Rockstar's 2002 classic Vice City remains so popular today as much for its bottling of mid-80s culture and excess as it does the actual game.
The game's soundtrack rightly gets a lot of credit for this, as does the colour palette, but have you ever wondered which movies served as the inspiration for the neon-infused Vice City itself? I mean, beyond Scarface?
Well, here you go. Rockstar has shared thirteen films it says "served as perfect inspiration for the stories, characters and scenery that drove the world and vibe of Vice City".
The link below contains explanations just why they inspired the development team, while the gallery above features the thirteen films and their trailers.
Over the weekend, Rockstar collected every piece of promotional art so far made available for Grand Theft Auto V, cleaned them up, made sure each had a nice big background behind them then then scaled them to wallpaper size.
Some feature the game's main protagonists, some don't. Some give us a good look at locations that'll be in the game, some don't. What they all have in common, though, is that like pretty much everything else that comes out of a Rockstar game on the creative side of things, the art here is incredible.
To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they're big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), right-click on them below and select "open in new tab".
Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their professional and personal portfolios. If you're in the business and have some concept, environment, promotional or character art you'd like to share, drop us a line!
You'd think the horse stealing the car would be the funniest bit. But no. I like the dude's obvious disappointment at the overall outcome at the very end.
"aaww".
For more horse-in-Grand-Theft-Auto-IV madness, see here.
Thanks to a dedicated community, the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV has been continually polished and upgraded since its release all those years ago. To the point where, now, it looks like something from the future.
The iCEnhancer series of mods, which we've featured before, are being updated to 2.5 (this is an alpha preview), and the results are amazing.
This looks as good as a quality first-person shooter. The fact that this kind of fidelity can be applied to an open world game the size of Liberty City is just mind-boggling.
Despite the ease of Steam and the comfort of my couch, I still own physical copies of both Vice City and San Andreas on PC. Why? Because of the maps.
It's long been a tradition with Rockstar's open world games, right through to GTAIV and Red Dead Redemption, to include physical maps of the game world, something older gamers appreciate in an era of on-disc manuals and guides.
Recognising, though, that in 2012 a lot of people are getting their games digitally, and thus missing out on that stuff, Rockstar has made available image files for the three PS2-era GTA games, complete with their fake ads.
Sadly, they're one-sided, meaning you're missing out on the amazing Vice City poster you got on the reverse, but hey, they're free, try not to complain.
Lazlow Jones co-wrote the radio scripts for all the Grand Theft Auto games (save Chinatown Wars, of course) going back to III, and appears as a radio personality in all of the games. He also, evidently, has all of the master copies of the recordings. In his home. Which is on Long Island. Or, well, a barrier island off Long Island.
Ordinarily this isn't much of a problem. but it was as Hurricane Sandy came barreling in late October, and Long Island was whomped particularly bad by the stormacane, or whatever it was at that stage. In a visit to the Opie & Anthony Show last week, where Lazlow's a regular guest, he related what his priorities were as the storm came barreling in.
1. Get the GTA III master recording.
2. Get the GTA: Vice City master recording.
3. Get the GTA: San Andreas master recording.
4. You get the idea.
"My studio is on the ground floor," he said on the show. "That's where GTA 3, Vice City, San Andreas, all those masters like the full recordings with Axl Rose and everything. I mean, all this stuff," he said. "I started freaking out and grabbing, just boxes of masters and putting it up on the second floor. Cause I was like 'I'm not going to let this stuff get ruined.'"
Asked if he was storing the recordings elsewhere, Lazlow said he'd learned he shouldn't "keep a lot of amazing masters from some epic video games on the ground floor near a sand bar."
If you're curious if he said anything about Grand Theft Auto V, he did, but only to say the game was due in the coming spring.
The bathysphere, scuba gear and colossal frikkin' shark in these new screens hint that you're also going to diving into some deep underwater hijinks, too. And, hey, dog is your co-pilot, too! How cool does that Rottweiler look in that ride? Cooler than that Fable 2 mutt, that's for sure.
Names such as Mortal Kombat and Grand Theft Auto are longtime punching bags in an often-clueless discussion of violent video games in the mainstream. So it was no surprise to hear Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, invoke them in a rambling attempt to deflect blame from the assault weapons that gunned down 20 six- and seven-year-old children last week, to a culture he alleges inspired such acts.
Here's an examination of those two games and the three others that Wayne LaPierre mentioned, and their relevance—or lack thereof—to the neverending scapegoating of video games in America.
Publisher: Electronic Arts Released: Feb. 22, 2011 (North America)
Bulletstorm is a science-fiction action story about a space pirate marooned on a paradise world overrun by mutants and horrible monsters. Humanoid victims die in gruesome ways, but the violence is largely self-satirical.
Bulletstorm's most gratuitously objectionable content wasn't necessarily the blood and gore. Game critics chided Bulletstorm for frathouse dialogue saturated with references to male genitalia. The tone spilled over into in-game scoring combinations with titles like "gang bang" or "topless." A psychologist was quoted out of context in an outrageous Fox News report saying this language encouraged gamers to commit sexual violence, or desensitized them to it.
Bulletstormsold poorly and Epic Games' then-boss Mike Capps said the series was unlikely to get a sequel.
ESRB Rating: M, for "Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Partial Nudity, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Alcohol."
ESRB Rating Summary:This is a first-person shooter in which players assume the role of a space pirate who must escape a planet populated by mutant cannibals. Players use futuristic machine guns, shotguns, magnum revolvers, assault rifles, and chain guns to perform over-the-top kills that dismember and decapitate foes. Injured enemies emit large sprays of blood that stain the ground and surrounding walls. Specialty kills (i.e., Skillshots) represent the most intense instances of violence: enemies can be dismembered with explosives; impaled on spikes; and drilled into walls, resulting in body parts breaking into pieces.
During the course of the game, players can consume alcohol and kill enemies in order to receive an Intoxicated Skillshot; the screen turns blurry during these sequences. The dialogue contains numerous jokes and comments that reference sexual acts, venereal diseases, and having sex with one's mother (e.g., 'Guess I know where the ol' gal got that limp.'). The names of some Skillshots are infused with sexual innuendo (e.g., Gag Reflex, Rear Entry, Drilldo, Mile High Club); one Skillshot (i.e., Fire in the Hole) allows players to shoot at enemies' exposed buttocks. Language such as 'f**k,' 'sh*t,' 'p*ssy,' and 'c*ck' can be heard in dialogue.
Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Series Began: 1992. Latest Release Published:Mortal Kombat, April 19, 2011.
Mortal Kombat is a fighting game series known for its graphic finishing moves, announced with an emphatic "fatality!" from the game's narrator. When it was introduced to arcades in 1992, it was distinctive for its use of blood spray, which inspired a wave of exploitation games adding blood and gore to their visuals. Mortal Kombat is commonly associated with the violent video games controversy that began in the early 1990s, which led to the creation of the Entertainment Software Ratings Board.
The last Mortal Kombat release by Midway was 2008's Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, which scrubbed out much of the blood and gore in order to receive the T rating expected of a comic-book tie in. A sequence in which The Joker finished a match by firing his pistol's Bang! flag into his foe's temple was removed for this reason. Mortal Kombat returned in 2011 under Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, and likewise returned to its roots as a no-holds-barred violent video game. Certain strikes and finishers sent the game into a slow-motion x-ray camera, showing visceral internal damage to bones and organs.
Mortal Kombat was refused classification in Australia, effectively banning it from sale. Warner Bros. was unsuccessful in appealing the decision. Germany and South Korea also refused to permit its sale.
ESRB Rating: M, for "Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Partial Nudity, Strong Language."
ESRB Rating Summary:This is a fighting game in which players engage in one-on-one battles against characters from the fantasy-based Mortal Kombat universe. Players compete in a series of combative rounds in order to advance to different matches throughout the game. Players use swords, guns, chains, spikes, and supernatural attacks (e.g., fire, ice, lightning) to defeat a cast of human-like characters. After an opponent is defeated at the end of a match, players have the option to perform finishing moves called 'Fatalities.'
Many of these finishing moves depict over-the-top instances of violence: impalement, bone-crushing body snaps, execution-style gunshots to the head; large blood-splatter effects occur during these sequences, staining characters' bodies and the ground. Several of these exaggerated finishing moves depict characters getting dismembered, ripped or sliced in half, stabbed, set on fire, or set to explode. During the course of the game, female characters sometimes wear revealing outfits that expose large amounts of cleavage; one female fighter is depicted partially nude, covered by a costume of thin cloth strips. Language such as 'f**k' occasionally appears in the dialogue.
Publisher: Rockstar Games Series Began: 1997 (2001 in its modern incarnation.) Latest Release Published:Grand Theft Auto IV, April 29, 2008.
Grand Theft Auto is, without a doubt, the series most referenced in mainstream media discussion of violent video games and the psychological or sociological impacts attributed to them. It originated as a driving game navigating a map from a top-down perspective. Grand Theft Auto III introduced the series as it is currently known, an enormous city that players explore at their leisure, either completing missions stringing together the game's dark, antiheroic main story or causing mayhem at random. That includes violence against innocent bystanders, including, most notoriously, the prostitutes working the game's street corners. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas even included optional missions in which the main character acts as their pimp. All of these depictions have been chastised as glamorizing a criminal lifestyle and encouraging teenagers and young adults to live out violent fantasies in real life.
Though the series has no shortage of defenders, its lowest point was inarguably in 2005, when a user discovered code left inside the game's PC version that showed a minigame in which the protagonist had sex with any of several girlfriends he could date in the game. Though this content was not surfaced in the main game it could be accessed through a modification. Its presence was enough to trigger the ESRB's AO rating, an extreme label rarely applied, much less to any mainstream game. Copies of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas had to be recalled while Rockstar re-released a version of the game with the objectionable content removed. Dan Houser, Rockstar's co-founder considers the controversy more of an attack on the medium of video games, still considered kids' stuff in the mainstream. "The massive social decay that we were supposed to induce hasn't happened," he told The Guardian last month.
Grand Theft Auto V will arrive in the spring of 2013, returning the series to its fictionalized West Coast. For all of the controversy it engenders, the series is an enormous best seller and financial analysts frequently point to its release in analyzing the health of parent company Take-Two Interactive. It is one of the flagship brands of modern video gaming.
ESRB Rating: M, for "Intense Violence, Blood, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Partial Nudity, Use of Drugs and Alcohol."
Predating Mortal Kombat but far less known, Splatterhouse began as a sidescrolling beat-em-up inspired by American slasher flicks like Friday the 13th (its protagonist wears the "Terror Mask," which resembles the hockey mask worn by Friday the 13th's antagonist.) The game had one arcade release before it was ported to home consoles in the early 1990s. Its first console port, for the TurboGrafx-16, carried a tongue-in-cheek warning saying the game was inappropriate for children, "and cowards."
Before 2010, Splatterhouse's most recent console release was Splatterhouse 3 in 1993. A version was released on the Wii's Virtual Console in 2007. Splatterhouse has never reviewed well, making its mention by LaPierre somewhat amusing to knowledgeable gamers.
Splatterhouse's 2010 release, which we called a "massive disappointment," and a "violent, excessively gory brawler," was roundly panned on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. There has been no mention of any sequel or reboot for this series.
ESRB Rating M, for "Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Nudity, Sexual Themes, Strong Language."
ESRB Rating Summary:This is an action game in which players help a college student named Rick Taylor rescue his kidnapped girlfriend from a deranged doctor. As players explore a haunted mansion, they engage in constant melee-style combat; players use cleavers, chainsaws, machetes, and Rick's bare hands to kill and dismember enemies (e.g., zombies, monsters, demons). Players can also use severed arms and limbs as weapons to attack enemy creatures; injured enemies emit large sprays of blood that stain the ground, surrounding walls, and Rick's body.
Finishing moves represent the most intense instances of violence: Rick tears monsters' limbs and heads from their bodies-accompanied by a gushing sound effect; Rick sometimes reaches into creatures' torsos to remove various organs. Along the way, players can pick up photo fragments that depict topless images of a female character. Completed photos, viewable from the menu screen, are accompanied by suggestive voice-over clips (e.g., 'Just for you, Rick-o. I'm yours and no-one else's' and 'R Rating? When we get home, let's you and I put on our own private NC-17 show.'). Dialogue also contains sexual innuendo (e.g., 'Tell me; how many guys can you beat off at the same time?') and language such as 'a*shole,' 'sh*t,' and 'f**k.'
The wildcard entry in Wayne LaPierre's tirade, Kindergarten Killer is said to have been available online as a flash game for at least 10 years. It last made news in 2008 when a Finnish web site removed the game in response to a mass shooting at a school in that country. Its creator is said to be Gary Short, an 18-year-old from the U.K. at the time. The site where it was originally launched has been inactive since 2005.
The game is a crude, point-and-click target shooter depicting a janitor gone on a shotgun rampage inside a school. Angry cartoon children fire back with firearms of their own, and their wounds spurt blood until they are shot dead.
"It's called Kindergarten Killers," LaPierre said, mistakenly pluralizing the title. "It's been online for 10 years. How come my research staff can find it, and all of yours couldn't ... or didn't want anyone to know you had found it?" Possibly because it was a throwaway experience, not even rising to the level of the much more provocative and much more memorable Super Columbine Massacre. How come video gamers can still find something like that, and all of the NRA's research staff couldn't?
Kindergarten Killer's almost total obscurity, to say nothing of the fact it is a flash game lumped in with four longstanding console series, makes it the most laughable inclusion in the NRA's strange news conference today, severely weakening the NRA's claim that all video games are purposefully and callously violent. As the work of a bored teenager, it is by no means representative of the "shadow industry" LaPierre condemned. Sure, it's awful, and easily accessed by children over a web browser; so is most anything violent, pornographic, or shocking to the conscience.
That is not to say that the games Wayne LaPierre mentioned are wholesome entertainment that can be discussed in polite company. But neither can many of the R-rated action or science-fiction movies and crime thrillers whose themes continue to inspire the most popular video game series.
Holden Miller contributed reporting to this story.
Reports suggested that the National Rifle Association, backed into a corner since a gun massacre last week killed 20 six- and seven-year-olds, would come out swinging at video games and other violent entertainment in a news conference today, and boy, they did not disappoint.
Wayne LaPierre, the NRA's executive vice president, gave a teeth-sucking condemnation of "vicious, violent video games, with names like Bulletstorm, Grand Theft Auto, Mortal Kombat and Splatterhouse."
LaPierre then, as if presenting some undiscovered trump card showing video games' depravity, gestured toward a screen playing a game called "Kindergarten Killer," a flash game that has been online for at least 10 years and last made news in 2008, when a Finnish game site pulled it following a school shooting in that country.
"Isn't fantasizing about killing people as a way to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography," LaPierre said.
LaPierre, in a shaking voice throughout the entire news conference, at times sounded like he didn't believe what he had been handed to read. The NRA's public face also blamed the creation of gun-free school zones for giving deranged killers the assurance that they could carry out mass murder against unarmed targets.
He seemed to argue for more armed personnel in school, if not teachers then security guards. "Why is a gun good to protect president or country, but bad when used to protect children in schools?" he asked rhetorically.
Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of GTA 4 modding. For years fans and modding enthusiasts have been messing with the guts of Rockstar's big budget blockbuster. If you want to make it prettier, a wealth of visual mods, shader tweaks and texture packs bring it bang up to date. If you want to expand the game, there are mods that can let you pursue a career as an assassin, or a cop, or as a leader in a gang war.
If you want to get weirder still, turn off the friction, play the entire game as an FPS, become Superman, or Agent 47, or Christiano Ronaldo. If there's one thing I've discovered about GTA mods, it's that Rockstar's knack for social commentary and bawdy, slapstick comedy is only enhanced when you replace Nico with The Incredible Hulk. Read on for our round up of the best GTA 4 mods in the world. The basics
GTA 4 ran like a slug with hiccups when it first landed on PC. In spite of the poor optimisation and the bloated Steam/Rockstar Social Club/Games for Windows Live wrapping, it's surprisingly easy to mod. Some of the instructions below might seem complicated, but installing a mod tends to be a matter of dragging and dropping new files into your GTA 4 directory. There is a bit of housekeeping to consider first, though.
Choose your patch: 1.0.7.0 is the latest patch for GTA 4. That's the one that Steam will automatically update to. Unfortunately, it breaks a lot of mods designed to run on version 1.0.4.0. Active mod teams will have updated their mods to run on the latest version, but if you want to dig into the archives you'll need to roll back. The process is a bit of a pain if you're playing the Steam version, but there's a good set of instructions on the GTA Gaming forums.
SparkIV, Scripthook, xliveless If you have a mod that adds new character/car models and animations, you can import the new files into your GTA 4 file structure using SparkIV. To install new models, use the SparkIV browser to locate the folder that needs changing, then open it up and use the "Import" function to add the modded files. Double check each mod's Readme for details where to drop the files. We've also had success with Alexander Blade's ASI loader if Spark bugs out for you.
Some mods will require you to use xliveless. This removes GTA 4's reliance on Games for Windows Live (hooray!), which is essential if you want to import custom saved games. Needless to say, installing xliveless will stop you from playing online, but with GTA 4 that's no big deal. Some mods will rely on having aru's Scripthook in your GTA 4 directory. Always check the ReadMe of the mod you're installing for a run down of unique installation instructions.
Back up everything: I've had GTA 4 running with dozens of mods working together without it exploding too much. Okay, it exploded a little. At one point Nico tumbled upwards into the sky and started spawning flying taxis two kilometers above Liberty City. It's always a good idea to back up your original files and keep your savegames safe just in case.
LET'S MOD. I'll start with visual tweaks and mods designed to make Liberty City a more believable place. The further down the list we go, the stranger the mods get. If you want to know how to jump around New York as the Incredible Hulk, skip down a few steps. ENB Series Take your pick: Iceglace (1.0.7.0 version here) Mild ENB l3EVO GP BEST (8-7)
The IceGlace ENB mods have been grabbing headlines for the last couple of years, and rightly so. ENB's advanced shaders and lighting tweaks transform GTA 4's outdated visuals into something palatable, or even exceptional if you have a few texture packs installed. They're not for everyone, though. The vivid colouration, high contrast and super-bright midday effects can be a bit much. Luckily, there are plenty of variants to choose from.
Mild ENB introduces more subtle variants on IceGlace ENB's custom shaders, and works with all patches. My personal favourite is the L3EVO GP BEST(8-7) patch used to produce these Dead End Thrills shots. I lost some of the detailed vehicle reflectivity of the IceGlace series, but the gorgeous lensflare effects and the sensible colour balance throughout the day/night cycle more than made up for it. It's a matter of taste, so it's worth trying a few before settling on a favourite.
On to the next page for more visual tweaks, realism mods, FPS modes and bigger splodes.
Other visual tweaks, better trees, texture packs and cars
For a more consistent and believable day/night cycle, as well as some non-ENB shader tweaks, consider installing the RealityIV 1.62 Timecycle Mod. Once you have ENB and RealityIV working in tandem, complete the package with some high resolution textures courtesy of the Better City Textures pack. The crisp lighting and shaders pick out the extra detail in those road surfaces perfectly, and is certainly worth a performance hit if you've got a powerful set-up.
There are a few nice but minor updates to be made once you've got the major graphical mods in place. TreesModIV overworks GTA's tree textures. Add this bus to improves the authenticity of those Big Apple traffic jams. The Viva New York mod below takes care of taxis, subways and Time Square. For custom cars, browse GTA 4 mods extensive list. There are some gems in there. I like the Formula One Ferrari and this VTOL jet but it's all a matter of taste. Whatever cars you add, spawn them at will using Blade's Vehicle Selector.
NB: There's a very common bug that might pop up as you're installing vehicle which turns all of the cars in Liberty City into taxis. Fix that with Chikamru's Real Traffic tweak. Viva New York Get it here.
Oh, Liberty City, we all know you're New York. The comedy billboards Rockstar used to dodge legal trouble were amusing for a while, but after ten or so hours of adventuring the jokes grow old. Viva New York patches up Liberty City's subways and taxis to make them look like their Big Apple counterparts and transforms Times Square with accurate billboards and scrolling neon ads. It's all there, glowing signs for Coke, Pepsi, the NASDAQ building and never-ending runs of The Lion King and Phantom of the Opera.
This mod requires some fiddling with Spark IV, but there are good instructions included in an accompanying PDF in the Viva New York download zip. More realism mods: fuel, cautious drivers and first person mods
Now we've got a beautiful, detailed facsimile of New York to explore. If you want more realism from the city there mods out there happy to oblige. There are a few first person mods about, which do exactly as you'd expect. If you run your car into something at high speed, the hit might pop you out of Nico's head for a split second, but otherwise they're well implemented, and do a great job of bringing you down into the streets.
Does it bother you that Liberty City citizens drive around with their cars unlocked waiting for you to steal them? Cautious drivers will fix that behavioural quirk. Does it bother you that cars have infinite fuel and never need a refill? Grab the fuel mod. Real shop fronts spices up commercial districts with some authentic store retextures and this bank account mod lets you use ATM machines to deposit and withdraw money and earn interest. Better explosions Get it here.
This is a good 'un. If you're hungering for a little extra kersplode from your destructive sprees in GTA then the Bigger and More Realistic Explosion Mod is what you need. I wouldn't say the resulting fireballs were more realistic exactly, but they are certainly more satisfying by a factor of several Die Hards. Installation is a simple drag 'n drop task. Head to your GTA folder, go into Common -> Data -> Effects and then replace the explosionFx file with the modded version. You might want to back the old file in case the new one SUPER EXPLODES.
Hit the final page to see how to cheat, change the laws of physics, become a cop or Hulk-out.
Be a Cop Get it here.
Arrest old ladies who have done absolutely nothing wrong using the excellent LCPD mod. It lets you play as a cop in Liberty City. You can sign up for duty at a nearby police station, grab a partner, requisition a police vehicle of your choice and then walk the beat. Incoming calls alert you to serious crimes occurring across the city. You can charge to the scene and arrest the culprit (train on your gun on them, press E to arrest them, cuff them, then call for backup to take them away), alternatively, you can ignore that and hassle everyday citizens. You can stop them, frisk them, arrest them and then taser them at will.
This one works best with patch 1.0.7, but installation's as easy as double clicking the program and letting it do its thing. Once installed, the mod won't intrude unless you want it to. Press ALT-P in-game to start it up, and press again to disable it. A thoughtful touch. Simple trainer Get it here.
Turn Liberty City into a playground with the Simple Trainer, a user-friendly program that will let you bind cheats to keyboard shortcuts. Default settings will let you choose the time of day with alt-1 through alt-4. Alt-. will spawn a sweet ride, Alt-7 will give you a full set of weapons and the + key will activate god mode. You can bind other cheats to your keyboard by altering the .ini file. Once you're set up, you'll be able to teleport around the map and spawn objects and vehicles at will. It works with all versions of GTA 4, too. Recruit bodyguards, become a hitman, start a gang war
Recruit passers by, give them guns and roll through the streets as one almighty posse using the Bodyguard recruiter mod. Once installed, press F3 to command a pedestrian to join your cause. It'll cost a bit of money, but once they're in your employ they'll follow you until you fire them (with F7). Their AI exceeds follower AI in a lot of big budget releases (*cough* Skyrim *cough*) in that they'll seek out vehicles and follow you and follow you if you drive off on your own.
There are a few other noteworthy script mods that give you more to do in Liberty City. The Assassination Mod lets you contact a mysterious contractor using public payphones. These voiced conversations will send you after citizens spread throughout the city. Sometimes they'll be riding around in a vehicle, and they may even employ bodyguards to keep you on your toes.
For more shady dealings, try Turf Wars. It adds new gangs that are taking control of corners across Liberty City and lets you challenge them for control. You can call up your gang and hit corners together to take the city for yourself. Turn off all friction
Bring total chaos to Liberty City with this simple tweak. It turns turns GTA's roads into frictionless sheets of grey death. Head into your GTA folder, go into common, then data, back up handling.dat then open it up and change the wbias column for each car to a negative value. Voila, instant comedy. Drag your backed up handling.dat file back into common/data to restore normality. Play as The Hulk, Batman, Max Payne, Agent 47 and more Get it here.
Ac.Amir is responsible for some of the best alternative character models you can find for GTA 4. Characters like The Incredible Hulk above aren't just reskins of Nico's model, they have their own gait thanks to custom animation files. A bunch of characters are available in the pack linked to above including Hulk, Batman, a Spartan from Halo, Rorschach from Watchmen, Lee from The Walking Dead, Snoop Dog and others. Ac.Amir's blog features a greater selection of separate downloads for Max Payne, Agent 47, Battlefield 3 soldiers and even Christiano Ronaldo (complete with scary staring eyes).
To install the models, use Spark IV to browse your GTA file directory. Import the new animation files into GTAIV -> PC -> Anim -> anim.img and import the new model files into GTAIV -> PC -> models -> cdimages -> playerped.rpf.
The first time I roamed Liberty City as the Hulk I got hit by a car, punched by the driver, and then arrested by a chubby bald policeman. Embarrassing. For a more authentic Hulk experience, use the Simple Trainer highlighted above to activate god mode and consider employing something like the Mega Super Jump script. Be Superman
As with the Hulk in the example above, you can combine a series of mods to turn Nico into the Man of Steel. The Superman mod will let take off and blast through the air, and this chin-tastic Superman model will provide the visual transformation you need. You can find full installation instructions in our previous post about becoming Superman in GTA 4.
And that's all for now. Share your favourite GTA 4 mods in the comments. Do you have any stupendously beautiful screenshots of a modded-up GTA 4? Share them on in the screenshots thread on our forums.
Rockstar's 2002 classic Vice City remains so popular today as much for its bottling of mid-80s culture and excess as it does the actual game.
You'd think the horse stealing the car would be the funniest bit. But no. I like the dude's obvious disappointment at the overall outcome at the very end.
