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GTA IV Preview from Insidegamer

Insidegamer is not a english speaking gaming website and even when translating the preview into english it seems to still be a little hard to read.
Below are the key points the previewer talks about and in a much easier to understand format.

- Fighting is much more extensive. There are 5 buttons at the same time that you can use.

- Using the left trigger Niko locks immediately on an opponent and if you want to switch between targets, a small tap on the left analogue is enough.

-Niko automaticly aims on the chest of your enemy but with a subtle movement of the right stick, Niko also can focus on other part of bodies.

- Niko can hold a grenade longer before you throw out, with the result of that the grenade explodes at the right time.

-Enemies are seen with a red arrow above their head.

- Enemies can vomit/throw up

-When you hit heavy objects with your car, Niko flys through out the windshield.

- Weather affects the behaviour of cars. At high speed, a Banshee (in real life a Dodge Viper), or a Croquette (Corvette), for example, it will be very hard to drive cars when it's rainy.

- Peds have many different reactions for example, when you aim at them sometimes they drop their coffee and etc.

- The heavy rains are very atmospheric

- People put up their umbrellas when it starts to rain.

- Cops wear raincaps over their hats.

- There is no army in the game. When you get 6 stars, you will still be chased by POLICE, SWAT and FBI.

- Peds can be drunk as well as Niko.

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Kneeknocker5895d ago

There is no army in the game. When you get 6 stars, you will still be chased by POLICE, SWAT and FBI.

All sounds great... im looking forward to hours of fun with this one : )

Danja5895d ago

Def agree with yah...i was having doubts about this game but recently...im really amped for this game....lets see if it can replace Vice City as my fave GTA..?

tweaker5895d ago (Edited 5895d ago )

Those are some badass features. Can't wait to drive 100+mph into a wall to throw Niko through the windshield. lol

rareairtone5895d ago

I bet if they are really scared they throw up or it's that they can cough up the blood that comes through their mouths. Pedestrians can also probably throw up.

They are wrong about how to change the person you are aiming at--its a flick of the right thumbstick. I notice that there are conflicts with the different journalists in terms of what buttons are for what actions. Many say that the cinematic camera in the car is activated by holding down B, but a german journalist said it's by using the left thumbstick button, but normally that's for the horn. I also saw someone say that you shoot with the right bumper while driving but it others say u do it by holding down the left bumper. Only one source I read says that the A button and the right bumper are for the handbrake (I don't know why there would be two buttons for this)

Zip5895d ago

That would be the last thing Niko would perform in that life lol

nah what I cant wait to do is to get damn drunk, find myself a whore ... or a old laidy, and beat the hell out of her, if I had a bad day lol.

but the ultimate must be to start a war vs. the cops and have a good old fashioned car chase

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Mainline Grand Theft Auto trailers ranked from best to worst

As we have all been graced by the release of Grand Theft Auto 6's trailer, we're ranking the best and worst GTA trailers to date.

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purple101140d ago

We be getting these posts All week now lads. Someone noticed a number plate ... Someone noticed a billboard... I can see it now

Just go on YouTube and watch one of the many videos dissecting the whole 1minite 30secs worth.

This site supposed to be for news.

roadkillers140d ago

These updates on N4G are going to ruin whats rest of this site. Unfortunate since I was one of the first members.. The site shows unsecure when i login as well.

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Grand Theft Auto 4 Anniversary: The Beginning of the Age of RAGE

Grand Theft Auto 4 is an important game for Rockstar, not least because it was the first title in the franchise to use the newly created RAGE engine.

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franwex357d ago

Wasn’t the Table Tennis game the first to use RAGE?

isarai357d ago

Was about to say the same, but they do say first "in the franchise" so 🤷

cammers1995357d ago

The fact it hasnt been remastered is insane.

Abear21357d ago

Rage engine made driving on the sidewalk in cinematic slow motion camera a blast

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Fifteen Years On, 'Grand Theft Auto IV' Is Still the Series’ Best

There’s never a bad time to relive its magic, and with rumours of a potential Grand Theft Auto IV remaster making the rounds, why wouldn’t you?

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Machina359d ago

The series' most overhyped and overrated (especially by critics) more like.

Number1TailzFan359d ago

Not sure tbh.. I'd say 3 was the most overrated. It's pretty rough to go back to, it was quite rough even trying it just after Vice City. Lack of humour and vehicles that had the weight of polystyrene with top speeds to match.

VC & the stories games (even LCS) were all fun. I remember there being a lot of praise for GTA 3 on TV and in game mags, saying it was a Dreamcast killer of a game or words to that effect, and honestly after playing it on PC I didn't think it was that special and kind of dull, had the odd moment of fun but hardly anything. I heard they cut online multiplayer at the last moment for PC, shame because it could've made all the difference.

Would've loved to have seen what kind of cartoony GTA style game they could've done on Dreamcast as a competitor, I bet something along the lines of Simpsons Hit & Run would've worked well.

BlackTar187359d ago

@numberz How can the game that defined a generation and was copied by everyone be overrated? Was a asinine comment

seanpitt23359d ago

For me 4 was better than 5 was more realistic and the physics was on another level! 5 was a major let down in that department!

Number1TailzFan359d ago

@blacktar you have your opinion i have mine. I found the game dull, and it is for the most part. It set the foundation for the much superior SA and VC however.

KwietStorm_BLM358d ago

You say GTA III is overrated because it's rough to go back to and rough to play after Vice City. Your entire opinion is in hindsight. Of course it's rough going back to it today. It came out over 20 years ago. That doesn't take away from the fact that it pioneered a lot and was a paradigm shift for a lot of trends in game development today. Vice City in a lot of ways is just a more refined version of III. It was San Andreas that took the big leap forward from a design perspective. If III doesn't release, who knows if the open world genre would be what it is now. How can that be overrated?

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1nsomniac359d ago (Edited 359d ago )

Not at all. My most played game of all time. Truly stunning accomplishment in gaming and with PC graphics mods it just took it to levels beyond anything that came before and possibly even after.

People who moan about it generally tend to be people who played it on under powered consoles and couldn’t handle the more realistic car physics. It was the slightly more realistic approach that made it stand out more. Absolutely love it. In fact I always said Vice city was my favourite of all time. But after going back to the remaster I realised 4 was actually the best.

Profchaos359d ago (Edited 359d ago )

I'm no critic and I consider it the best games in the franchise after recently replaying every entry it's story when paired in conjunction with it's DLC was and still is amazing.

shinoff2183358d ago

Lol. Fun fact. That dlc cost a certain green colored console 50 million for exclusiveness. Un heard of back then. Just to point out the hypocrisy of the 3rd party exclusive agenda going on.

Anyway how the dlc better then the base game by a mile. Lol imo

DigitallyAfflicted358d ago

I've enjoyed gta4 the most from all the others too.

DarXyde358d ago

San Andreas holds a special place in my heart. Honestly, I couldn't get into IV at all. Didn't even finish it. I had some pride in playing it at first because I'm originally a New Yorker, but it just didn't do it for me.

To each their own.

shinoff2183358d ago (Edited 358d ago )

Gta sa for sure. To this day my favorite. My least fav is gta 4 easily. Gta 4 made me feel like the dude in next friday trying to take the cd back talking about i cant get jiggy wit this.

Maybe looking back it would be 3 but 3 did so damn much for gaming in general. . My first gta was of course the top downs so the series has came a long way.

notachance358d ago

Yeah I remembered falling asleep playing the last mission in GTA4.. the most boring protagonist (out of all the voiced protag), and the town is too small.

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-Foxtrot359d ago

Not really

Overrated

Boring

Liberty City despite being a reimagined version for the HD era lacked any variety

Lacked the GTA fun charm overall

Niko was bland compared to past protagonists like Tommy, CJ or Victor

blackblades359d ago (Edited 359d ago )

GTA 2 was the best, lol my only owned GTA game. Vice city was alright when I rented it back then. I cant really say which is the best cause those the only 2 games i played but GTA 2 was fun on PC back in the day. Closes game to it that I enjoyed was SR3 and I dont care what people say. That none serious tone was fun enjoyable.

banger88359d ago

Like hell it is. San Andreas was far better, much more fun and a better game overall.

isarai359d ago

Nah, it's a masterpiece in attention to detail and the amount of immersive systems at play. But it really isn't very fun, ESPECIALLY when compared to the previous games in the series. Like tons of things are just wonky and actively kneecap lots of experimentation, or is just lame. Like why do I take huge damage when falling into water, why can I only stand in very specific large trucks when they are moving but not smaller trucks and vehicles, why is the melee combat such a massive down grade from GTA SA and GTA IV, why is the euphoria nowhere near as reactive, why is being drunk using a rasterized animation of staggering rather than the far more entertaining euphoria GTAIV and RDR used when you were drunk, why do npc vehicles barely react to you popping there tires even at high speed, etc etc.

I've always loved playing around in GTA games world. Like the campaigns are great but the majority of my time was always spent just playing in the open world. Yet GTAV is the only game in the series I never really returned to after beating it, it just lacks that fun factor the others have, I spent more time in GTA SA remastered than GTAV

chicken_in_the_corn359d ago

It's one of my least favourite GTA games. It's clunky, the ai is exploitable, it's far too long and the writing is absolutely awful.

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