GTA4 - 15 Multi-player modes!

March 15, 2008

PSM Spain have listed the multi player modes in Grant Theft Auto 4. There are no less than 15 of them with a full 14 revealed in the magazine article. The below is a conversion from Spanish to English on gtaforums.com by forum member “nevermikel” so credit where credit is due.

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* There are 15 multi player game modes in GTA IV. PSM had an opportunity to play 7 of them. The rules of each game are determined by the host.
* Multiplayer supports upto 16 players.
* Your online character is fully customizable. You can alter his race, sex, hair, clothing etc.
* The game modes featured are as follows:
1. Hangman’s NOOSE
2. Car Jack City
3. Bomb da Base
4. Bomb da Base II
5. Mafia Work
6. Team Mafia Work
7. Deathmatch
8. Team Deathmatch
9. Turf War
10. Cops N Crooks
11. Race
12. GTA Race
13. Deal Breaker
14. Free Mode
15. ????
* In Race and GTA Race, the host gets to decide which vehicles are involved, and the number of laps to be played. You can shoot and throw molotovs from the window, and even steal your rivals’ car.
* In Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch, the host gets to decide the number of pedestrians, the amount of traffic, the intervention of police (or not), and the type of weapons.
* In Cops N Crooks, one team play as cops and the other play as criminals. The cops must stop the criminals from escaping. They can monitor the locations of the criminals on their GPS systems, while the criminals don’t know where the cops are.
* In Mafia Work and Team Mafia Work, you play as one of Kenny Petrovic’s mafia henchmen. You must complete hits ordered by the boss (via the cellphone) before your rivals are able to do so.
* The map used in multi player is the same map that is used for single player.
* A single-player mission called “Hangman’s NOOSE” features co-op. You and your friends will be able to escort a mobster, while being pursued by a SWAT team.
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These details are from a magazine so it cant be said as confirmed since there have been a number of stories in the past where magazine’s have listed details for a game and they have been wrong. (Goldeneye on XBL anyone?)

What does this mean for you? For this story it is obvious. It makes a long game even longer with a number of options to keep you entertained even when and if you finally make it through the single-player campaign. What has not been mentioned though is if there will be any kind of damage on the locations possible and if split-screen offline play would be around. For those people who don’t have their console online it would be an advantage until the PC version is (expected to) be released in a number of years . Is this a good thing? Yes. Do you want multi-player? Yes. Might it be a quantity over quality job in the multi-player? Possibly.