New GTAIV Preview and Stunning New Screens Released From Latest Build

From Gametap:

"In our nearly two-hour long visit to Rockstar's plush hotel room on the 8th floor of Hotel Vitale in San Francisco today--which gave us one beautiful view of the city--both of us got a better perspective on the virtual city of Liberty City, Rockstar North's imaginative interpretation of present day New York, plus plenty of hands-on time with the game."

[decapitator]

DO WANT. 100 Hours to complete ?! ..This is the action RPG I have always wanted. Thanks Rockstar.

[decapitator]

This years GOTY contender will be a hard pick

:-Dramatic vehicle jumps from previous games return.
-There are no returning characters from previous GTAs.
-A GPS system will tell you the optimal route for arriving at a mission checkpoint.
-You can plant waypoints anywhere in the city.
-The wanted rating can go up to six stars.
-Customization is restricted to clothing changes--no afros or anything like that.
-The fighting style Niko uses is krav maga.
-You can take a taxi or ride the subway to get to various points on the map. You can sit back and enjoy the ride or immediately jump from one point to the next.

[TriggerHappy]

Am worried. Still no details about the PS3 version ? Rockstar said they would be showing it very soon but still not a single word on that ?

EDIT: Has anyone heard anything about the PS3 version at all?? I mean even the smallest thing ?

[decapitator]

I think, there was a preview here not too long ago from a magazine about the PS3 version. According to the magazine, it was running very well just like the Xbox 360 version. So no need to be worried. :)

[Relcom]

speaks the truth

[stuntman_mike]

yeah its was a mag called psm3 they previewed the ps3 version of the game.

[UnblessedSoul]

Ign previewed the Ps3 version

[vloeistof]

gta iv ftw

[sabbath420]

did you guys read this part? "Aside from the EXCLUSIVE downloadable content for the Xbox 360 version of the game, there aren't A WHOLE LOT of differences between the 360 and PS3 versions of Grand Theft Auto IV. MOST of them are the usual things we've heard before with other games--the 360 version looks a little bit softer and MORE NATURAL while the PS3 version seems a little sharper around the edges. But, both versions look excellent at this point." See xbox does not suck so bad sony fans.

[Jason 360_Niglet]

Hmmmm... well enjoy it, lets hope your 180 doesn't break down while your reloading.

[Jason 360_Niglet]

a preview on the ps3 version, they said it was fantastic.

[Silellak]

How did this get a "disagree"? It's just a simple fact.

Some people here are ridiculous...

[sabbath420]

That is played out already. My box has not failed me yet. I bought mine on the ebay new core console when it first came out and have played 115 awesome to great games so far. I know that because the stats have all been saved since I got my box on launch day. Amazing isn't it? You will never be able to say that with the waitstation.(PLAY B3HIND) Any way I can't freaking wait to play this game. Been playin vc stories on my psp at work lately trying to fight the urge. Soon enough now. Stay on target...Stay on target...

[GETPWNED]

Don' listen to that droid. They ran out of things to say years ago. They are just pissed they will miss the entire GTA experience ;) And the guy in the article also said the PS3 version had ugly jaggiez all over and that the 360 version looked better "as usual" he said ;) Sony droids aren't going to like this one. Looks like they got duped into buying the weaker system... awwww, just like last-gen.... Pretty soon they will learn that Sony always over-hypes their crap hardware. We all knew this, but they said no. Looks who's crying now. HAhahAHAH, stupid, pathetic, worthless, sony swine.

As for this article, an amazing read. I actually know this guy on Live who claimed Rockstar would bring nothing new to the table, and that Saint's Row would be better because the first one was "next-gen" LOL. No joke. People that dumb actually exist. Not to mention the droid army.

[TitanUp]

ign For the first time, Rockstar gave us hands-on access to both the PS3 and 360 versions of GTA IV. The good news is that no matter which system you prefer, you're going to have a great-looking game to play. There are only some minor visual differences noticeable between the two preview versions. The 360 build is brighter and has slightly more vibrant color while the PS3 build has less aliasing issues. Both display a solid, consistent framerate even during scenes with heavy pedestrian traffic and wild explosions. While graphics whores will find subtle differences to nitpick, the average Joe is going to be happy with either version.

http://xbox360.ign.com/arti...

[SIX]

Good to know they are both looking very nice.Thanks for that link.

[power of Green]

aliasing is something the 360 is good at handling so expect that to be worked on in the last few weeks. Rather have heard it from another source though IGN is afraid of the Sony movment.

Atleast RockStar was brave enough to finally show both version at the same time with all the problems they had with the title delaying it and all. Wonder if the current builds were stratigicly shown at this point to be fair and not to offend anybody. Whats tweeked towards the end before release won't matter because the hype will override the end result.

[power of Green]

IGN:

" display a solid, consistent framerate even during scenes with heavy pedestrian traffic and wild explosions".

BoomTown:

"It must be said that the frame-rate isn't too impressive at times"

I'm going with Boomtown IGN has made some claims proven false latley.

[jackdoe]

@Powerofgreen, you do know that the boomtown preview was for the 360 build right? You defend the 360 build by saying that aliasing will be taken care of(there probably aren't any issues to begin with on either platform) and then you blast it with your boomtown statement which is odd. Anyway, look in the little box to the right of the Gametap preview for the differences between the PS3 and 360 versions.

[power of Green]

Your comment was my point. I read the Boomtown post I know it was a 360 only hands on I approved it.

Its where I got the quote. lol

Each of my posts are over an hour apart lol, I read the boomtown post after the IGN post when I already was skeptical of the IGN.

from my first post

"Rather have heard it from another source though IGN is afraid of the Sony movment."

Events or steps

STEP 1. 360 is good with antialiasing, what gives?

STEP 2. Somethings wrong I thought to myself

STEP 3. Read and approved the the BoomTown post

STEP 4. Came here to compare two contradicting observations of the game.

STEP 5. Repling to you agreeing that IGN had given less then true info on the title

STEP 6. Thinking to myself those things IGN said must be off and for the most part IGN was wrong thinking to myself how can this dude reply to me combining two different comment made almost two hours apart from eachother when I came back to further back my suspicions stated in my first post.

STEP 7. WTF?, he says the BOOMTWON was a preview of the 360 version and he's telling me this after I posted a quote from the story.

STEP 8. *Laughs then and puts on ignor*.

Do you understan?.

[jackdoe]

You don't make any sense at all. I don't know, could you get it through your thick skull that there are varying levels of nitpickiness? Like your apparently huge bias and ignorance? Sigh. I put you on my ignore ages ago(like most other people on this site). I just wanted to respond to your ignorance so I temporarily took you off for a few minutes. Good bye! We shan't be seeing any more of each other!

[THE TERMINATOR]

Looks like sh!t compaired to 8 days

[xionpunk]

I do believe the hype is now cranked up to 11...

[Premonition]

My favorite part of the preview:

"When I first jumped into the game, I shot one of the cab drivers through the windshield and thought it was cool that he just slumped over in his car. But what I didn’t realize was that all of his dead weight would press down on the gas pedal, which caused the cab to barrel down on me and slam me into a wall."

[InMyOpinion]

And not only considering it's an open world game.

I'm not worried at all. I think it will be a "Wow...how did they do that?"-experience.

[The Milkman]

I read the previews and it just got me even more hyped. This game is going to be tight as hell. Seems like they are giveing me pretty much everything that I ask for out of GTA. I wanted them to bump up the NPCs fighting difficulty. Get boring after you just beat everyones ass without any complications lol.

Once I read that he shot the cab driver through the window, and he fell over and hit the gas pedal and crashed into him.... I was sold on how they bumped up the realism.

[Premonition]

Also we forget that they are keeping the multiplayer part of the game secret, hopefully some time at the end of march early april they will shed some light on what they will be doing for multiplayer.

[sak500]

I hope Jack thompson gets jailed before this game comes out lest he starts another obnoxious campaign against it.

[Jo0j]

" - Even More details
This years GOTY contender will be a hard pick

:-Dramatic vehicle jumps from previous games return.
-There are no returning characters from previous GTAs.
-A GPS system will tell you the optimal route for arriving at a mission checkpoint.
-You can plant waypoints anywhere in the city.
-The wanted rating can go up to six stars.
-Customization is restricted to clothing changes--no afros or anything like that.
-The fighting style Niko uses is krav maga.
-You can take a taxi or ride the subway to get to various points on the map. You can sit back and enjoy the ride or immediately jump from one point to the next." -

ok lets look at this for a sec

"-Dramatic vehicle jumps from previous games return."
...........Now THAT'S next-gen, truly revolutionary.
"-There are no returning characters from previous GTAs."
..........Thank god.
"-A GPS system will tell you the optimal route for arriving at a mission checkpoint."
...........great idea, especially when Saint's Row did it first.
"-You can plant waypoints anywhere in the city."
............again, great idea, Saint's Row says hi.
"-The wanted rating can go up to six stars."
.............wow, just like the old GTA's, way to push the envelope.
"-Customization is restricted to clothing changes--no afros or anything like that."
...............what? I can't put a 'fro on a eastern european? who'da thunk?
"-The fighting style Niko uses is krav maga. "
..............let's hope the controls let you use it effectively.
"-You can take a taxi or ride the subway to get to various points on the map. You can sit back and enjoy the ride or immediately jump from one point to the next."
.............again, Saints Row sends their regards.

......I'm surprised they didn't lift anything else from Saint's Row, like proper multiplayer, or the use of a cellphone, or a controls scheme that actually functions properly,...oh, wait..oops, nevermind...

.......That being said I can't wait for both GTAIV and Saint's Row 2.