Secrets in GTA IV

The following is a list of secrets, Easter eggs, and hidden trivia references in Grand Theft Auto IV.

Påskägg

Inuti Statue of Happiness är ett enda stort hjärta. Detta lär vara den "Heart of Liberty City. "Det är placerad i den staty av hapiness. Det är på ett hus typ plats på statyn (Du måste ta en helikopter). När du kommer fram, gå in i en av de svarta dörrarna. När du kommer in, klättra upp stegen och du kommer att se imponerande hjärtat av Liberty City.
På ett uppdrag med PackieOm du placerar kameran på rätt sätt kan du titta inne i sitt huvud - inuti finns en ruta med en bild av en hjärna på det.
I norra Alderney, där du gör hoppa i uppdraget Out kommissionensFinns en person gör tai-chi på toppen av en hög klippa som är omöjlig att komma till utan en helikopter.
Om du tittar på sjön i Middle Park hjälp av karta eller helikopter, märker du att det är i form av en utomjording. Under körning av Mr TastyDu kan utlösa låtar att spela genom att klicka på horn. En av dessa låtar är låten från förtexterna av GTA4. Även här låten spelas, ring Finnen och de kommer texten du tillbaka med "Finnen! Spotted GTA IV Theme". Detta är ett fusk som ger spelaren hälsa, pansar och ammunition, men också inaktiverar vissa framgångar.
Om du tar en helikoptertur från Brucie KibbutzEller du går på en helitour finns det en oroande varningsmeddelande om helikoptern inne i sittbrunnen som du kan se om du tittar i första person läge som säger "Denna helikopter kan krascha men vi egentligen inte bryr sig om det inte finns i flyghandbok för hjälp."
Vid Firefly ProjectsFinns en park med en swingset. Om du kör bakåt (eller framåt med vissa fordon, Voodoo) på den, kommer swingset katapult fordonet du är i högt upp i luften. Detta är sannolikt en bugg i spelets fysik simulering.
Om du kör bil eller cykel i en otrolig hastighet, gå till din mobiltelefon och gå till kameran och när du väljer kameran, oavsett hur snabbt du går ditt fordon ska komma till ett snabbt stopp (fungerar inte på PC-version ).
När du köper dinSecond Safehouse in Bohan, När du stänger dörren, över vägen, kan du se en radom NPC talar om världens ände och Uppenbarelseboken. In i byggnaden bredvid honom och när du får upp några trappor, i en passage kan du se blod och en pistol på ett golv.
På en av Brucie uppdrag "Easy as Can Be", Om du tittar på den nedre delen av magen, kommer du att se en tatuering som säger "Mamma" på magen. Du kommer att kunna se att när han har sin skjorta.
Alls TW @ Internetcaféer, skärmen på Kakagawa Power Ultra 3.000 Pro kopiator bakom kassan lyder: FEL Unleash ninja guru lol. Detta kan endast ses genom omfattningen av ett Prickskyttegevär.
In The Lost and the Damned, Instrumentbrädan i Rhapsody har ett klistermärke på Wayne och Garth från filmen Wayne's World.
När du spelar multiplayer, är visa alla tv på safehouses spelets paus menyn utan kartan.

Secrets

Behind an old, rundown mansion in Westdyke, Alderney at the end of the dirt roads, there is the hidden, extremely rare Sultan RS parked in some bushes. This is practically the only way to find the car ingame. The only other way to obtain it is if the game has it stored in the temporary memory, and automatically spawns it parked and driving around the streets.
On the west side of Happiness Island there is a random spawn that can be a car. This is unusual as there is no way a vehicle can be brought on to the island unless unloaded by a ship.

References to previous games

On the Mission "First Date", If you selected "Try your Luck", Niko will ask if he can come in for coffee, then Michelle will say "Yeah, for 20 million dollars". This is a reference to the "Hot Coffee" controversy which describes the lawsuit.
Descending down the stairs of your first apartment in Hove Beach, you may spot some graffiti referring to past GTA protagonists Claude, Tommy, Carl (CJ), Toni, and Vic suggesting they have passed away. This can also be seen in the building adjacent to Playboy X's Penthouse. This could be referring to the fact that since the characters of previous games are part of a separate canon, they will not appear or be referred to in later games as they were in the GTA III era. The characters may not be dead, but they exist outside of GTA IV's storyline.
There is a Sprunk manufacturing plant in Alderney. Sprunk was featured in GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas, and Manhunt. It has returned to GTA IV with a brand new look. Also notice that "Sprunk" is a mix of the words "Sprite" and "Spunk". The sign outside the factory is very similar to a sign for Pepsi-Cola that appears in the film "The Great Gatsby."
One of the TV shows is a program called The Venturas Poker Challenge. It features a casino in Las Venturas from GTA San Andreas.
In Star Junction there is sign for Love Fist. Love Fist was featured in GTA Vice City, and was also on a sign in GTA San Andreas and GTA Liberty City Stories.
In the apartment in Bohan, next to the coffee table and in front of the bed, are a few CDs laying on the floor. Zoom in with a sniper to see that one of the CDs is by OG Loc from GTA San Andreas. There is also one by Madd Dogg.
There is a laundromat in Alderney called Mr. Wong's Laundromat; this is presumably either the same one from GTA III or a nod to that particular location.
When you kill Playboy X, go to his apartment and open the wardrobe to get a change of clothes that that look like the clothing of Claude, the protagonist of GTA III.
On the front of the Liberty Tree is Donald Love, who disappeared in GTA III.
The Securicars are apparently still owned by the Gruppe Sechs security firm (as seen in GTA III and Vice City), although in GTA IV the name is rendered as "Gruppe 6".
In the bars are postcards featuring Vice City. Vice City is also advertised in airfare billboards near the airport.
The "Pager" ringtone on Niko's cell phone is the pager sound from GTA III.
Niko can receive an email from Chiliad8888, which calls the recipient "Pilgrim", makes many spiritually- and philosophically-charged (and anti-government) comments, ends with "Feel the Truth, Live the Freedom", and links to whattheydonotwantyoutoknow.com. On this website there is a discussion topic titled, "Jump to a new level of Spirituality" posted by "Trooth". This discussion thread includes more philosophical thoughts, mentions peyote, and provides a map of the Unique Stunt Jumps in Liberty City. "Chiliad" was also the name of a location in San Andreas (the highest mountain, in the southwestern wilderness). These clues suggest that the author of the email and discussion topic is The Truth, a character from GTA San Andreas.
On Happiness Island, in front of the entrance to the statue, it is possible to find a street-artist's easel/display stand with several pictures. These pictures are all concept works of many previous GTA characters. The easel can also be seen in south-central Algonquin, very close to where Hossan's random encounter takes place.
In Alderney, off Bowline and near the Mr. Fuk's Rice Box eatery, is a restaurant named the "Greasy Joe's Cafe", a most likely reference to the Greasy Joe's back in GTA3. There is a little sideline mention in the restaurant section on Public Liberty Online dot com.
Awhile after the mission Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend, the news reports that a homeless man found the diamonds used in the exchange and planned to use the money to open a gun store in Vice City.

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References to other games

In the amusement park in Broker there are blue/purple Hippo Statues, just like the ones from Manhunt.
On the TV channel WEAZEL, there is an animated tv show called Republican Space Rangers, which spoofs the Halo series, as it features southern homophobic rascist soldiers wearing green Spartan-type armor invading a foreign friendly planet. They fly in a spaceship shaped like a penis and fly through a ring like the HALO Rings, an obvious reference to sex.

Real-world references

For GTA IV's renditions of New York City landmarks, see Liberty City in GTA IV/New York Landmarks.

The game references to the economic recession faced by the United States on a few occasions.
Rockstar Games has a habit of putting its logo in its games; the bowling pins at the bowling alley have the Rockstar logo on them.
In Cluckin' Bell restaurants, near the back of the store, there's an action figure of a man in a martial arts position wearing a chicken hat; printed on the glass is "Cluck Norris," a reference to film/television star and martial artist Chuck Norris.
When the police get shot and don't die they sometimes scream "I'm going to be OK. I'm going to be OK!" A reference to the movie Reservoir Dogs.
The mission Weekend at Florian's is a reference to the comedy movie Weekend at Bernie's (Florian insists that his new name is Bernie).
The mission called I Need Your Clothes, Your Boots and Your Motorcycle is a reference to Terminator 2: Judgment Day, in which Arnold Schwarzenegger says this famous line.
The mission The Puerto Rican Connection is named after the movie The French Connection which features an El-Train chase, similiar to the mission.
Many street names in Bohan are named after prisons -- Leavenworth Ave, Alcatraz Ave, Sing Sing Ave, Guantanamo Ave, Attica Ave, San Quentin Ave, Folsom Way (best known from "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash), Rykers Ave (named after the Rikers Island prison on the East River of New York City), Joliet Street.
Streets running east-to-west (horizontally) in Algonquin are named alphabetically after different types of minerals. "A" is at the southern end of Algonquin; "X" at the northern end. The names include Amethyst, Barium, Calcium, Diamond, Emerald, Feldspar, Garnet, Hematite, Iron, Jade, Kunzite, Lorimar, Manganese, Nickel, Obsidian, Pyrite, Quartz, Ruby, Silicon, Topaz, Uranium, Vauxite, Wardite, Xenotime. (Why no Yttrium Street or Zinc Street?)
In the South of Alderney, the street names reflect (mostly antiquated) military terms -- Musketeer, Grenadier, Chariot, Phalanx etc.
In Broker, roads running North-South are named after Native American tribes -- Iroquois, Oneida, Mohawk, Onondaga etc.
In south Dukes and north Broker there are the street names "Cassidy" and "Sundance", a reference to the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Broker contains the streets "Ringo St" and "Starr St", a reference to the Beatles member Ringo Starr.
Rockstar uses cartoon characters names as street names such as, "Bart (Simpson), (Hubert) Farnsworth" and the direct link to South Park, "South Parkway".
In Alderney, some streets are named after cult leaders: Hubbard St., Applewhite St., Koresh Square
Some streets are named after tools -- Jackhammer, Plumbbob, Tinderbox.
Some streets are named after animals -- Caterpillar, Worm, Butterfly.
Some streets are named after foods -- Onion, Asparagus, Chive.
Some streets are named after colonial Settlements -- Yorktown, Delaware.
Some streets are named after famous surnames, -- Harrison, Hancock, Livingstone.
Some streets are named after nuclear tests -- Plumbbob, Emery, and Niblick.
On the Algonquin Bridge from Algonquin to Broker, on the right is a building with the name "CLOCKTOWER"; this is the reminiscent of the "WATCHTOWER" building of the Society of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Brooklyn.
At the beginning of Clean Getaway, Vlad is nearly hit by a taxi and shouts "Hey! I'm walking here!" in reference to the movie Midnight Cowboy.
On the stairway leading to the sea at Meadow Hills there is a 'Banksy-esque' style graffiti piece.
On the sides of some Sentinels are a little pink "STD," referring to Subaru's pink "STi".
There is a Liberty Tree article that talks about urban myths in Liberty City. This could be referring to the myths that were created around San Andreas.
An online article on Liberty Tree's website, an Air Sol flight has 212 passengers on board, 212 a reference to the area code in New York City.
In Willis, there is a shop called Al's Furniture. This is an obvious reference to Italian-American gangster Al Capone, who was officially the owner of a furniture shop.
The fact that a secretive government body operates out of a paper factory may be a reference to the TV show Heroes. A secretive organization in that show also uses a paper factory as a cover and much of the action takes place in New York.
The viral video, 2 Girls 1 Cup, is indirectly referenced to numerous times on the radio.

Adult humor

The outside sign for the Memory Lanes bowling alley depicts a bowling pin with two bowling balls on either side of it. Inside, however, the sign is only a neon outline, and resembles a crude drawing of male sex organs.
In many spots around Liberty City, there is rubble on the ground; in some of this rubble, you can see a purple dildo sticking out.
There are signs scattered throughout Liberty City that say 'Hot Coffee Shop,' clearly a reference to the Hot Coffee sexual content and controversy from GTA San Andreas
Looking at the golf courses carefully from a height reveals that they are penis-shaped.
A brand of beer in the game is called 'Dusche Gold.' "Dusche" is German for "shower", so it translates into "Shower of Gold."
Another beer brand (presumably spoofing Budweiser) is named "Piswasser", "wasser" being German for "water".
The logo for Piswasser shows a woman with the bottle in her mouth as if in an act of felatio
The logo for AutoErotica is a car resembling a penis
In East Island City, there is a building called the National Union of Contemporary Arts. It is located directly across the street from a PilPharm and Badman encounter. If you walk into the courtyard, you will see a statue of what looks like a stick figure man with an erection.