The Grand Theft Auto IV trailer

212 Comments by Christopher Grant Mar 29th 2007 5:50PM
Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360

Try this HD torrent. Remember to seed when you're done downloading!
Xbox.com is hosting the trailer, in HD.
GameVideos is embedded above.
GameTrailers is back up.
YouTube version has been pulled.

Original post:
In approximately ten minutes time, the Grand Theft Auto IV trailer will finally be live. After a month-long teaser site, hours of late-night advertising on FX, ongoing corporate drama, lawsuits, technical specs, multiplatform tattoos, console-exclusive content, more console-exclusive content, and OMG MEGATON misfires, it's about to be over.

Of course, we already know how to make a GTA trailer. Let's see how close Rockstar gets.

Tags: GrandTheftAuto, GTAIV, Rockstar, Take2, trailer

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rinks: Mar 29th 2007; 5:56PM

Yeah, site's down.

C. Grant: Mar 29th 2007; 5:56PM

keep trying. It's just being grumpy.

Duophonix: Mar 29th 2007; 5:58PM

you can already view it!!!!!!!!!! WOW!

Tom: Mar 29th 2007; 5:58PM

its slow but its streaming!

Rubang B: Mar 29th 2007; 5:59PM

Is this the pizza line?

rinks: Mar 29th 2007; 6:01PM

Timed out, timed out, timed out... yeah, this is the line.

mike: Mar 29th 2007; 6:02PM

lol I knew this would happen. we need a youtube video post haste

dsub: Mar 29th 2007; 6:02PM

GAY.

I can't wait until the day when this shit doesn't happen. The page won't even fucking load.

Ian: Mar 29th 2007; 6:02PM

Yeah I haven't had any luck with it just yet. The server seems to have crashed. I knew disappointment would be inevitable. I should have just gone to bed, rested and got better :(

Http://www.MarioKartWii.com

Grunge: Mar 29th 2007; 6:02PM

Why exactly are we given a news post for something that's going to be happening in ten minutes? And why is the site not working? When will you post the video?

Geoff Gibson: Mar 29th 2007; 6:03PM

Game looks fun, I'll probably pick it up after the initial rush.

dsub: Mar 29th 2007; 6:04PM

they should've released it simultaneously on XBL/Gametrailers.com/Gamevideos.com/PS Network to divert the traffic to different servers.

Tom: Mar 29th 2007; 6:04PM

it is working!!!! KEEP TRYING! ITS WORTH IT!!

rasgueado: Mar 29th 2007; 6:05PM

Dsub: Gay? So... it's flamboyant and well dressed?

Rubang B: Mar 29th 2007; 6:05PM

Wait, so in GTAIV you're a talking cat now?

mike: Mar 29th 2007; 6:05PM

yeah I dont understand. If your companies servers cant handle the bandwidth load, why bother hosting it? Just upload and send it out around the net. Hell even use bit torrent to distribute it. Would be WAY faster.

KiFe: Mar 29th 2007; 6:05PM

What's the point of generating hype with a countdown website if you can't even accomodate the hype that you're generating?

blamecanada: Mar 29th 2007; 6:06PM

Anyone get it?

dsub: Mar 29th 2007; 6:07PM

rasgueado-

shut up. please. I used gay to describe something in a negative way. Get over it.

JodyAnthony: Mar 29th 2007; 6:08PM

you should be proud of yourself dsub.

B1gC72: Mar 29th 2007; 6:09PM

dammit! i want to see it so bad! it just wont load. guess i gotta wait for a youtube video. somebody will probably have one up in like a half hour.

Rubang B: Mar 29th 2007; 6:09PM

dsub is an asshole.

I saw the trailer. It's just a bunch of shots of the city with music, and then this guy says something. It'll be on YouTube soon enough.

Jonah Falcon: Mar 29th 2007; 6:10PM

There's supposed to be an HD Xbox Live Marketplace version of the same video up soon.

Rubang B: Mar 29th 2007; 6:10PM

But when you see the guy and the city and hear what he says you're like "Oh damn, they went there." Jack Thompson is rolling in his grave.

adeel: Mar 29th 2007; 6:11PM

go directly here: http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/trailer_splash.html

Matt: Mar 29th 2007; 6:11PM

rasgueado

If you're going to act all self righteous about it you probably shouldn't do it while using stereotypes that, to some, are just as offensive.

rom: Mar 29th 2007; 6:11PM

GameTrailers has it right now if you're still interested.

mccomber: Mar 29th 2007; 6:11PM

"What's the point of generating hype with a countdown website if you can't even accomodate the hype that you're generating?"

Agreed. I was expecting slow, but this is ridiculous. They should have known they were going to get hammered, and planned accordingly.

MouthlessScreamer: Mar 29th 2007; 6:11PM

It's up on gametrailers:

http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=2924

Larry: Mar 29th 2007; 6:12PM

WOW! Amazing! A Sandbox game based entirely on a blank white space and a giant number named 404....

C'mon Rockstar! You couldn't have hosted the trailer at more than one site? Or bought an extra server or two?

Oh, and it looks like GTA IV has simultaneously bricked TeamXbox and NeoGaf. Great work there guys.

Mr Khan: Mar 29th 2007; 6:14PM

I always love watching the rush

I'm going to wait, maybe watch it before i go to bed, by then the rush should be over in all the North American territories...

dsub: Mar 29th 2007; 6:15PM

Rubang B-

I'm an asshole because I said something was gay?

kiss my ass. I wasn't being an asshole at all until someone had to be a fucking smart ass.

I said gay to describe something in a negative way. Does that mean I hate gay people? No. Come down off your high horse please. As if you have never said something was "gay" or "retarded" before. I'm sure you'd say that you never would, and I would believe that for all of about 1 second. This is the internet. If there is one place on this earth where free speech is still running rampant, this is it.

Anyways, can anyone get the trailer to work? I get to the site and I can see the window where it would be playing, but it just stops trying to load after 30 seconds or so.

mike: Mar 29th 2007; 6:16PM

game trailers one is down too... wow. SOME! RELEASE THE BIT TORRENT VERSION. That cam handle millions of users.

Tom: Mar 29th 2007; 6:16PM

Except the Gametrailers link is hit hard too...

copa: Mar 29th 2007; 6:23PM

dsub, you're a shithead, thx.

Sam Pauscher: Mar 29th 2007; 6:23PM

It's up on Gamevideos.com

savvydoc: Mar 29th 2007; 6:25PM

Finally got to see it.
The gfx look very pretty. Takes place in a new york-esque city. And it seems that you'll play as a russian (or something) immigrant.

Hirsbrunner: Mar 29th 2007; 6:25PM

That trailer was gay.

And I can say that because...actually, it's none of your damn business why. :-}

Suffice it to say, I can.

Stevie: Mar 29th 2007; 6:26PM

It looks amazing! I can't wait! :D

Jonah Falcon: Mar 29th 2007; 6:26PM

I'm downloading from GameTrailers. It's slow (28K per sec), but at least the HD version will be on my laptop in 40 min.

rasgueado: Mar 29th 2007; 6:26PM

matt: I am gay, so I suppose you're right that it was a bit self righteous. I've been fighting heterosexism for about 8 years, not every campaign we run people agree with. I still don't apologize for the comment however, I felt the meaning was quite clear.

dsub: Language is a powerful device. All I was reminding you of is that you should be more accurate in your choice of language. You didn't say it sucks, you said it was gay. I can't stop you from using the word how you want, but if this is the land of free speech as you say, I should be freely allowed to dissent with your use of it.

SickNic: Mar 29th 2007; 6:26PM

Direct link to gametrailers one:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=18205&type=mov&pl=game

C. Grant: Mar 29th 2007; 6:27PM

Make a torrent of it Jonah and we'll share!

MINIratman: Mar 29th 2007; 6:28PM

http://www.gta4.net/ has got a torrnet, but its only got like 13 seeds at the momonet and 200+ peers..and OMFG thanks so much for the link.... 250kb download...

OmahaGTP: Mar 29th 2007; 6:28PM

"I said gay to describe something in a negative way. Does that mean I hate gay people? No."

If you don't see the overall problem with that attitude, then I can't say I'm exactly surprised by your reaction. Sounds like you've had to explain yourself more than once.

Know what would solve the problem? Describe things like a man. Not like a 12 year old boy.

Rubang B: Mar 29th 2007; 6:28PM

Dsub, you have no understanding of how free speech works. You have every right to call stuff gay and say whatever you want, and I would defend your right to say it. But that doesn't mean you're not an asshole. Free speech doesn't mean you can say whatever you want without being an asshole.