Large Theft Car IV

Grand Theft Auto IV (or AWG 4 ) is a project of Video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Take2 Interactive. The play is planned for the second quarters 2008 on Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.

It belongs to the series Grand Theft Auto of which it will be the 6th episode of the expenses series. This plays will leave in February and at the end of April 2008

Scenario

Niko Bellic is an immigrant of Eastern Europe old of about thirty years. It is his/her Roman cousin who persuades it to come to settle with Liberty City, being praised to have found the American Rêve there.

However, on its arrival with the the United States, Niko realizes that his/her cousin lied to him and who his new life is not that it had described to him in his many emails. Novel created for itself much enemies and needs Niko in order to help it to solve its multiple problems.

Characters

See the article Characters of Large Theft Car IV.

Official trailer cards

1: " Things will Be different"

Rockstar Games announced the February 27th 2007 the exit of the first video extract of the play for the March 29th 2007 with 23:00 UTC. A countdown was then installed on the official site. Arrived at the end of this last, video was it on line but the waiters of the site were quickly overloaded.

The trailer card, one duration of 1 minute 03, reveals that the play will proceed in Liberty City, city plagiarizing traditionally New York (New York, the United States) in the series of the Grand Theft Auto. It puts in scene the arrival in America of an immigrant probably of Eastern-European origin . In a brief Monolog, the character tells his history by the words " Life is complicated; I killed people, smuggled people, sold people. Perhaps young stag, things will different Be " (“ the life is complicated; I killed out of people, makes pass from clandestine, sold people. Can be that here, the things will be different ”). At the end of this sentence, the image darkens and the logo " IV" appears thus that the logo of Rockstar Games marking the end of the extract.

One can distinguish from many monuments of New York in the video such as in the order, the Statue of freedom, the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the Flatiron Building, Times Square and finally the MetLife Building (whose sign is modified ironically in " Getalife " (“ is a life ”). The trailer card uses the same kinematic style as the documentary Film Koyaanisqatsi and uses of them the original band of Philip Glass.

Rockstar Games thereafter confirmed that the realization of the trailer card had been carried out via the Rage engine on console, that which will be used for the play. It was however not specified if this one were carried out on the version Xbox 360 or PS3 of the play.

See the trailer card
First official images

2: " Looking For That Special Someone"

The June 12th 2007, Rockstar Games sends email to the subscribers of the " Rockstar Propaganda" informing its readers whom a new band announces, " Looking For That Special Someone " (“ In the search of somebody of special ”), was revealed the June 28th 2007, with 18:00, Paris time. Contrary to the first trailer card, no account-with-wrong way is posted.

See the 2nd trailer card

This video is more active than the first and Niko reveals us attacking police officers, hung Niko has a truck or has a helicopter. It shows us that the action will be more intense at the time of this opus. It also shows us some sequences of piloting of vehicles like Niko controlling a motor bike with a helmet or a car on a highway. With regard to the scenario, Nico Bellic would be since 10 years, in the search of a man… The sequences of shooting will be surely more realistic, the panes becoming deformed with the impact, the holes appearing in the car.

3: " Move Up, Ladies"

The third and last trailer card of AWG IV will be available the December 6th 2007, with 21:00, Paris time.

Differences with preceding the AWG

the greatest disappointment of the play is that the player will not be able to fly planes. Cepandant it will be able to fly by helicopter, when those are present in top of the roofs of buildings.

to steal a car, Niko will have to be done much more discrete than in preceding the AWG. Indeed it will be necessary to make sure that the owner of the car is out of reach and to break the pane of the case before making it start at any speed before being able to make use of it with itself.

the search for police force is done much more subtle and realistic: it will be necessary to escape a ray from monitoring (which grows with the number of stars of research) posted in bottom from the screen. The player will be able to hide in lanes or to change car in abandoned places in order to sow the police force. On the other hand one will not be able to count any more on the good old man " Pay Spray" to be made forget…

the inhabitants of Liberty City much more intelligent and are diversified. Now they can speak between them and react consequently, read the newspaper, cough, make use of their cellphones or machines with under… Homeless people when with them the hands close to a fire are heated and beg in the street. As usual, the types of pedestrians change with the hour.

All the city will not be directly accessible to Niko, it will have to advance in the play to enter certain buildings.

has share the loading of the starting play, it will not have no " absolutely there; load screen" , i.e. of sequence-loading.

If Niko will be able to change its clothes, it will not be able to change any more its physical appearance (hairstyle, tattooings…) as in AWG San Andreas.

One of the great innovations of the play is that actions of the player (to run, jump, type, draw…) will not be determined any more by the animations pre-written by Rockstar but by Euphoria, a very powerful engine which recreates the laws of physics in the environment: water, air, ground or even fire. Thus the movement of the player will be entirely continuous and each situation will be completely new (one will never steal two cars in the same way).

To note

the graphic engine used by this new opus will be Rage (Rockstar Advanced Game Engine), in-house developed engine and already contained in the play Table Tennis.

the play was officially announced the May 9th 2006 during the E3 by press release.

the play was officially deferred for April 2008. Take Two would have some financial problems owed with the history Manhunt 2.

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