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

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

oh. god.

that sounds seriously delicous, particularly the new wanted star system.

Although I'd be interested to know how that works with police chases, would you lose your wanted level if you managed to lose the tail?

Does anyone know who the mystery guest celebrity is?

can't believe this thread is over a year old

o_0

haha my first post, a year of anguish and indecision

I was reading the cover feature of Edge this morning and getting all excited again.

And there's a funfair! </girl>

Did you buy a 360 solely for this Madchen?

Hey, I'll bet Rockstar Social Club will have cross-platform friend groups and stuff for stats-- hello ILG group!

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No, Stet gave it to me for my birthday. With Halo, which I am not getting on with (it makes me feel sick).

Hell, this is the first GTA set after September 11th, isn't it. The amount of reactionary bullshit for them to draw from is a veritable ocean.

san andreas?

san andreas was set before 9/11, i nthe early 90s or so

did you guys not read that 9/11/2001 is the DAY the game starts??

it's gonna be a big part of it

Yeah, it's pretty weird-- I don't know why it's not being reported more.

They say it starts on Nikos' boat to america and RIGHT when the coastline of liberty city comes into view from the ocean the first plane hits.

i guess they were worried that the controversy might overshadow the other stuff about the game they want to publicize... it actually makes a lot of sense they wouldn't play it up.

it will put the whole immigrant experience story in a much more contemporary perspective, for one thing.

i guess this is why they're not allowing planes in this one??

That's how they got AROUND allowing them! The security gets so much more strict after 9/11 you can't get onto the runway to steal one.

oh, that's smart!

confirmed for the soundtrack

http://www.propagandamatrix.com/310803coup.jpg

look. just give me this goddamn game already. the waiting is too much.

1up preview, though mostly positive, throws a little water on the fire...

"You'll likely notice the same graphical "quirks" that the series has dealt with since the jump to 3D [...] There's some long-distance graphical fade-in as well as some street-level hazards that appear only after you hit them. Traffic will be nonexistent one second, then three cars deep when you rotate the camera back around, and then completely disappear when your wanted level gets to two or three stars"

and the shooting is still a question mark in my book, they say "Pulling the left trigger halfway on the 360 controller lets you aim a weapon freely, while a full pull locks on to the closest enemy or nonplayable character in your camera's view."

I certainly don't like the sound of that half pull. And I wonder if having a lock on shot will take some of the fun out of the multiplayer

theres no button to just lock on?

More soundtrack details coming in.

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

Jazz-Fusion station will probably end up my favorite.

I'm glad that I don't recognise most of those.

Looking forward to driving around to Oxygene though.

I'm a little confused since it's (according to upthread) based in 2001-ish? But, I see "Get Innocuous" by LCD Soundsystem on the Radio Broker station? Not too get too aspierube but they've been very good about avoid anachronisms in the past games, is that out the door now?

erm guys i think slocki was joking about the 9/11 thing

GTA4 is set in 2007

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The trailer with "Get innocuous" was on TV last night. Have decided to buy 360 as they're on sale at the moment, play the hell out of this game and save up for PS2. God I want this game so much. GTA:SA doesn't work on PC so seriously starting to get withdrawal symptoms.

well, color me retarded, it sounded pretty awesome so i wanted to believe it -_-

rockstargames.com/socialclub is supposed to be taking registrations today, i dunno when, exactly, but sometime. keep your eyes open!

shipping to stores today, will anyone break the street date like argos did with halo 3?

I got my ipod touch a couple weeks before they were supposed to be selling them... might be worth a punt to play on some tesco worker's ignorance?

i think the soundtrack is now the feature i most anticipate with each new game.

Having read the gamespot.com "hands=on" review of the multiplayer aspects, I could not be more excited for this game. Get here already!

link?

my 360 is totally spazzing out now and pretty much refusing to do anything too processor intensive which basically means, swos=yes, xbla=yes, cod4=no. doesn't bode well for GTA4. not sure whether to courier the thing out to msoft on monday/tuesday and hope it's back in time for GTA4 next tues. anyone got any experience with msoft support on RRoD?

alternative is obv, it works intermittently and seems to work after the 'towel trick' for a few days at a time, just a pain to have to do the towel trick obv

GTAIV Multi-Player Hands-On

Do want.

I have just sent my 360 in for servicing, the RRoD/towel trick was getting me down + doubtful I can afford GTAIV on launch day = no launch day blow out for me. : /

The waiting!!! This final week is killing me more than the whole last year!