Grand Theft Auto IV Gone Gold

Ravenas · Apr 21, 2008

alexp999 said:
Oh ok fair enough. Thought you meant GTA in particular.

Don't forget though its doesn't say native resolution. They are supposed to be the supported outputs. Which are true. You will probably be able to output GTA at 1080p, like it will probably say on the box. It just wasnt designed at that resolution.

We never get told the native resolution for PC games and you got people running games at 1920x1200 when the designers may have only designed the game at 1280x800 resolution.

Also, GTA in particular won't be 1080p native. If it is I will wonder if they have came out with a new type of DVD-9, because I know for a fact they won't fit a game the size of GTA on a DVD-9 disc that is native 1080p (especially with optional install).

alexp999 · Apr 21, 2008

Ravenas said:
Also, GTA in particular won't be 1080p native. If it is I will wonder if they have came out with a new type of DVD-9, because I know for a fact they won't fit a game the size of GTA on a DVD-9 disc that is native 1080p (especially with optional install).

optional install?

ktr · Apr 21, 2008

some awesome new screenies came out today...

Wow, at the blood. That looks a tad freaky.

Ravenas · Apr 21, 2008

alexp999 said:
optional install?

As far as I know, the 360 version has an optional install.

alexp999 · Apr 21, 2008

Ravenas said:
As far as I know, the 360 version has an optional install.

Whatever that means?? :confused:

Ravenas · Apr 21, 2008

alexp999 said:
Whatever that means??

By installing content from a game on the console's HDD it will decrease load times, and in general all of your games will run faster under load screens.

Dangle · Apr 21, 2008

Ravenas said:
Also, GTA in particular won't be 1080p native. If it is I will wonder if they have came out with a new type of DVD-9, because I know for a fact they won't fit a game the size of GTA on a DVD-9 disc that is native 1080p (especially with optional install).

Unless there is HD Pre-rendered Video the game will not take up anymore space on a DVD if the Xbox360 could output 1920x1080.

Ravenas · Apr 21, 2008

Also, as far as I know, these are the only native 1080p games on the Xbox:

[native 1080p] Boogie Bunnies [Xbox Live Arcade]
[native 1080p] Street Home Court
[native 1080p] Virtual Tennis 3

Could be more, but who knows. The list that say 1080p on the back of the box is much greater though...

alexp999 · Apr 21, 2008

Dangle said:
Wrong. Unless there is HD Pre-rendered Video the game wont take up anymore space on a DVD if the Xbox360 could output 1920x1080.

It would if all the textures were designed for 1080p cus they'd be bigger.

And I though most/if not all games use the HDD for cache?

ktr · Apr 21, 2008

Only cut scenes can be pre-rendering (like movie), but textures for actual game play will have to be compressed. Any ways, GTA4 is 720P, but possibly could be unscaled to 1080i/p.

EDIT: a little Q&A with R* from IGN:

How do you fit so much detail for such a large city onto a single disc?

Garbut:We have some very sophisticated compression algorithms that are working some black magic on the data. We're used to squeezing a lot onto a disk.

ktr · Apr 21, 2008

Even more new pic....

ShadowFold · Apr 21, 2008

Anyone else think the graphics are.. meh? Then again I dont think any of the GTA games ever really looked good I was just expecting more.

ktr · Apr 21, 2008

ShadowFold said:
Anyone else think the graphics are.. meh? Then again I dont think any of the GTA games ever really looked good I was just expecting more.

I don't think R* puts effort providing clean screenies to the media. Some of the clips in the trailers look sweet, and some look not so sweet. But GTA always been gameplay over graphics.

jbunch07 · Apr 22, 2008

well i must say that from the ss it looks allot better than the others so far!

Dangle · Apr 22, 2008

alexp999 said:
It would if all the textures were designed for 1080p cus they'd be bigger.

No. The texture resolutions would be the same. You can take any game out today and output up to 2650x1600 and texture resolutions from the source will not change.

Texture Resolution and polygon count has absolutely nothing to do with output resolution.

CDdude55 · Apr 22, 2008

I want to see some GTA IV gameplay. Is there any out yet?

TUngsten · Apr 22, 2008

I think this GTA looks pretty damn amazing compared to the previous ones. I've always gotten tired of the graphics long before I finished the games...

ktr · Apr 22, 2008

Here is a some what new screenie (its a few days old, but this one is in much better quality).

ktr · Apr 22, 2008

New Q&A with Sam Houser.

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=0&cId=3167500

I think he prefers the ps3?!?!

ktr · Apr 23, 2008

Even more pictures!

DaMulta · Apr 23, 2008

Damn I'm just going to rent a PS3 with this game for a weekend.....I don't really want a console but I want to play some fresh GTA.

DaMulta · Apr 23, 2008

ktr said:
New Q&A with Sam Houser.

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=0&cId=3167500

I think he prefers the ps3?!?!

The magic words

"The strength of the 360 is a very, very accessible, familiar, effective environment to work in. You're making the game from the get-go, everyone understands its PC environment -- boom, off we go"

PC IS COMMING!!!!!

Dangle · Apr 23, 2008

Thanks KTR!

ktr · Apr 23, 2008

Well there is so much leaked footage now...

This one is spoiler free. Great quality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2Fpunltwh8

Shotgun rampage. meh quality

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/206882.html

Another...

http://rapidshare.de/files/39207388/gta_336.avi.html

http://www.ineed2getaway.co.uk/gtagameplay1.mp4

CDdude55 · Apr 23, 2008

Dang, i can't watch the footage right now. I am in school. How its real and not a fake.

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