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The Official Xbox Magazine previews Grand Theft Auto IV, more details revealed

Posted May 10, 2007 at 5:05PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: Microsoft, Official PlayStation Magazine, Official Xbox Magazine, OPM, playstation 3 updates, Scotland

A couple of days ago, we got a preview of Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3, 360) from The Official PlayStation Magazine (OPM). Today, we get the details from its Microsoft counterpart in publication, The Official Xbox Magazine (OXM). The gta4.net website was able to scrape out the new info from the publication and drafted the list of details that you guys might be dying to know.

We've paraphrased the whole list below:

GTA IV is now 66% complete.
Crosshairs pop up when Niko pulls out a gun. This could imply manual aiming in the game.
When using your mobile phone, the camera will show a zoom-in panel of the mobile phone's interface at the bottom-right corner of your screen - allows you to view your address book for "jobs" and view other contacts.
Exterior fire escape staircases are accessible; some meetings will happen high up in skyscrapers too - which could lead to you throwing people off the building from that height. Rawr.
Hand to hand combat will feel "much more natural" and is currently being reworked.
Camera angles can be changed even while in a car, but this feature is still being experimented on. Rockstar promises to make it more practical and functional though.
Getting to control boats has been confirmed, steering them is "really nice." Huh?
Central Park has also been confirmed to be in the game. The fictional name though hasn't been revealed yet.
Dan Houser confirms that Liberty City in GTA IV is the biggest GTA city they've done so far. He says that details are a big thing.
Houser also says that they're evolving how the radio works into the game, as well as how police behavior reacts to the things you do.
The Rockstar developer studio in Scotland has been asking the NYC studio about more specific information on buildings and traffic flow in the Big Apple.
There's an "Eastern European-sounding" dance station in one of the radio stations.
Rockstar's "69" humor is back. There's a sign for a "69th Street Diner" and a building called "Twitchins" - that's GTA's version of Brooklyn's Domino's Sugar Factory. Easter eggs!
"Fun ridiculous" weapons are also in the game because they don't really want to be too "naturalistic".

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Nah, more like Nov-Dec of 2007. The early % stages are what takes up the bulk of the time; funding, developing, artistic creations, storyline, scripts, core designing...

After about 75% all there is left to do is test for bugs and glitches, add voice acting, texturize, and just do an all around smoothing of the game.

The pulp of the game is almost finished, right now in the 66% stage theyre probably just tweaking out the final controls.

# barf — Guest 2007-05-10 22:02

I think it's bull***** those lazy idiots couldn't of picked a different location than NYC AGAIN. The world is a big place.

# AWESOME — Guest 2007-05-10 22:27

Crosshairs pop up when Niko pulls out a gun. This could imply manual aiming in the game.

FINALLY! One of the biggest things Saints Row has over GTA is the far superior aiming system, how they never managed to fix that sorry excuse for auto-aim in three major releases + the "Stories" games I will never know, but if this is true then hallelujah

# massive non-news article — comedy 2007-05-10 23:15

wow, all those things are really not news-worthy at all...

that's what you get when it's a 'official **** magazine exclusive' ... just a load of trash.

'you can now go on top of buildings if there are stairs'

'you can now use weapons!'

'there is a radio'

'there is a park'

extraordinary... they're really reinventing the wheel with this one then

# oh man — Guest 2007-05-11 06:41

why don't you grow up fanboy?

what does the 360 have to do with this?

the opm had nothing new in it either dumbass.

# OPM is canceled dumb ass — Guest 2007-05-11 07:35

Before calling others dumb asses, why don't you make sure you aren't one? OPM was canceled so GTA IV couldn't have been previewed by them.

Anyways, can't wait to see the game in action. Usually I'm cautious when ever developers say the game is revolutionary. Like how Spider man 3 developers said the same thing and the game turned out to be crap.

# OPM UK is still around!!!! — Guest 2007-05-11 11:09

OPM is just cancelled in the USA, other parts of the world still are getting the Mag, so your both dumb-asses!!

# sell — Guest 2007-05-12 05:33

the developers saying spiderman is revolutionary thats called selling the game

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