GRAND THEFT AUTO IV trailer...

[capncnut]

I'd really like to see a GTA game set in the 70s, it'd be awesome. Yeah, New York 1978. Disco kids vs punks.

[Danny]

^ i'd play that, i think it'd be cool, you know there'd be some kinda taxi driver reference though

[DVW5150]

Hopefully they reveal at least what city/state/country it takes place in. The cities and towns (in the GTA series) are fictional ... Based on actual places , San Andreas has sections that mimic real cities , Hollywood (Vinewood), Vegas , ect ...Since characters (cops , gang members , restaurant employees) are speaking english of some kind , its like an alternate USA . You don't have to look very far into these games to answer that question .

[Danny]

id like to see one a little more serious than action orientated, set in a new york like city, kinda like farenhiets (indigo prophecys) vibe and loaction with a little bit of condemned thrown in for good measure, and it would be good to choose your path oblivion style, maybe i dont want to hump prostitutes then kill them for money, maybe i want to be the beat cop chasing those guys down for a change, it'd be good to really choose, cus though there was more freedom in san andreas you still played the lesser of two evils in the game.

[capncnut]

With a touch of the Assault on Precinct 13's.

[MinionZombie]

And the underworld of dodgy 70s 'stashio style porn "downtown" and such. All the disco and punk rivalry would be cool, that fashions would be great, you could have some pretty snazzy motors, I think it'd be really cool. You could plug in to that whole post-Vietnam/Nixon era type stuff.

[MikePizzoff]

I hope the "world" is an epic-sized one. I hope it includes many different types of terrain (my favorite was the the desert in San Andreas). People would complain about it taking long to get places but if they used the "travel system" that Oblivion had, there would be no problem!

[Danny]

a huge world will rock, you could take public transport, like hijakc a bus ro seomthing, and if you whent into a store in like the redneck back of the woods areas with a gun it'd be cool if the store owners could shoot you first, it'd add a little more realism to it, since i notcied when playing vice city last night that i could walk straight past acop weilding a chainsaw and he didnt blink once

[Tricky]

San Andreas was full of crap locations as well,such as when you go to that massive hotel,or mad doggs mansion,and theres nothing in them!room after room of unimaginative & empty places.And those missions that involved going out into the desert and being attacked by the men in black & government helicopters were too far fetched considering it was meant to be about gang bangers & the hood etc,that was when i lost interest actually,i never got any further than that

[Danny]

yeah i liked how vice city was more compact but there was still loads of back alleys and places to go, san andreas had some great areas to just go and drive, red county in particular, but a lot of it was wasted space.

[MinionZombie]

What I also really, really, really want in a GTA game is - ragdoll physics and complete world interactivity. I want to run in and out of buildings all the time, I want to blow up buildings (no, I don't mean "do a 9/11", I'm talking like small businesses or houses or small developments and such) and for people to come back and reconstruct them - like a living city. I want to blow up a bridge and cause traffic chaos. I want to shoot out windows of buildings, and if done in a tall building, you get the affect of high altitudes and wind. I want to see new buildings created by the NPCs and old ones torn down with wrecking balls and controlled demolitions (perhaps you could have a mission where you sneak in to do a task but have to escape as the building gradually comes down and leap out to another building next door. I want greater car modification, more stylish cars and greater variety. I want shot of all the stupid-arse remote control missions, I want shot of the stupid bloody license missions (Verdant Meadows was an absolute kick in the dick time and again, I had to download a save game that took place after the completion of that particular thing so I could finish the game. (Yes Tricky, the whole 'men in black' stuff with Toreno was a bit daft and too "big" for a GTA game, crime and other shenanigans have to be more 'local'). I want those nail strips being thrown into the road again - I loved that in Vice City, a nice touch, but they damn well took it out for San Andreas!

[capncnut]

I managed to dig out some footage that may give some indication as to where GTAIV is going. Firstly the L.A. Noire trailer, which is a new game coming out soon by Rockstar. Imagine the GTA's FMV looking as sharp as this. Lastly, the Euphoria Physics demonstration. As you all know this is what Rockstar are incorporating into the game and it looks mighty impressive. While there's no actual GTA footage, it's nice to see the possibilites.

[Danny]

geez mz, not asking too much huh?

[MinionZombie]

geez mz, not asking too much huh? pfft, it's do-able if they put some effort in. You've gotta admit, using the same old engine over and over again was more about making money than making a truly great game. Vice City was the peak on that engine, San Andreas was too bulky for the engine to cope properly, and those "Stories" games were just draining the last drops out of an already spent engine where the graphics never really moved on that much. They're still great games, they were just rather lazy when it came to a new engine, hopefully they don't milk the new one for years and years. I'm loading that physics trailer, so hopefully GTA:IV is gonna rock my cock and/or socks!

[_liam_]

that euphoria engine is the next step methinks... that thing with the wood was amazing...