GTA IV to have 15 multiplayer modes?

By Ellie Gibson Published 17 March, 2008

Plus: new trailer coming this month.

The Spanish edition of PSM3 magazine is reporting there are 15 multiplayer modes in Grand Theft Auto IV.

That's according to n4g and scans of the article appearing on GTAforums.com.

Apparently up to 16 players can compete online. You can create your own character, choosing their skin colour, gender, hair, clothing and so on.

Along with obligatory Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch modes there's Mafia Work and Team Mafia Work, where you race to pull off hits faster than your competitors. In Cops 'n' Crooks those playing as police must capture others playing as criminals, using a GPS system to track their movements.

Hangman's Noose is based on one of the single-player missions and sees you and up to three friends providing protection for Kenny Petrovich. This means fighting off SWAT teams as you travel across the city.

The article lists 14 of the multiplayer modes by name, as follows:

  • Hangman's Noose
  • Car Jack City
  • Bomb da Base
  • Bomb da Base II
  • Mafia Work
  • Team Mafia Work
  • Deathmatch
  • Team Deathmatch
  • Turf War
  • Cops 'n' Crooks
  • Race
  • GTA Race
  • Deal Breaker
  • Free Roam

Rockstar has yet to respond to requests for comment.

Meanwhile, it has announced the final trailer for GTA IV will be released on Thursday March 27th. It's titled, 'Good Lord, What Are You Doing?' or alternatively, 'Everyone's a Rat'. We're also promised updates to the music, screenshot and download sections on the official website this Friday.

Grand Theft Auto IV will be released for PS3 and Xbox 360 on April 29th. For all related news, screenshots and videos, visit the gamepage.

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Comments (26) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Cloudane #1 4 years ago

    Cool.

  • muscleblade #2 4 years ago

    COOL!! Hope you can play Co-op in the main story aswell.

  • syphaa #3 4 years ago

    Whoaaa!
    Awesome. "Cops n' Crooks" sounds awesome! Was hoping for a cops and robbers mode!

    /excited.
    Edited by syphaa at 17/03/08 @ 11:23

  • KayJay #4 4 years ago

    Sweet, Never played the PSP multilayer modes but these sound ace.
    Free Roam should be fun with an Uzi... :-)
    Edited by KayJay at 17/03/08 @ 11:23

  • Peew971 #5 4 years ago

    Co-op in GTA IV would make no sense... You're supposed to live the story through the main character's eyes, it would only work if they had 2 main characters. It's like asking co-op in Bioshock.

  • _Price_ #6 4 years ago

    A gameplay trailer please....

  • Skooch #7 4 years ago

    Well, enough people will be playing it to support 15 modes, that's for sure.

    Everyone busy talking about COD4 and Halo3 fighting over the Multi-player crown, wait until GTAIV is released - wouldn't surprise me if it blows them both away on release! :-D

  • muscleblade #8 4 years ago

    @Peew971

    Of course. But how do you know there arent two main characters? If Saints Row 2 can be co-op then GTA4 should be coop too.
    You know the second player can play the cousin.

  • DutchDemons #9 4 years ago

    doesn't even have to be a story based co-op. I'll be happy with a free roam co-op. Like crackdown...just creating chaos in the streets...with a friend.

  • ruttyboy #10 4 years ago

    Erm, like the "Free Roam" mode mentioned in this very article you mean? 0_o

  • konstantinos #11 4 years ago

    "A gameplay trailer please...."

    yeah, how about that...?!?!?! COME ON, ALREADY...!!!

    (agitated) cheers...

  • Sick_Girl #12 4 years ago

    let's just hope it's not to laggy...

  • S.J.Rogers #13 4 years ago

    WOW..!

    15 Modes.

    GTA with online play...

    /Gets tissues and cleans up.

  • agparrot #14 4 years ago

    As if the single player wasn't going to destroy my life for ages already... they come along and do this!

    How much does it cost to get a divorce now? Might as well get it out of the way prior to the 29th April.

  • agparrot #15 4 years ago

    Also,

    How come there are all these exciting new details emerging from Spanish, German and Portuguese games mags - who all seem to have had a go on the game... but nothing hands-on from Eurogamer?

    Are you chaps out of favour?

    With only 42-odd days to go, haven't you had a go on it yet?

  • TheDudesRug #16 4 years ago

    You can get a divorce online from £65 these days.

    Less than the price of the GTAIV Collectors Edition, in fact.

  • L42yB #17 4 years ago

    When is this gonna come out on PC??

    :(

  • agparrot #18 4 years ago

    You can get a divorce online from £65 these days.

    Less than the price of the GTAIV Collectors Edition, in fact.

    Thanks DudesRug!

    Although, in fairness, Tesco and Zavvi both have the Collectors edition at sub-£60.

    Does an online divorce mean that the Mrs will just get an email, saving me the painstaking work of having to tell her about it in advance?

  • TheDudesRug #19 4 years ago

    agparrot, thanks for the heads up on the sub £60 CE editions.

    As far as letting Mrs agparrot in on the deal, I would hope and expect that the divorceries (yes, of course thats a word) would email her each step of the way so that she's not out of the loop. She maybe a woman, but even they're entitled to know when they're not wanted.

    God speed.

  • Chonk #20 4 years ago

    Say it aint so!... was going to hold out for the pc version but now im foaming at the mouth... dont have an xbox360 or a ps3!!!
    ... no ill wait... i really will...
    ...How much is a ps3 these days? .. no im waiting :( ... i think...

  • THEGREATMADMAN #21 4 years ago

    Thought there wasnt going to be Free Roam :p?

  • kangarootoo #22 4 years ago

    @agparrot

    Hey, I'll do an email for Mrs agparrot for a cool £40. I'll be really nice and use all sorts of relaxing terms. "People change" and "its not you, its me", you get the picture.

    I could probably even keep mentions of GTAIV to a bare minimum (maybe at the end in the terms and conditions section or something; it probably has to be in there somewhere "for legal reasons";).

    I'll even present it in a series of speech bubbles attached to pictures of kittens (courtesy of google images, or maybe some Word clipart, not decided yet) to soften the blow.

    I mean, who can be upset or angry with a cute and/or scared kitten...

    [link url=http://www.geocities.com/lovipet/cute_kitten.jpg
    ]http://www.geocities.com/lovipet/cute_ki...[/link]
    "plz dond shuut messinja" and so forth.

  • agparrot #23 4 years ago

    @kangarootoo

    Hey, I'll do an email for Mrs agparrot for a cool £40. I'll be really nice and use all sorts of relaxing terms. "People change" and "its not you, its me", you get the picture.

    Thanks, kanga, that is much appreciated, and really very thoughtful of you. The fact that it is also cheaper than an actual online divorce is also a great selling point.

    I mean, who can be upset or angry with a cute and/or scared kitten...

    [link url=http://www.geocities.com/lovipet/cute_ki...
    ]http://www.geocities.com/lovipet/cute_ki...[/link]
    "plz dond shuut messinja" and so forth.

    Yes - I can see where you are going with this - I think you might have hit a seam of commercial gold here - I can almost see you being interviewed on Richard and Judy about this great new service. You just need a name for it... something like 'Kitty-Splitters: The alternative to divorce" or something.

    @TheDudesRug


    As far as letting Mrs agparrot in on the deal, I would hope and expect that the divorceries (yes, of course thats a word) would email her each step of the way.

    As I'm sure you can imagine, this will be a great relief to me - I'm going to be really pushed for time in the run-up to GTA IV's release, trying to get through all the other games I want 'out of the way' before I crack into it. Once it has been delivered, I simply am not going to have any time for that messy relationship-breakup stuff - I'll be too busy in IV's MP, trying to find things funnier to do than co-op-tossing-and-harpoon-gunning-pedestrians in Crackdown, or 'accidentally' landing on 6 other players in the Burnout Paradise 'co-op' challenges.

  • kangarootoo #24 4 years ago

    "I think you might have hit a seam of commercial gold here"
    "'Kitty-Splitters: The alternative to divorce" or something"

    LOL

    P.s. only problem with going on R&J is that caring lady with the curly grey hair would probably turn up and get her nose out of joint about the family unit being all important and stuff (you got any kids? I know a chimney sweep company that could take 'em off you hands for shilling each. I like to think I provide a complete package when it comes to relationship discontinuance).

    Though I could probably just say some stuff about "big brother" and the "nanny state" to distract her, before moving on to something we can all agree on, such as kids binge drinking in the park being a bad thing.

    So, its rubber stamped then. I shall await your cheque.

    Edit: correcting appaling spelling. Rest assured, the emails to your wife will be checked in a reputable word processing program before sending.
    Edited by kangarootoo at 18/03/08 @ 10:01

  • slave23d #25 4 years ago

    A gameplay trailer please....


    oh for fucks sake, it * is* gameplay, just from a fancy camera angle. Or a cutscene. How fucking boring would it be to have a gameplay trailer of someone just running around playing the game? They are after all trying to be dramatic, and be more filmic in the trailers. I reckon anyways.

  • agparrot #26 4 years ago

    :D kanga.

    No prospective chimney-sweeps to worry about, thankfully. Just need to make sure the 360 is under some sort of protection order - I can see it being the first target for any potential violence.

    Perhaps I just take the 'Bitchin Dog Food' approach to relationship settlement.