just found this so i taut u mite like to c it :P

-Gamespot.com Wrote:When the Grand Theft Auto IV trailer first unspooled last month, there was much debate on whether or not it was set in New York City. The preview clearly showed New York landmarks such as the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty. However, frame-by-frame analysis showed a ship registered to Liberty City, the setting of Grand Theft Auto III, as well as the Liberty Tree newspaper featured in that game.

Now, it appears that both theories are right. Leaked scans of the Game Informer's May issue indicate it will feature a major story on Grand Theft Auto IV which reveals many details of the game. One such nugget of information was that yes, the game will be set in Liberty City--but it won't be the same metropolis as GTA III.

In news that will not please Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the new Liberty City is directly modeled on four of New York's five boroughs and part of suburban New Jersey. Each section has been renamed--Brooklyn is now Broker, for example--as have the iconic city's various landmarks. As shown in the trailer, the MetLife Building is now the GetaLife Building, and the Statue of Liberty is now called the Statue of Happiness. It will also have a smaller land mass than San Andreas, but apparently hardly a speck of open land, with each inch being an imitation of New York City's jam-packed environs.

The article also confirms the game's protagonist is an immigrant from an unnamed Eastern European country. Named Niko Belic, he apparently arrives in the US after an extensive correspondence with his cousin Roman, who claims to have amassed wealth, cars, and girlfriends. When Niko arrives, though, he discovers Roman is a poor taxi-stand manager who has apparently become mixed up in Liberty City's multiethnic underworld.

As expected, GTA IV will have much improved physics than prior installments in the series. Its use of the new RAGE engine, previously used in Rockstar Presents Table Tennis, will allow for much more fluid character animation which will affect the environments when appropriate.

In GTA IV, non-player characters will also reportedly be superior to prior installments. In February, Rockstar licensed NaturalMotion's Euphoria technology--also being seen in the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed--which allows for complex NPC behavior and realistic NPC movement. Officially, Rockstar is only using the engine in "next-generation titles." However, NPCs in GTA IV sound like a complex bunch indeed, with such things as drinking and speech varying according to ethnic and economic types, according to GI.

Other tidbits in the May Game Informer include confirmation that GTA IV is set in the present day, and will have a corresponding soundtrack. It will also allow characters to enter and exit buildings with out San Andreas-style load times. Last but certainly not least, the game will feature some sort of multiplayer component, but not be massively multiplayer, as some had rumored.

The news was not all good, however. As rumored, the game will not feature any planes, presumably to avoid the publicity trainwreck of having Niko fly one into a replica of a New York landmark, 9/11-style. The game will have motorcycles, however.

Grand Theft Auto IV will arrive on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the US and Europe in mid-October. The May issue of Game Informer should arrive on newsstands in around two weeks.

-Gamespot.com

if the game will not have games then i will not buy it my good sir, i understand what the backlash might be for 9/11 n all that stuff, but it is a videogame, gta-style videogames are ficitonal accounts of something, in this case a story of some immigrant in a wannabe NY city, wether the landmarks are there or not the removal of planes will in effect take from the gta experience, gta is supposed to be a free-roaming enviroment with do whatever YOU the player wants, after introduciont to an almost fully interactable enviroment in san andreas, removing features for a next-gen console launch is like nutering a newborn child.
i understand the consequences that take two interactive has had with controversies in their videogames in the past, ___to be continued later i got to leave but expect me to come back to finish this!

^^ :yes:

if they don't have planes, the better have some sort of flying vehicle like helicopters or something other wise people will probably get bored of just being able to drive land/water/on-the-ground vehicles.

but even if their isn't going to be planes like they said, I'm still going to get IV :)
first i have to get a ps3 ;)

(This post was last modified: 11/04/2007 07:59 PM by robertotron.)

beaner2k6 Wrote:if the game will not have games then i will not buy it my good sir, i understand what the backlash might be for 9/11 n all that stuff, but it is a videogame, gta-style videogames are ficitonal accounts of something, in this case a story of some immigrant in a wannabe NY city, wether the landmarks are there or not the removal of planes will in effect take from the gta experience, gta is supposed to be a free-roaming enviroment with do whatever YOU the player wants, after introduciont to an almost fully interactable enviroment in san andreas, removing features for a next-gen console launch is like nutering a newborn child.
i understand the consequences that take two interactive has had with controversies in their videogames in the past, ___to be continued later i got to leave but expect me to come back to finish this!

_continue

i understand the consequences that take two interactive has had with controversies in their videogames in the past, such as loss of profit, but in my opinion there will be more loss here than in the past, an example would be the famed hot coffee mod, I'm sure you know of it if not click on it to find out, the steps that take-two had to take, caused a loss of profit, but that was incidental and due to circumstance it had to happen, but what they're gonna do is in fact: removal of a feature that gamers want, the hot coffe mod was a negative feature not intended to be found but was, perhaps i am taking it too far in thinking that gamers want the ability to fly, but nonetheless i don't think that idea will make a fortune on their side.

yeah I'm pissed but i don't think that a petition or a well thought out essay style paper will change take-two initiative those bastard I'm FUCKING PISSED!

well yeah no planes r bad
i hope this game is good i like hated san andreas
kinda boring compared to vice city

beaner2k6 im happy to c that you are happy with GTA IV!!! :P

in no way can gta represent 9/11 geez....






or can it ?!?!?!

(This post was last modified: 12/04/2007 11:31 AM by Shady.)

lol shady :rofl:

hehe i made that gif before there was even a 2.00+ downgrader over a year ago :gasp: