Grand Theft Auto News

Size and weight average, two-day beard, look banal and overlooked, natural refreshments, not beneficial… Niko Bellic has nothing of the hero who drives the mechanical and dropped the girls by the dozens. The antithesis of what the emerging Tommy Vercetti, Carl Johnson and company, the character that the player will incarnate for several tens of hours set aside the clichés of another time. Rockstar has matured with its series, more worrying than ever. Come straight from Eastern Europe, Niko joined his cousin Roman, based in Liberty City, which promises a life of quiet and luxurious, like a well-deserved retirement. An American dream, of course, quickly faced by a grim reality more than he had described this old Roman. A private taxi to the thriving little business, a guest room that includes just the minimum… No rhinestones or sequins, no beautiful bodywork or strippers, not even a shadow of a decent housing. The fall is tough. Roman actually need the rare talents that Niko has to bring some order into a life in danger every day…

GTA IV has also a comprehensive multiplayer mode that extends the adventure through the streets of Liberty City. It represents the opening of the series to play online. In addition, a total of fifteen different modes available to owners of an online account. For example, it may be asked players to access a specific point on the map above all others. We then can choose the place of action, its duration, the weapons allowed, the type of sight (automatic or manual), the presence or absence of police, traffic density, and a pile of other parameters. The player can also choose the look of his character, from gender to the face through the clothing and accessories, although the choice of base remain restricted to this level.

Finish Liberty City and its gray buildings, up to Vice City, with its sandy beaches, palm trees, golf, Cuban’s district, Little Haiti, its bars, its airport, hotels, clubs strip, its film studio, with its many cafes, its jewelry stores, its pizzeria, its police headquarter… Rockstar is strong and performs the feat of creating a city even greater than the previous one. Vice City is twice larger than Liberty City. This means two things. First, missions promise to be more varied than GTA 3 and they are. Secondly, there are twice as many small streets and major boulevards to survey, which extended the duration of life already substantial. It is absolutely not disappointed to leave Liberty City and moved to Vice City. The city is huge and is composed of two main islands which have been added a few others much smaller. There is the bridge work that we are blocking access to certain areas but will open after a few successful missions.

If the city is not the same as in GTA 3, it does the crook that we manage. The newcomer is called Tommy Vercetti. Freshly landed in town, he works on behalf of Sonny Forelli, a big shot in a neighboring town that looks to extend its influence to Vice City. On arrival, you are responsible for overseeing the purchase of a big bag of coke. The transaction goes wrong and you lose both the money and goods. You’ll have to make contacts, meet people more or less clean which will allow you to trace the channels by performing for them a whole bunch of small missions never legal, and even more often totally immoral. Beat judges, destroying cars, intimidate rival gangs, kill bad payers, as many distractions that should fill your afternoons.

After Liberty City traveled extensively in the shadow of Niko Bellic, you start going round in circles? We are all arrived here a few months ago to say that GTA IV is a beautiful game but it will take leave reluctantly because we know it by heart. History revives our commitment and the developers of the game will offer, on February 17th, an episode in the form of downloadable content. It is clear that the extension of this scenario will take place in parallel to the adventures that lived Niko.

This time we focus on the “exploits” of a certain Johnny Klebicz, vice-president of a motorcycle gang that, probably because they could not mount a GPS on their steeds, have created “The Lost”. When the story begins, Johnny is a few months since the interim head of the band as the leader title, Billy, is serving a prison sentence for trafficking and drug use. When it is released on parole, he comes very logically take the role as the head of the Lost. Johnny found that its functions and his title are not safe, it appears very quickly that he and Billy did not have the same vision of the future. For Johnny, it is the business itself. For Billy, the only goal which counts is crush-preferably violently-all those who dare stand in his way. It shows in his first night of freedom by breaking down in the back a member of the opponent biker club, the Angels of Death. We don’t know more about the following scenario. But it is already clear that moving towards a “GTA pure juice” plot with high-frenetic violence and betrayal of any kind. Finish with a word about the price of the downloadable content that should be offered for 1600 points, or about 20 dollars.

Even if you do not know anything in video games, you already have heard at least once in your life of GTA.

Remember a few years ago, this game chronicled by paying its irreverent and devoid of any morals. You play as a villain in the service of the local mafia and had to meet all kinds of missions by playing forces. You can even overwrite the past, which you reported the passage of many points. Well here comes the third part of this game. The concept has not changed. You are always a gangster in search of the smallest job, dishonest if possible. What has changed, however, is the mode of representation. But do not worry, the game has lost none of its original charm, quite the contrary. The great novelty of GTA 3 lies in its transition to 3D. In addition to the current graphics (I have nothing against 2D, do not tell me what I did not say), it also benefits from a much greater immersion in the heart of the action.
Compared to its two predecessors, GTA 3 is far more scripted and you will not have access to all the clans from the beginning of the game here. You must complete a number of jobs on behalf of a gang before they can access to the next. As against the order of tasks is not linear and you will always have the choice between several objectives, history not to take the lead for too long if you block at one place. In addition, the game is not over in this game. If you fail during a mission, you just have to go back to retry your sponsor for your chance. The objectives range from simple theft to the shooting in good and due form, through the whole bunch of daily activities of mafia members (trap cars, bring prostitutes to good friends, kill a person too embarrassing …).

This is the first downloadable content pack for GTA 4 that will available for the Xbox 360 and it’s the first release of three DLC packs that Rockstar plan to release.

Entitled Grand Theft Auto 4 : The Lost and Damned, the pack will see 360 gamers take on the role of Johhny Klebitz, acting head of the The Lost Brotherhood biker gang and the guy that betrayed Niko in a botched diamond deal in GTA 4. The DLC is released in February 09 at a cost of $15.

It’s been a while since any PC version news has been released, the consoles already have their GTA IV fix so the PC is forgotten a little perhaps but, The Games Machine have found out a few more details as listed below to keep PC gamers drooling in anticipation for their Grand Theft Auto 4 experience:

The replay editor will record the last 30 seconds of gameplay. Once the video has been saved you can use inbuilt software in GTA 4 to add special effects and change camera angles. You will also be able to add audio tracks from the official soundtrack of the game (no word on whether you can use your own MP3′s). Once your video is done it can then be published on Rockstars Social Club site so others can watch it.

The GPS and map have been beefed up, thanks to the mouse it is now just point and click. However Rockstar have added the ability for you to mark locations, make notes and add images. That should make hunting those pesky pigeons a bit easier.

The other important bit of information is that Rockstar have managed to improve the game streaming, thanks to the power of the cpu in modern PC’s. This means less of the “same car syndrome” in which you would see lots of the same car you are driving. The magazine is also claiming that there will be more pedestrians and vehicles visible in the PC version.

The “Millionaires Club” has been launched for Grand Theft Auto 4! To celebrate all GTA IV players that have reached seven figures in their bank account by whatever means, there is now a Millionaire status waiting for you at the Rockstar Games Social Club.

If you have earned seven figures throughout your career in the single player campaign mode – thats over $1 million in total earned from whatever means in the game – then Rockstar are now:

“recognizing and celebrating all of the wealthy seven–figure Grand Theft Auto IV players at the Rockstar Games Social Club.”

So head over to the Social Club and check out the leaderboards and see how rich you are compared to those other millionaires or perhaps just sit in the corner of the bar and drink your beer and dream of being one of them if you aren’t quite as rich as those millionaires yet!

Just thought I would let all our readers know that I have finally got 100% completion in Grand Theft Auto IV!

After 5 weeks in a row, Grand Theft Auto 4 has moved down a rank, with the latest Indiana Jones game now moving up to position one for the Best-Selling Game. Indiana Jones is released on various consoles including the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS, no doubt GTA 4 will be back up there one day.

Only 2,676 people have came forward to join the lawsuit against Rockstar Games over their hidden sex scene they added into Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (the one before IV).

Head lawyer Seth R. Lesser. simple said “We can’t guess as to why now, several years later, people care or don’t care.”

The suit basically allowed anyone who found the “Hot Coffee” scene offensive or abusive compensation from anywhere in between $5 to $35.

The lawyers were originally hoping that Rockstar Games would have to pay over $1.3 million dollars in compensation, however according to the news reports it is only going to take around $30,000 to resolve the entire issue.