Official GTA IV Thread

**Drakul** · 11-08-2009, 11:52 PM

Your spoiler tags didn't work. You only mentioned a mission that's been covered in every single preview of the game so it's not that big a deal, I guess.

Anyway, the people over at gtaforums.com are still looking into that "It's over" poster. I thought I'd update the thread with what they have come up with.
Basically, they are debating if it's going to be Italy, London or Vice City.

There is a poster in the sex shop in GTA IV which, when reversed, fits into the rip in the "its over" poster and advertises an erectile dysfuction pill called Vesuvius Citrate. Abbreviated it's VC, just like Vice City. Someone also pointed out Vesuvius is a word which progressed into the word vice.

Vesuvius -> Visceral -> Vicious -> Vice

And that Citrate is what we find in oranges. oranges are linked to Florida, where Vice City is.

Someone else says it's Italy because Mount Vesuvius is in Italy and is near a city known for it's criminal underworld.

Others say it's London because of in-game dialouge.

Here is the poster:

Some think it's a clue, leading to the whole Italy/Vice city debate but a few people think it's meaningless. It's supposed to be the poster underneath the "It's over" poster and we see it because the "Its over" poster has torn. If it's meaningless, why was it reversed?

Anyone think they are onto something or agree that it's meaningless?

Edit: it's all meaningless. In an interview, Aaron Garbut from R* said this...

Quote:

In GTA IV, Liberty City is much closer to New York than it was in GTA III. What prompted the decision to go for a more faithful representation?

Garbut: We've moved slowly in that direction through each Grand Theft Auto. In GTA III, Liberty City was very much its own place. It obviously had elements of New York along with other cities but there were no landmarks and nothing deliberately recognizable. In Vice City, and then more so in San Andreas, we started to take real landmarks and mix them in to our versions of the city. I think this is just us continuing down that path we had already started on. It's one of the reasons we felt comfortable redoing Liberty City. We spend years of our lives making these worlds we don't want to retread old ground and "up-res" something we had already done, that would be soul destroying. By going back to basics, throwing away the original Liberty City and building an entirely new city based on New York we were able to keep it fresh for ourselves and by extension for the people that will play it.

http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/863/863028p1.html

That was in 2008 though so maybe that's all changed. I'm hoping for a GTA in the UK. It can be San Andreas style. One huge map with cities in the south for England, cities in the north for Scotland, cities in the west for Wales and cities on an island off the west coast for Ireland. If it is the UK, it'll be London but I can't see them leaving the US, to be honest.