GTA IV Preview - Game Informer

The May issue of Game Informer contains a 10-page GTA IV preview. Subscribers got the magazine well ahead of everyone else, and it revealed some important information about the next-generation GTA:

• The main character of the game is called Niko Bellic, who emigrated from Eastern Europe to Liberty City.

• Niko is persuaded to move to Liberty by his cousin Roman.

• The in-game counterpart of the Statue of Liberty is the Statue of Happiness.

• The bridge called DUMBO is named BOABO.

• Liberty City will be built up from the digital counterparts of New York's boroughs: Brooklyn = Broker; Manhattan = Algonquin; Queens = Dukes; Bronx = Bohan; New Jersey = Alderney.

• Liberty City will be smaller than San Andreas and there will be no countryside areas, but in return the developers promise a very richly detailed city.

• Since there will be only one city, there won't be any planes either.

• Pedestrians will behave far more realistically: they smoke, sit down on benches, read, shop, eat and so on...

• Rockstar has worked a lot on the new aiming system.

• We will be able to call other people on the phone.

• The game will have multiplayer, but it won't be built on an MMO basis.

• Game Informer played the Xbox 360 version and said that the graphics seen so far will keep improving until release.

The May Game Informer's 10-page GTA IV preview can be viewed in high-resolution images in our gallery.