Like in the single-player game, you cannot upgrade your speed or driving skills, for instance.

Besides cosmetics, rank will not have any impact on how the character plays. We were told that these selections would be added as players rank up, between 0 and 10, which can be increased by picking up money across the game’s various multiplayer modes. Options like gender, face, hair, and clothing are all available at the outset with limited selections. Before starting our gameplay session, we were given the option to modify our avatar’s appearance. It does, however, offer a small level of character customization. To start, as much as you’d like it to be, GTA IV’s multiplayer is not a full-fledged, persistent massively multiplayer online experience. Check after the jump for the first information on and screens of GTA IV’s multiplayer, including detailed information on “Team Deathmatch,” “GTA Race,” “Cops N’ Crooks,” and the cooperative scenario, “Hangman’s NOOSE.”

Rockstar isn’t ready to reveal all of the mutiplayer modes, but they did give us a chance to go hands-on with four of the 15-plus that will ship with the game, which hits shelves on April 29. Accessible any time, players can create, join, or search for multiplayer games by pulling out the single-player central character Niko Bellic’s cell phone with the touch of the d-pad.

There are at least 15 of them, actually, and the integration is seamless with the single-player experience in a way that’s not unlike what Criterion Games pulled off with Burnout Paradise. It’s no secret - Grand Theft Auto IV has multiplayer modes.

Gta 4 multiplayers