Grand Theft Auto IV is Coming to PC - November 08

[PurpleHaze]

Holy shit.

THAT is cool.

[roboaxl]

wow, now that's unexpected

[RKD]

Well at least they got someone good in and not peter kay or someone rubbish like that who has done the same bored out routine for like 5 years now. only other person i'd rather see above Ricky is probably Billy Connelly

[roboaxl]

I hope it's done as well as the Phil Collins cameo was in Vice City Stories

[RKD]

it probably will... oh but this ain't the only cameo in GTA IV, theres supposedly a few more people as themselves in the game.

[Faxl]

All this and Ricky Gervais?

WHY ARE YOU TORMENTING ME?! :'(

[roboaxl]

All this and Ricky Gervais?

WHY ARE YOU TORMENTING ME?! :'(

You shoulda bought that PS3 like I told ya

[DrRedFox]

game is looking, wasnt a fan of the other games, but this one is the best grand theft auto

[RKD]

Registration is open now for Rockstar Social Club - a new website from Rockstar featuring all kinds of multiplayer leader boards and stat tracking. Here are some of the features mentioned in the press release that was sent out on March 27th:

    * LCPD Police Blotter - A virtual map and tracker of single-player criminal activity logged in Liberty City from the aggregated data of millions of connected players - showing the most dangerous areas of town, most commonly used weapons and more.
    * The Story Gang - This special single-player leaderboard recognizes players who complete Niko Bellic's main story arc of Grand Theft Auto IV - The leaderboard ranks players according to the total amount of playing time it's taken to complete the story, as well as a historical rank by who has completed it first. Members of this club will receive special online widgets and merit badges marking all of their in-game accomplishments.
    * The 100% Club - Watch to see who will be the first to complete 100% of the game. The first ten people to be identified on the Social Club as reaching 100% will be sent an ultra-rare commemorative 'key to the city' to mark their accomplishment. In the future, the 100% Club will then carry a historical leaderboard showing rankings of who has completed 100% of a game in the shortest span of playing hours.
    * The Hall of Fame - This area will dynamically recognize those singularly elite players who have reached the top of the hill on various statistical leaderboards, and will also contain a personal awards display of special in-game landmarks and successes in Social Club competitions.
    * The Liberty City Marathon - A ranking of special physical milestones achieved in the game - from the amount of miles walked, driven, or swam - to the number of bullets fired and stunt-jumps jumped. There will be additional special marathon-based competitions in the future from this area as well.

Rockstar say that additional features will be added to the website following the release of Grand Theft Auto IV, including competitions and challenges. You will be able to register with your Xbox Live Gamertag and/or PlayStation Network ID.

Register now: https://socialclub.rockstargames.com/

[RKD]

Take Two Interactive just confirmed at the company's annual general meeting that Grand Theft Auto IV has gone gold. "Trucks are rolling next week and there will be a lot of them", the executive said, confirming that the game discs will be making their way to stores next week ahead of the game's release on April 29th.

http://www.gtagaming.com/gtagaming/news/comments.php?i=1298

HAHA FUCK YOU EA! they tried to stop it but they couldn't. Roll on Feb 28th (for me) haha

[Drag The Waters]

goddamnit i am so exicted.

i have loved gta ever since i first played it on the original playstation. 

[RKD]

SPOILERS AHEAD, select to read!

I asked a lot of questions that couldn't be answered, but one of the cooler Easter Eggs was shown to me. Towards the end of one particular mission, Niko ends up next to a burnt-out and run down mansion...the Salvatore's mansion from GTA3. Pretty sweet little egg for us super-dorks who've played all the games. Jeronimo said there were more recognizable features in the game for long-time fans, but he didn't go in to details.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36401

I Can't believe they put it in, that is awesome

[RKD]

I Love that screen, Niko has gone through the windscreen head first into the grill of the truck and look at how taxi crumples up.

also a few excerpts from an article about the game sound:

Do you know how many individual sound effect files are in GTA IV?

MS: We have around four-and-a-half thousand individual sfx in the game, which are combined into around 19 thousand different combinations. That's ignoring the insane amount of dialogue, cutscenes and radio content. Rain sounds alone take up around a third of the entire audio budget for San Andreas!

How many speaking parts are there in the game?  How much dialogue?

WM: It's difficult to quantify how many speaking parts there are, but at our last count there were over 740 unique voices in the game.  There are over 80,000 individual lines of dialogue, more than 7000 of which are Niko's lines.  If you were to listen to each line back to back, it would take over 29 hours.  Also, these figures don't take the radio, TV, and mo-capped cut-scene dialogue into consideration.

http://www.gamesradar.com/f/grand-theft-auto-iv-audio-qa/a-20080418152838249060

80,000 f'n lines. jebus!

[Ruiner]

All this and Ricky Gervais?

WHY ARE YOU TORMENTING ME?! :'(

look at play.com! xbox and the game for 199! i think im going to have to get it!