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Saturday, August 4, 2007

Grand Theft Auto IV pushed into Q2 2008

Rockstar games has announced that the newest entry in the Grand Theft Auto series has been delayed by at least 5 months to the very vague window of February 1 to April 30th 2008.

Obviously, the delay is due to needing more time polishing, fixing bugs and to better hide their hidden minigames. But I wouldn't be surprised if a contributing factor for the delay was that the fall lineup became a little to crowded. What with Halo 3, Mass Effect, Bioshock, Super Mario Galaxy, Smash Bros. Brawl, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Heavenly Sword, Ratchet and Clank and a whole host of other hot titles coming out, who can blame them?

If you're in the need for a free roaming game why not trying some games in the same genre like Crackdown or The Godfather (Any but the icky PS3 version)?

As for me, I'm still trying to find all the !@#$%ing orbs in Crackdown.

2 comments:

Val McCleery "Chip" said...

I was bummed to hear they pushed this back. It is my all time favorite game. I would like to hear more on GTA IV that is if you take requests?

Royal Terravore said...

Yeah, me too. I was hoping to play it this year. The publisher for that game, Rockstar, haven't said very much about GTA IV. But I do know that it will take place in Liberty City, the Grand Theft Auto version of New York City.
Recreated to look almost exactly the same. Also the Xbox 360 version is supposed to have download able episodes expanding the game beyond whats on the Playstation 3 version.

When more details surface, I'll let you know! For now be sure to check out the two trailers at:

http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/trailer_splash.html