GTAIV Coming 04/29/08
The lastest Rockstar Propaganda came in and it says April 29, 2008 for Grand Theft Auto IV release date. Whoo Hoo!
" Grand Theft Auto IV takes place in a redesigned Liberty City consisting of five boroughs; four of the boroughs of New York City and New Jersey. Broker is the equivalent of Brooklyn, Queens is Dukes, the Bronx is Bohan, Manhattan is Algonquin, and New Jersey is Alderney (after the Channel Island of the same name). A Staten Island-esque area will not be featured in the game for the reason that Rockstar Games believes it would not be fun to play there. Dan Houser states that there would not be any “dead spots” or “irrelevant space” within Liberty City such as the wide open deserts in “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas”.
The total area of the map is smaller than Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, but the new rendition of Liberty City will be far more detailed and is the largest individual city in the Grand Theft Auto series. According to the Official PlayStation 2 Magazine (UK edition), “to get from one side of the new and improved Liberty City to the other will take you at least an hour.” Rockstar Games has stated that it is the biggest single city in a Grand Theft Auto game, yet, and although smaller than “San Andreas”, it is comparable to it in terms of scope when “the level of verticality of the city, the number of buildings you can go into, and the level of detail in those buildings” are taken into account. Furthermore, developers are still deciding whether bridges will be used to cordon off certain areas, by way of blocking access to cross them. Eventually the player will be able to lead Niko to cross the Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg bridges and explore.
Screenshots reveal that the Brighton Beach area is renamed as “Hove Beach” from Brighton and Hove, the English city from which the area gets its name. The game’s equivalent of the Statue of Liberty is called the “Statue of Happiness”, Times Square is called “Star Junction”, and DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) is known as “BOABO” (Beneath the Offramp of the Algonquin Bridge Overpass). There is a building called “Twitchins” which is the game’s version of Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory. Dan Houser has also confirmed that an area resembling Central Park will be in the game, called Middle Park. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_IV
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