A former Rockstar Video games developer that has beforehand labored on Grand Theft Auto 4 has stated that the studio ought to work on a remaster of the sport. Responding to social media X customers asking him a query about rumours surrounding a GTA 4 remaster, former technical director on the studio Obbe Vermeij stated that it ought to occur, contemplating different profitable remasters in current occasions.
“I hadn’t heard these rumours,” posted Vermeij on X. “I believe GTA IV needs to be remastered. It’s an excellent recreation and there have been numerous profitable remasters lately.” Vermeij additionally wrote about desirous to see GTA 4 protagonist Niko Bellic return in some kind, saying that he’s nonetheless one of the best protagonist of the franchise in his opinion.
“I want to see it up to date,” Vermiej responded to a publish asking his ideas. “Niko continues to be one of the best protagonist in any GTA recreation I believe.”
Rumours a couple of remastered launch of Grand Theft Auto 4 first began making the rounds all the way in which again in November 2021. The rumours got here in gentle of the at-the-time current launch of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – Definitive Version. On the time, the rumours indicated that the remaster can be launched in 2023 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Sequence X/S, and that it will embody the Episodes from Liberty Metropolis expansions as a bundle.
Nonetheless, 2023 is a very long time in the past in the case of online game releases, and Rockstar Video games has nonetheless been quiet on the matter. Whereas smaller rumours stored popping up right here and there, they began coming again in earnest this yr. A more moderen hearsay, courtesy of identified Rockstar Video games insider Tez2, indicated {that a} port for contemporary platforms continues to be within the works.
Taking to the GTA Boards, Tez2 stated that Grand Theft Auto 4 is being ported to PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S, and that work on the ports had been happening for greater than a yr. Whereas the publish didn’t reveal too many particulars, it did point out that Rockstar could be seeking to tide followers of GTA 6 over in gentle of its current delay to Might 26, 2026 by releasing the GTA 4 port later this yr.
The insider additionally stated that the GTA 4 port can be half of a bigger plan by Rockstar to additionally launch a remaster of Max Payne 3 down the road. The latter can be launched in time with Treatment’s present work on remaking the unique Max Payne video games.
“Somebody at R* hinted on the [GTA] IV port, and by now it ought to’ve gone up a yr in growth.+,” he wrote. “We could find yourself seeing it drop later this yr. And it’s another reason, along with present causes, the LCPP mod was taken down. In the event that they nonetheless comply with their plan laid out from the pandemic days, they’ll do an MP3 port after IV. In order that is a chance to do a bundle or a Definitive Version. Max Payne 1 & 2 remakes, and a Max Payne 3 port.”
Grand Theft Auto 4 was initially launched again in 2008 on Xbox 360 and PS3. It has since additionally been launched on PC, the place it may nonetheless be performed on trendy programs alongside its Episodes from Liberty Metropolis story expansions.
