Inside Liberty City: Developer Diary

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By Chris | 7th Dec 2007 at 11:32 GMT in GTA IV | 16 Comments

Rockstar are certainly making up for the months fans waited without any news on GTA IV by giving us a lot of stuff to enjoy over the past week or so. Today, Yahoo have posted a developer diary which details part of how Rockstar Games and Rockstar North have created Liberty City. The article includes some screenshots side-by-side with their real life counterpart, along with 4 new screenshots.

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K9 Krew's photo
K9 Krew 7th December, 2007 @ 11:58 - Permalink

Wow, All of those Screen-Photo comparisons looks identical. Nice new screenshots.

Spaz The Great's photo
Spaz The Great 7th December, 2007 @ 12:19 - Permalink

Whoa-damn, buddy. That's some pretty good shit there. Some of those comparison shots are amazing.

Gycu's photo
Gycu 7th December, 2007 @ 12:58 - Permalink

I'm reading it right now ... sounds amazing 'till now ...

MrLlamaLlama's photo
MrLlamaLlama 7th December, 2007 @ 13:36 - Permalink

Epic.

Epic, epic, epic, epic, epic.

Did i mention this is fucking epic?

Those screens are simply amazing...

R*'s Lady liberty pwns real life one... :P

Plus, this confirms weazel (The TV station taking the piss outta fox that we also heard on the radio in LCS?)

kobe_inr's photo
kobe_inr 7th December, 2007 @ 14:10 - Permalink

man oh man how good is that. look exactly alike. the game is gonna be mad!!!! :D

Sherman's photo
Sherman 7th December, 2007 @ 14:16 - Permalink

So.Awesome. I'm calling up my friend / going to the pawnshop for a 360 now.

The Bossman's photo
The Bossman 7th December, 2007 @ 14:38 - Permalink

Just the detail on the shots is incredible, and the side-by-side comparisons are equally as good. I actually thought they'd make the Statue of Liberty a bit more jokey than that, seeing as they like parodying things. If you can go on the Screamer, I wonder if you can throw people out their seats...? :D I need a next-gen console now dammit. Good shots, as always.

Red_91's photo
Red_91 7th December, 2007 @ 15:23 - Permalink

The detail is very good, and I like the mucky water in the second screenshot, everything seems so life like and the graphics have been a major improvement to previous versions.

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treemans 7th December, 2007 @ 21:18 - Permalink

Hello!

Three new GTA 4 screenshots from Hungarian GTA's website:

http://gtagaming.hu/index.php?option=com_c...=27&temid=1

They were cool according to me! ;)

Gycu's photo
Gycu 7th December, 2007 @ 22:00 - Permalink

Whoa! Never seen those pics, thanks :D

Red_91's photo
Red_91 7th December, 2007 @ 22:03 - Permalink

Nice screenshots I like the second one where he is driving with the black guy, also the one where he is about to shoot the cop is good too.

fire boy's photo
fire boy 7th December, 2007 @ 23:28 - Permalink

there are also some new screen shots that have been uploaded onto the rockstar site which are pretty rad. someone should add them to this site. man i hope they tell us the release date soon i cant wait!!!!!! :w00t:

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Swifty 8th December, 2007 @ 01:46 - Permalink

The best thing about this article is that it points out how the graphics are merely the tip of the iceberg & what's really going to set this game apart is the level of realism & immersion that will be possible. It's going to be the little differences & the attention to detail, which will make GTA IV so much more enjoyable than the previous titles (I'm hoping).

I really want this to be a game that I can keep going back to, because unfortunately I don't think SA was. Once the missions were all done, there wasn't much left to do except start the storyline over again.

STL67's photo
STL67 8th December, 2007 @ 17:02 - Permalink

if u look at the one with times square its got a billboard that says WEAZEL news, and weazelnews.com, mayb thats a site we'll be able to visit ingame! :D

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rockstarrem 9th December, 2007 @ 03:31 - Permalink
if u look at the one with times square its got a billboard that says WEAZEL news, and weazelnews.com, mayb thats a site we'll be able to visit ingame! :D

Well fuck, good looking. The WHOIS information shows this:

Domain Name: weazelnews.com

Status: clientTransferProhibited

Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.

Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com

Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com

Expiration Date: 2010-01-24

Creation Date: 2007-01-24

Last Update Date: 2007-01-24

Name Servers:

ns33.worldnic.com

ns34.worldnic.com

Isn't Network Solutions the company that Rockstar buys their domains from?

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CHEW-GUN 12th December, 2007 @ 19:24 - Permalink

Correct me If I'm wrong, But to me it seems the liberty lady has been parodied a bit.

In the game its called the statue of happiness and it looks like its holding a beer can instead of that torch.