Grand Theft Auto IV -- It might feature crime and prostitutes.

Short walkthru and some nice looking new screens...

http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3159821

Apparently the game features more walking and looking at stuff than crime and prostitues so far!

er, prostitutes...

Missions are [...] longer

I think this makes me sad, I think. Wasn't long-ass missions one of the annoying things about San Andreas?

It was the lack of save points mid mission that really got to me!

The Wu-Tang game is great.

xp Yeah, save points would help. I only ever attempted the last mission once - after fighting my way into the building, and fighting my way up all the stairs, and fighting my way past the big bosses, I was all PLEASE LET THIS BE OVER NOW. But no, suddenly the building was on fire and I had to fight my way all the way downstairs again. I died, of course, and then gave up. SO CLOSE. I'm kinda disappointed I never finished it.

I did it 8 or 9 times. Always lost at the same place where the brother is hanging off the fire truck. I could never drive up close enough. It just pissed me off that there was no checkpoint at all :(

The last mission does let you skip stuff though. If you fail the mission after you get out the building and then restart, it let's you start from when you started chasing the firetruck. This is in the PS2 version, I don't know about other versions.

Not on the PC it doesn't. Yet another reason why I like the PS2 more than PC at the moment!

No? Wow, does that suck. On PS2 I think there are three different spots in the last mission you can restart from, provided you get past them in the first place.

Oh, boy, these new screenshots. Rockstar will now have the distinction of having made two games based in Coney Island!

WARRRRIORSSSS!!!

This is the wrong board, but I'm still happy to see NBA Playoff fever reach the shores of the Emerald Isle, even if belatedly!

They brought good comics too! (Cheers again)

Trailer 2 due out 26th June

so it's in, and I'm downloading it now. anyone else seen it?

http://grandtheftauto.yahoo.com/

Hmm... it seems less impressive than the first one somehow - maybe it's the music(?) - though there are some nice looking scenes. I'm eager to see some non-cut-scene footage though at some point....

Looked like a lot of that footage was gameplay to me, wasn't it?

I doubt it.

I think I'm gonna get really sick of that dude's accent if I have to hear it for 40 game hours.

the old trailer with the phillip glass music is hilarious. i havent watched the new one yet!!!

The Phillip Glass one is a parody (or homage perhaps?) of the Francis Ford Coppola produced film "Koyaanisqatsi". Once you realize this, it's the best game trailer of all time. Shot for shot, it's identical, and the soundtrack is the same.

All sorts of Koyaanisqatsi clips on youtube.

Wow, that is very similar!

i remember these, and now i only just realise Philip Glass did that ultra strange version of Bowies - Heroes. I heard it on an Aphex Twin album.

A lock box?

The idea that you're supposed to buy this sixty dollar game then buy two more episodes six months later to actually play the "complete" game is something that's really starting to grate on me. How much is this shit actually going to cost if you want to play the "full" game? 120 dollars?

Welcome to the next level of "high budget games"

See also: the insane rise of low-cost, "casual games" market. Coincidence? I think not.

Can somebody PLEASE confirm that there are no missions in this game where you have to use a forklift to load crates into the back of a truck?

lol OTM

Hahaha, I was drunkenly talking to a mate earlier tonight about fork lift truck missions! I purposely chose my real life job to avoid that sort of thing. I don't need it in my favourite games! See also the "airing books" section of Shenmue 2.

Plz to also avoid missions that involve aiming either rocket launchers or miniguns with a ps2 controller.

I would like that lockbox!

Delayed to somewhere between February and April 2008 :(

yep, just came here to say that.

http://ir.take2games.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=258238

I'm disappointed, but I guess I feel like there are so many other interesting looking games coming out this fall / winter, that it's not too big of a deal

Bioshock hits this month, so that ought to take care of some needs

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=7278970&postcount=195

:( :( :(

bums

If I were God, I would have given the developers this idea: Once you complete 100%, then you unlock a PLAYSTATION in ur base that lets you replay any mission.