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Game for kids.. don't make me laugh. Jack, the 2nd and 3rd islands were the best bits of SA!
 
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Just watched it again but with sound. It actually makes it seem like the "things differently" comment is more of a positive, like now he's going to combat prostitution/peoplesmuggle/etc. Setting the city free from crime through violence? That doesnt really make sense, but you know what i mean. He's going to go after the bad guys as a vigelante.
 
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Noted said:
Jack, the 2nd and 3rd islands were the best bits of SA!
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Well after seeing the trailer, I have to admit I've been in the mood for playing it again. I'll dig it out when I get home!

tiktiktiktik said:
Just watched it again but with sound. It actually makes it seem like the "things differently" comment is more of a positive, like now he's going to combat prostitution/peoplesmuggle/etc. Setting the city free from crime through violence? That doesnt really make sense, but you know what i mean. He's going to go after the bad guys as a vigelante.
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I would love the game if it were like that...!
 
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A lot of the humour is a bit adult orientated...I mean, you'll appreciate Vice City more if you've watched Scarface and lived a bit through the 80s.

Kids are gonna buy it. Some kids these days smoke and drink even though they shouldn't be - but it doesn't make them products be for kids does it?

oh btw, playing GTA on the european PS3 looks rubbish :(
 
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First GTA IV Preview Announced

Quickly on the heels of yesterday's trailer announcement, Game Informer magazine has announced a world exclusive GTA4 preview in their May issue. The may issue will be reaching subscribers next month, and we'll have the information up once we get it.

A few things to bear in mind. Game Informer was the same magazine that had a world exclusive preview of GTA San Andreas (our reporting), way back in June of 2004. That preview was 10 pages long and included a lot of new screenshots. We are expecting nothing less this time around.


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http://www.gta4.net/news/index.php

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Some very good observations here (from CVG) http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=161126


The internet was grinded to a halt last night by the arrival of the first massive trailer of this year's biggest game, the legendary fourth instalment of Grand Theft Auto. Hit this link and download it now, in case you've just woken up.
After pushing our office hours to the very limit and wrestling with old Captain Bandwidth to get at the biggest video size possible, we've dissected to the GTA IV trailer thoroughly and picked out all of its little secrets you may have missed the first time around.

So magnifying glass in hand, here's what we've discovered...


It's Liberty City!

Despite internet reports claiming otherwise, GTA IV is indeed set (at least partially) in Liberty City - or more likely Liberty State, the area beyond Liberty City. If you're still not convinced, you can see the words 'Liberty City' plastered on a docked tanker in the trailer, a ferry and of course there's also a glimpse of the 'LCPD' patrolling the GTA IV streets.
As you can see from the comparison screenshots at the bottom of the page, the layout of GTA IV's Liberty City seems to resemble we remember from the PS2 - though obviously there's a whole lot of extra detail washed onto the streets.
As for what's beyond the walls of the famous GTA III locale, the trailer confirms GTA versions of the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty and a fun park including rollercoaster, which were all missing from the PS2 instalment.


The time setting

While there's already plenty of debate over what time setting the next game takes place in, there are plenty of cues in the trailer to suggest a modern day setting for GTA IV.
The vehicles in the trailer all look pretty 2007 to us - including a BMW look-a-like and a sports car that has a very post-2000 design. There are also plenty of advertisements plastered around Liberty City that also cropped-up in the 90s-set GTA III, including Burger Shot and Cluckin' Bell.


Is that really the main Character?

The narrator in the trailer is a Russian character whose background seems to revolve around murder, smuggling and erm, selling people. The internet is already shouting from the electronic rooftops that this Eastern European chap will be the main protagonist in GTA IV, but really the trailer confirms nothing of the sort.
What it does confirms is that the story will somehow bring Eastern Europeans into the equations, which leads us to wonder what's happened to the Leone kingpins from GTA III.


Hit the water

Multiple-viewings make the GTA IV trailer's emphasis on water-based travel even more apparent; there are shots of bridges, ferry ports, a dock and some of the prettiest water effects we've seen to date in a sandbox game.
A realistically floating buoy 16 seconds in seems to suggest dynamic water physics for the fourth instalment, and of course you can see the gorgeous refraction effects later on in the trailer. A spot of boating for GTA IV seems a near-cert then, but - for as much as we hope - we just can't see jet-skiing going down in the Liberty City harbour.


Cast Your RAGE

As has always been heavily assumed, the next GTA ditches Renderware to make use of the graphically-spectacular Table Tennis RAGE engine (Rockstar Advanced Game Engine).
The confirmation comes from a Rockstar representative who told Gamespot: "We can confirm that all footage in the trailer was captured directly from 720p gameplay running real time in our Rage engine on a next-gen gaming console."
And the engine seems to be working well for the series - as you can see from the trailer tech-wise GTA IV is looking very impressive.


Super Pedestrian

We're expecting lots of advancements in how realistically the inhabitants of Liberty City live and work, but already there are a number of improvements on show in the short teaser.
At the beginning of the video you can see that the driver of the blue sports car is adjusting his rear-view mirror - a very nice touch indeed that we would never have seen working on the PS2. The pedestrians on the streets also have fully-modelled faces and carry groceries and books, which certainly adds a more realistic vibe to surroundings that the aimlessly-walking residents in GTA III.


The funny is back!

Oldschool movie buffs will recognize the spoof reference in the GTA IV trailer straight away; the music is from Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi, a dialogue-less documentary film from the early eighties that mixed landscape footage with a rolling soundtrack. The music, in case your wondering, is a piece from minimalist composer Philip Glass, who created the music for Koyaanisqatsi.
Further proving that GTA hasn't lost it's trademark humour are the plethora of fake adverts available for glimpse in the video, including upcoming TV show "America's Next Top Hooker" and "Sprunk", a beverage we probably won't picking up on the next trip round Tesco.


Visit Vice City!

Keen-eyed viewers with seriously-ninja Photoshop skills will notice an interesting in-game ad five seconds into the trailer. On the top left of the shot just above the wall is a sign that says "Visit Vice City - $300", leading many internet forums to explode with messages of "OMG!! MULTIPLE CITIEZ IN GTAIV!"
So yeah, we might be getting a tiny bit ahead of ourselves taking this tiniest of glimpses as evidence that GTA IV will contain multiple, country-wide locals, but what would be more next-gen than a trip to all three cities that we've explored so vigorously on PS2? Having said that, would Vice City even look like Vice City in a modern day setting?


Doc Oc attacks!

Another one for the eagle-eyed among us is the brief glimpse of a cable car travelling behind a bridge 30 seconds in to the trailer, leading us to fantasise over the Spider-Man-style mischief we could have jumping around fighting an imaginary Doctor Octopus.
Having said that, we're hoping Spidey's influence stretches all over GTA IV; we just can't look at that massive Crysler building without planning a Crackdown-style route up to the top, and it would be an absolute crime if we can't base-jump from one of those skyscrapers.


Clever birds

Going from the trailer, we can see that the birds and pigeons in GTA IV are detailed and have some sort of behaviour system going on - which should please virtual game hunters everywhere.
In one scene you can see a seagull flying underneath a bridge, and in another we get a glimpse of two pigeons sitting on a statue. Will we be able to chase those dirty flying-rats through the streets? Pick them out of the skies with high-calibre rifles? At this point we'd bet money on it. (CVG doesn't condone the harming of pigeons).
 
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The whole of the trailer looks so soft, esp when you compare it to the real life shots.
 
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They use a sepia like tint (like in Godfather)....adds to the effect of the game :D

I think it is quite impressive...but I'm hoping that this next-gen GTA is not only going to be about graphics but other things too.
 
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Great great post thomasgoal!

NYC is the place for me. it's heavily heavly influenced but for this game to be any good i expect EXPECT there to be the ability to go into any store and do whatever then i'd want there to be many many stores from everything like a grocery like in dead rising etc to something like a arcade where you play even more game depending on what system you have it for THEN i want it to have the ability to be very graphic. lets actually see the consequemces of beating someone body physics etc lets see that prostitutes getting ahhh "used" lets see the drug trade for what it is lets see the reality of what the GTA world hid for so many years because of graphical limitations lets see the truth or else it's just Saint's row with a better graphics hear me?
 
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rockykabir said:
They use a sepia like tint (like in Godfather)....adds to the effect of the game :D

I think it is quite impressive...but I'm hoping that this next-gen GTA is not only going to be about graphics but other things too.
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And that same look was BLASTED by gamespot for it being inside the NBA Street homecourt game too so IF they don't complain about that then they were being nit picky with that game and unfair with it
 
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BumperMan said:
Great great post thomasgoal!

NYC is the place for me. it's heavily heavly influenced but for this game to be any good i expect EXPECT there to be the ability to go into any store and do whatever then i'd want there to be many many stores from everything like a grocery like in dead rising etc to something like a arcade where you play even more game depending on what system you have it for THEN i want it to have the ability to be very graphic. lets actually see the consequemces of beating someone body physics etc lets see that prostitutes getting ahhh "used" lets see the drug trade for what it is lets see the reality of what the GTA world hid for so many years because of graphical limitations lets see the truth or else it's just Saint's row with a better graphics hear me?
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I completely and utterly 100% absolutely do not hear you in the slightest. I have never once heard you all I hear is strangeness oozing from you. You strange strange person.
 
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Noted said:
I completely and utterly 100% absolutely do not hear you in the slightest. I have never once heard you all I hear is strangeness oozing from you. You strange strange person.
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:lmao:
 
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rockykabir said:
They use a sepia like tint (like in Godfather)....adds to the effect of the game :D

I think it is quite impressive...but I'm hoping that this next-gen GTA is not only going to be about graphics but other things too.
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Mmm... GTAIII wasn't like that, we will just see if I like it.
 
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BumperMan said:
And that same look was BLASTED by gamespot for it being inside the NBA Street homecourt game too so IF they don't complain about that then they were being nit picky with that game and unfair with it
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yep but what you're talking about is a sports game which is different genre altogether. The epic like effect is what is required in GTA ;)

Yea, lets be frank....the graphics are perhaps below our extremely (perhaps unfair) high expectations. It's gonna be a big (in size) game - and so we can't expect Table Tennis graphics considering that TT is far less data intensive.

Anyway, I'm gonna be a fanboy here and say that I'm v v excited about it. The OTT stereotypes, the corny music, the parody radio channels all make up a game which I'll personally enjoy - graphics is just a small part of it (although it looks bloody fantastic anyway!).
 
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