GamesRadar has an interesting Q&A with the senior audio team at Rockstar North; Matthew Smith, Craig Conner and Will Morton - about the pedestrian AI, dialogue, soundtrack and all other kinds of audio heard within the game.
"The pedestrian AI is much more complex in GTA4 than it has been in previous games, and we have to create dialogue to cope with this - peds now do a lot more than they could do previously, and can react in more ways to what happens in the game.
We also decided to make the pedestrian dialogue more realistic in GTA4. As an example, peds in previous games would walk around and randomly chat to themselves if they weren’t doing much else. In real life, people (generally!) don’t go around talking to themselves, so we dropped this behavior from GTA4. However, we realized that the random chat of old GTA games was a good way for the player to pick-up on what sort of personality a ped has, so we created the cell-phone conversations in GTA4 as one realistic way of portraying personality."
Here are some of the points gathered from what Lazlow said on the Opie and Anthony show this morning:
Jim Norton plays a worker in a porn shop. "That's a vintage bush" is a line he says.
Here's a random line: "Eat my fat hairy fist!"
There are over 100 radio commercials.
Sometimes there are announcements in the subway about police harassing you and searching you randomly.
There are Piswasser commercials mocking the Budweiser radio commercials played in America. Lazlow played one of them and it's sung by Anthony himself.
You can go on different news websites in the game and read about different crimes you've committed.
You can date girls you've met on dating websites.
When you get shot in individual places, there will be different reactions e.g. if Niko gets shot in the leg, he will begin to bleed from there and he will also begin to limp.
Recording sessions went on for weeks, ten hours a day, every day.
There were a lot of weekends that were spent by Rockstar employees trying to make the game as great as possible.
Lazlow says he prefers the Xbox version because of downloadable content: new missions, characters, comedy, etc.
O&A admit that it's amazing and as Anthony puts it "everybody will have a blast playing."
News is just in that Take Two Interactive stated at the annual company general meeting that Grand Theft Auto IV has officially gone gold (100% completed). The executive had this to say:
"Trucks are rolling next week and there will be a lot of them"
This means that next week GTA 4 will be shipped to gaming stores around the world ahead of the much anticipated April 29th release!
The Rockstar Games Social Club has opened today for pre-registration. If you don't remember from a previous news article, the Social Club tracks registered users game stats and has leaderboards. Speaking of registering, why not register at our forums and discuss this topic with fellow members.
First up some lucky Ireland users have noticed this GTAIV Commerical on their screens:-
Other news OPM UK Magazine, gave GTAIV 10/10 rating! info on the review can be found here & here (spoilers beware) BradyGames have completed the 'Official GTAIV Players Guide' and will be available with the GTAIV launch...
and the bad news, I got E74 (Red Ring of Death) on my xbox this week, however I have just purchase a new one and it should be here for Friday! Yay!
I thought this GTA mod was well worthy of a news posting, BorisVorontsov has been busy; this modification, adds car reflections, screen space ambient occlusions, indirect lightning and bloom to GTA San Andreas & now GTA Vice City the VC mod also works with GTA III as you can see from the screen above the graphics look tons better
The official Grand Theft Auto IV website has been updated with 15 new screenshots which have now been uploaded in our gallery here, the multiplayer section now has content. Here is a full list of the updates:
Today saw a new wave of previews this time all on the Multiplayer aspects of GTAIV no new screens from those of yesterday but the content is well worth reading, also Women's Wear Daily today revealed that German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has contributed to Grand Theft Auto IV by appearing as a DJ for K109 The Studio.
