GTA4 preview details online multiplayer modes

by Kyle Orland on Apr 8th 2008 11:00AM

GameTap has finally gotten a chance to share the previously embargoed details of its recent hands-on time with Grand Theft Auto IV. The preview discusses four of the game's fifteen online modes: Team Deathmatch, GTA Race, Cops 'N Crooks (a Counter-Strike style team match) and Hangman's Noose (a co-operative escort mission).

Among the interesting details discussed (some of which have also been revealed elsewhere):

Previously rumored 16-player online play is confirmed.
The online maps aren't changed in any way from single-player -- you can still drive vehicles from one end of the city to the other, if you want.
There's no co-op option for the single-player missions, but many online modes allow for cooperation.
Ranked online matches earn players in-game cash for character customization. Higher difficulty means more cash.
Race mode can be played with or without weapons.
The volume of other characters voices will vary depending on their distance from you. "So if you hear an enemy's voice, he's probably right behind you and it's too late."

The most telling quote in the preview is Vice President of Game Development Geronimo Barrera's suggestion that "after players earn the cell phone in the single-player game (which takes about five minutes), if they want they can jump online and never even play the single-player again." With the extremely varied multiplayer options, we might just be taking him up on that.

Note: GameTap's servers are getting hit pretty hard, so the Read link may not load for a while.

Update: They're all live! GTA4.net has posted links to numerous multiplayer previews. (Thanks Cal!)

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Tags: crime, gametap, grand-theft-auto, gta-iv, multiplayer, online, preview, PS3, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (71)

HOLY SNEIKEYS!

Ok this one has just moved to the must buy list!

Who wants to recreate the heist scene from "Heat" with me? ;)

It wasn't already on your 'must-buy' list? 'twas on mine since there was rumours of a fourth GTA!

This has now moved onto my 'might buy an Xbox 360 for this game' list.

Jesus H Christ re-creating that scene from heat would be the tits! Count me in sir.

This game has moved from the must buy list to holy fucking shit I must have this game now list.

Heat? I call dibs on Val Kilmer. I wanna live baby! Plus I love his expression right before the bank gun fight :D

okay "slick"..

Funny enough I've never played a GTA game before, so I guess I in for a treat. :)

I love Al Pacino's line in the movie.

"She's got a GRRREAT ASS!"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=R3MFvKwhbjE\

I gotta buy this flick...top notch!

This might make me a gigantic tit, but I was honestly hoping for more than 16 player online. If you think about it, Liberty City is probably the largest multiplayer "map" ever. 16 people seems like too few to really take advantage of the entire city.

That said, 16 should be more than fine for modes that are more concentrated, etc. Certainly I wasn't expecting this game to pull me away from COD4 (atleast not in the multiplayer arena).

How about you recreate that scene, but have one dude as a cameraman for some real badass machinima?

Totally stoked for this game the more info they release on it.

The end of April can't come soon enough! Here's to hoping time flies by even faster for once.

"GameTap's servers are getting hit pretty hard, so the Read link may not load for a while"

That's the power of new GTA info

Makes a man think, how rough will it be for Xbox Live and PSN when GTA4 finally hits the streets?

im with you on that Omar. ill be very curious to see if the they have a significant amount of servers set up for this game when it drops. im more so leaning to them underestimating the selling power of the game and probably not having enough from the get go but there is plenty of other stuff to do besides online although online will be the bee's knees.

it's gonna be a nightmare on live the first day or so. Every big multiplayer game that 360 gets the first day it crashes. This will be the biggest so I don't see how it wont' crash (although i hope i'm wrong)

Oh my god...*drools*

I am SO pumped for this! It just keeps getting better and better!

The voice proximity feature is outstanding. Just makes so much sense. Now I'll just have to work on my battle cry.

SPOOOOOON!

SPOOOOOORK!

Will the PS3 version have voice chat?

If the PS3 has a headset feature, than I would reckon so. But I wouldn't know; I'm a 360 kind of guy.

why wouldnt it have voice chat? i mean PS3 doesnt have voice chat across all games like 360 but the majority of games still offer it. i would be seriously surprised if this game didnt have it.

now back to thinking up a battle cry.....i think im leaning towards "i'm gonna fuck you Deliverance style!" yea thatll make um squeal like a pig.

LAAAADDDDIIIIEEEEESSSS FIIIIRRRSTTT!

LEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOY JEEEEEEEEENKIIIIIIIINSSSSS

Yeah, this was in the EGM that came out last week. Cops 'N Crooks sounds like a ton of fun.

Is it like the Kane and Lynch version?

Dunno, never played it.

It will probably take an enormous force of will, but I would like to complete the single player before I get too involved in the multi-player. I'll have to come up with some kind of ratio, like 3 hours of SP to 1 hour of MP until I finish SP. Otherwise, I may never get past the first 5 minutes of the SP. The photos that were released on Shacknews today (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52105) make my mouth water even more for the MP.

Beating some sucker around the face with a dildo is going to be so much better now that it's online.

Saves you a trip downtown to the homeless shelter, eh?

lol at JJ Rooster. that is the most preposterous statement ive heard all day lol.

Yes please!

16 players doing what exactly? Deathmatch? Capture the hooker?

There's been info about 15 different play modes for weeks. http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/14/rumor-gta-iv-multiplayer-to-boast-15-modes-16-players/

doing a hell of a lot more than your typical online deathmatch and capture the flag a hundred million times

multiplayer won't be touched by me until the MGO beta ends....

Hey you hear that?

It's the sound of nobody caring.

I have to finish LO and Mass Effect b4 this drops...

Not possible.... 2 Great games right there that you SHOULD NOT RUSH.

Only new stuff I see there is weapons on or off in race, but then again we've already been told that the hosts have tons of options...

I'm sad to say that I've never bought any of the GTA series *ducks* but this one looks very good. I might end up getting this one.

OH GOD!!

Why won't the 29th come any sooner!!!

I've never really played any of others either, but since this has multiplayer I may pick it up.

kbomb1upc

Ditto, this one here...it just looks amazing. Im sold for the first time. Vice City almost had me but I didnt end up buying it. I have this one on pre-order!!!

@FenixKnight
Yeah...The reason I never got any of the GTA series is that I'm not that big on sandbox games and I have a short attention span (also the main two reasons I've never played any RPG's except the Marvel one's if you count that). I'm still trying to finish Assassin's Creed and Resistance. But the multi player has me really excited. So this might be a go, cause I can always rely on multi player when my single player experience is getting kind of boring.

It is just like a mini mmorpg with 16 people or is that some sort of huge deathmatch?

After this they'd be stupid if didn't do some sort of mmorpg GTA without leveling etc but loads of missions and upgrades (makes more sense to have many upgrades rather than levels, also means there is risk of losing anything that isn't in a bank.

I must say GTA 4 sounds like its returning to its roots. I was a huge fan of GTA 1 and 2 and the expansions, games which im sure most of you so called GTA fanboys didnt even play. GTA 3 and its expansions all left me with a sour taste. Not the gta I remembered, and completely missing the multiplayer I use to love from the first 2. GTa 4 seems to have brought back the classic multiplayer + more modes, still allowing the use of the whole city. The 2 player seems to be alot better as well.

Ill probably end up buying it, but I still am gonna wait to see what the gameplay looks like when a video finally hits the net (Im talking real gameplay, of some1 playing the game, not all these gameplay with pre-played out scenes shot at different angles)

"There's no co-op option for the single-player missions, but many online modes allow for cooperation. "

Alas, the most important MP feature is not available.

there's no need for co-op through the single player campaign since it's the...SINGLE PLAYER campaign.

There's a free roam multiplayer mode, which is really all that's needed.

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