GTA IV Trailer Released, Slows Sites

Mr_Congeniality writes "The much-anticipated trailer for the next chapter in the Grand Theft Auto series has been released. Rockstar's servers, including the one that hosts Rockstar's homepage, was completely overloaded with traffic last night as a result. Users desperately flocking to other websites like GTANet and GTA4.net, but even these websites were overloaded by the interest level. If these sites are still slow, try GameTrailers or GameVideos as an alternative. For analysis of the video, CVG has ten things you may have missed, while 1up's editors offer their opinions on what they saw."

From the website...

[Mizled]

Platform: PlayStation®3, Xbox 360(TM)

Where's the PC game release on this one? The GTA series was originally for the PC. Oh well.

PR

[nacturation]

Looks like the PR boffins have been doing their homework [isabelwang.com] lately.
 

Re:From the website...

[Anonymous Coward]

Same as it was for all the 3d versions of GTA, about 6-8 months behind the console versions.

Cultural reference

[Anonymous Coward]

One thing many people missed is the reference to the movie Koyaanisqatsi. The music was taken from the original movie score, by Philip Glass, and the 'fast-motion' scenes are a direct reference to scenes from the movie.

Also, much of the movie was shot in, you guessed it, New York.

Here's the Torrent

[dalmiroy2k]

Here's the torrent (no registration required). Please seed the file when the download it's complete so you may help others getting it fast.

http://www.mininova.org/get/640860 [mininova.org]

YouTube link

[chalkyj]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoB01yi_6Ys [youtube.com]

Interesting

[The-Bus]

I haven't played this series since Vice City and I'm glad that we finally get a modern, more stylized version of it. The voiceover seems to point at some Russian/Eastern European immigrant moving up the ranks in American crime. It's reminiscent of the beginning in movies like The Godfather or Scarface where you see the world through the eyes of a newcomer.

Here's the direct download link for the 720P WMV file [gametrailers.com]. Or, you can see it on YouTube [youtube.com] as well.

Re:GTA IV - Gimped Thanks To The Xbox 360

[oliverthered]

How fast can you read/write data on a Blu-ray disc?

According to the Blu-ray Disc specification, 1x speed is defined as 36Mbps. However, as BD-ROM movies will require a 54Mbps data transfer rate the minimum speed we're expecting to see is 2x (72Mbps). Blu-ray also has the potential for much higher speeds, as a result of the larger numerical aperture (NA) adopted by Blu-ray Disc. The large NA value effectively means that Blu-ray will require less recording power and lower disc rotation speed than DVD and HD-DVD to achieve the same data transfer rate. While the media itself limited the recording speed in the past, the only limiting factor for Blu-ray is the capacity of the hardware. If we assume a maximum disc rotation speed of 10,000 RPM, then 12x at the outer diameter should be possible (about 400Mbps). This is why the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) already has plans to raise the speed to 8x (288Mbps) or more in the future.

The Blueray drive in the PS3 is faster than the DVD drive in the XBox360 so load times should be faster.