Grand Theft Auto IV Updated GameSpot Impressions: Missions, Mayhem, and Drunk Driving?

GameSpot writes: "Rockstar recently hit town with an updated, work-in-progress version of Grand Theft Auto IV and gave us a look around the promising new entry in its acclaimed series. The game was running on the Xbox 360 and featured a slew of upgrades since the last time we saw it in action. While we still weren’t able to get our hands on the controller and get a feel for it ourselves, we got a meaty look at a handful of the game’s missions, as well as some of the requisite showcases of its richly detailed environments.

Given our familiarity with the game, our demonstrator just hopped into our first mission demo, which featured a character named Brucie, who was seen briefly in the last trailer released for the game. The mission kicks off with a cinematic that finds GTAIV’s mysterious protagonist Nikolai entering a garage asking for Brucie, who needs some professional whacking done (the murderous kind). Niko is tasked with stealing a police car and giving Brucie a phone call once he’s done so".