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• Games Official Name: CONFIRMED

The game has been entitled Grand Theft Auto 4/Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA4/GTAIV). It was expected, and has been confirmed by many other facts and news reports that have arisen. Such as the official website for Grand Theft Auto IV being http://www.rockstargames.com/grandtheftauto4/ as well as the game being announced as "GTA4" by many game developers, Rockstar employees and game magazines. Now the '4' does not stand for the 4th GTA game. Because as we know, the officially 4th GTA game was GTA Vice City. The game series is worked as follows:
Grand Theft Auto 1 - GTA 1, GTA London 1961 and GTA London 1969
Grand Theft Auto 2
Grand Theft Auto 3 - GTA III, GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas - GTA Liberty City Stories and GTA Vice City Stories could also be included in this.
Grand Theft Auto 4
So it can be put simply as 'a series of games on a new game engine with a new compilation of stories that clash with each other'. This means, GTA 3 was a series of games on the new 3D engine containing 3 games (5 if you include LCS and VCS) that all had there own story. When played together, you noticed them clashing together where you meet people before/after another game or visited places that you had or would soon do business in.

Another way of knowing that this is currently confirmed is to look at the official site and see the logo



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• Setting and Theme: CONFIRMED

Yes, the location of Grand Theft Auto 4 has been officially confirmed as of March 29th 2007. Shortly after 11pm GMT hundreds, if not thousands, if not millions! of GTA fans crashed the internet for a whole hour, waiting for the world premiere of the Grand Theft Auto 4 Trailer eager to see the first little glimpse of the location of GTA4.....

Liberty City in the year 2008

GTA3 you say? LCS i hear you cry? GTA: Advance i hear you wailing in shock? Appears so, the official location of GTA4 seems to be non other than New York City, the same location for all three games mentioned above. But is it New York? Well it's not exactly New York but Rockstar have gone back to Liberty City in the year 2007 for the latest game in the GTA series, although Liberty City wont be layed out exactly like New York Rockstar are going to take a big chunk of New York and make their very own city which is going to be very like New York.

After everyone has been looking at screenshots time after time and viewing the trailers over and over again it's looking like GTA 4 is set in 2007 as the cars in the game and clothing items the pedestrians are wearing, it all looks very modern and if your still unconvinced that GTA 4 will take place back in Liberty City, then here's a few more clues from the first trailer.
Liberty City signs -In this image you can clearly see the Liberty Tree newspaper advertisement, look a bit further down and you will notice the 'Welcome to Liberty City' sign and then just to the right of that you can see the 'i love Liberty City' sign.

Liberty City Ferry Terminal sign - In this shot you can see the Liberty City Ferry Terminal sign which has the letter 'L' and the letter 'T' missing from the word 'Liberty', also far right you can see the word 'Liberty' again on the boat.

Platypus ship - Here you can clearly see 'Liberty City' under the word 'Platypus' at the end of the ship.

LCPD police car - On the far right of this screen you can see the initials 'LCPD' on the side of the white police car, LCPD obviously standing for Liberty City police Department.
Now in a topic in the forums found here a member noticed that in the trailer between two buildings that you could see the hearst-tower and since the building was only finished in 2006 it looks like GTA 4 will be set in the year 2006 or later.

In the May edition of Game Informer magazine it gave us the names of the main areas in Liberty City.
Queens is called Dukes
The Bronx is called Bohan
Manhattan is called Algonquin
Brooklyn is called Broker
New Jersey is called Alderney
Staten Island seems to be missing from the list of Rockstar parodied areas of New York. A little later Rockstar said they didn't think Staten Island would be a interesting area to explore in GTA 4 so that was the reason they left it out.

Rockstar are planning on naming every single street rather than parts of cities. Giving a more adapt view of the map, and makes the reuse of a single city, more realistic. The name of each street will be displayed in the bottom right part of the screen as you travel through them. Whilst the GTA 4 demo's have been played the following locations have been revealed so far:
Presidents City, Chinatown, Lancet, Hatton Gardens, Middle Park East, Lancaster, Ruby Street, Cod Row, Denver Avenue, Exeter Avenue, Northwood, East Holland, Silicon Street, Quartz Street, The Triangle, Easton, Rotterdam Hill , Diamond Street and Calcium Street.
Rotterdam Hill is where Niko first meets Little Jacob and it is located in Alderney
During the 3 trailers and several magazine previews, there have been quite a few landmarks spotted.
TW@ Internet Café: Located in Algonquin, near Middle Park. Available for you to access a limited internet. This one returns from Grand Theft Auto III, located on Stauton Island. Read more about that in the "Factsheet - Gameplay Facts".
Middle Park: Located in Algonquin, Liberty City´s equivalent of "Central Park". Note the name change; It used to be Beleville Park.
Star Junction: Located in Algonquin, Liberty City's equivalent of "Times Sq.".
Goldberg, Ligner & Shyster: The law firm of Tom Goldberg, this is where you send your fake résumé/CV to via the TW@ Internet Café. Involves with the first set of missions. Read more about that in the "Factsheet - Gameplay - Missions". At this point it's unknown where it's located, but seeing as it's one of the first missions it could be located in Broker.
Roman's Cabs: This is where your incredibly rich cousin "Roman" works at. He's been lying around about his life, just to get Niko(you) to the United States. It's speculated that Roman's Cabs is located in Broker.
Getalife: LC's equivalent of "Metlife". It's located on Algonquin, obviously. As Metlife's located on Park Ave, Manhattan.
BOABO: Beneath the Off ramp of the Algonquin Bridge Overpass. The replacement of the DUMBO, Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass.
Statue of Happiness: The smiling replacement of "The Statue of Liberty".
The Liberty City map was shown briefly during the preview session. Kikizo describe it as containing a large island in the middle (Algonquin) with Alderney to the left (similarly sized) and two islands to the right - a small one (Bohan) up north with Broker and Dukes underneath. Here's a map from the Kikizo January preview.

On the 8th February 2008 Rockstar released the new GTA 4 website which showed the new GTA 4 map

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