{"id":1663179,"date":"2026-08-15T00:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T00:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/S2QvgUrmyNMQrwUBiTYvEG"},"modified":"2026-08-15T00:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T00:07:17","slug":"before-grand-theft-auto-online-gta-4s-multiplayer-added-glorious-chaos-to-the-open-world-sandbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/before-grand-theft-auto-online-gta-4s-multiplayer-added-glorious-chaos-to-the-open-world-sandbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Grand Theft Auto Online, GTA 4’s multiplayer added ‘glorious chaos’ to the open world sandbox"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Special commentary on this classic PC Gamer feature provided by:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Grand Theft Auto 4 multiplayer: Why everyone should try the 32-player massacre – PC Gamer #197 (UK, February 2009)<\/h2>\n

By Kieron Gillen<\/em><\/p>\n

What am I supposed to do? The only response I manage is blinking, laughing loudly and then trying to work out how to activate the firehose. Some bright spark decided that the next game should be a race with trucks. 32 trucks. Of which about 25 or so turn out to be fire engines. <\/p>\n

As you may expect, the result is chaos. Glorious chaos. Glorious never-had-anything- like-that-before chaos.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of those dark secrets of videogaming: if you want to play a GTA game and you\u2019re willing to wait a few months, the PC version is always the best way to go. Always. Back in the day of GTA3, the PC\u2019s generally more potent hardware led to a game that dealt with the cities better, included custom soundtracks and even worked as a shooter. And now, as the next-gen consoles start to get long in the tooth, the PC is building towards something else. Two relevant points here. First, that there\u2019s a degree of future-proofing in GTA\u2019s hardware settings, with options that will only become practical to turn on when PCs catch up. Secondly, the upping of the multiplayer limit from 16 players on the consoles to a 32 on the PC.<\/p>\n

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You get to choose your clothes, head and sex, so you don\u2019t need to be stuck with the Niko Belic-suede jacket and tedious-head look. <\/span>(Image credit: Rockstar Games)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While it\u2019s easy to dwell on increased scale of the multiplayer and how that impacts the experience, it shouldn\u2019t overshadow how the addition of multiplayer to the GTA series is\u2014in and of itself\u2014a major step forward. Previously, to experience such a thing you had to turn to mod projects such as Multitheft Auto<\/a>. Now, it\u2019s just in there, and accessible. <\/p>\n

The addition of multiple players changes GTA4’s character. In singleplayer, it leans away from the inspired clownish stupidity that characterised the series up to this point\u2014it\u2019s simply a more serious game. But when you\u2019ve got friends with you… well, that all goes out the window. <\/p>\n

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Rocket launchers require expert timing to work. Aiming at cars helps. <\/span>(Image credit: Rockstar Games)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Other players turn the stupid up to a frankly awesome degree simply by acting like people. And if they won\u2019t act stupid without encouragement, you can twist the rules to make it more likely they\u2019ll go proper mental.<\/p>\n

While there are a mass of free-for-all, team-based and cooperative game modes available, each of them is also tweakable with easily selectable options. For example, while playing the objective-control Turf War game, we limit the weapons to rocket-launchers only. This changes things, in a similar way that arming every knife-toting dangerous youth in London with an RPG would. It also brings out the subtleties in the control system: while the rockets are powerful, they\u2019re also slow moving and require careful aiming.<\/p>\n

That said, driving a car into a crossfire of half a dozen explosive projectiles and the resulting\u2014here\u2019s that word again\u2014chaos is a less considered and more visceral thrill.<\/p>\n

The options are what it\u2019s all about. While you\u2019re able to play multiplayer games across the three islands of Liberty City, in practice you\u2019ll select one of the closed-off areas. These can be as intensely small as one of the peninsulas of the central island. Much depends on the game mode you\u2019ve selected\u2014for example, Mafiya modes have you trying to complete organised crime contracts to get the most rewards. Even straight deathmatch can be tuned to be more than just counting heads by racing to get the cash: suddenly scavenging from fallen bodies plays as much a part as just offing everyone.<\/p>\n

There are also world options such as pedestrians and traffic, which are probably best left off to make larger games playable (the framerate was wincing when those 32 fire trucks lined up on the start-line). Actually, the race modes highlights much of what\u2019s best in competitive GTA4 multiplayer. <\/p>\n

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Get into the helicopter if you enjoy spinning around randomly and drawing all the fire in the game. Alternatively, if you\u2019re any good.Rockstar Games<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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While you\u2019re vulnerable as hell on a bike, the manoeuvrability helps. That said, even in a car, headshots are easier with a mouse.Rockstar Games<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

Specifically, the GTA race. If only they added the ability to hit people physically when you\u2019re riding alongside them, this would be Road Rash for the late noughties. Essentially it\u2019s a race mode with added violence. <\/p>\n

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Between Left 4 Dead and this, it\u2019s the best year for Molotovs since 1939. <\/span>(Image credit: Rockstar Games)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While you all start in vehicles of the same class, it\u2019s unlikely you\u2019re going to finish in them. While there\u2019s health to pick up to patch your charge together, it\u2019s more likely you\u2019re going to die and come back on the moped (I finished the aforementioned fire-truck race on one, overtaking a truck on the inside, firing an Uzi into it while it tried\u2014and failed\u2014to sideswipe me. And if that sentence doesn\u2019t make you want to play videogames, I fear for you).<\/p>\n

Inevitably, as the lower placed racers decide they can\u2019t win and turn to fighting among themselves or making road blocks of debris, you turn a race game into a desperate Max-Max survival simulator. <\/p>\n

It is hilarious.<\/p>\n

GTA4 as a multiplayer game works well on this axis. Even when it\u2019s at its most standard, in its team-deatmatch modes, you have a fascinating collision between characters who move and fight like extras from Michael Mann\u2019s Heat, and moments that are straight out of a gangster-take on the Keystone Cops: cars full of thugs leaning out of the window of their stolen car and opening up optimistically before crashing off a bridge. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this is what fellow humans add to GTA4: humanity.<\/p>\n

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Grand Theft Auto 6<\/span><\/p>\n

GTA 6 guide<\/strong><\/a>: Everything we know
<\/strong>GTA 6 cars<\/strong><\/a>: The garage lineup
<\/strong>GTA 6 characters<\/strong><\/a>: Your anti-hero cast
<\/strong>GTA 6 map<\/strong>:<\/a> Confirmed Vice City locales
GTA 6 PC release<\/strong><\/a>: When’s it going to happen?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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Special commentary on this classic PC Gamer feature provided by: Grand Theft Auto 4 multiplayer: Why everyone should try the 32-player massacre – PC Gamer #197 (UK, February 2009) By Kieron Gillen What am I supposed to do? The only response I manage is blinking, laughing loudly and then trying to work out how to activate the firehose. Some bright spark decided that the next game should be a race with trucks. 32 trucks. Of which about 25 or so turn out to be fire engines. As you may expect, the result is chaos. Glorious chaos. Glorious never-had-anything- like-that-before chaos. It\u2019s one of those dark secrets of videogaming: if you want to play a GTA game and you\u2019re willing to wait a few months, the…<\/p>\n

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