GTA Gamplay details!

[Alacrist]

The May issue of Game Informer is starting to reach the homes of subscribers, and while we're waiting for the high resolution scans of the ten page article that was devoted to Grand Theft Auto IV, here's the brief details of what's been revealed, which doesn't look like much:

• The protagonist's name is Niko Bellic.
• Multiplayer is to be announced.
• You can use a cellphone to call your contacts.
• No planes..?
• "You have a lot of choice over what you want to do."
• Game Informer played the Xbox demo.
• Dan Houser explains that "a big part of New York life is walking the streets and meeting lunatics", and this is something they definitely tried to put into the game.

Multiplayer? Like, you hold the cop down, I'll steal his car? We talking split screen versus mode, or co-op? It's also been jotted down, that the music is better than usual, and that cell phones will help shape the story so that you're not just a slave running around and following orders. A small portion of it was actually read off and audio recorded, I think some geek had his girlfriend read it to him over the phone as soon as the issue arrived. You can get a hard to understand sound file here if you're that desperate. Check back later for more details.