The crew over at GamingExcellence recently caught up with a Rockstar PR rep during the PlayStation Holiday Preview Event in Toronto, Canada and were told that GTA IV will break away from the series’ tradition of having certain areas and locations blocked off until certain story missions are completed. In other words: the entire game is planned to be open-ended.

Secondly, the site also managed to extract more information from this particular PR rep about GTA IV’s multiplayer aspect, which has now been revealed to support up to 16-players in various multiplayer modes.

Sounds like Rockstar is putting a lot of effort in the multiplayer mode, I wonder what kind of multiplayer games we’ll have to choose from, aside from the usual deathmatch affair.

Coverage of the PlayStation Holiday Preview Event [GamingExcellence]

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