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Rockstar says that an image circulating around web-forums this afternoon, supposedly showing a TV screen running a debug version of Grand Theft Auto IV, is a hoax.
The image, which you can see below, first showed up in the inboxes of various media organisations this morning under the subject line "From a disgruntled ex-employee of Rockstar..."
And initially Rockstar didn't have much to say about it, fuelling speculation it was an actual shot of Grand Theft Auto IV, which is due out on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 next October - as announced at E3.
But that's not the case, Rockstar told us this afternoon. It really is a hoax.
In other words, you'll have to wait a bit longer to find out what Grand Theft Auto IV looks like, where it's set, what sort of cars it has in it and of course, most importantly, whether it has dogs that wee on street corners or not.
For more on GTA IV, check out recent news about the cast, and suggestions that it will use Table Tennis's RAGE engine.
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Wrestlevania
22/06/06 @ 14:43
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Quickly Freek--click Speak your brain... a third time for maximum combo!
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Stormflood
22/06/06 @ 15:28
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Best GTA fake yet. Too many giveaways though.
Oh, and never trust a 'leak' taken from a TV screen - they're always done like that to conceal all the little tell-tale clues that would show up on a direct screenshot. |
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nickthegun
22/06/06 @ 15:51
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Seems like an awful amount of work just to create a hoax screenshot.
Remember the PS3 fake that looked like a projector? Some internets retards will go to a lot of trouble over the most stupid things. The fact that this screeny managed to make it onto several mainstream websites probably has led to several self congratulatory wanks in celebration.
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kangarootoo
22/06/06 @ 17:47
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Course its a bloody fake, look at the state of it. I can't believe there are people on here saying stuff like "well its a very good fake".
A very good fake of a crappy screenshot perhaps. If any next gen title actually looked like that these threads would burst into flames. |
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If you look carefully just to the right of the women, you can see a lense flash from the camera that took the photo which suggests that this game was actually running or the hoaxer is very very considerate of minor details???.
Maybe the reason the women is big is because the game camera might be zoomed. Either way, if this is a very early version, I can't wait to see what it will look like when it finally arrives and if it's fake it's a very well done job. |
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"If you look carefully just to the right of the women, you can see a lense flash from the camera that took the photo which suggests that this game was actually running or the hoaxer is very very considerate of minor details???."
Or just possibly they displayed the image on a TV to take a photo of it - something that would take about 2 mins with most decent digital cameras. I'm sure half the people decrying this as an obvious fake were taken in by the Killzone 2 "footage". |
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If this is a fake I'll be very interested to know what game it is from. I disagree that the graphics don't look next gen as I can see full shadows and the buildings are detailed enough for what I would expect of a GTA type game.
Main character a girl? Hmmm I guess if in the near future rockstar suddenly announce a female main lead, then we'll know for sure if this is a fake or not ;) Of course the real slim shadey could stand up in the mean time..... |
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kangarootoo
22/06/06 @ 18:46
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@weaselrat
It could simply mean someone photographed a monitor that was displaying a still image, Just because it was on a screen doesn't mean it was "running" (unlewss you mean it was running photoshop. It may have actually been a game of some description. But just bloody look at it! GTA on next gen it is not. @Nintendude Its the art detail I have issues with. The scale of the main character is wrong compared to her surroundings. The lampost is poking through the kerb. Now it is possible I suppose that it is some actual Rockstar tech build for testing draw distance or something like that, but that doesn't make it GTA, just like John Carmack's self penned screen saver is not Doom IV. /feels like he is actually painting himself into a corner here with quickly typed brain fart comments, but never mind eh. |
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@kangarootoo. I'm not saying it is, i'm saying I would not of been surprised as it looks about the same quality as some of the early next gen games.
It could well be an earlier GTA with a few minor photoshop adjustments......... with that wonderful package I can even make my ex look hot! well just about
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the creeper
22/06/06 @ 20:21
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Worst... fake... ever...
Seriously guys. Someone sticks the GTA HUD and some debug text on top of some naff screen render and some people are actually convinced... I wouldn't be impressed with that on current gen, give Rockstar some credit. You can argue the game's 16 months away, but a game 16 months out is unlikely to have much in the way of textures applied to the geometry anyway. |
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stoopidgreg
22/06/06 @ 22:47
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it's simply a 3D render with some poser models. there's so many things wrong with it that there's no way it's real... and how awful does that 3D map look? it wouldn't even be functional, since you can't even see the streets.
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if it was actually a genuine pic, all the people saying it looks graphically grap need to give your head a shake. The game isnt out for another year and a bit, what would you expect from an early debug version?
Personally, i like the pic, it helps to give some idea of what we can expect from the game. i mean that image will be moving about in real time, all smooth and sexy. |
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The Bodybuilder
23/06/06 @ 12:37
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>"I thought it was one of those things that you shake and it looks like its snowing inside the thing (dont ask me wat they are called)"
Snow globes. I personally thought it looked like a bowl of doritoes. |
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Mentalist(air)
23/06/06 @ 12:51
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I'm a game developer, and I can tell you that from my experience that does look quite convincingly like a screenshot from an in-development game. It's not 'cell shaded' as people were trying to say further up the thread, they're just using pretty basic lighting shaders, which is the sort of thing in-development games do.
If you want proof, it actually looks very similar in quality to screenshots of Saint's Row, see the fifth one on the top row here for instance: http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?art... It certainly has a real-time look, which you don't often get from renders, and those hard-edged stencil buffer shadows are a complete bastard to get right in-engine. The only things that put me off thinking it's a real GTA screenshot are the very odd-looking mace and the fact that the blue building in the background look like static cutouts, which is not something GTA usually does.
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