Grand Theft Auto IV
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| Developers | Rockstar North Rockstar Toronto (PC) |
| Publishers | Rockstar Games Capcom (Japan) Cyberfront (Japan PC) |
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| Release dates | PS3  29 April 2008  29 April 2008
Xbox 360 PC .png){kind=small} 20 March 2009 |
| Engine | RAGE |
| Protagonist | Niko Bellic |
| Location | Liberty City Alderney State |
| Year | 2008 |
Grand Theft Auto IV (referred to as GTA IV or GTA4) will be the eleventh Grand Theft Auto game in the series. The game is being developed by Rockstar North, and will be published and released by Rockstar Games. Take-Two announced the release dates would be October 16th 2007 in North America, and October 19th 2007 in the United Kingdom and rest of Europe. The first trailer for the game was released to much excitement on March 29th.
Known info
- The game will take place in a redesigned Liberty City - but additional locations are possible
- The protagonist Niko Bellic has an Eastern European accent
- Immense new graphics and effects, along with the new RAGE engine, will dwarf all previous GTA games
Debut trailer: "Things Will Be Different"
The first trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV was released on March 29, 2007 at 23:00 UTC. At the time the trailer was released, Rockstar's servers for the trailer's official website became almost immediately overloaded. The trailer is about 1:03 in length, and it reveals that the game takes place (at least partially) in Liberty City, a fictionalised New York City, and an immigrant with a heavy Russian accent, who appears to be the main character. The character has a brief monologue: "Life is complicated; I killed people, smuggled people, sold people. Perhaps here, things will be different." Then the trailer ends with the "IV" logo.
The trailer features many familiar New York City landmarks, including a location resembling Times Square and the "GetaLife Building," a parody of the MetLife Building. All of the cars and buildings seem to indicate a present-day setting. The trailer parodies Godfrey Reggio's 1982 documentary film Koyaanisqatsi as it used Philip Glass's original music from the film as well as emulated time-lapsed filming, similar to that used in the E3 trailer for Grand Theft Auto III.
Rockstar also revealed that all the trailer's footage is generated real-time via the game's engine RAGE, running on an actual game console, and that it was not pre-rendered. Whether the footage is running on Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 has yet to be specified.
Magazine Previews
The May 2007 GameInformer magazine contains an exclusive preview of GTA IV, including the name of the main character: Niko Bellic.
See also: Grand Theft Auto 4 Wish List
External Links
- Official Website
- GTAFour.net (Part of The GTA Place)
- GTA4.net (Part of GTANet)
- GTA4Trailer.com (Another site for the trailer)
See also