Massive GTA IV Advert in NYC Gets A Face-lift

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By MishoM | 6th Jul 2007 at 03:36 GMT in GTA IV | 26 Comments

Remember the massive GTA IV advertisement in New York? Well it recently underwent a face-lift! The advertisement used to read "IV", and then "Coming Soon" underneath the giant logo, it was changed to the newest GTA IV logo, which reads "Grand Theft Auto IV" and they've taken out the "Coming Soon" from the ad. (Rockstar Games logo is still there, as is the ESRB "RP" rating, as is "RockstarGames.com".) They've changed it to the logo used on the official GTA IV site, which can be found here. Below are pictures of the building undergoing the changes:

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Bigger versions of those images of the building can be found at "nicknormal"'s Flickr. If you want to see the building for yourself, it's located at "the corner of Greene Street and Canal in New York City". This seems to me, to be the final logo for the game. It's on the official website, they're using it on advertisements, it was in a few magazines, I'd expect to see this logo on the final box art for the game as well.

Thanks Gerard, Adriaan and nicknormal.

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tilly 6th July, 2007 @ 03:50 - Permalink

yay, now most of the people actually know what it is!

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MishoM 6th July, 2007 @ 03:54 - Permalink
yay, now most of the people actually know what it is!

Yeah, really. I can imagine some people not knowing exactly what that giant "IV" meant. BTW guys, its my first news post. How did I do?

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tilly 6th July, 2007 @ 03:56 - Permalink

good actually. you sound like an admin! :o

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MishoM 6th July, 2007 @ 03:59 - Permalink
good actually. you sound like an admin! :o

Thanks for the compliment!

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Highwire 6th July, 2007 @ 04:08 - Permalink

Pretty good for ur first one. I never knew about the big IV advertisement in NY.

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#1 canuck fan 6th July, 2007 @ 04:44 - Permalink

I thought there was one about GTA:SA too

Edit:you were really good on a scale of 1 i rate you 11

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Artur 6th July, 2007 @ 05:47 - Permalink
good actually. you sound like an admin! :o

Yeah you did, before I came to the actual forum part of the site I thought it was Chris saying all this stuff. Haven't been around the forums lately, and saw the news team thingy below your name. Guessing some new thing, for members who dig up a lot of info? Pretty nice addition to the forums, I'll check it out in the Announcements Section.

But yeah, now people driving their cars by will know that GTA IV is coming soon! :D

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7.62mm 6th July, 2007 @ 06:02 - Permalink

Looks great! :D

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surrealistic ArtSweet 6th July, 2007 @ 06:03 - Permalink

awesome post man, you've earned that news team job :thumbsup:

now the new yorker will know what's coming to 'em

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7.62mm 6th July, 2007 @ 06:18 - Permalink

You did good MishoM ;) Keep us informed. Or else... You're fired!! haha jk man ^_^

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Jared 6th July, 2007 @ 08:18 - Permalink
yay, now most of the people actually know what it is!

Yeah, really. I can imagine some people not knowing exactly what that giant "IV" meant. BTW guys, its my first news post. How did I do?

Top job, very professional indeed :).

As for the RP on the poster and website, the game isn't finished in development yet, as seen in Chris's story yesterday they are still recording voice overs. The game wouldn't have been sent away for rating yet, and I would say from the recent events with Manhunt 2, it's not something Rockstar are looking forward too.

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CroScorpion 6th July, 2007 @ 08:40 - Permalink

Yes, excellent job.

Nice news, but R* could do this before since second trailer is already out.

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Dmac 6th July, 2007 @ 11:01 - Permalink

Great post, Professional indeed. :P

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Dark Lord 6th July, 2007 @ 11:11 - Permalink

Looks good.

Nice way for publicity :P

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Adriaan 6th July, 2007 @ 12:31 - Permalink
BTW guys, its my first news post. How did I do?

Credit your sources perhaps? http://www.gta4.net/news/3901/eye-vee-no-more/

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TM™ 6th July, 2007 @ 12:41 - Permalink

I wish they put this Ad banner in Leicester, Would be funny to see it, plus my friends would buy the game if it's been heard around many places.

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Pandora 6th July, 2007 @ 12:45 - Permalink

Cool, looks like the news is going to get a boost now.

Nice find MH :)

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Stojko 6th July, 2007 @ 12:58 - Permalink

Nice... I never knew about it before either.

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The Bossman 6th July, 2007 @ 13:01 - Permalink

Nice job MishoM, good for your first news post.:) This will only help to increase the publicity for GTA 4, which can only be a good thing.

BTW guys, its my first news post. How did I do?

Credit your sources perhaps? http://www.gta4.net/news/3901/eye-vee-no-more/

Give the guy a break, he altered the post and made it his own. He didn't mention the source, but he's new and will learn things like this over time.

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Red_91 6th July, 2007 @ 16:12 - Permalink

Grat stuff man, If I didn't read other peoples posts I would have thought Chris himself posted this,

Anyway I expect R* to start going European and bringing some of there marketing ideas here in the UK instead of just NY and America

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MishoM 6th July, 2007 @ 18:17 - Permalink
BTW guys, its my first news post. How did I do?

Credit your sources perhaps? http://www.gta4.net/news/3901/eye-vee-no-more/

Sorry, I apologize. (I've updated it now.)

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Adriaan 6th July, 2007 @ 20:28 - Permalink

That's not what I meant, but ok...

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Gerard 7th July, 2007 @ 11:05 - Permalink

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Your ImageLodge account is out of bandwidth - I'll get Chris to up it a bit. For now I'm replacing the images with my own.

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TM™ 7th July, 2007 @ 11:07 - Permalink
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Your ImageLodge account is out of bandwidth - I'll get Chris to up it a bit. For now I'm replacing the images with my own.

I guess your Imagelodge account is out of bandwidth too Gerard. I just saw this on the main page and I was going to post it to tell MishoM.

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Gerard 7th July, 2007 @ 13:24 - Permalink

No that one there is the one thats out of bandwidth, mine isn't (yet).

If you still see the above image on the main page, refresh it.

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MishoM 7th July, 2007 @ 13:33 - Permalink

Thanks Gerard, I'll see if I can host images at TGTAP....