New GTA IV facts

[chips]

The lead character is called Niko Bellic, an Eastern European who comes to the US searching for the good old American Dream

Niko's cousin Roman will provide the incentive for your early missions - he's lied to Niko about having a perfect life in Liberty City, when actually he's massively in debt and in trouble with vicious thugs.


Roman's dingy taxi firm is your initial base of operations, but you'll be able to live a far more flexible life and carve out your own path in ways we've not seen in previous GTA's.


Liberty City will change fundamentally when the sun goes down - with different pedestrians, and more dangers, appearing on the streets.


Four of New York's boroughs are fully replicated - Queens is 'Dukes'; The Bronx is 'Bohan'; Brooklyn is 'Broker'; Manhattan is 'Algonquin'. Part of New Jersey is included as 'Alderney'.


There's nothing outside of Liberty City, with no empty countryside or desert areas. Rockstar instead are focusing on ramming every inch of the city with believable, dynamic life.


Pedestrians are aware of their surroundings, and you'll see lots of different faces doing lots of different things: smoking, sitting, talking on the phone...


Physics plays a huge part, with Niko's movements affected by the world around him - his walk, for instance, is influenced by the slope of the pavement, or any rubble on the ground.


Rockstar big cheese Dan Houser says: "The world is not designed to be a video game. We are trying to make a video game that feels like the world, but still plays like a video game".

[Wootzeh]

There's also no planes and the police will be more intelligent as 'It's hard to be a criminal nowadays'

[Jazza]

Very nice find

[Frodo13.]

Shame we gotta wait so long!! +rep for the info.

[cocaine]

There's also no planes and the police will be more intelligent as 'It's hard to be a criminal nowadays'

no planes!?

;o

[brandon]

nice find, was hoping the main character was Tommy Vercetti myself.

[mangle]

nice find, was hoping the main character was Tommy Vercetti myself.

I didn't like Tommy that much :[
And the plane thing !!
Best be copters though

[brandon]

someone like Lance, the guy who backstabs you in one of them, GTA3 I think? he would have been an alright main character. Are there any images about of this new guy?

[the wombats]

someone like Lance, the guy who backstabs you in one of them, GTA3 I think? he would have been an alright main character. Are there any images about of this new guy?

yeah in the trailer, he looks proper scruffy.

http://www.gta4.net/screenshots/index.php

[Neil]

I quite like the sound of some of these new features, and how Rockstar are going for a different approace towards the characters role, it's about time we got a proper GTA when your character doesn't want to be in all the mess of crime, the thing about planes is a bit disapointing but hopefully it'll be just like New York