As promised by Rockstar, the official website for Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3, X360) has been updated with new screenshots that you can see right here. Come back to see us next week for the final trailer. Only left is a month between now and the release, so hang on!

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Kudgel
Friday, March 21, 2008 | 1:52 AM
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As promised by Rockstar, the official website for Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3, X360) has been updated with new screenshots that you can see right here. Come back to see us next week for the final trailer. Only left is a month between now and the release, so hang on!

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Redneck

Commented on 2008-03-21 14:06:01

I want to see it in motion!

I can't imagine how this pixelish distance-textures will look when moving.

BTW, In my opinipn the game looks like knotted on carpet.

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Slabs

Commented on 2008-03-21 14:07:13

Good lord, people need to go back and take a look at where the GTA games of the past generation stood in terms of graphical prowess. It certainly wasn't near the top.

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Krilekk

Commented on 2008-03-21 14:41:49 In reply to pythxvii

Posted by pythxvii

Well I'm pretty sure GTA has a much bigger map, with higher distances etc... And it has style, which is more then SR's bland look. Sure the graphics are for the ost part terrible, but if it plays smoothly and is fun then as long as it looks reasonably decent (and it does, especially the water) then thats good enough.

It has already been confirmed that GTA IV is actually smaller than SR.

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Jigen

Commented on 2008-03-21 15:47:54 In reply to Contra

Fairly ugly in screens, but this game WILL be doing a lot of things that no other game has done before. As I've said other times this came up, to me I can't look at any of these shots and even compare them to most other games, I know too much about the context of how these graphics are going to be presented. So it doesn't look bad to me. But if you took a single frame from a lot of other games and compared it to this one without any context then the other game would usually look better...

Posted by Contra

Get the PC version(Of course it is going to come out so don't ask).

I wouldn't assume anything. GTA SA made a fair amount on PC, but of course cost Take Two over a billion dollars (because of the problems that came out). Those were PS2 games though, and things HAVE changed quite a bit since then. Porting this game is going to be more expensive, while the market has shrunk.

We'll see anyways...

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daikide

Commented on 2008-03-21 16:14:58

The comparsions to Saints Row are stupid. This game aims for MUCH MORE!!!1

Also I would love to know which version's pics are we feeded now... 360?!

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Chrislox

Commented on 2008-03-21 16:23:16

I really don't think it is possible to judge the quality of the graphics based on screenshots. Sure Gears look a lot better, but Gears is a linear game and you have allmost no effect on your surroundings. GTA IV will be different! And who knows anything about the framerate? Have we even seen in-game footage? (No, sadly)
So what about waiting a month before slaugthering the game?

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Ashe

Commented on 2008-03-21 16:50:27 In reply to LEBATO

Posted by LEBATO

Graphics are pretty bad. This is something Rockstar will simply not get, ever. Would you please take a look at the last shot? Damn that's awful.

Saint's Row has much better textures, lighting, and shadows......difference is pretty damn big.

And if you are going to reply with "SR sucks!", "it's all about the gameplay".....That's not the point, don't bother.

Well, I think that it's you who is missing the point. Textures, lighting, shadows etc. are not, what makes great graphics. Artistic direction counts more than that. And on that area GTA IV beats SR and the upcoming SR2 hands down. There isn't even a real contest about that. GTA:s have always had the right feeling and atmosphere in abundance. Something that SR didn't have. Graphical trickery is just icing on the cake, althought I'm sold for the euphoria based animation system.

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blmbox

Commented on 2008-03-21 16:51:06

People seem to forget that we've seen this game (all be it vaguely) in motion and know that it looks good, arguably great in fact.

I personally can't wait. This and Viking: Battle for Asgard for the next couple of months, sorted!

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Viginti_Tres

Commented on 2008-03-21 18:50:18 In reply to Sheps

Posted by Sheps

So ugly but so beautiful...

Attack of the vampires btw...... its the vampires with no shadows right?

No you can't see a vampire in a mirror. Etirely diffrent thing. ;)

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Moonwalker

Commented on 2008-03-22 00:50:50 In reply to LEBATO

Posted by LEBATO

When will we ALL finally understand that screenshots NEVER do any game justice? The pics look great when you see the small versions of them, when you enlarge them though they lookblurry and low res as hell. BUT, have you forgotten how awesome the graphics look in the trailers? It's THOSE graphics that you are gonna see when you are playing the game.

Do you not know about all the previews from magazines and sites that stated that while they played the game they thought the graphics was one of the best graphics in todays games...not just for a GTA game, but for games in general.

Do you honestly think the characters will look that low res and blurry? Like i said..go watch those trailers again , and then come tell me Saints Row looks better......for real.

Take this for example

Looks pretty nice, right?

The high res version is all the sudden much uglier

http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/screens/100.jpg

It's crazy that some people still fall for screenshots..i mean...you think those trailers of IV weren't in-engine? It's what the game looks like. The reason why these pics look so ugly in high res...that the image was originally captured as a smaller image. And you know what happens when you try to make small images bigger.. they get all pixelated

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[quote=LEBATO]Graphics are pretty bad.  This is something Rockstar will simply not get, ever.  Would you please take a look at the last shot?  Damn that's awful.

Saint's Row has much better textures, lighting, and shadows......difference is pretty damn big.

And if you are going to reply with "SR sucks!", "it's all about the gameplay".....That's not the point, don't bother.[/quote]

Do you not know about all the previews from magazines and sites that stated that while they played the game they thought the graphics was one of the best graphics in todays games...not just for a GTA game, but for games in general.

Do you honestly think the characters will look that low res and blurry? Like i said..go watch those trailers again , and then come tell me Saints Row looks better......for real.

Take this for example

[img]http://i30.tinypic.com/15wdhxv.jpg[/img]

Looks pretty nice, right?

The high  res version is all the sudden much uglier

http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/screens/100.jpg

It's crazy that some people still fall for screenshots..i mean...you think those trailers of IV weren't in-engine? It's what the game looks like. The reason why these pics look so ugly in high res...that the image was originally captured as a smaller image. And you know what happens when you try to make small images bigger.. they get all pixelated

Getpwned

Commented on 2008-03-22 01:00:49 In reply to LEBATO

Posted by LEBATO

lol. QFT.

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Moonwalker

Commented on 2008-03-22 01:08:10 In reply to Getpwned

Posted by Getpwned

lol. QFT.

There;s actually nothing true about it. Watch the goddamn GTA IV trailers and then come back and say Saints Row looks better in those aspects...recently i fired up SR...man...if you think that looks better,....get new glasses or eyes.

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Moonwalker

Commented on 2008-03-22 01:15:11 In reply to Moonwalker

Looks nice, right?

Still so nice?

Tell me, which looks better?

Lets talk about lighting and shadows...hmm....you dont see any character shadows in that Saints pic...you do see it in the gta pic. need i go on? Watch the trailers.

check this

http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/grand-theft-auto-iv/827...

looks very nice..click it to see the full pic and see how ugly all the sudden the car looks?

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squarejawhero

Commented on 2008-03-22 10:41:53

Ashe is correct. Good to read some people who actually take time to appreciate what GTAIV is doing, what it's about, instead of complaining how little it looks like the nearest shiny shiny FPS. GTAIV is about wealth of detail over graphical fidelity and the cartoonish design is purposeful to making sure that the violence isn't too realistic to be able to sell it.

Sure they could make it look realistic - but at what cost to the gameplay, the world? And to the possibility of releasing the damn thing? Come on, people, screw the ol' noggins on straight and think realistically. Naturally this isn't going to be on a par technically with games that put their processing power straight into the nearest graphical effects to hide bad design. But look at the clarity of what's being presented and bear in mind what's going on behind the scenes... it becomes very hard to make any legitimate complaints.

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macphisto80

Commented on 2008-03-23 06:19:23 In reply to LEBATO

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Posted by LEBATO

SR textures and lighting are better? Get your eyes tested. Oh, and wait for the fucking game to come out first before you talk this amount of shit.

Sheps

Commented on 2008-03-23 14:33:17

Oh my Jesus bloody Christ would you people STOP comparing SR to GTA, especially on graphics, SR was a damn near launch title, of course GTA is going to look bloody better.

Get over it for Christ sake. At the end of the day GTA looks weird in screenshots, theres no denying it, it looks distorted and warped to say the least with a weird.

And all kids saying "SR isn't as good as GTA" and "GTA has better graphics" do what you preach and hush making comments until GTA has come out.

This whole discussion is self masturbation.

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