Official HUD Revealed: Zoo Weekly AUS
Australian Magazine Zoo Weekly recently had a hands-on preview of GTA4, and included in their magazine are some photos of their journalist playing on a large TV. On the screen we can clearly see two images of the game showing the map in the bottom left corner with two semi-circles around it representing health and armor.
Other HUD items such as your wanted level rating (stars) and weapons will most likely only be shown when they are needed, such as when you have a wanted level or are changing/using weapons.
In other Zoo news, last week an article was published in the UK's Zoo magazine showing one of their editors doing some voice work for the game. The Zoo individual in question, who plays a 32-year-old white English guy. Background: never worked a day in his life. Lives off Daddy's money. Rude and snooty, also has a pedestrian of himself in the game who will make various remarks depending on what's going on around him. These include phrases such as "Alright matey, no need to go waving that bloody thing around!" when being threatened with a gun, or "Look would you mind awfully getting your colonial fucking arse out of the road?" when being held up in traffic.
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Article Comments
Comment by badboy11157 posted on 31st Mar 2008:
Nice! But wher can man se the weapon? 
Comment by R4yn3 posted on 31st Mar 2008:
I'm guessing if it where to just pop up when needed then weapons when changed will briefly show icons maybe in some way, I think it might be awkward if there was nothing. Loving how the guy makes himself look like a complete d'bag tilting the controller to advertise.lol
Comment by GoldWires posted on 31st Mar 2008:
I just love how the only thing on the screen is the navi 
Btw How's the health
system going to work, will it be a GoW health regenerate or just the same as all the other
grand theft auto's ?
Comment by Mekington posted on 31st Mar 2008:
Probably only pops up when you've got a gun whipped out (If I remember right, you can holster weapons?)
Thus keeping things less cluttered
Comment by CutThatCity posted on 31st Mar 2008:
Looks incredible 
Comment by HotRaper posted on 31st Mar 2008:
The HUD has this quind of simplicitie, only R* can create!!
It's gr8.
BTW, did anybody notice that the dude was playing on a 360 ?
Comment by Dr.Jdid112 posted on 31st Mar 2008:
It's gr8.
BTW, did anybody notice that the dude was playing on a 360 ?
Yes, 360 FTW!!!
Comment by Ulster_Niko posted on 31st Mar 2008:
Looks stunning. Why is there this constant focus on the 360, though? Not wanting to get into a fanboy debate but it would be nice to see PS3 represented a bit more in all these previews etc. I'm confident it'll be the same game, but the console that brought GTA to consoles deserves to be better represented.
Comment by Daz posted on 31st Mar 2008:
Your right, it does, however i suppose if the X360 version of the game was finished first it would have demos for it made first, and seen as tho rockstar insist its going to be the same on both consoles.... why make a demo on both? waste money if you ask me.
Comment by neko_ceko posted on 31st Mar 2008:
Woah! Look at the Niko in the first picture!
He looks so...
REAL
Comment by casey3 posted on 31st Mar 2008:
i thought that there wasn't going to be demo for either console, i may be wrong. but i have to agree like he said im not a fanboy i got both consoles and they are both well worth buying, but the ps3 does deserve a little bit more attention from the media
Comment by psychø posted on 31st Mar 2008:
Because the PS3 is a bitch to code on and is later in the stages of production that the Xbox 360.
Comment by DuffMan posted on 31st Mar 2008:
Holy shit, there's an Xbox 360 in the photo! I've got to make some kind of comment about how it's better than the PS3 because everyone cares!
Comment by Dr.Jdid112 posted on 31st Mar 2008:
Exactly. Is it that big a deal that he's holding up the 360 controller? Well, it's advertising if you ask me. But if you KNOW the 360 and PS3 versions will be the same, why bitch about which one the demo is being played on?
Comment by Daz posted on 31st Mar 2008:
I think he was holding up the controler to show he had a playable version of the game, rather then "ITS ON 360!!!!!!!!".
(and to my earlier post, i didn't mean "demo" as in small playable part of the game, i ment demo as in they had a quick demonstration of the game.)
Comment by Lazzbrium posted on 31st Mar 2008:
It looks the same as the Saints Row HUD...
Comment by casey3 posted on 31st Mar 2008:
oh sorry bout that daz i misunderstood, i understand what saying now though
Comment by Dr.Jdid112 posted on 31st Mar 2008:
Let's See:
Yea, they look about the same.
Comment by Oh When posted on 31st Mar 2008:
the map looks like it has in previous installments, but the lack of other HUD elements make's it look cleaner. also the graphics are beyond my expectations.
my final point australians rock!!!!!!!!
Comment by Lazzbrium posted on 31st Mar 2008:
Yea, they look about the same.
I do hope you're not being sarcastic. Apart from the colours they might as well be the same one. The health bar strung around the mini map was in Saints Row first also.
I did notice one thing: The SUV in the picture's bumper is dinged in, with what appears to be blood splattered on it.
Comment by Dr.Jdid112 posted on 31st Mar 2008:
Pretty sure I meant what I said.
Comment by Mekington posted on 31st Mar 2008:
GTA had the circle radar thing first you bitches.
Comment by Dr.Jdid112 posted on 31st Mar 2008:
Damn straight. Saints Row should have been deemed 'copy cat'.
Comment by casey3 posted on 31st Mar 2008:
Yea, they look about the same.
I do hope you're not being sarcastic. Apart from the colours they might as well be the same one. The health bar strung around the mini map was in Saints Row first also.
I did notice one thing: The SUV in the picture's bumper is dinged in, with what appears to be blood splattered on it.
yeah i just now noticed that too. thanks for pointing that out
Comment by TreeFitty posted on 31st Mar 2008:
Yes! 'Tis the unwritten rules of Fanboyopolis!
Comment by Dr.Jdid112 posted on 31st Mar 2008:
Yes! 'Tis the unwritten rules of Fanboyopolis!
I'm pretty sure they're written.
Comment by TreeFitty posted on 01st Apr 2008:
Yes! 'Tis the unwritten rules of Fanboyopolis!
I'm pretty sure they're written.
hmmm... I was never issued a copy...
Comment by TwoFacedTanner posted on 01st Apr 2008:
Yea, they look about the same.
I do hope you're not being sarcastic. Apart from the colours they might as well be the same one. The health bar strung around the mini map was in Saints Row first also.
I did notice one thing: The SUV in the picture's bumper is dinged in, with what appears to be blood splattered on it.
No.
The gang and police notoriety is strung around the minimap.
Your health and stamina is in the top right corner. No where near the mini map.
Comment by §ynch posted on 01st Apr 2008:
or "Look would you mind awfully getting your colonial fucking arse out of the road?" when being held up in traffic.
How dissappointing. That's sad.
Comment by Colster posted on 01st Apr 2008:
Yea, they look about the same.
I do hope you're not being sarcastic. Apart from the colours they might as well be the same one. The health bar strung around the mini map was in Saints Row first also.
I did notice one thing: The SUV in the picture's bumper is dinged in, with what appears to be blood splattered on it.
No.
The gang and police notoriety is strung around the minimap.
Your health and stamina is in the top right corner. No where near the mini map.
Actually, it's well known that the Health and Armour are semi-circles around the mini map. The left hand semi-circle is the Health, and on the right is the Armour. The police show up as a circle which is centred on the last position on which you was spotted ON the mini map. Not around it! Police also shows up as the original star level as well as the circle on the map.
Comment by j~d posted on 01st Apr 2008:
/\ He was talking about saints row not gta 4. you obviously just came in halfway through without reading the previous posts.
Comment by Ulster_Niko posted on 01st Apr 2008:
I'm not whinging about demos or 'advertising' in the screenshot or anything like that. It just seems like it's an 360 game the way previews etc have been presented, e.g. all GTA news on IGN is in the 360 section. It's a completely minor gripe, I know, but still..
Comment by Recruit CyanTist posted on 03rd Apr 2008:
IM not a fan of HUD's like that but i suppose it isnt so hard to get used i have a copy of saints row so ill use that to get used to it
Comment by Asthenia posted on 03rd Apr 2008:
or "Look would you mind awfully getting your colonial fucking arse out of the road?" when being held up in traffic.
How dissappointing. That's sad.
T'is indeed. But lets not base all our expectations of Ped voices on this ponce.
Comment by ipwn posted on 03rd Apr 2008:
Yea, they look about the same.
I do hope you're not being sarcastic. Apart from the colours they might as well be the same one. The health bar strung around the mini map was in Saints Row first also.
I did notice one thing: The SUV in the picture's bumper is dinged in, with what appears to be blood splattered on it.
No.
The gang and police notoriety is strung around the minimap.
Your health and stamina is in the top right corner. No where near the mini map.
Yea, they look about the same.
I do hope you're not being sarcastic. Apart from the colours they might as well be the same one. The health bar strung around the mini map was in Saints Row first also.
I did notice one thing: The SUV in the picture's bumper is dinged in, with what appears to be blood splattered on it.
No.
The gang and police notoriety is strung around the minimap.
Your health and stamina is in the top right corner. No where near the mini map.
thats correct it is
Comment by The_Technician posted on 05th Apr 2008:
i share your view...you own a ps3 (i do)
all the play testing has been done on the 360...the xbox world journo played all through it first...the controls were designed for 360...has sony not always been the orignal GTA platform, then xbox and computer getting the games after?
back OT: i like the HUD...but i wanna see the weapon icons and stuff too!
Comment by Asthenia posted on 05th Apr 2008:
i share your view...you own a ps3 (i do)
all the play testing has been done on the 360...the xbox world journo played all through it first...the controls were designed for 360...has sony not always been the orignal GTA platform, then xbox and computer getting the games after?
back OT: i like the HUD...but i wanna see the weapon icons and stuff too!
Not all the play. Some journo's played it on a PS3.
Ps. I bet it had something to do with Micro$oft's 50 mil.
Comment by DuffMan posted on 05th Apr 2008:
And I bet it's because the 360 version is more complete...
Comment by Asthenia posted on 05th Apr 2008:
You're right, "a week behind" makes that kind of difference.
Now I'm sure.
Comment by Ulster_Niko posted on 05th Apr 2008:
Now I'm sure.
Ah, I see. I thought the PS3 version hadn't been glimpsed by mankind yet. I suppose Rockstar want to have journos playing the version that shows the game off most, at the moment.
Comment by Asthenia posted on 05th Apr 2008:
Now I'm sure.
Ah, I see. I thought the PS3 version hadn't been glimpsed by mankind yet. I suppose Rockstar want to have journos playing the version that shows the game off most, at the moment.
You say it right.
Comment by The_Technician posted on 05th Apr 2008:
well $50 mil for a weeks more progress...microsoft is bitchez
anyway they'll be equal when it comes out so i don't care
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Comment by Rayniac posted on 31st Mar 2008:
Wow, the man just got his own pedestrian in the game... I still love this approach of having unique pedestrians in the world that you could or could not encounter. And that it doesn't even matter, they just put it in for us to have fun with!
Anyway, I'm glad the wanted stars and weapons are not part of the constant Hud anymore. Makes more sense to bring em up when needed only.
And the map looks decent, clean and clear...