GTA IV Leaked?

April 23, 2008
Kotaku is reporting that the PAL version of GTA IV for the Xbox 360 may have been leaked:
At around 11:50am Greenwich Mean Time, the PAL version of Grand Theft Auto IV for the Xbox 360 was ripped and leaked to various torrent sites by a [group] called iCON...

YouTube clips have been popping up online of the game's opening and early missions — but as of posting, many of the clips have been taken down. The retail release is a mere six days away. This isn't the first GTA game leaked as San Andreas was as well. And it was leaked a week before, too.

GP readers may recall that Manhunt 2 was leaked by an SCEE employee last September.

UPDATE: The Telegraph has a bit more...

Comments

Submitted by Ragnaar (not verified) on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 06:46.
Can't wait for my pre-order. It might take a while to get here (having it amazon super snaily shipped), but it'll be worth it once I get my hands on it.

Submitted by GRIZZAM 512 (not verified) on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 20:03.
Neat. Grab that sweet leak!

Submitted by Jack Wessels (not verified) on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 20:04.
I'd rather wait for the release than play or watch a ripped version.

Submitted by Mark of Cain (not verified) on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 20:06.
Great, now who will bitch first this time?

Submitted by GRIZZAM 512 (not verified) on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 20:07.
@Jack Wessels

Yeah, but you know the fanboys will eat it up. No doubt a rockstar publicity stunt...media whores.

Submitted by Jack Thompson is a douchbag (not verified) on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 20:59.
I went on youtube and there was a video of leaked GTA4 gameplay but when I clicked on the video it said that it has been removed from Take 2. Saying that it was a violation.

Submitted by go fish (not verified) on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 21:00.
christ not again

Submitted by Meleedragon27 (not verified) on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 21:04.
I agree with Jack Wessels - I'll wait for the actual release, thank you.

Submitted by Anon (not verified) on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 21:20.
Yeah the gameplay videos are all over the net.t

Submitted by chadachada (not verified) on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 21:21.
*Sigh* I remember accidentally ruining the ending of Halo 3 the night before it came out, watching a leaked vid on youtube...I'm boycotting youtube until GTA comes out just in case...

Submitted by DarknessDeku (not verified) on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 00:05.
I'd rather wait to play the game.

@ chadachada

You accidently found the games ending and then watched the entire thing? You could have just clicked out of it...

Submitted by DeusPayne (not verified) on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 00:20.
Aaaannnndddd...????? Almost every game, especially blockbuster games are leaked.

Submitted by Shih Tzu (not verified) on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 03:23.
This group doesn't realize how hurtful this is.

A good 69% of us are in fact Bush-haters!

Submitted by Andy_UK (not verified) on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 03:52.
oh just wait for the release.

you sillies....

Submitted by InJM (not verified) on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 04:10.
Too bad Japan doesn't use PAL.

Submitted by PlayItBogart (not verified) on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 05:50.
I'll wait for the release. I am simply not ready yet for the massive amount of awesome that GTAIV will bestow upon me.

Submitted by julian (not verified) on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 07:54.
Yeah It's leaked for real, and i'm playing it as we speak. I can tell you guys, don't expect top of the notch gameplay. It's much like Saints Row.

Submitted by RonJon (not verified) on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 09:29.
Good, I love Saints Row. Thats just how I wanted it to be.

Submitted by Jonathan, aka Soul (not verified) on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 09:51.
I'll wait for it's official release thank you very much ;) .

Submitted by RonJon (not verified) on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 10:02.
Loyal fans to Rockstar will wait for the official release rather than playing a "stolen" version of the game. Part of the true experience of the game is getting it the same time as all the others.

Submitted by InsidiousMrMoo (not verified) on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 10:37.
Yea I am waiting for the game to come out, only 4 more days till I can get my hands on gta iv and it is well worth the wait.

Submitted by Zerodash (not verified) on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 10:44.
Don't support piracy for a game like this- the games industry NEEDS to see that adult-oriented games make tons of $$.

The only way they will stand up against the zealots is to prove that its worth it to protect their right to make these games.

Submitted by mogbert (not verified) on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 11:47.
I think everyone who downloaded it early should get on X-Box Live so they can tell us how multiplayer is...

Mwaaahahahahaha!!!

I'm actually looking forward to... Mario Kart Wii. I might pick this one up later... maybe used.

Submitted by Pinworm (not verified) on Fri, 04/25/2008 - 16:02.
The NTSC version was released about 12-18 hours after the PAL version.
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