March 30, 2007 7:45 AM PDT

'Grand Theft Auto IV' teaser hits the Web

by John P. Falcone
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Rockstar Games took the wraps off the teaser trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV yesterday afternoon, giving gamers their first look at the highly anticipated sequel. While only about a minute long, the trailer offers some key details about the new game. The graphics have gotten a big next-gen upgrade, the setting is clearly a skewed version of New York City, and the game puts you in the shoes of an Eastern European protagonist. Tor Thorsen over at GameSpot offers some additional details, but the big news is that all of the footage in the trailer was captured "in game" running at 720p high-definition. In other words, it's not a prerendered cinematic cut scene; the game should look exactly as shown when it hits the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on October 16.

John P. Falcone covers home theater and network entertainment products. He's been writing for CNET since 2002.
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New York Again? Strike one!
by Frankiti March 30, 2007 9:59 AM PDT
How novel. I thought they'd be going midwest, or maybe down south, but nope
back to NYC. How completely unoriginal. The game should be set in Barcelona
if he's a Romanian or Bulgarian petty thief as they suspect.
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lawsuit magnet!!
by Kokoro-Kun March 30, 2007 10:44 AM PDT
a virtual New York City, with a main character looking very middle Eastern. What are you thinking Take2?

Do you want to ruin the whole game industry?

I can already see Mr Thompson jumping for joy, it won't be now until one of the 'presidential hopefuls' brings this to the attention to the masses and some congressmen who never played video game in his/her lives will come down hard on ALL violent games.
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New York City Again!
by BunchOfFun April 2, 2007 9:32 AM PDT
I enjoy all the GTA games but how about doing Hong Kong! Taipei, Paris, Moscow? Can you imagine Bangkok....

Screenshots do look nice though, hope they don't mess up the gameplay.
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That's what I was hoping!
by Frankiti April 2, 2007 12:20 PM PDT
I was hoping for a GTA set outside the US as well, but I figured they'd continue
with new cities/geographic areas in the US. A GTA set in Tokyo would be
incredible. The main character can be a "Freeter" who has finally been banished
from his parents' home. Moscow may be a bit drab. Blocks and blocks of
concrete condos. Bangkok would be cool, and there's a seedy underbelly to that
city which is rife for GTA exploitation. But no, we get NYC... again! It's just
played out.
Not NYC! No!
by jpr April 7, 2007 5:53 AM PDT
Driver: Parallel Lines already has an excellent New York Area....and I'm sick of it!
Why not something Creative? Atlanta, Miami, Phoenix, Denver, Chicago, St.
Louis, ALL of those are better than NYC!
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I agree...NYC? Why?
by imabigboy April 21, 2007 12:50 PM PDT
Yeah, NYC again? C'mon guys! Oh well, I've got to say, the graphics do look very nice indeed!

Corey
http://www.leetninja.com
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