Today's most relative game video: GTA clock

28 Comments by Zack Stern Mar 23rd 2007 12:00AM
Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Business

While some of us are counting the seconds until the Grand Theft Auto IV release, others are so GTA-hyped that they count the seconds until the game's trailer. Rockstar apparently took its online promotion to late-night TV, featuring 30 minutes of the countdown to the ad to the game. YouTube user "nospacesinmyname" lets us all bow down to the clock.

Alas, the clip only shows a few minutes of the entire 30-minute "commercial." We've watched it four times with the hope that some GTA IV magic will reveal itself, but nothing has differed. Maybe on the fifth try.

Watch the TV clip after the break.

[Thanks, Godfree]

Tags: FX, GrandTheftAuto, gta, GTAIV, HottestVideo, Rockstar, trailer

(Page 1) Reader Comments

lessbiasedthanmost: Mar 23rd 2007; 12:05AM

Well, that was retarded...

belcho: Mar 23rd 2007; 12:06AM

I love the Hypno Toad

vidGuy: Mar 23rd 2007; 12:11AM

That has to be the worst form of advertising I've ever seen.

Arno: Mar 23rd 2007; 12:14AM

Hypno Toad FTW!

hvnlysoldr: Mar 23rd 2007; 12:15AM

We all love the Hypno Toad. He should get his own channel. ... Wait that is a good idea. Make it happen Nintendo.

jp: Mar 23rd 2007; 12:19AM

worst form of advertisement huh
thats y everyone is talking about it

Splinter: Mar 23rd 2007; 12:19AM

That was worthy of recognition.

w00t hypno toad! Too bad the shows been goin downhill since season 3.

LaughingTarget: Mar 23rd 2007; 12:21AM

Wonder who was bored enough to stay up all night recording it.

LaughingTarget: Mar 23rd 2007; 12:22AM

Splinter -

Downhill? The show was cancelled 5 years ago. Can't get any lower than that.

reppy: Mar 23rd 2007; 12:38AM

Still better than the PS3 commercials.

Myke: Mar 23rd 2007; 1:26AM

zhahaha, all the futurama references must be getting to the joystiq bloggers!!!

Grunge: Mar 23rd 2007; 2:01AM

@ LaughingTarget

He was using a line was a direct quote from Futurama, season 4 episode 6 (Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV). The gang is watching "Everybody Loves Hypnotoad" (which consists entirely of a single shot of the Hypnotoad), and Fry says that the show has been going downhill since season three.

Rubang B: Mar 23rd 2007; 2:27AM

Damn. LaughingTarget got owned.

dark: Mar 23rd 2007; 3:06AM

Futurama frog.

moreslavery: Mar 23rd 2007; 3:07AM

hypnotoad still owns more.

quazi: Mar 23rd 2007; 4:49AM

also LaughingTarget dont forget that futurama is on its way back with new episodes on spike and a few dvd movies =D

Sathan: Mar 23rd 2007; 6:42AM

The new episodes will be on Comedy Central/DVD not Spike. Comedy Central also purchased the rights to show all the old episodes. It all starts next year.

jan_halmes: Mar 23rd 2007; 7:36AM

How can this game live up to it's hype? All the GTA games are basiclly the same anyway. It will be cool to go online, but not really that cool.

I feel like with this much hype, it's likely that even hardcore fans of the series will maybe find it a little anti-climactic when the game finaly arrives but does not cause a life changing moment of almost spiritual proportions, and instead is just GTA agian with better graphics.

Myke: Mar 23rd 2007; 8:26AM

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD...

Yayaja: Mar 23rd 2007; 9:14AM

that hypno toad show started to go downhill after the second season tho...

Josh: Mar 23rd 2007; 9:14AM

Er.. was it just me, or did it skip 07 15 55 00?

goes straight from 07 15 55 01 --> 07 15 54 59

Ah well.

Yayaja: Mar 23rd 2007; 9:15AM

sploops! Splinter beat me to it.

Gavin: Mar 23rd 2007; 10:43AM

I saw this on FX last night around 1:00 am or so CST.

Colin: Mar 23rd 2007; 1:00PM

I think there is a massive misunderstanding about GTA IV. Everybody thinks its GTA "four". Its most definitely GTA IV as in "intravenous" as that is the most potent delivery method for a game so smacked up like GTA.

jp: Mar 23rd 2007; 1:04PM

why wouldnt fox want futurama to air in their channel?

Yubal: Mar 23rd 2007; 1:10PM

@ 21 Josh:

Yess it did!! IT DID!! OMG what does it mean? lol

hvnlysoldr: Mar 23rd 2007; 1:47PM

Maybe it means it's coming out on July 15? It could be sloppy editing on that Youtube video or the compression was bad just for that second?
Am I cool? Course I am! But should your kids be watching me? Haven't you taken the time to get off the couch and beat your kids?

Goldspire: Mar 23rd 2007; 6:02PM

All glory to the Hypnotoad!

Rockstar and Take Two must be saving on money on advertising to pump it into production costs with this gem.

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