Internet gets run over: GTAIV trailer goes live
by Andrew Yoon 
{ Mar 29th 2007 at 6:46PM }
The internet is dying! Why, you ask? The hotly anticipated Grand Theft Auto IV trailer has gone live. If the embedded video (above) doesn't seem to work, try downloading this HD torrent. You can also try GameTrailers, but internet gamers haven't been any kinder to that service. If you don't mind low quality, it seems like YouTube has been able to survive the assault so far. Watch, and marvel the next generation of GTA. Are you psyched?!
[Via Joystiq]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Fragland @ Mar 29th 2007 8:06PM
Fragland has mirrors up:
HD version: http://www.fragland.net/downloads.php?id=15686
Standard version: http://www.fragland.net/downloads.php?id=15687
sean @ Mar 29th 2007 7:00PM
for some reason it felt like i was watching a spiderman trailer. until the guy started talkin anyway. im happy its back in liberty city. cant wait for this game.
theblackandwhiteknight @ Mar 29th 2007 7:06PM
oh fuck yeah! russian!! new york seems repeditive, but jesus, better than i could have imagined, crackdown just got cockpwned
Mike @ Mar 29th 2007 7:12PM
If I may speculate wildly for a minute - "perhaps here things will be different"
Could this imply an ethics system has been implemented? If the protagonist ponders a different lifestyle, perhaps you have ethical choices to make in the game?
jay @ Mar 29th 2007 10:43PM
Oh shit, its GTA time!!! Hell yeah, I'll be a russian mafia motherfucker. This is gonna be great. Man, this is probably bigger than Halo 3. And the space on a blu-ray disk...man, San Andreas could probably fit on one of the townships. Bring it on. Titty pink!
aj @ Mar 29th 2007 7:14PM
yea crackdown did ge old fast, the city was all the same every mission was the same exact thing, it was fun for the first few days, until you leveled up all the way and completed everything. that is why gta is sooo good, even when you beat the game they make messing around the best part.
Mike @ Mar 29th 2007 7:14PM
Sean,
That's not Liberty City - it's definitely NYC. This will, no doubt, bring about a frighteningly large amount of negative attention for this game. Previous versions were set in fictional cities, but if the final version does in fact take place in NYC, I'm sure JT and the like will have a field day with it.
John @ Mar 29th 2007 7:23PM
Yeah, that looks like NYC ... Rockstar always does things to get buzz, it wouldn't surprise me if they have a Twin Tower mission in the game. They will have the news channels talking about GTA for a long time.
Kenneth H. @ Mar 29th 2007 8:40PM
just finished watching the trailer...I guess I was hoping for a lil bit more...I would've liked to have seen maybe two cities....nah mean....maybe NY and London...u could catch a plane or a jet between cities or sum sh**. Also no episodic content for the PS3?? Playstation built this brand did it not?? Who the f*** do they think they are?? All PS3 users should boycott this game until they give us the same consideration....and I hope that this game is optimized for the Cell processor....
kenx @ Mar 29th 2007 9:35PM
It is in fact Liberty City, it is written in one of the boats and the news papers are called things like "the liberteen" and stuff.
I hope they go wild with the ads, that's will be funny as hell.
The GetaLife building and "Heart Stopper Burger" parts were hilarious
SuperLynx @ Mar 29th 2007 7:39PM
hey guys if u take notice while watching this vid...u see a fer y terminal with a R missing so ferry* ..what do ferrys do u ask...well they take u to diffrent contrys and also when he talks he says hes smuggled ppl....i guess that means smuggling illegal ppl to contrys ...so i guess this wont just be set in NYC this will go big like America/Europe(london)obv.
sean @ Mar 29th 2007 8:14PM
well psp libertyy city games had ferry's it jsut took you to other parts of cities
MyPS3 @ Mar 29th 2007 9:30PM
Check out more screens guys, it's been a crazy morning.
http://www.myps3.com.au/newsdetail.aspx?id=42
dan @ Mar 29th 2007 10:25PM
no, it is liberty city. download the HD trailer and pause it when a police car is on the screen while those pedestrians are walking by. it says LCPD. also, the ship at the end, the platypus, has liberty city written under it.
MrSkip @ Mar 29th 2007 9:58PM
Haha yea the Ads are VERY FUNNY and I hope they are plastered all over the place as well...and even better I bet the radio commercials will be funny as usual.
Now hopefully Rockstar can get us some action vids and keep rolling in the updates this game looks great.
bootsielon @ Mar 29th 2007 10:34PM
The ironic thing is watching a video that says "Team Xbox" on a PS3 fanboy site. lol
Anyway, nice graphics. What I found extremely funny, was the mock up of adds "Something X", and even better, the insurance company "Get a Life", a mock up of MetLife, lol.
The getaway will feature a highly detailed London. Will the same be for GTA with New york? That would be just great. Unfortunately, it may be limited due to the fact that it has to fit on a DVD-9 ;)
Someone should do a game where the whole world is rendered in high detail.... but that'll probably never happen, too expensive for now, at least not in a remotely close future. Perhaps when Sony (or MSFT or EA) is able to set webcams everywhere in the world to render it completely, THEN we'll talk.
boney @ Mar 29th 2007 10:51PM
like #1 said like spiderman. hyped up graphics.
wait for gameplay then decide. looks like another e3 piss take!
Tanya @ Mar 29th 2007 11:52PM
@#7 Actually the Ferry is just the boat that takes you from Staten Island to Manhattan, it's not a cruise dock. So I think, as far from what we know, you'll definitely be traveling between the 5 boroughs (Manhattan, Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island). It looks good, I can't wait to see more about it.
Adam @ Mar 30th 2007 12:05AM
So that video is from the XBox 360 version?
jigzat @ Mar 30th 2007 12:20AM
What a let down. I bought a bag of doritos and 3 smirnoff for nothing, just to end up drunk with cheese-alcohol breath at the university.
Dan @ Mar 30th 2007 2:20AM
looks freaking awesome
and yeah it's liberty city again, but it looks like most of nyc's boroughs will be represented... at least i spotted queens, brooklyn and manhattan...
CubeGuy @ Mar 30th 2007 2:27AM
So that was the Chrysler Building, Times Square, and a boat with "Liberty City" plastered on the back?
Was that just a placeholder graphic for the boat then? This is definitely NYC. I recognize even the not-so-popular buildings, not to mention the skyline.
dan @ Mar 30th 2007 10:18AM
it wasn't a place holder graphic for the boat. the trailer has "liberteen", a LCPD police car towards the end of the broadway shot, and the boat with liberty city. LC is modeled off of NYC.
i doubt that this is going to happen, but what if they plan on showing three trailers and each one is showing a different location (LC, VC, and SA). that would be awesome if they included all three on one disc but they probably can't because they are limited to the xbox 360's dvd-9...
Frankenstein Black @ Mar 30th 2007 10:25AM
A next gen True Crime streets of New York. Rumor has it that the maps are incredibly accurate so if you live in the NYC you will actually know where you are going. Cool...
Kenneth H. @ Mar 30th 2007 10:45AM
God I hate programming to the lowest common denominator....ie. Xbox 360. I wonder what this could be if they had built it around the strengths of the 360....why is the 360 the standard bearer for this??
James @ Mar 30th 2007 11:04AM
They might call it liberty city, but it has the ESB, chrysler building, Met Life (GetALife), Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, and Red Hook docks. There's no way that it's not New York with different names. And you can't do NYC without ferries.
This game will be awesome if they let me drive by my apartment in game.
Shoaib @ Mar 30th 2007 11:54AM
ruskies hell YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tom @ Mar 30th 2007 11:06PM
Yeah, it's Liberty City in spirit but merely LOOKS like NYC. Past GTA games have had a lot of recognizable landmarks from real cities. It's still a fictional place in an alternate reality. I'm sure the 5 boroughs will be called something like Hanmattan, Pronx, Kings, Brookville, and Satan Island.