Offical GTA IV Thread

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This is icing on the cake:

"Taking a cue from Bungie's stat-a-riffic Bungie.net service, Rockstar Games has just announced the Rockstar Games Social Club, "a new website that will extend your experience of Grand Theft Auto IV and all future Rockstar Games titles." Line up against the Club's stanchions at rockstargames.com/socialclub and be ready for registration on April 15th. All you'll need is a Xbox Live gamertag and/or a PSN ID and an insatiable hunger for statistics. You've got one of those, right?

Once GTA IV launches, the site will offer the usual multiplayer leaderboards, along with a torrent of statistically generated functionality. The LCPD Police Blotter will show the most dangerous areas of Liberty City and the most commonly used weapons, using the "aggregated data of millions of connected players." Similarly, the Liberty City Marathon will catalog the "the amount of miles walked, driven, or swam -- to the number of bullets fired and stunt-jumps jumped" and will hold competitions amongst players using this data. Other sections will track players who complete 100% of the game (they can win an "ultra-rare" bit of swag); a Hall of Fame, tracking the various leaderboard champs; and The Story Gang, a "single-player leaderboard." Consider us interested. You could consider us even more interested if we knew the first thing about the game's multiplayer functionality, outside of the occasional rumor.

* LCPD Police Blotter -- A virtual map and tracker of single-player criminal activity logged in Liberty City from the aggregated data of millions of connected players - showing the most dangerous areas of town, most commonly used weapons and more.
* The Story Gang -- This special single-player leaderboard recognizes players who complete Niko Bellic's main story arc of Grand Theft Auto IV - The leaderboard ranks players according to the total amount of playing time it's taken to complete the story, as well as a historical rank by who has completed it first. Members of this club will receive special online widgets and merit badges marking all of their in-game accomplishments.
* The 100% Club -- Watch to see who will be the first to complete 100% of the game. The first ten people to be identified on the Social Club as reaching 100% will be sent an ultra-rare commemorative 'key to the city' to mark their accomplishment. In the future, the 100% Club will then carry a historical leaderboard showing rankings of who has completed 100% of a game in the shortest span of playing hours.
* The Hall of Fame -- This area will dynamically recognize those singularly elite players who have reached the top of the hill on various statistical leaderboards, and will also contain a personal awards display of special in-game landmarks and successes in Social Club competitions.
* The Liberty City Marathon -- A ranking of special physical milestones achieved in the game - from the amount of miles walked, driven, or swam - to the number of bullets fired and stunt-jumps jumped. There will be additional special marathon-based competitions in the future from this area as well."

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Achievements leaked

* Pool Shark 10G
Beat a friend at pool.

* King of QUB3D 15G
Beat the High Score in QUB3D

* Finish Him 15G
Complete 10 melee counters in 4 minutes

* Genetically Superior 25G
Come first in 20 singleplayer street races.

* Wheelie Rider 30G
Do a wheelie lasting at least 500 feet on a motorbike.

* Gobble Gobble 10G
Score 3 strikes in a row, a turkey, in 10-pin bowling.

* Driving Mr. Bellic 10G
Unlock the special ability of taxi.

* Rolled Over 30G
Do 5 car rolls in a row from one crash.

* Walk Free 50G
Lose a 4 star wanted rating by outrunning the cops.

* Courier Service 10G
Complete all 10 package delivery jobs.

* Retail Therapy 10G
Unlock the special ability of buying guns from a friend.

* Chain Reaction 20G
You must blow up 10 vehicles in 10 seconds.

* One Man Army 40G
Survive 5 minutes on 6 star wanted level.

* Lowest Point 5G
Complete mission "Roman's Sorrow".

* Over Fulfilled 10G
Complete all 10 Exotic Export orders.

* Manhunt 15G
Complete the most wanted side missions from the police computer.

* Cleaned the Mean Streets 20G
Capture 20 criminals through the police computer.

* Fed The Fish 5G
Complete the mission "Uncle Vlad".

* It'll Cost Ya 5G
Complete a taxi ride without skipping from one island to another.

* Sightseer 5G
Fly on all helicopter tours of Liberty City.

* Warm Coffee 5G
Successfully date a girl to be invited into her house.

* That's How We Roll! 10G
Unlock the special ability of helicopter.

* Half Million 55G
Reach a balance of $500,000.

* Impossible Trinity 10G
Complete mission "Museum Piece".

* Full Exploration 20G
Unlock all the islands.

* You Got The Message 20G
Deliver all 30 cars ordered through text message.

* Dare Devil 30G
Complete 100% of the unique stunt jumps.

* Assassin's Greed 20G
Complete all 9 assassin missions.

* Endangered Species 50G
Collect every hidden package in the game.

* Under the Radar 40G
Fly underneath the main bridges in the game that cross water with a helicopter.

* Dial B For Bomb 10G
Unlock the special ability of phoning for a bomb to be placed.

* Gracefully Taken 10G
Complete mission "I'll Take Her".

* Liberty City (5) 20G
After meeting all possible friends, the ones left alive all like you above 90%.

* No More Strangers 5G
Meet all random characters.

* That Special Someone 10G
Complete mission "That Special Someone".

* You Won! 60G
Complete the final mission.

* Liberty City Minute 30G
Complete the story missions in less than 30 hours.

* Key To The City 100G
Achieve 100% in "Game progress" statistic.

* Teamplayer 10G
Kill 5 players who are not in your team, in any ranked multiplayer team game.

* Cut Your Teeth 5G
Earn a personal rank promotion in multiplayer

* Join The Midnight Club 10G
Win a ranked multiplayer race without damaging your vehicle too much and with damaged enabled.

* Fly The Co-op 15G
Beat our time in ranked versions of "Deal Breaker", "Hangman's NOOSE" and "Bomb da Base II".

* Take It For The Team 10G
Be on the winning team in all ranked multiplayer team games.

* Top Of The Food Chain 10G
Kill 20 players with a pistol in a ranked multiplayer deathmatch.

* Top The Midnight Club 20G
Come first in 20 different ranked standard multiplayer races.

* Wanted 20G
Achieve the highest personal rank in multiplayer.

* Auf Wiedersehen Petrovic 30G
Win all ranked multiplayer variations, all races and "Cops 'n Crooks", as both sides.

* Let Sleeping Rockstars Lie 10G
Kill a Rockstar developer in a ranked multiplayer match.

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last trailer:

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Multiplayer details:

* Previously rumored 16-player online play is confirmed.
* The online maps aren't changed in any way from single-player -- you can still drive vehicles from one end of the city to the other, if you want.
* There's no co-op option for the single-player missions, but many online modes allow for cooperation.
* Ranked online matches earn players in-game cash for character customization. Higher difficulty means more cash.
* Race mode can be played with or without weapons.
* The volume of other characters voices will vary depending on their distance from you. "So if you hear an enemy's voice, he's probably right behind you and it's too late."

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allt eh pics r too big and I too lazy to resize for the 2 people that will look at this

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I've often asked myself what I would do without a cell phone. In Grand Theft Auto IV, just as in real life, the answer is simple: not much. Just as Rockstar Games created seamless transitions in past GTA titles, jumping from the single-player campaign to the new multiplayer component is as easy as pushing a button. You can drive in a 100 mph car chase with five cops on your tail. Walk down the street and admire the light shining through the arches of a bridge. Or jump off a 200-foot skyscraper. Just hit a face button, toggle to "multiplayer," and the game jumps online and entirely new modes.

During our hands-on test time at Rockstar Games in New York the publisher revealed for the first time four new multiplayer modes (the total number will be more than 15), including team deathmatch, GTA race, cops 'n robbers, and hangman's noose. Among those modes are options for traditional adversarial games (deathmatch or team deathmatch, for example), or co-op games such as cops 'n crooks and hangman's noose, where teamwork is essential. We played the Xbox 360 version and didn't see the PS3 build. Also, representatives reiterated it will ship both versions April 29.

GTA IV supports up to 16 players (on both PS3 and Xbox 360) online, and each mode offers enormous customizations specific to each mode. In team deathmatch, you can set up an equally balanced eight-on-eight battle or a lopsided two-on-14 fight. You can pick a custom or quick game, and party leaders can tweak options to alter each game significantly: You can change weapon types (all handguns for instance or only snipers), add or subtract police, traffic, pedestrians, or blips (i.e., enemy location).

New strategies are created by the addition of enemy blips and the cover system, enabled by pressing the right shoulder button. Enemies show on screen while moving and disappear when stationary. The amount of times I snuck up and shot an enemy dead was matched by the times opponents jumped from hiding to tan my behind. I also was able to tweak the reticule width, gamertag display, weather type, daytime, and control even voice chat options.

"If players want they can jump online and never even play the single-player again," Jeronimo Barrera, vice president of game development, told GameTap. "Online is a serious time sucker. You're going to have to be really careful if you’re married," he added with a smile.

The online game is split into two types, ranked and unranked. Many developers find gamers are wary of playing ranked games because skilled players lay in wait for newbies. But the reward for ranked players is cash. Cash is earned by winning levels, and it earns players more character customization options. More significantly, cash awards are accumulated throughout a persistent career, which is how Rockstar "ranks" your skill level.

While the single-player campaign doesn't support co-op like Gears of War, a good example of cooperative opportunities to earn more cash is found in cops 'n crooks, which enables up to 16 people to play in two distinct teams. If you coordinate with the whole team and get your boss character from point A to point B, your team earns more points than if only a single player (and the boss) got there.

Ever feel like being an Eastern European immigrant with a penchant for blood? Look not further than GTA IV--now with multiplayer!

Cops will set up roadblocks in hangman's noose, so pick a heavy truck to barrel through them.

Likewise, the higher difficulty level that's selected (from easy, medium, and hard), the more money each win earns. When you're not playing as the crooks escorting a boss, you're the cops in pursuit. Sometimes co-op play is as simple as charting a map. Players who jump in an escape car but aren’t driving can set on-the-fly way points using the on-screen map. If your GPS buddy is map savvy, he or she will lead you through town using the most direct route, which appears on screen for your team.

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GTA Race is ripped straight from previous GTA single-player campaigns. Up to 16 people can play in a no-holds barred lap race to the finish. But like past GTA games, cars are destructible, and drivers can arm themselves with pistols, machine guns, rifles, and more. This means you can drive any car, moped, or forklift you see; heck, even walking across the race line even counts, as long as you're first. As our three-hour session revealed, it’s just as much fun preventing others from crossing the finish line and disrupting their racing lines with Molotov cocktails and grenades as it is to win. (Another mode Rockstar casually mentioned was GT mode, which is a straight weaponless race.) Sticking with tradition, no cars are licensed, but fans can pick from car classes, and in each class, they can pick from familiar favorites such as Infernos, Turismos, Comets, and Supercars, to name a few.

Hangman's noose is part of a collection of co-op, objective-based missions engaging four humans versus a countless AI horde. Each mission starts with a cutscene, is followed by a set of goals, and requires teamwork to achieve success. These ministories aren't part of the single-player game; they're random. Our mission opened up with an unending stream of SWAT police (called "noose" in GTA IV) driving into an airport runway, flanking and surrounding our team. The object was to survive the first few waves of noose attacks, secure a vehicle, prevent Kenny Petrovic from dying, and get to the designated location. Within seconds of jumping into a car, the difficulty level increases, as multiple helicopters swarm the skies. Cop cars congregate setting up road blocks, pedestrian cars get in the way, and, in the medium and hard levels, GTA's trademark orchestrated blend of chaos, skill, and madness ensues.

Rockstar's multiplayer mode debut is a first for the series. The four modes we played show Rockstar North has made the hard transition past its successful trilogy, offering an impressive variety in gameplay types (more than 15 modes total), hundreds of custom options including character creation, and the organic integration of full world online maps including vehicles such as cars, boats, and helicopters.

[zomg4evr]

First review from XBOX magazine is out, GTA IV got a perfect 10.

I probably won't be posting much for awhile, my PC is dying slowly and I don't want to visit here at work.

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7...more...dayze...ugh

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LEAKED!!!

The PAL version for 360 has shown up on torrent sites today. For ttl n00bz that means if ur xb00x is flashed (for ttl ttl noobz: m0ded to save and pirate gamez((for ttl ttl ttl n00bz: n0t recomend3d if u w4nt to stay on live))). Ironically the torrent's caption reads "and guys, seriously, go and buy this one! R* deserves it..."

l0lz

what's pretty interesting about this is how nerdz all over the net seem to really be behind buying the game to support Rockstar. I can't wait for the news stories to roll in this weekend with all the torrents users that sign into Live and the retail employees getting banned for breaking street date. The merch is suppose to arrive at retailers starting Friday so if you have a friends at Walmart. target, game stop nows the time to pull a favor

[zomg4evr]

The reviews are rolling in and most are claiming this is nothing short of amazing. So far these are by far some of the best reviews for a game in the last couple years, one reviewer claims it's the best game he's played in 10 years

Believe the hype

[NUMBER THREE]

well, i guess you're all probably playing GTA4 now. i guess i'll just go pick my butt.

[zomg4evr]

first impressions:

It very much feels like a GTA game but the major difference is I'm finding myself less likely to fuck around because the story is actually pretty well paced. The cars handle much differently but I got used to it. The city is really awesome lots of detail.

Multiplayer-

Played for about 2 hours, death match is pretty fun but Cops and crooks was pretty interesting as well. The GTA race mode suprised me, really crazy it's like any racing game accept more weapons. Lots more to play.

[zomg4evr]

Why does gta rule beside every other reason the internetz has already given?

I've been having fun stealing cars just by pointing guns at the driver so last night I did this and the driver yelled "so what it's just a gun". Being the innocent person he was this pissed me off especially when he bumped with his car to get out of the way. So coures I had to shoot that mutherfucker, blood caker the bullet hole and his body slumped over the steering wheel sending the car flying into me then swerving into a hot dog stand killing two people.

yes

[NUMBER THREE]

NO not the hot dogs!

[$BOOYA$]

Have you stolen a car with someone getting into the trunk yet. Most of the time the trunk will slam closed onto them dragging them behind you for awhile. Good times.

[zomg4evr]

no, damnit. you are decently far ahead of me.

[things that go stab]

OMG FIRST 2 PAGE LULZHEARTS THAERD!!!!1

[zomg4evr]

I found something that pisses me off last night, I was playing GTA race online when I decided to stop on a very narrow 2 lane bridge with sidewalks or diveders to drive on. I cause a giant wreck and made a road block at least 20 cars deep, no way arround it. However I did this about 3 mins before people started coming around for the next lap and cars slowly started disappearing, I See this happen in the single player too. I know the clock works on hyper time but it should leave that shit there for awhile. I guess it was pretty fun while it lasted

[$BOOYA$]

That's still pretty awesome.

[zomg4evr]

I'm sick of this shit, Scott we need to set up a time to play together online.

[NUMBER THREE]

here is a video of my brother rodger's dog, trixie, watching him play GTA4. he says she is a weird little dog and i said next you should teach her to steal car.

Trixie Vercetti

[$BOOYA$]

I'm sick of this shit, Scott we need to set up a time to play together online.

I go to bed pretty early, before 10pm is best for me. Motherfucker be gettin up at 5 an shit.

[zomg4evr]

damn, I was thinking along the lines of an early saturday eveing or something. We should wait for the dude to get internet so we can play with 3 peeps.

[things that go stab]

guys!!! mom said you have to let me play too!!!

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