Some Information On G.T.A IV!

[Gridlock]

FACTS

Game's Official Name - Confirmed. It will be called GTA IV.

Location - Liberty City. Although it's the same city where GTA III and Liberty City were situated, the map looks different. The map is a piece from New York City itself.

Map - The map itself is a little piece of NYC.




Character - Niko Bellic (Bell-ich). Although he is in LC, he is actually an immigrant from Eastern Europe.

Storyline - Confirmed ...

You start out as a low lifer, Eastern European immigrant going by the name of Niko Bellic, persuaded to travel to Liberty City by his cousin, Roman. Roman claims to all up in riches, living the nice life with 15 cars, 4 hot tubs and plenty of beautiful girls to go around. Turns out Roman isn't what he seems to be making himself out to be.... Nothing he's said is true. Even though they don't always get along and are constantly bickering, Roman becomes an important guideline for you at the beginning. Being the only person in the entire city that you know, he becomes the main source for connections at the start.

Roman is in fact in a lot of trouble with a lot of people who are after him for unpaid money and various other forms of debt, and he needs Niko's help!

The story will be delivered in a variety of new ways, allowing, quote; 'The player to create their own destiny' this clearly means missions will have several possible outcomes, all of which ultimately effect the outcome of the game and the relationships between Niko and the supporting cast.


Platforms - PS3 Xbox 360 and possibly PC.

Episodic Content - Confirmed, there will be a few add-ons (episodes). Possibly similar to the HL2 episodic content.

Technology - Confirmed. R* will be using RAGE (Rockstar Advanced Game Engine).

GamePlay Facts - Confirmed.

This is incorrect. There are no airplanes in the game, but flying is still there. One means of this is the helicopter. As Dan pointed out, this is just one city and a plane really doesn’t fit into that very well for gameplay. Flying is still very much a large part of the game.

Sea Travel (boats) - Although the amount of water in the game looks rather small, transport on the water is still used, probably for missions and/or just cruising around.

Girlfriends - This feature was originally used in San Andreas. It's presumably there to unlock bonus cars, for a mission progress or to make you feel sexually excited.

Physical Capabilities - Climbing ladders has not been confirmed in GTA 4 but during the 15 minute demo of the game that Reiner played he said that Niko did ascend a telephone to get a bird's eye view of Liberty City. He also said it was quite impressive seeing his body weight transfer from side to side as he climbed the pole, so this could be a good indication that Niko will have the ability to climb ladders.

Car Jacking - When stealing cars on the street, there will now be several different animations (besides smashing the window).

Shooting - Rockstar have claimed to be focusing a lot of attention to the targeting system in GTA IV. Improving it dramatically from the, lets face it, inaccurate system used throughout the series - GTA3 onwards. When Targeting onto an object, the camera is said to zoom in behind Bellic's shoulder - Resident Evil 4.

Communication - As GTA IV is set in the present day or near future, Niko now has the gift of the good old mobile phone. This will be used to make calls with his various contacts to receive missions. Other possible uses for the phone have been rumored but nothing else has been set in stone as of yet.

Item Space - In an article in the official Xbox magazine in the U.S, it confirmed that car trunks would be a new game feature. When they approached the parked car in Broker from behind, the Admiral that so many publications got to see getting broken into, information prompt came up on the top left side of the screen, indicating to press the left bumper or "LB" button of the Xbox 360 controller in order to open the trunk. This button is the equivalent of the PlayStation controller's "L1" button. Whether this feature will only be used in missions or at anytime during gameplay is yet to be known.

Money Bonuses & Weaponry - Rampages, Unique Jumps and Rhinos MIGHT be cut from the game.

Timed Actions - The 360 EZine reports that time based missions are definitely in the game. It also mentions 'time limited actions.' For example: If a train leaves at 10.00pm and you arrive an 10.01pm, you fail the mission.

Weapons & Bodywork - It has been confirmed that neither Ammunation nor Pay and Spray will be returning this time round. Niko has to call arms dealers on his mobile to deliver weapons to a certain location.

Criminal Activity - A new wanted level system will be included in the game. Now that you will gain a wanted level for every crime you commit in public, a circular search area will appear on your radar. If you're outside of this area, the cops wont be able to find you, like they always could in previous titles Every time you are spotted the circle will move to that location.

Mass Communication - The internet is available for Niko to use in the game also. Being the age of the computer, that we are in, it would seem foolish for Rockstar to completely ignore such a feature. Niko can use the internet to gain information about contacts or people he needs to kill. their location for example. This opens the gateway for many other interactive things to do within Liberty.

Repetitive Action - The 'trip skip' taxis are back after a long absence since Vice City. if you fail a mission or can't be bothered with the long drives, just hop in a cab and you'll be there in no time!

Hired Contracts - Missions can span over several GTA days. For example, you may receive a mission on a Tuesday and have to wait till Thursday to complete the task. This suggests you can do other missions in between.

A Small Preview - The GamesTM exclusive preview reveals 2 of the missions that will appear in GTA IV. So look away now if you don't want any...

Mission 1: In the demo, Niko receives a call concerning "shady lawyer" Goldberg, of Goldberg, Ligner & Shyster (GLS) Niko needs to get an interview with Goldberg, so he can 'dispose of him.' Niko uses the internet to his advantage.
Mission 2 -'Call and Collect': Next in the demo, Niko pays a visit to somebody called McReary, at Castle Gardens, a coast-side hangout overlooking the Statue of Happiness. McReary has had a memory stick stolen from him which contains sensitive data, and he wants Niko to retrieve it for him.[/i]

Outfitting - When purchasing clothes, you have to choose the items from the shelf individually.

Arms Thug - Little Jacob (a Carribean arms dealer) is a good friend of Niko's cousin. When you buy weapons from him (which are kept in his trunk) you can scroll through them like you did in Ammu-Nation in the previous GTA games

Perception - Determining which figures you need to kill requires perception - there are no arrowheads to direct you like in the previous games.

Police Awareness - Once you gain a wanted-level, the map flashes with circles of blue and red, with each circle representing the line of sight of the police chase. The circles differ in size depending on your wanted-level.

Driving - The default camera view when driving rests around the left-hand side of the car above the road.

Offensive Attacks - The combat rests somewhere between Resident Evil 4 and Gears of War in terms of style, allowing you to roll, find protection and blind-fire from behind cover

Offensive Variety - Shooting different parts of the body has different impacts (e.g shoot a security guard in the foot at the top of the stairs, and he'll come tumbling down.)

Relations - In GTA IV you have to develop relationships with other characters. Your relationship with Little Jacob, for example, is maintained through phone calls and loyalty. Developing good relationships with different characters can provide different rewards.

Release Dates - Confirmed

USA - October 16th, 2007 for North America
Europe - October 19th, 2007 for Europe
UK - Release date not yet confirmed


Costs - Confirmed

Multiplayer - Confirmed

The game will have multiplayer however. "Yes, there will be some" Houser comments. "It's not going to be a MMOG. But we are trying to make something that is interesting, fun and progressive and goes nicely alongside the single player game."

More might follow! Information gathered from G.T.A IV forums.

Cheers, Over-Kill

[Nevadura]

Girlfriends. Sprunk is already horny! *cough*

[Gridlock]

Is that you? Praying?

[Nevadura]

nope it's ike being mad

[Nykää]

Great! We were missing GTA IV topic. And you might add this to your FAQ. http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/trailer_splash.html

[Bizzie]

Climbing ladders has not been confirmed in GTA 4 but during the 15 minute demo of the game that Reiner played he said that Niko did ascend a telephone to get a bird's eye view of Liberty City. He also said it was quite impressive seeing his body weight transfer from side to side as he climbed the pole, so this could be a good indication that Niko will have the ability to climb ladders.

I'd like to ask...

Who's Reiner?
(No, seriously, he must be some tester from some gaming magazine. Over-Kill just copies & pastes everything )

Anyway, this is pretty good introduction to the newest Grand Theft Auto game. Sadly, I can't play it even if it comes out for PC (which hasn't been confirmed yet). Don't ask why...

[Gridlock]

Information gathered from G.T.A forums.

Reiner is a person from Rockstars. He is a tester.

[Claiver]

Okey

[Nimrod]

theres more info at www.gta4.net

[Claiver]

Thanks for the link.

[Balance]

is niko belić croatian man or not?

[Nykää]

BUMP!
New trailer coming at 06.12.2007! (Independence Day of Finland ) AND! Here is official picture of the gamebox!
http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/trailer_splash.html
Oh, and this video is also pretty cool. http://ps3.qj.net/Grand-Theft-Auto-IV-trailer-Game-box-art-revealed/pg/49/aid/108609

[Nevadura]

dude, rockstar's an ass for not bringing out GTA IV for the pc (yet)
but we love him anyway

[Nimrod]

dude, rockstar's an ass for not bringing out GTA IV for the pc (yet)
but we love him anyway

*cough* possibly october *cough*

[Nevadura]

dude, rockstar's an ass for not bringing out GTA IV for the pc (yet)
but we love him anyway

*cough* possibly october *cough*

meh another 9 months? :S