Grand Theft Auto 4 Trailer

With Vice City, San Andreas, Liberty City Stories, and Vice City Stories all after Grand Theft Auto III, I was starting to think Rockstar Games couldn’t count to four. Fortunately, we’re going back to Liberty City on October 16 with Grand Theft Auto IV.

The trailer is about 1:03 in length, and it reveals that the game takes place (at least partially) in Liberty City, a fictionalized New York City, and an immigrant with a heavy Russian accent, who appears to be the main character. The character has a brief monologue: “Life is complicated; I killed people, smuggled people, sold people. Perhaps here, things will be different.” Then the trailer ends with the “IV” logo.

The trailer features many familiar New York City landmarks, including a location resembling Times Square and the “GetaLife Building,” a parody of the MetLife Building. All of the cars and buildings seem to indicate a present-day setting. The trailer uses a similar cinematic style to Godfrey Reggio’s 1982 documentary film Koyaanisqatsi as it used Philip Glass’s original music from the film (a section of the track “Pruitt-Igoe”) as well as emulated time-lapsed filming.

Rockstar also revealed that all the trailer’s footage is generated real-time via the game’s engine RAGE, running on an actual game console, and that it was not pre-rendered. Whether the footage is running on Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 has yet to be specified.

Yup, you read that right: this is real-time game footage, not some pre-rendered mockup. Looks like things will be different.

(Via Wikipedia.)

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March 30, 2007 | Filed Under Gaming, Video 

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13 Responses to “Grand Theft Auto 4 Trailer”

  1. Anonymous on April 10th, 2007 9:01 pm

    this game looks awesome i personally have played and completed all previous GTA games. hopefully it will be running on xbox 360 since that is the only console i own and the graphics well they are amazing!!!!

  2. bob on April 22nd, 2007 4:38 am

    gammy trailer it should show more game footage

  3. jay the russian on April 25th, 2007 12:19 am

    omfg!! cant wait till the game is out…even though the preview is very short, its shows some sweetness of the game, and its a freaking badass guy as the main character!! life doesnt get any sweeter!!

  4. chris heatherly on May 2nd, 2007 12:40 am

    you guys are douches GTA sucks I dont like them at all they are all gayer than a queer at a weenie roast so take those games and shove hem up your asses…..yep that just happened

  5. paul on May 2nd, 2007 11:07 am

    i actually jacked off to this

  6. Gta4 on May 4th, 2007 9:11 pm

    I can’t wait untill it is finally released. I read somewhere that there aren’t going to be any planes in this series. That sucks but everything else looks amazing from what I’ve seen so far.

  7. OfficalJory on May 8th, 2007 7:08 am

    the main character looks dumb u should be able to do either pick the color of person u want, or change the character.. and i give this game a 7 with the character your using, and i will give a 4 if its not way bigger than san adreas… and one more thing if you cant do exactly what you could in the other gta’s i give this game a 2 out of 10..

  8. OfficalJory on May 8th, 2007 7:09 am

    oh and yea if you cant fly in this game dont release the game… cause it wont be worth it…

  9. StanTheMan on May 8th, 2007 3:28 pm

    OfficalJory is a complete loser. The ammount of time and effort everybody put into this game should be appreciated and not demanded. If you really think you can pull a better game out of your pooper, dont open your mouth. This game looks amazing.

  10. Klaus on May 14th, 2007 9:13 pm

    I don’t wan t to know.

  11. Jeff on June 13th, 2007 12:52 am

    This game has to be the best looking game that i have ever seen in my life. I will now go blow a load

  12. big MO on September 26th, 2007 1:23 am

    officialjory is dumb as hell and doesnt know what she is talking about

  13. dwaine on November 22nd, 2007 9:43 pm

    ears

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