GTA IV thoughts and hype thread

[-CJJB-]

Who's excited for this?
And what new features do you hope to see?

I'am thinking a more in depth city.One thats living and breathing instead of mindless pedistrians wondering around asking to be killed.
When you get arrested you could go to jail.A character creation mode would be good aswell


I hope they don't include a half assed online that saints row had.

[Mr Jacko]

You will be able to view a trailer on 29th March.
There are various rumors of the setting of this game, Rockstar have registered the names Grand Theft Auto: Bogota and Grand Theft Auto: Tokyo. But, since the Grand Theft Auto series has not used real city names in any of its titles you can be assured that neither of these will be the final title.

[-CJJB-]

I wish rockstar wern't so secretive.

I'd like to see one set in Ireland but that will never happen

[vtec236]

Really Ireland? who would the charactor be? something o'brien HA HA i think GTA4 will be good. Not sure if it's just me but i find it hard to play other consoles due to no achievements.

[Number 2]

Really Ireland? who would the charactor be? something o'brien HA HA i think GTA4 will be good. Not sure if it's just me but i find it hard to play other consoles due to no achievements.
I agree my gamerscore has warped my obbessive complulsive addictive persanality to only do things for immediate gradification. Or atleast within a few hours, gradification. I am stoked for GTA. I haven't even bothered to pay attention to any hype about it so far. I love all the series so no matter where it takes place I am there. Mindless pedestirians are great because you can beat the crap out of them and the fuzz without and consequence, unike crackdown where they always cry about killing the peace keepers.

[Cedar]

I hope it's set in a Seattle enviroment. Small city, large suburbia, beautiful scenes. I can see myself now speeding across the floating bridge dodging cars at high speeds. YES!

One thing that would be nice in a GTA game - Real car physics for damage.

[Number 2]

I have to disagree on the car damage. Thats what racing games are for. GTA is just an excuse for us to do the malicious things we want or think about in real life to people in videogames. I always play games seriously as far as driving, but when I am playing GTA it's like I never picked up a controller before. Mowing down pedestrians, bouncing of cars like a game of pinball. It's great!

[-CJJB-]

This may sound weird but i wonder how the GTA series will make the transition to next gen graphics?
All the graphics in the Gta's pn the ps2 were choppy but i liked them i don't think i'd like if gta went all shiny :p

[imdave]

apparently they are using the same engine they used for the table tennis game they released a while back

according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_IV)

[matt_don]

GTA: Ireland would be amazing. This place is like a warzone so it would be perfect for GTA lol. It would be good being able to choose which paramilitary organisation you join, then do missions for them against rival paramilitarys.