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

* 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.

Imagine they took this info, and flipped it back on the game, making some areas of town more dangerous than others IN REAL TIME :O

New (final) trailer is up everywhere...

yeah, it's pretty lame too.

but still, can't wait. antexit, that all sounds pretty neat.

ya congratulations antexit.

Thank you all so much!

have they released the soundtrack yet?

only trouble with the 100% ranking is that most of those quick enough to get on will more than likely have cheated.

Its looking like a ps3 for me, the only reason to get the xbox would be for the downloadable extras and we're not even sure that they won't in future be available for ps3. Usually they are, I'm taking the risk.

And if they don't ever become available, meh, in a couple of years i'll just get a cheap 360 to play them on.

A thought towards the multiplayer.

Will it feature traffic and pedestrians? That would be mammoth programming task wouldn't it, for client pc's to deal with the same AI of non player characters and vehicles.

If it didn't include them it could be a bit shit though.

Might not be that hard if there's only a limited number and they ony behave pseudo-randomly. Maybe...

It's the vehicles more than the peds I'm thinking, say for instance you have a race situation and you the leader drive through some heavy traffic successfully. The guy behind you who might be just far enough away to not see this traffic yet, by the time they get to that position - will they be faced with the same 'random' traffic? Or will it have spawned new (perhaps not quite so heavy) traffic making things unfair.

if u follow.

(you the leader of course have already drove further on, effectually creating more traffic down the line)

I guess we could live with it even if the traffic remained random and only the same traffic would be encountered if two different players viewpoints crossed at the same time. But then what about sniper rifle scopes, that could pose some problems?

Go for a 360, 'cuz Fallout 3 is comin'

to be fair, i hadn't realised how much cheaper the 360 was. i could be back to square one here.

Go for a 360, 'cuz Fallout 3 is comin'

-- kingfish, Friday, March 28, 2008 2:10 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

for ps3 too!

It's weird how each trailer released for this game was less exciting than the one before (loved the first one), but I'm still looking forward to the game more than ever.

my favourite trailer was number two, but this was purely because of the boggs music

more on multiplayer

the game is doomed by my expectations for it, which i don't seem to be able to mitigate or control at all.

A friend of mine sent me a mysterious message a few days ago that I have three weeks to come up with $2500...

Turns out it's so I can buy a TV and PS3 and this game in order to be wheel man for his drive-bys.

Wow, you could buy that stuff for $1500, easy. Less, even. Your friend is mental.

I think he's planning on me rolling a big BRAVIA. Plus, wait he doesn't have a PS3 yet either!

Regardless, we're definitely both mental.

do we know if you can really climb lamp posts?

and why

http://www.gamesradar.com/f/hes-finished-gta-iv-and-mgs4/a-2008040914415107076

"I blew through a crosswalk just as a guy was – I was kind of going through fairly slow – but he was holding his coffee cup, the car came really close and he kind of jumped. I mean, the reaction – because they're using the Natural Motion engine – the guy sort of reacted to the car. He jumped back, dropped his coffee, starts bitching about dropping his coffee and, you know, you just go by. But the whole sort of movement and interaction between the person and the car looked like what would happen if you went too close to a guy carrying a cup of coffee on the sidewalk. "

"One example was that, as I was failing a mission and I was retreating, I got like a two-star warning, so I’m trying to get out, and I rear-ended a taxi. All of a sudden it bursts up into flame, fire started coming out. I was like, "oh crap," so I drove a little bit further out of the way, and it was in an intersection with a lot of other cars. Then a few seconds later, a guy stumbles out of the taxi in flames. So then the first car explodes, and another car that was right next to it catches fire.

"So I actually felt kind of bad about this. I mean, the poor guy’s running around on fire. So I pull out a telephone and I call the fire department. So a few seconds later, a big fire truck comes up, parks too close to one of the cars that explodes right as it gets there... and then the fire truck explodes. Six or seven cars ended up going up in flames and exploding, and people are running around on fire. It was all sort of this dynamic setup that I kind of triggered by one tiny event: I rear-ended a car."

sounds like just another typical day in Theft land really

Shoulda left a note.

Played the shit out of Vice City last night, the pedestrians are hilarious. There was a guy who was just giggling and farting, he ended with a 'look at those great titties' remark which just made me bawk with laughter.

yeah, IV will need some "I need some titties ta squeeze" type comments

They've released official multiplayer info

http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/#?page=multiplayer

I'm very excited about multiplayer, perhaps more than I am about the main game. You should all make sure you have me on your Xbox Live lists, ready for release! I'm Jimdoo.

(Ste, have you chosen between 360 and ps3 yet? I'll feel cheated if you choose sony and I don't get the chance to shoot you)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_IV_soundtrack

does anyone know if this will work on ps2?

aw

god i need to swap my xbox360 for a ps3 quick.

oh and i saw the trailer for this on afternoon tv a week or so ago.

Seriously i'm considering just waiting until this comes out on pc in which time I'll have purchased a super duper system, and it'll probly be twice as shit hot than either console versions.
I'm finding it real hard to come to terms with coughing up that much money for a ps3/360 + HD telly for just one game.

i'll make my choice after hearing u guys review it on April 29

anyone else taking a sick day/vacation day on April 29?

anyone else feel ashamed of what they've become?

I'll be home, but not for this necessarily. I might have to wait until my birthday (May 1) for it. We did buy a shit hot LCDTV though.

May take a sick day. May try to pick the game up at midnight if a store within walking distance stays open.

Ste - you could get a 360 and hook it up to your computer monitor (VGA cable sold separately). Still expensive for one game though. I wonder if R* is going to bother to put this out on PC - has anybody heard anything official?

ooh, now i didn't know that. hmm.

OK, I am officially excited about this now. Only problem is I won't have a really big telly until the end of May and it's usually difficult to differentiate between locations on the map with the one I have at the moment. But I'm not waiting until the end of May to play this. No way.

Am I the only girl in this beeyotch?

If they don't put this out on PC I will be very ;_;

Ha! There are other girls, around, well, like, one I think. Abbott?

I am officially excited about this, and inadvertantly it turns out I am also off work on the 29th. I'll be bagging this for the 360.

Madchen, do you have an Xbox 360? What's your gamertag?

:D

Yes, but I am not hooked up to technology other than the telly yet -that will happen at the end of May too. I do have a sludge-coloured headset at the ready though, courtesy of Halo.

Have we noted that the release coincides with a bank holiday weekend? Bye bye hedge trimming, car washing and visits to stately homes then.

Hah! Are you going to jump on the Call of Duty 4 gravy train too?

Madchen, I am here and excited too!

going. to. be. mega.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=132265