[Multi] GTA IV #10 Respect is Everything

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Op dinsdag 10 april 2007 22:27 schreef Evil_Koekje het volgende:
scans scans dumdeedum.

Wil iemand trouwens z'n PS3 + HDtv ruilen tegen een lolly? Nieuw, nog in de verpakking!

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Facts:

* The main character's name is Niko Bellic - based on the surname it is likely he is from a former Yugoslav country (perhaps Croatia, Serbia or Bosnia)
* Multiplayer modes are to be announced
* Since it's only New York, there will be no planes in the game (?)
* The game has an awesome soundtrack
* You will use a cell phone to call contacts
* You have a lot of free choice over what you do in the game - it isn't like previous games in the sense of just accepting missions and completing them, there's a lot more you can do this time.
* GameInformer played the Xbox 360 version

There's also an interesting quote which suggests the atmosphere on the streets in the game will be very lively.

"A big part of New York life is walking around the streets and meeting lunatics. That's something we definitely tried to put into the game."
- Dan Houser

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Op dinsdag 10 april 2007 23:18 schreef jorienvdherik het volgende:
want ? ze staan op de vorige pagina sjors

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Op woensdag 11 april 2007 00:03 schreef Flashwin het volgende:
een Rus? Met zo een naam lijkt het me eerder een Joegoslaaf..of heeft Rockstar zelf gezegd dat het een Rus is?

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*The main character's name is Niko Bellic - based on the surname it is likely he is from a former Yugoslav country (perhaps Croatia, Serbia or Bosnia)

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The new Liberty City is a bustling metropolis that is dense on the streets and intimidating vertically. Many of New York City's iconic sights find new homes here, and may look striklingly similar, but are twisted to fit into the Grand Theft Auto world. The MetLife building now bears the name Getalife, the Statue of Liberty is now the Statue of Happiness, and DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) is called BOABO (Beneath the Offramp of the Algonquin Bridge Overpass).

"We live here," notes the game's vice president of creative Dan Houser. "We've been here for a number of years. Even the guys in Scotland spend lots of time here with us. It was an environment we felt had never been done to the level we were envisioning it in a video game. From looking at all of the locations, this was the one that really stood out to us, and really had that impact. It has all of these iconic things that you couldn't put into a game before."

Within Grand Theft Auto IV, Rockstar North has recreated four of the five boroughs that make up New York City, as well as a section of New Jersey. It's a smaller geographical mass than San Andreas, but not an inch of this world is wasted or dedicated to vast stretches of country or desert. It's a tightly packed metropolis that captures the eye with its decades of world-class architecture, sun-blocking towers, and extraordinary walks of life. In the GTA universe, Brooklyn has been transformed to Broker, Manhattan has mutated into Algonquin, Queens is now Dukes, The Bronx is Bohan, and New Jersey has become Alderney.

The city is brought to life with an amazing level of realism. Sunlight glistens beautifully off of glasswork, illuminates the intricate detailing of century old brick, and even reveals just how realistic an ordinary bag of trash can look. As the sun begins to set, the city takes on a whole different appearance. Buildings that were once eye-popping attractions slowly become ominous obelisks. As any New Yorker will tell you, there's a big difference between New York during the day and New York at night. Liberty City will perfectly capture that quality.

Even the texturing of the Algonquin streets, which are filled with crater-like potholes and occasional glimpses of the brick used in a world gone by, are greatly vained in design and something that you can't tear your eye from. The visula makeup of the city "was something we could capture real well and really understand the minute aspects of its personality," adds Houser. "Trying to put that into a video game is something that we think is unique to the video game medium. It was a way that, we could capture some aspects of the experience of living here that you couldn't put into a film, you couldn't put into a TV show, and you couldn't put into a book - because you are actually wandering about and meeting some of the freaks that you meet on the streets here. And that's what it's all about - meeting the same kind of freaks you'd meet on the streets, the angry yuppies you'd met there. A big part of New York life is walking around the streets and meeting lunatics. That's something that we definitely tried to put into the game. We are trying to give it that life and difference between the neighborhoods and the difference between the kinds of people. We are trying to capture the Capital of the World aspect of New York. There are lots of non-American characters in the game."

One of these foreigners is Niko Bellic. His home is in Eastern Europe, and he likely may never have traveled to Liberty City if it wasn't for his cousin Roman. With ife not working out in the homeland, "Bellic turns up in Liberty City because he's been receiving e-mails from his cousin Roman, that read like: 'I live this amazing life, it's the American Dream come true. I have two women. I have four hot tubs. I have fifteen sports cars," Houser elaborates. "And [Bellic] believes it." His bid to flee his past for what he thought would be the greener pastures of America couldn't be any further from the truth. Roman has been lying to him. He isn't rich. He isn't popular. And he's actually in a load of trouble. He lied to his cousin to hide his own failures in life.

While he may make you contemplate strangling your own flesh and blood, Roman is the only person that you know in America. He serves as one of your main friends, motivations, and connections at the start of the game. Unlike San Andreas, players won't get a chance to see Bellic in his homeland. You will see his life unfold from the moment he steps into Liberty City.

All of the screenshots seen in the article were taken on an Xbox 360 debug unit, but are not representative of the final quality of the graphics. In the coming months, the game will only look better.

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Op woensdag 11 april 2007 09:50 schreef rival het volgende:
ach alle delen van new york zitten er in (new jersey bv) en new jersey was toch echt een aantal uur rijden, dus mogelijk is er wel ietsaan open vlakte