Possibly.....but they could still put in side activities that are marginally more exciting that having your fucking annoying cousin phoning you up asking if you fancy a game of darts.
Yes, definitely. I could see what they were trying to do with that, but it got annoying pretty quickly.
It's hard to put a finger on, but something about the muted colour palette, slower pace and the relative lack of cartoony elements and game-breaking vehicles in GTAIV made for a much more rounded experience - the city felt much more tangible, and when you finally did get to, for example, fly in a helicopter it felt much more special. For me, just driving round causing chaos quickly gets boring - I spent quite a while just driving and walking round Liberty City seeing the sights - it was that amazing.
Hope they make the on-foot controls a bit smoother this time though - I always find Rockstar's games very fiddly and twitchy (though I really liked the vehicle handling in IV).
Be nice to have a Forza-style rewind button too - it's always annoying when you accidentally bring down the fuzz when you're actually trying to keep within the law!
Re: the trailer - is that Ray Liotta's character from Vice City doing the v/o - or possibly the bloke from GTAIII?
