Mortal Human

IV Multiplayer is a new third party modification for GTA IV. This is awesome. If you’ve already spent some time with SAMP or MTA DM (1.0.1 is out!), then you know what this could mean for GTA IV on the PC. The catch? I don’t know much about it yet. Here’s a quick beta test video, though. A few players testing with some vehicles:

That’s, again, awesome. Crude as it may be, how many can say they remember the excitement they felt the first time they saw the car jitter around in Vice City’s multiplayer betas? I’m sure each of us have that giddy feeling again now, especially after being disappointed with the multiplayer that was offered in IV when their community had already given Rockstar such a great example of what GTA Multiplayer is, or what it should be (COMMAS!). Rockstar delivered quite an original and unique-to-the-series multiplayer experience in GTA IV, but this mod shows exactly what they forgot when they were designing their experience: The community that would play it. Their community.

Don’t get me wrong because I’m not saying that IV isn’t the greatest game published this gen, thus far, but when I play games, I’m still playing San Andreas, online, with a lot more players, a lot more activities, and a lot more fun – and my computer runs IV fine. The single player experience is awesome. The lack of mod tools this time around, the lacking multiplayer, when compared to what arguably was made by amateurs in the third party SA mods, that’s what keeps me in San Andreas.

The third party multiplayers are just better – let’s hope that this time around it gets noticed and Rockstar will be inspired. They’ve already gotten more outspoken in their community with a complete revamp to their site, modders have to be next, right? No? Whatever. I guess the community will do it on its own.

What can you guys tell me about IV-MP? And how do I get onto the forums again? I lost the link and the logo doesn’t work.

UPDATE: It works when you visit the iv-m.com redirect for some reason, anyways, here’s a direct link: http://forum.iv-multiplayer.com/index.php

UPDATE2: Works from the main top-level now.