Grand Theft Auto IV - Post-Release Update 1

Grand Theft Auto IV has already been released for a week, and apparently everybody - including me - is too busy playing. Currently, a Grand Theft Auto IV Review and Walkthrough is in its works. Stay cool, everybody! I apologize for the “no-updates” week after Grand Theft Auto IV’s release.

This week, the PS3 version of Grand Theft Auto IV has been patched, after a myriad of problems relating to the game freezing and crashing the console. Also, check out the spoiler about the “L1 - Zombie”. A user from the GameTrailers forum has provided screenshots for a strange multiplayer “Easter egg” that has been spotted, which seems to be an exclusive Zombie player model.

Good news too, Grand Theft Auto IV has sold around six million copies in its first week on sale - with around 3.6 million copies being grabbed on the first day. This means that the game is said to have grossed $500 million to date.

Microsoft also announced that over 31 million hours of play had been racked up on the Xbox 360 version to date, with 9.7 million hours of play in the game’s “seamless” Xbox Live multiplayer mode. Microsoft also reminds us of the exclusive episodes which are coming to Xbox Live this fall by claiming they’ll provide “hours of additional gameplay”.

Chart Track also announced that Grand Theft Auto IV sold 926,000 copies during its first week on sale, grossing £39.9m which easily places it as the most successful video game launch in UK history. Perhaps most interestingly though, it has sold more copies in its first week than every game released in 2007 combined, excluding FIFA 08, Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training and Call of Duty 4.

Have fun playing and messing about in Liberty City. Do come and join me in a multiplayer match sometime - add my gamertag (HoT dEv1L 666) on Xbox LIVE! Well, what’s my score for Grand Theft Auto IV after playing for a week? I will say that the fairest score would have to be 99.9/100. Sorry for the late updates, once again. Stay tuned for more Grand Theft Auto IV post-release news, multimedia, mission walkthroughs and fanboy community review!