GamePro Information

New information about GTA IV, which will only be released in 2008, has appeared in GamePro magazine. Let's see what it is:

• Among other ads, we'll come across the following ones on the billboards in the game: "Shark Credit Cards", "Pirate Music", "The Whiz". The latter is a type of phone, which Niko uses too.

• In the videos so far we haven't seen anything of the HUD, and according to earlier news there wasn't supposed to be one, but the latest info says we'll get one after all. And it's the same one we're used to from the previous GTA games, with only minimal changes from the developers; the mini-map will now indicate more things.

• There were rumours about the Ammu-Nation, saying it would show off a new arsenal of weapons and equipment, but GamePro now denies this: the Ammu-Nation has been taken out of the game.

• The rocket launcher is definitely coming back.

• Pedestrian comments have always played a big part in the GTA games, and it won't be any different this time: female pedestrians will shout (among other things) the following at fellow women travelling in vehicles: "this shit is bananas!"

• As soon as Niko gets into a taxi, the taxi meter starts running on the screen.

• We'll be able to wear unique, real-life clothes in the game.