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GTA IV will have 16 multiplayer for PS3 and 360

gamernode.com — Firstly, the developers have been busy testing various plots and have even considered having the entire world unlocked for the player at the start of the game...Secondly, and more importantly, Rockstar is aiming for a multiplayer component to compliment the singleplayer, with up to 16 players fighting it out in various multiplayer modes.

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  • santasing, on 10/18/2007, -55/+716 seems a bit on the low side for a game coming out next year. But definitely looking forward to it.
    • bigdsinferno, on 10/17/2007, -7/+26funny, when there's a mario kart posting 16 player online is the greatest thing ever... In any case, i think 16 player online is pretty good.
      • Exhaust, on 10/17/2007, -4/+13Good point! The bar is so low for Nintendo's online offering that anything is huge news. Hell they announce that they're planning to release demos of retail games starting next year and its huge news. Come on demos should have been there out the gate... 16 player Mario Kart is like some kind of futuristic sci-fi ***** or something to the fanboys.
        • DarkSamus, on 10/17/2007, -7/+3well when you make a quality system that doesn't work like a land mine, something's gotta give
      • santasing, on 10/17/2007, -1/+3All I am saying that its not technicall impossible, Warhawk does it for one.

        As someone else pointed out, more players does not equal more fun. But it depends on the game. With shooters where you need strategy and all, fine, a controlled number of players lets you make a good strategy with your team. But GTA is not an FPS. I am saying think about it in the terms of GTA meets an MMORPG. In a game like GTA, I think the more players the better.
      • carleethian, on 10/24/2007, -4/+1let's have a mmo racing game!!!! GREAT IDEA!!!
        how many people do you think you can really fit on the track at once.
        • CReyes4182, on 10/24/2007, -0/+1This is talking about GTA 4 not GT5
    • Ashkc88, on 10/17/2007, -4/+30Sixteen players seems a bit on the low side for a game like Grand Theft Auto?! How many players do you want in one match to be satisfied?!
      • DangerMouse9, on 10/17/2007, -5/+1618,945 the population of a good sized "small" town.
    • MatttK, on 10/17/2007, -1/+2116 is on par for a console game.
    • chris9902, on 10/17/2007, -6/+17I hate that attitude. Having more players DOES NOT make the game better. In fact it makes it worse by making it impersonal.

      I think one the best multiplayer games in recent years is Gears of War. 4v4 and you knew everyone who was playing so getting kills or being killed was more fun because you could laugh about it in the lobby. Have you tried talking in a HALO 3 lobby? I turn the mic off.
      • Whaines, on 10/17/2007, -6/+5You can easily have the same experience in Halo 3. Your argument makes no sense It sounds like you're saying games with friends on halo 3 is not allowed and games with strangers in Gears of War is not allowed. Gears of War won't even let you play ranked with your friends.
      • juicebag, on 10/17/2007, -1/+2I agree. When I'm on the CS:S server I go on it's much more fun when theres only about 7-8 people.
      • itsthebrod, on 10/17/2007, -3/+2Uhh a vast majority of the Halo 3 game types are 4v4 or smaller... How is that different from GoW 4v4?
  • pacmangamer, on 10/17/2007, -4/+43Dont count your chickens before they hatch.....Alot can happen before the game comes out....But I will keep my fingers crossed.
    • postalblowfish7, on 10/17/2007, -4/+17a lot
    • Nerfdude, on 10/18/2007, -0/+13yeah, like having its launch date pushed back a quarter after you reserve it. i'd hate it if that happened.

      oh wait, it already did.
      • BestJaxx, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1Just like Smash Bros. Brawl, well almost a whole quarter. It'll sure feel like one.
  • CanIGetAWitness, on 10/17/2007, -5/+67Multiplayer period will be a highly welcomed addition to GTA. Bring on the Mayhem.
    • MatttK, on 10/17/2007, -4/+11You mean re-addition. It's been gone too long.
    • Nobi-Wan, on 10/17/2007, -1/+12Both GTA's on the PSP have had multiplayer. I got a bunch of guys at my old office to buy PSP's and Liberty City Stories and it was the most fun I'd had with GTA ever.
    • brainboy77, on 10/17/2007, -1/+6how would with work? i understand co-op but not slayer or capture the flag. people would just use cheat codes to ***** around and... oh.
    • carl25, on 10/17/2007, -3/+3and pc supports up to 64 multiplayer for San andreas
  • TheTaoOfBill, on 10/18/2007, -6/+174Please give us gang wars! How sweet would it be to be able to form your own street game. Get a bunch of your friends together and customize your characters so they are wearing the same colors then go do drivebys on rival gangs. Man someone needs to make a GTV MMO
    • pablo82, on 10/17/2007, -1/+12Couldn't agree more, that would be so sweet.
    • ButchersBoy, on 10/17/2007, -1/+33I've been saying this too. Imagine walking around the streets of Liberty City and everyone was a real person? That would be so ducking awesome. No doubt the whole city would descend into anarchy though, people running riot everywhere!
      • IEatHamburgers, on 10/17/2007, -2/+18Then everyone would be carjacking everyone else, and it wouldn't be much fun at all. In GTA single-player the rest of the world is generally docile. Now if everyone on the street was shooting eachother and taking what eachother had it would descend into chaos.
        • harksaw, on 10/19/2007, -0/+30You'd have to have a lot of NPCs, strolling about their everyday lives. Either that, or combine GTA with a version of The Sims Online where Sims players raise their families and GTA players rob them.
        • CorneliusStump, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
    • EndersGame, on 10/17/2007, -3/+17It would be a hell of a lot cooler if Rockstar fixed the auto target, and turned it into something that takes a little more skill. I always hated that about GTA, auto target was too easy and manual target was too *****.
      • msarge, on 10/17/2007, -2/+12Yeah, I've always hated the aiming on the console versions. I can't really enjoy the game unless it's on PC (mouse aim :D). If only they would get aiming with the analog stick down right, I don't think I'd have any real problem with the console version.
    • 04TL, on 10/17/2007, -1/+6try SA-MP in the meantime... http://www.sa-mp.com
    • NyteStarNyne, on 10/22/2007, -1/+17Jack Thompson does NOT approve this message.
    • Nobi-Wan, on 10/17/2007, -4/+6That sounds a lot like Saints Row multiplayer. Have some of you even tried that game?
      • Jwoey, on 10/17/2007, -0/+11I did. Didn't like it. The wrecks were way cooler, though.
    • TheTaoOfBill, on 10/17/2007, -1/+5BTW I don't have any idea how I changed GTA to GTV. It was pretty early in the morning.
      • Bartboy919, on 10/31/2007, -1/+1It stands for Grand Theft Video (AKA The Pirate Bay game)
    • devikwolf, on 10/17/2007, -5/+1Yeah, let's glorify the people who perform drive-bys on residential neighborhoods and sell crack to children in rival gang territory! I want to play THAT game!
    • Tyorant, on 10/17/2007, -0/+5Maybe it'll keep the real gangs off the streets...
    • Devdan, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1Way ahead of you, look up APB, it's being made by the guys who did Crackdown.
    • CandidateZero, on 10/18/2007, -0/+1Dan Houser expressed his distaste of MMOs in a Game Informer interview, saying it struck him as pathetic. "You're not a elf, you're a kid from Kent."

      It sounds good in theory, but I wouldn't ever want to see GTA become an MMO.

  • godmode, on 10/17/2007, -15/+6I'm sure the guys at the Multi Theft Auto( http://www.mtavc.com ) team will do it better, as they always have.
    • UtopiaInTheSky, on 10/17/2007, -3/+12I think you mean http://www.sa-mp.com ... MTA has sucked for years now.
    • McGrude, on 10/17/2007, -1/+12Right. Because buggy, laggy multiplayer is always better than no multiplayer at all.
    • bigteebo, on 10/17/2007, -6/+8You mean SA-MP as the above poster said. They've had 125+ player servers for a while. Sadly, the hit detection doesn't work worth a damn.

      C'mon Rockstar, do more than 16 players. It's 2007 already. This isn't 1997 with people playing on dial-up modems. 16 players is too confining.
    • EndersGame, on 10/17/2007, -0/+10They have only been able to do it better because they were the only ones that tried. You are smoking crack if you think Rockstar's multiplayer won't blow MTA out of the ***** water.
      • bigteebo, on 10/17/2007, -1/+4I hope they can stop hackers. Besides the super-buggy gameplay in GTA:MP, game hackers have ruined it. You can't have much fun when people are running around with fully automatic sawn off shotguns.
    • astrotrain, on 10/17/2007, -3/+1I've never had a problem playing MTA-SA, MTA-VC, and even MTA-GTA3.... all worked fine for me, it was the Comcrap connection that keeps dropping me.

      If you haven't experienced the chaos, do yourself a favor and go install. Rockstar is falling behind on the Multiplayer mayhem, I thought they would have had it built in on SA... I guess not.
    • AndyVenus, on 10/17/2007, -0/+4SA-MP is pretty awesome. R*'s dedicated team can do better but SA-MP is GTA multiplayer as I would want it.
  • quomen, on 10/17/2007, -15/+5I wonder if PS3 Players will be able to play with Xbox ones..
    • pablo82, on 10/17/2007, -3/+7I doubt it, but it would be cool. You could have PS3 vs 360 group matches, how mint would that be!!
      • IEatHamburgers, on 10/17/2007, -4/+11Wouldn't be much fun with PS3 owners outnumbered 3:1... at least
        • mywhitenoise, on 10/17/2007, -13/+3it's about 2:1, seeing as how the xbox has been out twice as long, and only has twice as many units out.
      • tehpwnrate, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2It would be cool mint, that's how mint.
    • chewbacca77, on 10/17/2007, -22/+30Probably not, because the game would be over by the time the PS3 finished loading.
      • bigbadgoat, on 10/17/2007, -21/+9No, PS3 players would have their games on a distant island and use weapons, and vehicles that wouldn't fit on the xbox 360 game disc.
        • patricks, on 10/17/2007, -5/+22enjoy your distant island. we'll be in liberty city.
      • EndersGame, on 10/17/2007, -10/+12Yea it wouldn't work too well. What would PS3 owners do everytime a 360 owner goes to a different part of the city and has to change the disc?
        • DangerMouse9, on 10/17/2007, -5/+1Kill them w/o worrying about about being attacked.
      • mywhitenoise, on 10/17/2007, -12/+6Since when did the PS3 have loading issues?
        • Arkz, on 10/30/2007, -0/+5its not much of an issue if they use streaming (which i bet they will) but the ps3 reads data from bd-roms at approximately half the speed the 360 does with its dvd's, so double the loading times, would be good if you could install a chunk of the game on to the hdd like you can with some other games, then it would load well fast
          • mywhitenoise, on 10/17/2007, -1/+4The only game I've had long load times with is Motorstorm...well Heavenly Sword did too, that game was a waste.
            But all the games I've played online never had loading problems.
          • shinythingy, on 10/30/2007, -6/+2half the speed but it reads twice as much so not really much of a difference
          • Nobiting, on 10/30/2007, -0/+712x DVD (65.6–132 Mbit/s)
            2x BD-ROM (72 mbit/s)
    • ButchersBoy, on 10/17/2007, -8/+6lol, no chance but good though. imagine your Live ratings go up whilst PS3 players get there asses bitch slapped?!
    • mywhitenoise, on 10/17/2007, -14/+7bury this.
  • Goodbyeworld, on 10/17/2007, -3/+5Either way, its gonna be flipping sweet.
  • LilSnackPackMan, on 10/17/2007, -2/+96All I want is multiplayer FREE ROAM....is that so much to ask?
    • Racerx52, on 10/17/2007, -1/+14Really, That is all i want too.
      ***** deathmatch, every other game does it better.
    • tacroy, on 10/17/2007, -1/+10Check out crackdown, it might be what you're looking for.
      • Arkz, on 10/17/2007, -1/+6i love crackdown but only having 2 player kinda sucks.. theres times when iv been playing with a friend an thought.. man i wish there was about 6 more of us.. 8 player Keys to the City would be Awesome! ah well
    • Jernej, on 10/17/2007, -9/+2free roaming? you mean.. pony farming?
    • mrbeagle, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1Free-roaming is only fun until all the players wander way across the map, then it's just like playing by yourself. I'd prefer gang wars, swat raids, bank robberies, or anything that can get the players to cooperate and fight each other in a more focused, team-oriented battle.
  • UnderLoK, on 10/17/2007, -6/+2The title is misleading... They are working on it, it isn't "in it" yet.
    • Jwoey, on 10/17/2007, -1/+4What difference does that make to the public? Its not as if some of us were misled to rush home and try it on our copy of the game. Its not out yet, so who cares what's in development and what's been implemented.
  • idc5, on 10/17/2007, -0/+5lots of death, mayhem, and destruction. I can't wait!
  • Evi1d33d, on 10/18/2007, -10/+12Go play SA:MP, it supports up to 200 players.
  • xXGeechXx, on 10/17/2007, -2/+1Thats awesome I had quite a bit of fun with GTA 2 Multiplayer... Not that its going to be similar at all... as long as it isn't like Saints Row and its just people duking it out in the city... or better yet something similar to Crackdown would be awesome.
  • joey368, on 10/17/2007, -8/+1prolly lots to do about killing your opponents. IMO they shouldn't try to pull a Halo.
  • benitojuarez, on 10/17/2007, -8/+8what about the pc version?
  • postalblowfish7, on 10/17/2007, -6/+1the original GTA on the PC had multiplayer - one on one and very boring. is 16 people really enough to fill out the massive GTAIV play area?
    • maley, on 11/14/2007, -2/+3The maps will most likely be isolated areas or sections of the whole map that are blocked off for multiplayer activity. At least that's how I guess they would do it.
    • TheSmiddy, on 10/16/2007, -2/+1play GTA2 multiplayer.

      it is the most awesome fun. 4 players is more than enough for that when you play on a small map.

      i can't see how GTAIV will be able to handle more than 16 players, the strain on the server would be massive, since all the ped movements would need to be in synch among other things.
  • decibelx, on 10/17/2007, -0/+52Oh yes! Liberty City Survivor!

    "I was so excited I didn't even realize I'd been hit!"

    Implemented correctly, this has the potential to make GTA IV the best selling game yet.
    • benitojuarez, on 10/17/2007, -1/+7whoever dugg you down doesnt remember gta3 very well maybe they thought you were talking about the tv show survivor =(
  • MisterSquishy, on 10/17/2007, -11/+5I actually find this news troubling--so many games with multiplayer components use it as an excuse for ***** single player.
    • pilesAREbetter, on 10/17/2007, -7/+4I agree, they focus so much on the online aspect and just use some recycled story and call it a new game... like Halo 3.
    • mrgreenjeans9, on 10/17/2007, -3/+3you're BOTH right and it would be heralded as a tragedy if the single player mode got slashed in favor of mulitplayer.
    • JenadaeXX, on 10/17/2007, -1/+3The games 99% done as is i think this was just an after thought that they might put in if they have the time
  • timfitz99, on 10/17/2007, -1/+4Saint's Row has some good online modes, not just deathmatch... Blinged Out Ride is hilarious and fun.
  • mywhitenoise, on 10/17/2007, -2/+5Is this the first news since the game was delayed? Have they even given a new release date yet?

    To think, I could have been playing GTA:IV today.
  • icsbase, on 10/17/2007, -5/+216 for consoles, even more for pc? there is already fan based GTA multiplayer withj 100 slots so why not ;)
    • shinythingy, on 10/17/2007, -5/+2XBL can't handle any more than that
  • supremesonic, on 10/17/2007, -10/+5I'm sorry, but buried as inaccurate. It isn't WILL have 16 player multiplayer, it's MIGHT have.

    "Rockstar is AIMING for a multiplayer component to compliment the single player..."
  • mooninite, on 10/17/2007, -3/+12Wow I am dying to get this game. ;)

    I'm glad I picked up a PS3 though. I couldn't wait until the PC port of GTA rolls around a year after this time.
    • MalDON, on 10/17/2007, -15/+4*cough* You could have just bought a 360 and and not look like an idiot
  • tuxidomasx, on 11/07/2007, -0/+8i've always played GTA on PC

    but this might be the first one i dont think i can wait for
  • Pipsqueak, on 10/17/2007, -2/+1I'm so excited for this, there are so many possibilities. Just think of all the group carpools you can have while driving to work. Or you can have someone to frame now for a small genocide incident. This will be great!
  • Namelessthinker, on 10/17/2007, -3/+5I wish I could play GTA on the controller like I used too. Ever since I played GTA on the PC, I can't go back to using a controller.
  • Japhthor, on 10/17/2007, -11/+2Pee See... pee see...

    Mac for the total win?
  • Canadianinjapan, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2When this comes out I'll either be buying a 360 or a ps3. It will be one of the first must have titles....hopefully
    • max420, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1The first "must-have" title has already been released for this generation. Now even if you don't like Halo, you have to admit that the game is selling like crazy.
  • timusca, on 10/17/2007, -2/+2816 people having sex with digital prostitutes at once! YES!!!
  • lilianatota, on 10/16/2007, -1/+0I though the release date of this game will delay until next year?
    Can't wait to play on it. The add on will be great.
  • Dan11023, on 10/16/2007, -2/+3this game is gonna change my life.... forever
  • djfreex, on 10/17/2007, -0/+4I think 16 players is not bad. When you think about it, if they do not put a limit and let you free roam with bunch other internet players - the game turns practically into a MMRPG. World of GTA anyone with different classes (Trader/Criminal/Law Enforcement etc), bank heist missions.
  • Mercifool, on 10/16/2007, -1/+1If rockstar doesn't do it themselves, the SA:MP or MultiTheftAuto teams will.
  • geoffreyireland, on 10/16/2007, -1/+2So did MTA ever release a proper MTA:SA client?

    And SA-MP was fun for about a week before the bugs really got to you.
  • liquisoft, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2Some sort of co-op would be great. The past GTA games have been very fun, but they're only fun for one person whilst friends are left sitting nearby to watch the fun and pout.
  • Haxo23, on 10/18/2007, -4/+0For some reason "Test Drive : Unlimited" (XB360) comes to mind as a good model for online play with GTA. The city would be shared by multiple players per "sector" of the map. This allows for potentially hundreds of players in one game at once and negates the need for an multiplayer mode as the single and multi game would be merged as one.

    Missions would be instance based like the races in TDU. Branching from that you could form a party or "gang" to take on missions cooperatively with other people in the area.

    These things would give GTA the MMO feel that everyone wants without actually being a MMO.
  • howitgoes, on 10/16/2007, -1/+0Didn't they already have multiplayer on the original for PC. Lame they haven't added it in the last 10 years.
  • arekaygee, on 10/17/2007, -0/+7Ever since playing Vice City on the PS2, all I ever wanted to do was be able to play with a friend and mess with the cops, or even go 1-on-1 with random car chases and gun fights, haha.
    • endlessoul, on 10/17/2007, -1/+4You can in San Andreas.

      Man, San Andreas. I've spent hundreds of hours on that game.
    • hoax689, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1yeah i think a lot of people dont know about that multiplayer token you can find near the start point on the game
  • petepete, on 10/17/2007, -2/+8Can I play a cop? With a Taser?
  • WarMachineWCLH, on 10/17/2007, -1/+8If they make a zombie mode where all the NPC's come after your ass this will be the greatest game ever made. The opportunity to get a few of my friends together online to play this thing while fighting zombies in a "sandbox" that big would be incredible.
  • mirunit, on 10/16/2007, -1/+3Arg, Currently SAMP is at 125. Anybody who has GTA SA for the PC try and download SAMP, granted it can be buggy it is still fun to load up in a car with 3 friends and raid enemy bases.
  • Boing, on 10/17/2007, -0/+8This will cure my WoW addiction.
    • romistrub, on 10/17/2007, -0/+4So she swallowed the spider to catch the fly....
  • NGliam, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1Multiplayer 40 player deathmatches on resistance fall of man (only game I've played with so many players) is chaotic and not very fun, but if all of the map is open online then 16 players isn't very much. Still, this is great news and I'm sure many people had guessed online multiplayer would be added.. If Rockstar allow PS3 and Xbox360 owners to player against each other [not sure how possible this is because of Live and PSN but I'm positive this has been done on a PS2/Xbox game] then it will be totally undescribably amazing.
  • FearAndLoathing, on 10/16/2007, -2/+2It would be MADNESS!!!
  • Christbait, on 10/17/2007, -3/+1PS3 fanboys might be creaming at this thought but most of them have never played Saint's Row... it will be just as boring as that, small, closed-off areas of the city and full of 13-year old wanksters getting shouted at by their mommas mid-game, keep it single player please.
  • Epik, on 10/16/2007, -1/+1Good news.
  • KezG, on 10/17/2007, -1/+1@ the people saying they want online GTA:
    www.abp.com is coming for PC/360. All Points Bulletin. It's basically online GTA.
  • RainNIU, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1The second I read the title, I instantly imagined the player model carjacking a car, throwing the other player out, and the other player instantly carjacking the car back in a never-ending jackfest (no pun intended).
  • BlueStreak69, on 10/17/2007, -1/+1Oh man just imagine a Rhino (tank) battle between 16 people. *Drool*
  • havokzero, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1We don't need auto-aiming on the console versions! There's a perfectly good reason why Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4 don't have auto-aim...

    ***** DAT *****, *****!
  • rancidguy, on 10/17/2007, -2/+1Whats up people? GTA IV is gonna be the *****. Each time they make a new one, it gets better & better! Oh, I can't wait to play a huge 16 person super-battle! It's gonna be so much fun! Who else is excited?
    • BlueStreak69, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1Honestly, someone please explain to me why this comment (and mine above) have to be dugg down? And I'm serious, reply now and explain because I just don't understand. Are there people out there who just go around burying everyone's comments? I mean come on. Who doesn't want to see a 16 player battle in GTA?
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