Grand Theft Auto IV preview (GTA 4) – Xbox 360

If you’re a politician, look away now, because you’re not going to like GTA IV, so you won't want to read our exciting GTA 4 preview. For the rest of us, the Grand Theft Auto series returns this Autumn on both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but Xbox 360 gamers have been dealt a bit of a GTA 4 bonus card, because the Xbox 360 version will include downloadable content (here’s hoping a fast one isn’t pulled where we don’t get existing GTA 4 content that’s on the PS3 disc, just to get to download it). At any rate, the Grand Theft Auto IV hype train is pulling out of the station and we hopped on board to admire the view with a special GTA 4 preview that dissects everything shown so far with an expert games journalist's eye. GTA IV returns us to Liberty City and our GTA 4 preview dissects the trailer, tells you what can be gleaned from it and offers some entertaining observations. And if that’s not enough, the GTA 4 trailer itself can be seen within the magazine on the GTA 4 preview pages, while you read the rest of the GTA 4 preview. Click here to read the Grand Theft Auto IV preview (GTA 4) Xbox 360!

Grand Theft Auto IV preview (GTA 4) - Xbox 360
You’d have thought we’d been teased, but the GTA IV trailer is here, revealing the long-kept secret of this next gen freeform blast’s setting and timeframe, while throwing up a blood-stained briefcase full of new posers…

As we anticipated, the series returns to one of its previous haunts – but it’s not back to London as was widely touted. GTA IV is firmly set in Liberty City, the New York doppelganger that’s looking more like the real-life financial capital of the world than ever.

You get flashes of what appear to be some of the greatest landmarks on the Manhattan skyline (see NO YORK), and clues such as billboard ads for the Liberty Tree newspaper and a building named the Liberteen place this as Rockstar’s fictional East Cost metropolis. There’s even a Liberty Ferry terminal that looks to be in need of some TLC and is certainly disused – a great place to hide a John Doe or two?

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