Welcome to the Manual 'Product Activation' guide for GTA IV PCĭuring typical installations of GTA IV PC, users that have an active Internet connection will be prompted to perform an 'Online Activation' of the game. I'm much more concerned with whether 64-bit Vista is catching on.Click HERE to return to Main 'GTA IV Activation' Site Tablet PC support is already built into every new Windows OS and it is very well supported. It's selling really well on Amazon, but whether it "catches on" or not is irrelevant to me. You go to the Tablet PC forum in GTA IV's fake internet and the members are all acting like a bunch of pathetic nerds.Īnyway who cares what they say? My new HP Tablet is small, powerful, it looks as cool as any other notebook and I love it. As far as libel, the developers do not actually write anything specifically attacking these brands, instead they create fictional characters or brands that act in a way that mocks the real world entity. would like to bring a lawsuit against Rockstar, but the game is satire so I don't think you could win any lawsuit against the company. I think a lot of companies like Ikea, Starbucks, Fox News, Blackberry, etc. You go to a cyber cafe in the game called and you can surf a fake internet. I clicked around on the in-game internet for more than an hour, and experienced a growing sense of astonishment as I kept hitting page after page after page after page.Ĭlick to expand.The stuff described is all in the final game. You hook up with women (and in one instance a dude) to advance your progress. The real meat of the GTA mediaverse comes from the dating sites, which are essential to several in-game missions. One was by a former life coach who realized he had no business telling millionaires what to do.
I got a chuckle out of the titles of posts, stuff like, "Men of Arab descent with backpacks wanted for cruel practical joke." But each title led to an actual post, and each one was a self-contained mini-drama. There's also CrapList, a parody of Craigslist, with scores and scores of postings. (As you can imagine, they don't expend too much energy trying to convince kids that tobacco is whacko.) There's even an anti-smoking site sponsored by the cigarette industry. There's a forum for Tablet PC afficionados where nerds gather to commiserate about why their costly combersome platform hasn't caught on yet. There's an in-game equivalent of Fox News called Weazel News (right).įake corporate sites abound, including hilarious parodies of Starbucks and Ikea. That's carrying realism too far!Ĭlicking through the internet leads you to sharp parodies of news sites. You can sort through e-mail, getting mission updates and coordinating with friends and girlfriends. You can access the web on your laptop or at a chain of internet cafes (Called har de har. But what blew me away was the in-game internet.
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