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GTA IV Keeps Impressing Us - iCEnhancer 2.5 Beta 1 Screenshots

DSOGaming writes: "Hayssam Keilany has released some impressive new screenshots from the latest version of his iCEnhancer mod for GTA IV. This version of iCEnhancer has not been released yet, and Keilany is still working to get the game look the way he wants. GTA IV has never looked better before, and we are curious to see what such mods will turn GTA V into (well, provided Rockstar releases it on the PC). Enjoy!"

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Crazyglues4014d ago (Edited 4014d ago )

Man I wish I knew how to install this without messing up my computer and getting a virus -because that mod looks amazing...

-I would play this right now all the way up to the release of GTA V-

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Lior4014d ago

All you have to do is download icenhancer and then drag all the files into the gta iv folder

Crazyglues4014d ago (Edited 4014d ago )

@Lior

Really it's that easy

-I thought it was like a process of getting all these little files and then adding them one by one... wow if it's that easy then I'm ready to install now...

Let me go work on this... thanks Lior

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WUTCHUGUNNADO4013d ago

There's a little more to it if you want all the features... even more so if your using the steam version of GTAIV.

But essentially drag and drop for the most part with all mods.

Scenarist4013d ago

well the OP has the right idea,
Iceenhancer doesnt contain any modded cars or textures and if you want the full experience , I guess at this stage in the game , you can download a car mod packs and texture packs opposed to individually.

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DeadManMcCarthy4013d ago

Your comment made me lol so hard. So much fail.

hennessey864013d ago

And it runs like shit on my PC, I have given up trying to get it to run smoothly.

FragMnTagM4013d ago

Well if you have shitty graphics card, it will run shitty.

My GTX 560ti could run it alright, it was the Video RAM that killed me as it was only 1 gig.

I just got a gtx 660ti with 3g of VRAM and I can run it maxed no problems.

SilentNegotiator4013d ago

Your $200 GPU could run it "alright"? Congrats.

GTA4 isn't optimized very well on PC, don't go and blame hardware.

coolmast3r4013d ago

Honestly, this looks way better than vanilla V (judging from the trailers).

sourav934013d ago

Imagine V with mods though... *Mind Blown*

Dee_914013d ago (Edited 4013d ago )

gotta disagree.Put your hands over the cars it will look like gta iv with color and brightness adjustments.The main place you will notice a real difference with icenhancer is in the reflections.Your letting these high poly cars fool you.

GTA IV
http://www.dsogaming.com/wp...

GTA V
http://media.gtanet.com/gal...
the Lighting & shadows are way better on gta v imo.
Those are things you cant really change with enhancer mods on GTA IV.You can enhance but you cant completely overhaul.

cyguration4013d ago

They're running on the same engine.

GTA V is just better optimized and they've been showing everyone footage from a PC devkit for the consoles.

And yes, GTA IV IcEnhancer looks way better than vanilla GTA V.

http://www.abload.de/img/gt...

The shadows are actually blockier in GTA V compared to iCEnhancer, and the lighting in iCEnhancer has almost reached ray-tracing quality:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

I'm sorry but vanilla GTA V does not look anywhere near that good.

WUTCHUGUNNADO4013d ago

Ambient occlusion and skylighting are a little more in depth than "Brightness adjustments" both of which GTA V won't be able to do on current gen consoles.

Dee_914013d ago (Edited 4013d ago )

I never said that its just brightness and color adjustments.I said it LOOKS like it, rather its rendering ambient occlusion or a simulated ray tracing, to me it still looks like brightness, contrast and color adjustments.Like I said its just an enhanced GTAIV but to me I can see glaring differences between gta iv engine and the updated engine in GTAV.
@cyguration Wow i never seen that video.The last version I saw the lighting was blindingly bright and the shadows where way too dark.But after that I must say I stand corrected.It looks better than everything I seen from gtav so far.The screenshots in the article doesnt do it justice.Because looking at those I can achieve that look ( aside from reflections) by just adjusting brightness etc. in photoshop.

MadLad4013d ago (Edited 4013d ago )

You should never slap Jesus.
Especially when I am so damn happy.

DrRichtofen4013d ago

downloading gta4 right now, hopefully i can download this

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Mainline Grand Theft Auto trailers ranked from best to worst

As we have all been graced by the release of Grand Theft Auto 6's trailer, we're ranking the best and worst GTA trailers to date.

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purple101139d ago

We be getting these posts All week now lads. Someone noticed a number plate ... Someone noticed a billboard... I can see it now

Just go on YouTube and watch one of the many videos dissecting the whole 1minite 30secs worth.

This site supposed to be for news.

roadkillers139d ago

These updates on N4G are going to ruin whats rest of this site. Unfortunate since I was one of the first members.. The site shows unsecure when i login as well.

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Grand Theft Auto 4 Anniversary: The Beginning of the Age of RAGE

Grand Theft Auto 4 is an important game for Rockstar, not least because it was the first title in the franchise to use the newly created RAGE engine.

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franwex356d ago

Wasn’t the Table Tennis game the first to use RAGE?

isarai356d ago

Was about to say the same, but they do say first "in the franchise" so 🤷

cammers1995356d ago

The fact it hasnt been remastered is insane.

Abear21356d ago

Rage engine made driving on the sidewalk in cinematic slow motion camera a blast

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Fifteen Years On, 'Grand Theft Auto IV' Is Still the Series’ Best

There’s never a bad time to relive its magic, and with rumours of a potential Grand Theft Auto IV remaster making the rounds, why wouldn’t you?

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Machina359d ago

The series' most overhyped and overrated (especially by critics) more like.

Number1TailzFan359d ago

Not sure tbh.. I'd say 3 was the most overrated. It's pretty rough to go back to, it was quite rough even trying it just after Vice City. Lack of humour and vehicles that had the weight of polystyrene with top speeds to match.

VC & the stories games (even LCS) were all fun. I remember there being a lot of praise for GTA 3 on TV and in game mags, saying it was a Dreamcast killer of a game or words to that effect, and honestly after playing it on PC I didn't think it was that special and kind of dull, had the odd moment of fun but hardly anything. I heard they cut online multiplayer at the last moment for PC, shame because it could've made all the difference.

Would've loved to have seen what kind of cartoony GTA style game they could've done on Dreamcast as a competitor, I bet something along the lines of Simpsons Hit & Run would've worked well.

BlackTar187358d ago

@numberz How can the game that defined a generation and was copied by everyone be overrated? Was a asinine comment

seanpitt23358d ago

For me 4 was better than 5 was more realistic and the physics was on another level! 5 was a major let down in that department!

Number1TailzFan358d ago

@blacktar you have your opinion i have mine. I found the game dull, and it is for the most part. It set the foundation for the much superior SA and VC however.

KwietStorm_BLM358d ago

You say GTA III is overrated because it's rough to go back to and rough to play after Vice City. Your entire opinion is in hindsight. Of course it's rough going back to it today. It came out over 20 years ago. That doesn't take away from the fact that it pioneered a lot and was a paradigm shift for a lot of trends in game development today. Vice City in a lot of ways is just a more refined version of III. It was San Andreas that took the big leap forward from a design perspective. If III doesn't release, who knows if the open world genre would be what it is now. How can that be overrated?

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1nsomniac358d ago (Edited 358d ago )

Not at all. My most played game of all time. Truly stunning accomplishment in gaming and with PC graphics mods it just took it to levels beyond anything that came before and possibly even after.

People who moan about it generally tend to be people who played it on under powered consoles and couldn’t handle the more realistic car physics. It was the slightly more realistic approach that made it stand out more. Absolutely love it. In fact I always said Vice city was my favourite of all time. But after going back to the remaster I realised 4 was actually the best.

Profchaos358d ago (Edited 358d ago )

I'm no critic and I consider it the best games in the franchise after recently replaying every entry it's story when paired in conjunction with it's DLC was and still is amazing.

shinoff2183358d ago

Lol. Fun fact. That dlc cost a certain green colored console 50 million for exclusiveness. Un heard of back then. Just to point out the hypocrisy of the 3rd party exclusive agenda going on.

Anyway how the dlc better then the base game by a mile. Lol imo

DigitallyAfflicted357d ago

I've enjoyed gta4 the most from all the others too.

DarXyde358d ago

San Andreas holds a special place in my heart. Honestly, I couldn't get into IV at all. Didn't even finish it. I had some pride in playing it at first because I'm originally a New Yorker, but it just didn't do it for me.

To each their own.

shinoff2183358d ago (Edited 358d ago )

Gta sa for sure. To this day my favorite. My least fav is gta 4 easily. Gta 4 made me feel like the dude in next friday trying to take the cd back talking about i cant get jiggy wit this.

Maybe looking back it would be 3 but 3 did so damn much for gaming in general. . My first gta was of course the top downs so the series has came a long way.

notachance357d ago

Yeah I remembered falling asleep playing the last mission in GTA4.. the most boring protagonist (out of all the voiced protag), and the town is too small.

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-Foxtrot359d ago

Not really

Overrated

Boring

Liberty City despite being a reimagined version for the HD era lacked any variety

Lacked the GTA fun charm overall

Niko was bland compared to past protagonists like Tommy, CJ or Victor

blackblades358d ago (Edited 358d ago )

GTA 2 was the best, lol my only owned GTA game. Vice city was alright when I rented it back then. I cant really say which is the best cause those the only 2 games i played but GTA 2 was fun on PC back in the day. Closes game to it that I enjoyed was SR3 and I dont care what people say. That none serious tone was fun enjoyable.

banger88359d ago

Like hell it is. San Andreas was far better, much more fun and a better game overall.

isarai359d ago

Nah, it's a masterpiece in attention to detail and the amount of immersive systems at play. But it really isn't very fun, ESPECIALLY when compared to the previous games in the series. Like tons of things are just wonky and actively kneecap lots of experimentation, or is just lame. Like why do I take huge damage when falling into water, why can I only stand in very specific large trucks when they are moving but not smaller trucks and vehicles, why is the melee combat such a massive down grade from GTA SA and GTA IV, why is the euphoria nowhere near as reactive, why is being drunk using a rasterized animation of staggering rather than the far more entertaining euphoria GTAIV and RDR used when you were drunk, why do npc vehicles barely react to you popping there tires even at high speed, etc etc.

I've always loved playing around in GTA games world. Like the campaigns are great but the majority of my time was always spent just playing in the open world. Yet GTAV is the only game in the series I never really returned to after beating it, it just lacks that fun factor the others have, I spent more time in GTA SA remastered than GTAV

chicken_in_the_corn358d ago

It's one of my least favourite GTA games. It's clunky, the ai is exploitable, it's far too long and the writing is absolutely awful.

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