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I like the GTA IV video editor. I am really looking forward to Episodes From Liberty City (pre-order now and meet me in multiplayer) coming to PC. This is probably the best video I’ve done with the GTA IV video editor so far, so I wanted to share it here.

I could probably use some practice, but drop a comment on it here or on YouTube and let me know what you think anyway. Link us to videos you made with the GTA IV video editor :)

I’m quite the excited Rockstar fanboy. The greatest open world game thus far and of all time will be completed on the PS3 and PC soon. Episodes From Liberty City will hit these two other platforms on March 30th.

This of course comes as no surprise to me and many others who speculate our brains out in our over-enthusiasm for this, the greatest open world game thus far and of all time. lol.

I have very high hopes that there will be some kind of modding support added later on down the road – similar to the old Max Payne stuff but less tools… It’s such a waste when they could rule the modding and artist training world.

Rockstar put it all out on a Newswire post a little while ago, see for yourself: Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City Coming to PlayStation 3 and PC

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.

BoGT Slated For Fall '09

With the T2 press release for their Ballad Of Gay Tony episodic content, Rockstar Games’ second episodic release for the new Liberty City found in Grand Theft Auto IV, there came a bit of a shocker to the gaming community worldwide: This second episode will be delivered not only the same way as Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned was delivered, but will also be packaged with The Lost & Damned, that’s both episodes on old-style DVD, for $39.99.

This does not include, of course, the vanilla GTA IV experience. Read the rest of this entry »