[Discussion] GTA IV PC

serapin23 · May 4, 2012

kudimkudim said: ↑

ada yang tau ga cara fix fatal error smpa60 ?
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Error SMPA60 biasanya karena : Agan download savegame dr web,nah dia di savegame udah ada mobil yang disave.Kemungkinan mobil yang ada di save"an yg didownload tidak sama dengan mod agan.jadi sebaiknya mobilnya dibalikin seperti semula trus disingkirin dari parking lot dan disave lagi

mungkin ane bisa bantu gan makasih

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suropati18 · May 7, 2012

bujug 38 part... makasih gan

qwerty6 · May 28, 2012

agan2 sesepuh disini ..
maap ane mau nanya ..
sebelumnya ane maen GTA IV ane lancar jaya ..
bgtu ane aktifin cheat tiba2 gambar nya goyang2 kek org mabok @.@
trus masuk mobil di nge gas terus ..
ada solusi gk ya gan ??
dari spek komputer hasil tes fps 69 atau 59 ane lupa

serapin23 · May 30, 2012

qwerty6 said: ↑

agan2 sesepuh disini ..
maap ane mau nanya ..
sebelumnya ane maen GTA IV ane lancar jaya ..
bgtu ane aktifin cheat tiba2 gambar nya goyang2 kek org mabok @.@
trus masuk mobil di nge gas terus ..
ada solusi gk ya gan ??
dari spek komputer hasil tes fps 69 atau 59 ane lupa
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ente pake patch brapa? trus kracknya ap? kalo patch usahain 1.0.4.0 trus cracknya Razor gan krack sama patch harus sesuai lho gan . biasanya permasalahannya kaya begitu

btw rig ente apa? dewa amat

adetelolet · Jul 9, 2012

ada yg punya masalah kaya gini gak waktu nginstall

iqbaltr · Jul 15, 2012

Mau tanya nih tentang Patch GTA IV

APakah perlu kita install patch sebelumnya, sebelum kita mau instal patch yang lebih baru,
Misalkan saya mau instal Patch 1.0.7.0 apakah saya harus instal 1.0.4.0 atau 1.0.5.0 , terima kasih sebelumnya...

fblues · Jul 24, 2012

mau nanya masalah achievement di GTA IV nih

saya kan pake yg versi cracked, nah kok achievement-nya ga bisa didapetin pake offline profile?
nyobain pake online profile juga, GFWLnya minta CD key

nah disini ada yg bisa dapetin achievement pake yg versi cracked ga? saya mohon bantuannya

simpleoperator · Sep 8, 2012

iqbaltr said: ↑

Mau tanya nih tentang Patch GTA IV

APakah perlu kita install patch sebelumnya, sebelum kita mau instal patch yang lebih baru,
Misalkan saya mau instal Patch 1.0.7.0 apakah saya harus instal 1.0.4.0 atau 1.0.5.0 , terima kasih sebelumnya...
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ga perlu gan langsung 1.0.7 aja, ane dari standart/fresh install langsung update ke 1.0.4, btw kalo agan kedepannya tertarik buat mod gta iv nya, ane saranin pake patch 1.0.4 aja, soalnya patch 1.0.7 ga banyak mod mod yg support cont : enb, modif mobil, tweak, dll

dhodi_tokongsub · Sep 9, 2012

iqbaltr said: ↑

Mau tanya nih tentang Patch GTA IV

APakah perlu kita install patch sebelumnya, sebelum kita mau instal patch yang lebih baru,
Misalkan saya mau instal Patch 1.0.7.0 apakah saya harus instal 1.0.4.0 atau 1.0.5.0 , terima kasih sebelumnya...
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betul kata agan diatas ^^ :mesum:

Note : Klo mau Pake ENB yang Bagus biar realistis harus dilihat dulu Spec Com Kita yah jangan asal Copy paste ,
MOD mobil juga jangan sembarangan ... bisa2 mobil kita gak stabil atau klo belok suka terjungkil

PENSI MAIN GTA IV Karena Spec Com Tidak Cukup Kuat

anggapermata · Oct 6, 2012

Gan saya ada GTA IV episode Liberty City tapi pas saya mau instal kok cepat bangat ga sampai 10 detik langsung finis.
apa GTA IV episode Liberty City ga bisa di win 7. mohon bantuanya...

tristan_akbar · Oct 29, 2012

Mohon bantuna....
bagaimana cara fix GTA IV FATAL ERROR: RESC10???
makasih sebelumnya.....

Tahes999 · Nov 13, 2012

Kenapa ya main koq nglag banget?
pdahal recommended

laptopku emg ada dua VGA Intel HD4000 sm NVIDIA GT 630M,
wktu test benchmark emg yg kebaca Intel HD4000, Mgkn gra2 itu jd nglag
udah msuk settingan nvidia n disetting nvidia untuk allprogram, tp tetep aja nglag, wlpn spek graphic di option game udah di set low smua- -"

mhon bantuannya jika ada yg tw solusinya, makasih

jotail · Nov 14, 2012

kalo yang episode from liberty city bisa di tambah expension gak??

carlos_roy_fajarta · Nov 15, 2012

ada info baru nih mengenai GTA V yg akan rilis 2013 nanti:

Grand Theft Auto V: Reinventing the Open-World Rulebook
IGN’s first look at GTA V offers a selection box of scintillating glimpses of what's in store next year.

Ask any GTA fan what their favourite mission of all time is, and Three Leaf Clover is guaranteed to rank highly. The heist mission from Grand Theft Auto IV encapsulated everything that was great about the series in 15 minutes of gaming nirvana. It had everything: a bank robbery with hostages held at gunpoint; a shootout against SWAT teams on the streets of Liberty City with police helicopters circling above; and a last-ditch attempt to escape the cops by fleeing along the subway tracks on foot. It was action packed, was bursting with variety and was superbly paced. It was the perfect GTA mission.

So it’s hard not to feel a pang of excitement when Rockstar says that Three Leaf Clover is the inspiration for much of Grand Theft Auto V and that heists will be the game’s backbone. Better still, Rockstar claims each will be bigger than any heist mission it’s done before.

Heartbreakingly, Rockstar is not quite ready to show off the heists in Grand Theft Auto V just yet. However, the first mission unveiled is just as explosive and, more importantly, it perfectly demonstrates the dynamic between the game’s three protagonists.

The mountain bike returns in GTA V. Race to the top of Mount Chiliad?

Michael is the first to be introduced, sitting next to the pool on the terrace of his grand mansion. He’s an ex-gangster who made his money and is now working with the government under a witness protection scheme. He enjoys the finer things in life, and there’s a fewer thing more luxurious than his sprawling home, with stunning vistas across the city, tennis courts and a plasma TV so big it’d put most multiplex cinemas to shame. Works of art adorn the walls and expensive furniture is dotted throughout every room, but Michael's life isn’t without problems. His relationship with his wife is evidently beyond repair and the only words they share when they pass in the hallway are expletives, before she barges through the front door, takes the sports car and skids off into the distance – no doubt heading to the nearest mall to spend even more of Michael’s money on overpriced tat.

Elsewhere in the house, one of Michael’s daughters is playing a rhythm action game and barely acknowledges his presence when he walks in the room. Despite appearances, life isn’t all that sweet.

Back to the demo, Michael heads over to the garage and climbs on his mountain bike to cycle to a meet-up with Trevor and Franklin. It’s a brief trip along the affluent streets of Rockford Hills, one that’s soundtracked by the click-clacking of a dozen water sprinklers, each soaking a perfectly-manicured lawn.

Los Santos has a very different vibe compared to Liberty City. It’s more open, less claustrophobic, and it feels more relaxed even though it’s just as busy, if not more so. Indeed, Rockstar claims GTA V has twice the number of types of pedestrians going about their business in the game, which we hope makes for a much more vibrant environment to explore.

Even the cops are more prevalent and when we switch over to Franklin his drive through Los Santos is interrupted by the shrieking of police car sirens in the distance, shortly followed by three cop inceptors cutting through the traffic in pursuit of an unseen felon. Obviously, we’re all used to feeling the heat on our backs when we’ve broken the law in previous GTA games, but the presence of the boys in blue feels much more evident in everyday life in GTA V.

GTA's take on Venice Beach is where we first meet Franklin.

As for Franklin, his method of getting to the meet-up with Michael is far more sophisticated than riding a mountain bike. He’s a repo man working for an Armenian luxury car dealership, so his car for the day is Grand Theft Auto’s equivalent of an Audi R8 Spyder, the 9F. It’s a beast of a machine and is the first time convertible cars have been properly realised in GTA. It may not sound like much, but the moment you climb inside and the roof pops down you cannot help but smile. Sure, it’s a tiny detail but it’s things like this bring the world of GTA to life, and GTA V is bursting with such moments.

It’s also here we’re treated to a glimpse of one of the game’s many dynamic events. Like the dynamic events in Red Dead Redemption, these aren’t side missions per se – although GTAV is packed with these too, such as assassination missions – but procedural moments that you either get involved with or ignore. As Franklin waits in a parking lot a Gruppe 6 security van pulls up. It’s begging to be stolen, but do you strike now, dragging the driver out of the van and attempting to escape through the jam-packed streets of the city; or do you tail it and wait until find a quiet intersection where there are fewer prying eyes? Either way, successfully pull off the robbery and the cash is yours, and according to Rockstar there will be far more ways to spend your hard-earned (or hard-stolen, as the case may be) than in GTA IV.

For the purposes of this demo Franklin leaves the security truck well alone, which leaves us with Trevor, the most colourful of GTA V’s protagonists and arguably the most psychopathic lead ever to appear in the series. His introduction is one you won’t forget: the camera’s begins up close on his contorted face, before pulling back to reveal the complete picture – Trevor, squatting on a stinking toilet in his beaten up trailer, squeezing out what can only be described as the mother of all turds.

Yanking up his trousers without wiping (his mother would be appalled), it’s immediately apparent this guy is a handful. Even though you’re controlling him, he feels unpredictable, no more so than when we’re shown a couple of new touches for GTA V. Trevor, after driving along the dusty roads of Blaine County, past Mount Chiliad towering in the distance on the other side of the Alamo Sea, pulls up on the side of the road and grabs a tank of gasoline from the back of his pickup truck. He then tips the jerry can upside down and pours a trail of gas that leads to the truck. One strike of a match later and BOOM! Fire engulfs the vehicle while Trevor stands back and admires his handiwork. As the rubber from the tyres burns fiercely, thick black smoke spewing into the sky, we’re left wondering how many other neat touches like this there are in the game, and how players will use such freedom to create an almost limitless collection of tools of destruction. Then again, anything in Trevor’s hands can probably cause an awful lot of damage.

The question is, what’s this guy like when you’re not in control of him? By now it’s common knowledge that you can freely swap between Grand Theft Auto V’s three leads, and that while you’re not directly controlling them the other two will happily go about their everyday business. But in Trevor’s case, on the evidence provided, this is one guy you want to keep on a short leash.

The pickup truck burns after Trevor experiments with a jerry can of gasoline.

Switching between characters is fast and effortless. An on-screen menu displays which characters are available (one might not be, especially if you’re in-mission) – select one and the camera pulls out and shoots skywards to show a bird’s-eye view of the map, before panning to the next location and zooming back towards the ground to plant you inside the brain of your chosen character. It's very reminiscent of Call of Duty: Black Ops II's Strike Force missions, where you're also able to switch characters who have different specialities for different tasks.

Even though Michael, Trevor and Franklin lead very different lives, as the story unravels they become close. The mission we’re shown, which appears early in GTA V but isn’t the first, opens with Michael, who arrives at the meet-up with Trevor. These two go way back, but they’ve been recently reconnected through Michael’s work with FIB, which is GTA’s equivalent of the FBI. The pair have been drafted into to carry out a hit-and-run against another government agency and their target is being held in one of the upper floors of the IAA (read CIA) building in downtown Los Santos. This being GTA, walking up to the front door and ringing the bell is not going to get him out.

The meet-up is the first time Trevor and Franklin encounter each other face-to-face and understandably the psychotic nut-job is cautious of the new recruit. But he puts his faith in Michael’s judgment – after all, Michael describes Trevor as his “best friend” and Franklin “as the son I never had”, and together they make a well-rounded if somewhat unconventional team.

Back to the mission and the plan is simple: experienced pilot Trevor will fly a chopper to get Michael close to the target while Franklin provides sniper support from a nearby skyscraper.

We play out the first part of the mission as Trevor, flying the chopper with Michael riding shotgun. From above the Los Santos skyline looks nothing short of beautiful, the monolithic skyscrapers cutting dark, ominous silhouettes against the orange cloud-kissed sunset. To the east it’s possible to just make out Del Perro pier and beyond it the ocean, while to the west there are the rolling hills of the countryside. Far below freeways and roads snake in all directions and the pin-pricks of light reveal a city going about its business.

The short flight provides a brief glimpse of the scale of the game: Rockstar has already gone on record and said Grand Theft Auto V will be around five times bigger than its predecessor, and what’s visible from the chopper is about three-and-a-half times bigger than the sprawling deserts of Red Dead Redemption.

As ever, a mini-map in the bottom-right of the screen pinpoints your objective. It also displays an artificial horizon while flying, which pitches and yaws as the chopper circles the tight cluster of buildings that makes up central Los Santos.

There’s only one building we’re interested in, though, and as Trevor eases the helicopter onto its roof control switches to Michael, who steps out, hooks a wire onto the building ledge and rappels down the side. The game’s fastidious attention to detail is immediately apparent at this point – long shadows flicker across the glass building as Michael edges his way down and inside office workers go about their business, seemingly unaware that some guy in a black one-piece is looking through their window on the 30th storey.

Trevor and Franklin meet for the first time, just before taking off on the mission.

As Michael approaches the target floor the camera switches to inside the building, where a man, strapped into a chair, is being interrogated. Screams echo around the room as a torch slammed down onto the desk splinter his fingers into a bloody mess. You’ve only got seconds to react, firing at the glass and crashing through the window to his aid.

Rockstar stresses the game can be played in different ways. For example, in this instance you can play purely as Michael, gunning down the four agents in the room before grabbing the hostage and bailing out of the window. Alternatively you could switch to Franklin and watch the action unfold from afar, peering through the optics on your sniper scope and lending a helping hand by picking off enemies as they pop into view. Or, as we witnessed, you can switch between the two, executing the smash and grab yourself before taking control of Franklin as Michael is winched back up to the chopper.

Having the freedom to switch between characters not only ensures you tailor the experience to your tastes, but also eliminates flat spots in the action. You’re always at the heart of what’s going on, whether you’re piloting a helicopter, shoving a gun in someone’s face at point-blank range or popping heads from a rooftop.

The closing stages of the mission are equally open and as Michael is pulled back inside the helicopter, you have three options. You can continue to play as Franklin who, when agency choppers arrive quickly on the scene, can cover his buddies by taking potshots at enemy pilots in an attempt to bring them down. Or you can switch back to Michael, who’s able to open up with a machinegun as the heat closes in. Lastly you can choose Trevor, who tries to shake off his pursuers by weaving between buildings and getting the hell out of there as quickly as possible.

The reality is you’ll probably play around with a combination of the three, initially laying down covering fire as Franklin before switching to Trevor to change the direction of your chopper so Michael has a better angle to open up on the incoming bad guys. And that’s just one way the mission could’ve played out. Base-jumping returns for GTA V, so is it possible for Michael to grab the target and jump from the building, before opening a parachute and making good his escape in a car once on the ground? The truth is we don’t know right now, but rest assured we cannot wait to experiment when we finally get to play more of the game.

One thing we do know is that all three characters must survive in order to succeed the mission. Additionally, Michael, Trevor and Franklin each have their own side missions open to them, as well as the side missions that are shared across all three. Rockstar wouldn’t be drawn about specifics but hinted that they’ll tie in with each of the characters. Will Franklin make a bit on the side by trading rare cars for cash, or will Trevor be called upon to fly stolen goods from the a pick-up point in centre of the city out into the countryside? We’ll have to wait and see.

Also, while Rockstar is not talking about multiplayer yet it’s certainly a key focus, and the three-character set-up does mean that some missions would lend themselves perfectly to co-op. It’s unlikely the entire story will be playable in co-op – Rockstar has said as much - but planning and eventually taking part in a huge heist alongside your best mates is something I personally hope for.

Playing as Michael you fire at IAA helicopters from inside Trevor's chopper, while Franklin snipes from a nearby roof.

And that’s what’s particularly exciting about Grand Theft Auto V. From the briefest of glimpses we can already tell the city of Los Santos is a place we want to spend more time in, and getting to know Michael, Trevor and Franklin better is something we cannot wait to do. There are questions that still need answering – has the combat been refined or completely overhauled, and more importantly does the inclusion of three characters means there’s far more replay value or does the story always follow the same path?

One thing’s for sure, the most exciting aspect of GTA V is not just the way it promises to shake up the open-world genre, but also the freedom and flexibility it promises. Tackling the same mission in different ways has always been a hallmark of the series – carrying out chase missions in Vice City in a Hunter helicopter is one of my fondest GTA memories – but it’s never been truer than it is here. What’s more, if pedestrian fetch quests really are a thing of the past and the promise of a consistently up-tempo yet satisfyingly deep story is deliver upon, Grand Theft Auto V could be the benchmark by which all other games – not just open-world games – will be judged against.

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Grand Theft Auto V preview: the inside story
We get the full lowdown on GTA V from co-writer Dan Houser and find out how the game's skewed vision of LA was conceived

Grand Theft Auto V breaks from the play of the previous games in the series by allowing you to jump between three characters.

Two helicopters swoop down over the city, zigzagging between looming skyscrapers. They are searching for a third chopper, and they find it, hovering beside an anonymous government building. Quickly, the craft glides away from its pursuers while a gunman leans out and fires back.

This is an aerial shoot-out, hundreds of feet above the densely crowded streets, a breathtaking action set-piece, befitting the most vainglorious Hollywood blockbuster. But you are in control; it's your movie. And as shots ring out, one chopper spirals out of the sky, black smoke billowing from its shattered tail. In the background, a neon pink sunset detonates across the sky.

This is Grand Theft Auto V, the latest title in a series that has dragged video games kicking and screaming onto the cultural agenda. When the first details started leaking across the web last Thursday, social media channels went into meltdown as gamers scrambled for titbits of information. Many will be talking about little else for the next three months.

Developed at Rockstar's Edinburgh studio, with input from several of the publisher's other developers around the globe, GTA V is another darkly humorous crime adventure, crammed with sleazy gangsters, corrupt politicos and dodgy cops. While GTA IV took place in Rockstar's cold, shadowy version of New York – the ironically titled Liberty City – the latest title heads cross-country to Los Santos, a monstrous, sprawling pastiche of Los Angeles.

Here we meet lead character Michael, an ageing bank robber who fulfils that most fecund of crime-fiction archetypes: a crook who's made good, retired to a fancy house, but now misses the excitement of the old days. In the demo Rockstar shows us, he starts out sunbathing by the pool like Ray Winstone in Sexy Beast, the city shimmering in the distance beyond his landscaped gardens. The player is able to get up and explore the bleached stucco mansion, passing the tennis court (you can play a match if you like), then bumping into Michael's bored wife as she clambers into a sports car on the front drive. "If you want to know where I am, read your credit card statement," she yells as tyres squeal. "I'm feeling lucky, I'll check the hospitals!" he calls back. And slowly but surely, his previous career begins to beckon.

The basic structure is similar to previous titles. There is a series of missions which have to be completed to tell the over-arching story, but when you're not taking part in these, you're free to explore the environment; driving the endless roads, discovering mini-games, meeting characters, and generally getting into trouble. But GTA V will also make some radical structural changes.

In the past, players would have controlled a lone character all the way through the game. Here, you have three, switching between them at will. Alongside Michael, there's Franklin, a young kid working in vehicle repo for a bunch of Armenian gangsters, and the fascinating Trevor, a psychotic career criminal with a shady military background.

These guys all have their own skills and specialities and will often attempt missions together, the player sticking with one character throughout the task, or swapping back and forth, relying on the computer to control the others.

Why the change? Why three characters? "It was partly just to do something totally new," says Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar and co-writer of all the Grand Theft Auto titles since GTA London. "Partly, too, it was because at that point we were deep into the work on the two DLC episodes of GTA IV, and we thought, well, the bits where all the stories crossover is kind of cool, so why don't we just do that in one game? So okay, let's just do multiple characters. With Michael we wanted this older guy who's still tough, but he's retired. That's a great way to start a game – at the end. That seemed fresh.

"Franklin was the next one we came up with because we wanted a younger character, just so he could be the guy on the up, contrasting with the guy on the down – one could mentor the other. And in some ways, I suppose, Franklin is most like your traditional GTA protagonist. And then out of nowhere, the idea of Trevor came to us. He is the guy who does everything awful, relentlessly! He has his own charm, but he … he's a relentless maker of mischief. Not without some principles though, but totally different principles to Michael – an exact opposite take on what it means to be a protagonist in a GTA world. Michael is more about ego and Trevor is more about id, I suppose".

This provides an interesting gameplay dynamic, but it is also about story. Instead of telling one tale which heightens toward a single dramatic finale, GTA V cuts between these three interlocking narratives, drawing parallels and distinctions between the men. And instead of one set-piece conclusion, the game is structured around a series of five or six mega-heists which take place throughout the game, and which other missions lead up to. The idea is to get gamers into big set-piece thrill-fests like GTA IV's Three Leaf Clover much more quickly.

Some of the artwork Rockstar has released shows the characters jumping out of a van with gas masks, overalls and machine guns, bringing to mind Michael Mann's movie Heat. Like that film, this seems to be a game about professional criminals and the weird working relationships they maintain amid the testosterone and violence.

Relationships seem key. In GTA IV, some people felt all that stuff got annoying – looking after Niko's cousin Roman, taking calls from gangsters wanting to hang out, catching up with girlfriends. There's no romance this time, but the phone is back ("we've evolved it to reflect the modern world with smartphones," says Dan), although it seems the interplay between the main characters will be the focus.

"You have other people you can hang out with, but the main people you choose are the other protagonists," he says, stressing that the intricacies are still being worked on. "If you're playing as Michael and you want to play a game of tennis, you can call up Franklin and ask him. You are actually getting to see the main bulk of the story and also spend time with these people off-mission – that side of it gives it a vibrancy that's a lot stronger than with Roman or anyone else.

"On the emotional narrative side, it's stronger just because of the nature of the rest of the game, and on the mechanics side, hopefully we've just designed it better, we've smoothed off the rough edges of it and made it a stronger part of the game".

On the subject of Roman, there have been rumours other characters from previous games will turn up in GTA V. Dan says that no one before GTA IV will be in it – the move to HD created a schism in this fictional universe, rendering CJ, Tony and co, as mythical characters from a bygone era. But will we see stories from the previous game looping into this one? "I think that might be too mannered," says Houser. "Nico had a particular kind of story and we're trying to make this different. We might allude to things from that world, but we didn't want it to feel like, well, here's the opposite of an immigration story – we wanted a fresh take on what it means to be a criminal in this world of hyper-real Americana".

It looks like there will be a new approach to music too. Inspired by Rockstar's successes with Red Dead and Max Payne, missions will now be accompanied by an interactive score rather than radio play. "We though could do something interesting if we scored missions in GTA," says Houser. "Obviously we didn't want to lose radio stations, so we thought we'd do both.

"Exactly how we're going to balance between the two we're not entirely sure yet – we're still trying to figure that out. But we have some very cool people doing the score, different people, who will work in the same stem-based system that we used in the other games".

You forget how important music is in this game – and then you watch the GTA V demo and see Trevor leaping into a battered old truck and screaming off into the desert playing Radar Love, and it all comes back. It will be interesting to see how a score competes.

Meanwhile, there's another reason why there are three lead characters: GTA V is too geographically immense for a lone protagonist to explore. This is the largest environment Rockstar has built, big enough – as many previews have pointed out already – to contain the last two GTA titles as well the publisher's vast Western adventure Red Dead Redemption.

Like LA itself, Los Santos is a patchwork of neighbourhoods with a downtown area, a gang-infested southern district, and the prosperous areas in the hills. But the game world extends out into the fictitious state of San Andreas, Rockstar's interpretation of southern California. There are farmlands, deserts, villages, mountains; there is even a functioning ecosystem teeming with wildlife. Trevor lives in a stinking shack out in Blaine County, a deserted coastal region, modelled on California's Salton City. The first time we meet him, he's on the john having a noisy bowel movement; Rockstar never shies away from these sorts of details.

Importantly, the whole map is open from the start. Players can take a chopper and fly out over the hills, parachuting down onto the peak of Mount Chiliad. They can jet-ski, mountain bike, play golf, exercise. They don't have to, they just can.

The city streets are teeming with mini-tasks and money-making endeavours. During our demo, we watch Franklin driving around downtown and notice a Gruppe 6 security van pull into a petrol station – we can turn that over for some quick cash, but will inevitably attract some fervent attention from the cops.

Out in the sticks, beyond the city limits, the feel is more Red Dead Redemption, with dynamic encounters amid the wilderness; Game Informer's recent feature on the game mentions hitchhikers and broken down cars; all potential traps for unwary explorers.

"Environment is important," says Houser. "Games are very geographical – they present space almost better than they present time, and we try to use that, to showcase variety between different landscapes. It's this idea of a digital holiday: being able to explore spaces that don't really exist is one of the the things that's fascinating about open world games. It's not just about doing the activities we've set, there's also a sense of being there.

"If we've done a good job, the shoot-outs are fun but so is cruising through the world in a car you really like, listening to music – if these elements feel somehow consistent with each other, then we're on the right path to something cool".

And, yes, the shoot-outs do look like fun. In the mission we're shown, Michael, Trevor and Franklin have been employed by a covert agency, the FIB, to swipe a prisoner from another set of government operatives. It involves piloting a helicopter to a downtown building, rappelling down a rope, smashing in through the windows, and getting back into the craft with your confused and terrified hostage.

Michael is the one doing the smash and grab, while Trevor pilots the helicopter and Franklin lurks on a nearby rooftop with a sniper rifle, picking off enemy targets. Again, you can keep swapping between them, grabbing different aspects of the action, or you can stick with one protagonist, concentrating on your own key skills. It's exciting stuff, it's what we've always loved GTA for – that sense of freedom, of anarchy, in a functioning world. The sense that extraordinary things will happen.

We don't know much else about the missions yet; but Houser is keen to stress one key aspect. "We've focused on variety," he explains, "I don't think players will say, 'I'm constantly being told what to do, and I go there, I do it, I leave and I do everything in exactly the same way!' I definitely don't think that will be a problem".

And space is important, space is a big issue. Some have already questioned why GTA V needs to be so huge. But Houser bats the concerns right back. "We wanted to make a big place, as much as anything, to allow you to fly," he laughs. "A lot of the decisions, we're talking about them here on a philosophical level, but they're also practical decisions, too: we're making a game. You have to understand the medium. On an obvious level we wanted somewhere big so you can fly properly – we have a lot of missions that involve flying, in helicopters or whatever, it was logical. Also, Jet skis work better around LA than they would in New York.

"We're using the environment to let us have toys we couldn't have had otherwise. And equally, we're using the story and environment to introduce missions that can be more extreme. In some ways we wanted the game to have a larger-than-life Hollywood feel; the stories we heard in LA, we wanted to capture them in the game. If the place isn't informing what we're doing, we're not using it correctly."

Los Angeles. Los Santos. After the bleak, chilly despair of GTA IV this an enormous tonal shift, recalling the sun-streaked abandon of GTA: Vice City, the eighties-obsessed PlayStation 2 masterpiece that some feel is the best title in the series. And although the follow-up to that title, GTA: San Andreas, explored a little of this place, GTA V already feels like it has plunged into the decadent heart of the city like no game before it.

Driving around the intricately detailed streets, we spot tributes to landmarks like Muscle beach and the Hollywood sign, we see mime artists and weirdos patrolling the pavements, there's a guy dressed as Jesus – that guy is really out there in Santa Monica, posing for photos with tourists. There are dodgy fast food joints with names like The Lucky Plucker, there are juice bars and boutiques. The sense of place is incredible; a sort of skewed, woozy take on the real thing. Los Angeles. Los Santos. The two are inextricably linked, but it is LA that the game is really thinking about.

"Since 2008, we've been going out there for for a week or two at a time with different groups from the team," says Houser. "Our researchers did an incredible job of finding us some of the strangest people – retired cops, people with a knowledge of the LA underworld – and we'd hang out with them ... just to see what happened. Whatever skill we have is in taking all of that stuff and amalgamating it into something that feels cohesive. There can't be any particular science to that – the interpretation of the world is our skill, that's where the art is. There's enormous pleasure in wandering about in LA with people who've done crazy things".

Perhaps only a video game could capture the essence of a contemporary city in this way. Houser shies away from such hyperbole, he knows GTA V must function as a game more than anything else, but the team working on it have wider ambitions, too. I ask him if GTA means anything. "I hope so!" he laughs, "otherwise it's pointless! Without being too annoying and avoiding the question, hopefully the games say lots of different things; but I think that for us, the correct response is to turn the question around and ask, what do they mean to you?

"It's not for us to sit there and say, well, this is what it's about. We've got lots of themes we want to explore, be it about advertising, about dreams, immigration, about being an assassin and what that means – some of which will work, plenty of which will probably fail. But it's not for us sit there and say that. Our statement is the game".

Baudrillard would love the version of America that Rockstar has constructed, a hyper-real theme park of violence, corruption and excitement. But you don't have to think about it. You don't have to think at all. GTA V might be about friendship or ambition or regret, but it also looks to be a game in which you can blast through the streets in a truck, boot filled with guns; a game where you can pilot a jet fighter over the Californian landscape; where you can bike down a mountain or jet ski into that fluorescent sunset.

GTA has always been about possibilities. That is why it is so exciting to see the series return, amid the indie titles it has inspired, and the Triple A titles that have grown up in its shadow. Grand Theft Auto pushes at what game worlds are, it is inarguably ambitious. Yet sometimes it just wants to blow up helicopters above the streets of downtown Los Santos. And that, in the end, is absolutely fine.

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Semoga Spec nya gak gila-gilaan dan gak nge lag kayak GTA IV

curutgot · Nov 16, 2012

gan mau tanya. ane abis install gta 4 udah di patch pake yg 1.4. pas main ko grafik nya ancur bgt dah?

itu emang dari game nya apa emang cpu ane? ini spek cpu ane

i3-2120 3.30GHz
RAM 4GB
GTX 550 Ti
win 7 ultimate 64bit

klo ane baca" emang gta 4 kurang bagus ya kk?
ada ga si mod grapic yg bikin alus tapi ga ganggu jalan nya game, soal nya ane baru mau main.
dan cara pakai mod nya gimana? thank's sebelum nya...

steven_hoo · Dec 14, 2012

gue main gta iv lagnya banyaaaakk... fps aja rata-rata 24, ada fixnya ga, gue make ver 1.0.7.0
padahal main Battlefield 3 fps rata-rata 32.

Alwayslearning · Dec 25, 2012

Mau tanya mas gan
Spek :
i3 530 OC 4Ghz
4GB ram
HD5830 1GB DDR5
Win 8 Enterprise 64 bit
nah dulu ini gem pernah tes di win xp jalan
terus lupa apa pernah di tes juga win 7, ini baru mau pasang windows 8, kok ditulis "Incompatible"?
emang gak kompatibel ya?
kira2 ada solusinya gak?
mau donlot yang baru koneksi keong, ada master yang lama 4dvd

asakuray · Jan 15, 2013

mau tanya maaf kalo telat
link donlotnya semua udah mati
mungkin ada link baru yang bisa di share?
terima kasih

anbuchiizu · Feb 9, 2013

reonanda said: ↑

installnya harus matiin internet dulu ya?
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matiin dulu sampe masuk game, soalnya ntar update mulu mlah bisa bikin error

j3smoove · Feb 12, 2013

Tahes999 said: ↑

Kenapa ya main koq nglag banget?
pdahal recommended

laptopku emg ada dua VGA Intel HD4000 sm NVIDIA GT 630M,
wktu test benchmark emg yg kebaca Intel HD4000, Mgkn gra2 itu jd nglag
udah msuk settingan nvidia n disetting nvidia untuk allprogram, tp tetep aja nglag, wlpn spek graphic di option game udah di set low smua- -"

mhon bantuannya jika ada yg tw solusinya, makasih
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mesin benchmark nya uda terlalu lawas, skrg alokasi memory untuk OS and Aplikasi OS aja uda gede, hasilnya buat main GTA IV jadi mepet2
pake Nvidia masi lag?
coba patch ke 1.0.4.0 dulu, biasanya performa nya bakal lebih optimal di patch ini, dibanding 1.0.7.0, patch 1.0.4.0 lebih nyaman buat spek menengah
Code:
http://www.thegtaplace.com/downloads/c76-gta-iv-patches
http://gf.wiretarget.com/gta_4.htm
Kalau masi lag buat files dokumen
1. Buat New Text Document (notepad)
2. RenameNew Text Document jadi commandline
3. Isi Perintah commandline
-nomemrestrict
-norestrictions
-availablevidmem 1.0
-percentvidmem 100
-restrictApp 0
4. Save
5. Copy and Paste ke Folder GTA IV

steven_hoo said: ↑

gue main gta iv lagnya banyaaaakk... fps aja rata-rata 24, ada fixnya ga, gue make ver 1.0.7.0
padahal main Battlefield 3 fps rata-rata 32.
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walau game lama, GTA IV performanya tetep berat, di spek high end juga gitu, buat ngurangin lag mgkin bisa pilih option medium/low di textures and shadows

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