Grand Theft Auto IV: Kikizo Preview 2
Kikizo's second massive first-hand preview of GTA IV is so detailed that we're a bit worried about our own mental health. Get your FULL update on the game of the year fresh from our extensive meeting with Rockstar.
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GTA IV is undoubtedly more focussed on Niko as a complex character than CJ was in San Andreas, so to make this more realistic, there's been an effort to minimise some of the more fantastical customisation that was seen in San Andreas; there'll be no Niko with a Mohawk, and no create a character mode for this reason either, Rockstar told us. For Niko not to raise suspicion in his interview however, he needs to change into a suit.
At the Perseus store, we pick up a Chocolate suit for $1000 and some nice shoes for $200. There's a lot of classical museum style architecture outside in the area of this store, looking fantastic in the HDR-lit sunshine. Now, Niko looks pretty much ready for his interview - were we to forget to change his clothes, we'd get a reminder about it.
"Inside the law firm building, rooms, offices and boardrooms are all glass, so that the detail of each suite we pass is very much visible."
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Inside is a very slick and attractive corporate décor, very smart with browns, whites and greys, nice natural and artificial lighting, a foyer with executives' pictures framed on the walls - and the building structure is great to look at on multiple open floors, with escalators, elevators and stairs in the open-plan core of the building. The receptionist welcomes Niko:
Karen: "Mr Bellic, welcome. I will just see if Mr Goldberg is available... Mr Goldberg, Mr Bellic has arrived for his interview."
Goldberg: "Alright great, tell him to come to my office."
Karen: "Uh-huh, I'll bring him through. Would you please follow me, Mr Bellic."
We set off with Karen towards meeting room, passing different rooms, offices and boardrooms, all glass, so that the detail of each suite we pass is very much visible, each one labelled on the glass door. "He's just in here. Don't be nervous, he doesn't bite," advises Karen. Mr Goldberg has a friendlier, more all-American kind of voice than we've heard in the game so far. Up here on maybe the third floor we can see through the Goldberg's window all the way down to the street below which remains as busy and detailed as when we pulled over on it just a few moments beforehand.
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Grand Theft Auto IV Trailer 2 HD 720p (High quality version - Download WMV) |
1:06 | 46MB | HD, 16:9 1280x720/30p 8Mbps |
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Grand Theft Auto IV Trailer 1 HD 720p (High quality version - Download WMV) |
1:02 | 42MB | HD, 16:9 1280x720/30p 8Mbps |
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Grand Theft Auto IV Trailer 1 SD (Stream) |
1:02 | 8MB | SD, 16:9 640x360/30p 2Mbps |
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Sam Houser on GTA IV Developer comments on PS3 including Rockstar president Sam Houser, who is clearly discussing GTA IV. |
4.22m | 72MB | DF, SD, 30 640x480 2.5Mbps |
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