It went downhill after they took out the Hari Krishnas

Only just ran across this: today the trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV is released to the world.

Should be interesting, if you consider that this will be the true sequel to GTAIII, Vice City and San Andreas can really be best defined as Mission Packs as the overall structure of the games remained the same.

Still, GTA's influence cannot be denied in modern pop culture. In video game terms, the only game that is more influential is Zelda 64*. Speculation as to what GTAIV will be is rampant: will it be an online RPG? How far will the game push the nextgen consoles? We had an entire state in the last game, will this one be GTA: The World?

Who knows. You only have to wait 7 hours or so (at least from when this was posted) to get a glimpse. The main thing I would want is the damn missions to be improved. They all use the same basic missions in GTAIII to San Andreas with the same painful difficulty spikes. And the shooting/aiming controls still suck.

There are some things that we know for sure: that it will sell like Micheal Jackson albums in the 80s and Jack Thompson will hate it.

I may post again later after I have seen the trailer. That is assuming if the whole internet is brought to it's knees by every video game fan in the world trying to watch it at the same time.




* You look at every single 3D game after Zelda 64 and they all copied the control structure because it just worked, damnit. This game really cemented the work done by Mario64 to prove that 3D action games would work.