GTA IV trailer this month

By Robert Purchese Published 2 March, 2007

Next-gen peek-a-boo.

Rockstar has revealed we'll get our first look at its next-gen gangland adventure on 29th March, when a trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV will be shown across the Internet horizon.

Rockstar was unable to comment on what exactly we could see in the trailer, though we're sure it will be enough to ruffle Jack Thompson's feathers and make us dribble a little excitement in our news-pants.

Hopefully it will also mark the start of a real campaign for the game kept so rigorously under lock and key. All we know so far is that it will be launched simultaneously on Xbox 360 and PS3 in October, and that exclusive downloadable content will be made available for both systems.

However, it's likely that the game will be built on the same RAGE engine that powered Rockstar's excellent Table Tennis foray last May.

We're also wistfully trying to believe rumours that the action will take place in London this time, marking the series' first 3D foray outside of America. We can but dream of a car-chase through Albert Square, or punching Martin Fowler in the chops outside the Queen Vic.

But other than that, you'll have to wait and see.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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  • Steroyd #1 5 years ago

    Should be interesting.

    /expects to be disappointed somehow.

  • Hugundo #2 5 years ago

    meh

  • The_Inquisitor #3 5 years ago

    Yay!

  • gogobaka #4 5 years ago

    Mmmm can't wait.

  • lambtron #5 5 years ago

    "Rockstar was unable to comment on what exactly we could see in the trailer, though we're sure it will be enough to ruffle Jack Thompson's feathers"

    The game will have completely changed tack - the aim is now to promote mutual respect and love throughout all mankind regardless of creed, colour or background.

    Ah who am I kidding - it'll be about kerbstomping hookers.

  • SeesThroughAll #6 5 years ago

    Bloom on baseball bats?

    Particle physics for realistic brains spreading as people's heads are obliterated?

    Sky reflection on the blood pools?

    Better cops AI?

    And more importantly, will the PS3 feature real time weapon change?

  • killyourtv #7 5 years ago

    write stories without the stupid jokes

  • richardiox #8 5 years ago

    I'm expecting nothing more than a teaser trailer that wont really show any gameplay footage but perhaps will give a clue as to the setting and lead characters.

  • Nobuo #9 5 years ago

    oo.

  • bushwod #10 5 years ago

    would be excellent if it's set in London.

  • asphaltcowboy #11 5 years ago

    Let's hope it's not as damn ugly as San Andreas

  • Santino #12 5 years ago

    was GTA2 set in the future? i predict a future setting if so.

    oh and i'm hoping for a smaller map than San Andreas, sometimes less is more. especially if focused as Vice City was.
    Edited by Santino at 02/03/07 @ 15:25

  • jebus #13 5 years ago

    Bored of GTA now. San Andreas was a huge dissapointment for me and I expect this will be more of a dissapointment as the expectation is so much higher what with it being next gen as well as the new GTA.

  • jonsaan #14 5 years ago

    Future settings suck ass. GTA2 was the worst of the lot because of it.

    Crackdown excepted.

  • El_MUERkO #15 5 years ago

  • crazyhorse174 #16 5 years ago

    Any screenshots been released yet?

  • Evil_Badger #17 5 years ago

    Not yet.
    Edit: Well, there was a fake one, but it was crap.
    Edited by Evil_Badger at 02/03/07 @ 15:40

  • spongebob #18 5 years ago

    Hopefully it's not based in London or Tokyo. We don't need any more Yakuzas and we don't need cockney speaking mobsters (Guy Ritchie's handling that department).

    1970s setting would be cool... Las Vegas?

    Can't wait to see the trailer!

    SeesThroughAll: And more importantly, will the PS3 feature real time weapon change?

    That was funny. No wait, it wasn't.
    Edited by spongebob at 02/03/07 @ 15:45

  • Tomo #19 5 years ago

    I can't fking wait.

    Altho I'm expecting very little from the trailer tbh. Maybe a logo and a silhouette.

  • SBfistfun #20 5 years ago

    Bah, why be excited when we already have the Getaway?

    Oh thats right, it was shit

  • Quine #21 5 years ago

    "We're also wistfully trying to believe rumours that the action will take place in London this time, marking the series' first 3D foray outside of America. We can but dream of a car-chase through Albert Square, or punching Martin Fowler in the chops outside the Queen Vic."

    /notes inconsistent creeping Americanisms in usage of the word "of".

  • moggsy #22 5 years ago

    1970s setting would be cool... Las Vegas?

    San Andreas already featured a version of Las Vegas.

  • gogobaka #23 5 years ago

    Dystopian future Carcer City I reckon.

  • dadrester #24 5 years ago

    gtamerica

    the whole of the usa including all 6 cities so far plus many more. (libery, vice, los santos, san fierro and carcer). DLC to include further continents... PS3 to get europe. 360 to get antarctica

  • FunkyRenegade #25 5 years ago

    "we're sure it will be enough to ruffle Jack Thompson's feathers and make us dribble a little excitement in our news-pants."

    Best line from a relatively serious news story I've ever read :]

  • Perrythegreat #26 5 years ago

    Very excited about this personally. San Andreas took a while for me to get into, but once I did, the love affair was back on.

    Still one of the most eye opening games with regard to how much you can do. No other console game has come close, apart from Oblivion I guess

  • Timblez #27 5 years ago

    Hopefully the new graphics system is easy to adapt to.

    And oh yeah...I can't wait for the trailor.

  • matrim83 #28 5 years ago

    Another +1 to the future setting. Not 50 years into the future with flying cars and silly stuff like that. But about 10 years or so. That gives them some creative freedom with weapons and vehicles.

    I love the GTA series and every game has been better than its predecessor. I really hope this doesn't dissapoint.

  • Beano #29 5 years ago

    gtafghanistan?

  • bystander #30 5 years ago

    Seems like it has already ruffled Jack Thompson's feathers....

  • GitSomE_UK #31 5 years ago

    Since crackdowns release, GTA has a lot of work to do.

  • Hugundo #32 5 years ago

    I seem to remember a few years back Take-Two tradmarked the name, GTA:Bogota.


    Hmm tingly.

  • Beano #33 5 years ago

    "Since crackdowns release, GTA has a lot of work to do. "

    LOL... riiiiiight ;)

    Crackdown is a pretty good "filler"... at best!

  • spongebob #34 5 years ago

    Near future setting, blah..

    Anyway, I hope that this time they try something totally different. GTA: Bogota sounds interesting :)

  • messiahtj #35 5 years ago

    GTA + London = The Getaway :S

    I hope this GTA IV take place in another great parade in USA or in another cool place like Japan, Italy or France.

  • Dabs #36 5 years ago

    Will there be next-gen m0t0rb1k3s?

  • AutoTroll #37 5 years ago

    Can't wait for this, of one the major reasons i got a 360.

    btw "jebus" you vist a gaming site, click on a GTA-related story, presumably read said story, click on the forum link and type out a reply on said story just make the awesome contribution that you're bored with GTA? Seriously mate get a life.
    Edited by AutoTroll at 03/03/07 @ 02:44

  • Lov3 #38 5 years ago

    Wasn't crackdown GTA 4?

  • bunnymc #39 5 years ago

    Ohhhh Baby..........

  • Jas315 #40 5 years ago

    CAN'T WAIT!

    March is a very good month =]

    PS3 + GTA IV Trailer = GOLD.

  • captainrentboy #41 5 years ago

    "Since crackdowns release, GTA has a lot of work to do. "

    LOL... riiiiiight ;)

    Crackdown is a pretty good "filler"... at best!

    I for one disagree, I can't stand any of the GTA games and I've given each of them a good few hours, they bore me silly, in my store it's actually kids and their clueless parents who purchase more copies of games in the series than it is adults.
    Crackdown is one thing that GTA isn't, fooking fun!

  • t8yman #42 5 years ago

    what he said ^^^

    crackdown is awesome, loads to do, and no trudging around for miles on pathetic missions. GTA is average at best

  • spongebob #43 5 years ago

    GTA: Off-world colony?

  • the_dudefather #44 5 years ago

    GTA: Milton Keynes

  • Creasy #45 5 years ago

    If it should really be playing in Europe, that would be the worst case scenario and GTAIV would go from "most wanted game ever" to "least wanted game ever" and I wouldn't even buy it although I'm the biggest GTA fan on earth. I'm from Europe myself and any European scenario would suck so much I can't even describe it (so would an Asian scenario).

    The best thing would be New York in the 90s. Unfortunately some would say that's was already in GTA3 (who the beep cares?), so that's just a dream not coming true.
    Edited by Creasy at 04/03/07 @ 15:52

  • Mudo #46 5 years ago

    I hope they don't do another bloody American setting.

    Mexico City, London, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Delhi, Berlin, Paris, São Paulo, etc, would all make for more interesting settings.
    [Edit: Amsterdam or Venice would be awesome too.]

    Hell, maybe merge a few of them together into some uber city, as it's obviously gonna be a fictional place and only roughly "based" on a real life one.
    Edited by Mudo at 04/03/07 @ 16:30

  • Sl1pstream #47 5 years ago

    'GTA: Look at us and our Fifth Element inspired world' would be cool. If they do a normal non-futuristic GTA, I don't want it. Crackdown has that covered at the moment.

    A post-apocalyptic Mad Max inspired world would be cool too.
    Edited by Sl1pstream at 04/03/07 @ 18:14

  • YourMessageHere #48 5 years ago

    My understanding of most people's problems with SA was that you end up wandering pointlessly due to the fundamental game design, rather than the size itself. There's been plenty of examples of superior alternative methods in the legions of Grand Theft Alsos* since then. I'm certain they'll go for a bigger=better outlook, with at least 3 major cities and hopefully more. Exploration was always the best thing about GTA.

    I'm hoping for either GTA: General '70s Film Homage (my vote is for eastern US setting, in that case; Noo Yawk/Chicago/Detroit/Philadelphia/Washington), or GTA:Modern Europe, with say Berlin, Paris, Geneva and Brussels, maybe even London too.

    Whatever they do I fervently hope it makes it to PC before, say, 2030.

    Part of me wants GTA Tokyo but they'd never, ever be able to make it feel like Tokyo. As for future GTA...no. Leave it to Crackdown. GTA's strength has always been in taking a familiar setting and placing us in it, which is why GTA2 was no good.


    * wish I could claim credit for this, it's class

  • Sl1pstream #49 5 years ago

    If they are going to do a '70s version they need a character called stampede and a poem button.

  • oldfruit #50 5 years ago

    What are the odds of the targeting being fixed in this one?

  • MORZTAN #51 5 years ago

    Let's hope IV will change the series as much as III did. Now THAT would be interesting. Upgraded grafics and a new setting = Blahmeh

  • mkreku #52 5 years ago

    I thought GTA: San Andreas was awesome. The only things I don't like about San Andreas is that there are no "half way" incentives in the collectibles. In Vice City, you got something delivered to your apartment for every tenth hidden package you found, so even if you never found them all, you'd still get something out of it. Not so in San Andreas; not only was the world muhc, much larger than in Vice City, you also had to find EVERY clam, EVERY graffiti, EVERY photo scene and so on, before you actually got any rewards. Needless to say, I never got a single reward from an y of the collectibles in San Andreas.

    The other thing I didn't like was the eternal GTA problem: turn your back to your car (or car wreck) and it's gone. I wish they'd make the GTA world a bit more.. consistent. If I burn down a house, I want it to stay burned.

    My dream for GTAIV would be massively upgraded graphics, destructible environments, rag doll physics (and better physics in general) and a world even bigger than San Andreas. I'm not so bothered with the setting, but London does sound like a drag. Bogota for teh win!!

  • spongebob #53 5 years ago

    GTA: 70s Scorsese Mob film setting?

  • gaselite #54 5 years ago

    Too busy playing Crackdown to care

  • Madder-Max #55 5 years ago

    Cant wait.

  • miiiguel #56 5 years ago

    Can wait = Crackdown.

  • Madder-Max #57 5 years ago

    I've had a go on Cackdown and was simply unimpressed. Seemed very repetitious to me and the graphocs were dissapointing. So what if the physics of a car blowing up are real. GTA never bothers with anal retentiveness which is why it is fun and will win hands down.

    Please let there be some sort of rocket/space flight stuff ah gwan in dat GTA IV innit.

  • suj #58 5 years ago

    So he likes the word foray then