Give this compilation video a few minutes to warm up and get past the credits. Or, if you’re impatient, skip to 1:21. From then on in, these guys aren’t even playing Grand Theft Auto any more. They’re playing something else.
I don’t know what’s creepier, the face leering at everyone with the knife, or the wonky stick-figure body casually strolling around the streets.
Grand Theft Auto IV’s iCEnhancer series of mods and tweaks takes a Rockstar PC game that looked pretty good already and turns it into – relative to the scale and size of GTAIV – the prettiest video game on the planet.
Impressive Grand Theft Auto IV mods are nothing new, but this one — which turns the fictional Liberty City into a very real, very beautiful New York City — is really impressive.
We’ve seen a teaser of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City imported into Grand Theft Auto IV‘s visual and physics engine, RAGE. Another mod team is hard at work on the same conversion for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
“Interesting thing, this iCEnhancer version of the ENB mod,” reads the post on video game art site Dead End Thrills. It’s an aggressive, almost violent attempt at photorealism.”
You have to check out some of the screenshots/virtual photography being done via these new GTAIV mods. They look incredible.
Head to Dead End Thrills for more, including some incredible virtual photographs taken using other games.
We’ve seen some nice mods for the PC versions of Grand Theft Auto games before, but boy, this new series of GTAIV tweaks take the cake.
Reader forsinain42 has put together this beautiful tilt-shift video showing a day in the life of Grand Theft Auto IV’s Liberty City.
Welcome to Let Off Some Steam, the section where you guys get to discuss a topic of your choice. You can rant, you can gush – anything goes! Today’s post may be one of my favourites. David Rayfield, AKA ‘RayGun Brown’ discusses mainstream attitudes to video games, and how he himself is part of the problem.
Vice City is my favourite Grand Theft Auto game. Yet Grand Theft Auto IV has the best visual effects and physics in the series. What to do? I know. Let these guys rebuild Vice City using GTAIV’s engine!
