Originally by: DB Preacher

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Edited by: DB Preacher on 29/03/2007 16:08:54
Just so I don't forget with tonight's ig festivities, the GTA IV trailer gets released tonight.

It comes online at around 11pm uk time at:
GTA IV Trailer

Check it out if you are into that sort of thing,
dbp

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Originally by: Jiekon/CCP

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If you are sitting with a guy and he says "ok, i'm logging off now" and you shoot him, that is fine.

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Originally by: DB Preacher

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Edited by: DB Preacher on 29/03/2007 16:16:57
heh, you didn't see the 2 minute tv slot recently in the US for it then :p

That was 2 minutes of watching the timer tick down >.<

p.s. soz chode, I know I'll forget tonight ;)

dbp

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Originally by: Araxmas

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Hopefully they wont use their same crap ass engine for the past 3 games. I had tons of people hailing san adreas and such as, "oh my god its brilliant the graphics are amazing" and nope its the same boxy rubbish. Now a GTA game with 'just cause' graphics.... MMMMM

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Originally by: The Pointless

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Nope, no Renderware this time (EA's probably being selfish), instead I heard it was to run on the same engine behind Table Tennis.

What was the name of that engine again? RAGE?

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Originally by: DirtyHarry

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you better have named one of the characters havocide!

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Originally by: DB Preacher

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p.s. I haven't actually checked these are 100% correct so don't blame me if it's donkey **** or something!!

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Originally by: Benedictus Setaro

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It's Liberty City again! It seems they are heavily modeling it (even more so than it was) on New York, with Statue of Liberty and famous buildings included.

In the hi-res trailer you can see 'Welcome to Liberty City' signs on the a building along with the 'Liberty Tree' news paper and a 'I love Liberty City' sign.

Shame, they should have had the cajones to just make it New York for real, that would have made Jack Thompson's head-explode

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Originally by: SPQRMocton

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We would love to have a bunch of teenage pimple boys with no real pvp ability to fil our corpse yards

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Originally by: Captain Hudson

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Does this mean i can run over people in hi-def?

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Originally by: DirtyHarry

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Edited by: DirtyHarry on 30/03/2007 03:04:10
looks nice, but 400 odd quid for one game is a little much :<

edit: by that I mean buying the ps3 for 1 game is too much

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Originally by: DB Preacher

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Originally by: DirtyHarry

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Edited by: DirtyHarry on 30/03/2007 03:04:10
looks nice, but 400 odd quid for one game is a little much :<

edit: by that I mean buying the ps3 for 1 game is too much

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Screw the ps3, get yourself an xbox 360 and save yourself a couple of hundred squid :D

dbp

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Originally by: The Gate

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Whats with all the "this time things will be different" quotes ?. The only thing different is the graphics, big deal. That trailer was very disappointing.

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Originally by: The bloke from the GTA IV trailer

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Life is complicated.
I've killed people,
smuggled people,
sold people.
Perhaps here, things will be different.

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Originally by: DirtyHarry

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Originally by: DB Preacher

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Originally by: DirtyHarry

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Edited by: DirtyHarry on 30/03/2007 03:04:10
looks nice, but 400 odd quid for one game is a little much :<

edit: by that I mean buying the ps3 for 1 game is too much

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Screw the ps3, get yourself an xbox 360 and save yourself a couple of hundred squid :D

dbp

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you're releasing it on 360 too ? :O

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Originally by: DB Preacher

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Originally by: DirtyHarry

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Edited by: DirtyHarry on 30/03/2007 03:04:10
looks nice, but 400 odd quid for one game is a little much :<

edit: by that I mean buying the ps3 for 1 game is too much

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Screw the ps3, get yourself an xbox 360 and save yourself a couple of hundred squid :D

dbp

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Originally by: DB Preacher

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Edited by: DB Preacher on 30/03/2007 15:29:08

Originally by: DirtyHarry

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Originally by: DB Preacher

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Originally by: DirtyHarry

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Edited by: DirtyHarry on 30/03/2007 03:04:10
looks nice, but 400 odd quid for one game is a little much :<

edit: by that I mean buying the ps3 for 1 game is too much

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Screw the ps3, get yourself an xbox 360 and save yourself a couple of hundred squid :D

dbp

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you're releasing it on 360 too ? :O

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Yeah it will be released on XBOX 360 and PS3.

dbp

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Originally by: Brisi

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I'll wait for the pc version thank you very much.

Looks teh sex though.

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Originally by: Pehova Mindtriq

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btw is there a date for the release? Last I heard it was 27th october this year.

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Originally by: Jacque Custeau

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Edited by: Jacque Custeau on 03/04/2007 13:20:49
Looks like the public outcry has begun! Check out this link:

New York Balks at Next Grand Theft Auto

This is the first article I have read on this issue that pointed out that no one seems to care when its a movie/tv show as opposed to a game.

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Mon Apr 2, 11:44 AM ET

New York City's mayor has denounced the next version of Grand Theft Auto (GTA), for the violent game's resemblance to the metropolis. Although the game is set in fictional "Liberty City," trailers show familiar New York City landmarks, such as the Statue of Liberty, Coney Island's Cyclone, and the Brooklyn Bridge.

A spokesperson for Mayor Michael Bloomberg noted that the mayor does not support any video game where "you earn points for injuring or killing police officers."

In other news reports, city council member Peter Vallone noted that setting the game in the "safest city in America would be like setting Halo in Disneyland."

Mixed Reaction

Although GTA contains many scenes of violence, so too do numerous movies that are set in New York -- yet the city does not make an outcry about being depicted cinematically as a haven for prostitutes, mafiosos, or serial killers, noted Jason Della Rocca, executive director of the International Game Developers Association.

"When you look at other forms of entertainment, how many movies, books, and TV shows use New York City as a setting for their stories?" he asked.

"There's a lot of stuff out there that's pretty over the top, and doesn't put New York in the best light," Della Rocca added. "They don't complain about that, yet when a game depicts similar incidents as movies in a similar setting, they're up in arms."

This is not the first time that a city has balked over the use of its landscape for a video game, he said. When first-person shooter Rainbow Six, based on a Tom Clancy novel, set one of its versions in Las Vegas, the city's officials expressed their disapproval by trying to have the game banned.

Art Form?

The furor over GTA and Rainbow Six highlights a larger issue of what constitutes art, Della Rocca said. Movies and even TV shows are considered art forms, or at least protected entertainment.

But, he believes, video games are not seen as art in any form, and protests such as those coming from the New York mayor's office show a lack of respect for games, said Della Rocca.

"There's a just a mismatch in terms of reaction, based on the perception of games," he noted. "In this particular case with New York, it doesn't seem like it's politically motivated, like, 'Let's beat up on this game to benefit our political campaign.' Instead, it seems they're genuinely unhappy. But that just shows a lack of understanding about games as an entertainment form."

Critics of the game point out that GTA and other shooter games differ from movies because they contain interactivity, giving a user the ability to choose their actions.

The new version of Grand Theft Auto is scheduled to ship to stores in October.

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Originally by: DB Preacher

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Yeah it will be released on XBOX 360 and PS3.

dbp

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