Its no question that GTA4 the highly anticipated Multiplatform game is shaping up to be a huge game, but how well will this sandbox title be. Well Jeronimo Barrera(Rockstar Games Vice President of Product Development) shed light on how big this game will be. He states that
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"In many ways it's a bigger leap going from San Andreas to GTA IV than it was going from 2D to 3D...."
Bellic is on the street, a local tough has asked him to kill off a guy who's about to talk to police. Instead of telling him where the guy is, he suggests Bellic get his hands on a cop car and use the laptop to find out where he usually hangs out.
Bellic calls 911 on his cell phone and then when the cop car arrives, he carjacks it and drives away. In this latest GTA your wanted level corresponds to the place in which you commit the crime. As soon as you break the law a shaded circle pops up on your radar showing you where police are looking for you. If you can get out of that area before your spotted you can lose the cops and, eventually, your notoriety.
Bellic tears around the corner and drives to an area where he can pull over. When he taps into the cop car's computer a screen comes with tons of options including one to search for suspects either by name or photo. Using a pop-up QWERTY keyboard, he taps in the name and gets an address to go to which is added to the car's in-board GPS.
When Bellic tracks the guy down he runs, kicking off a car chase. The drive through town doesn't look or feel like a scripted event, and a Rockstar employee is in full control of Bellic and his stolen car, but some of the things that happen, like a large truck dumping its load of barrels onto the street, were written about by other publications which saw the game as well. I suspect that there might be a number of events like this which can be automatically triggered depending on where you are and what's happening.
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I wonder if, as an easter egg, if you searched some staff member (nick?)names and/or key words/phrases, whether you'd get something special (message or addresses)?
In any case, it is a bit much, saying it is 'in some ways, bigger than the leap from 2D to 3D'....In some ways, I guess it would be...The more realistic pedestrian and cop (among other things) actions and interactions....
A living, breathing city, versus scripted stuff...
Anyway, WHEE!!!! So much destructive capabilities. Too bad we cant level skyscrapers with rocket launchers(destroy all humans gets perks for EVERYTHING is destructible)
nvm ...
wow cant wait to test >.>