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March 28th, 2008 @ 09:01
According to this, the American version of GTA IV will allow users to download MP3s from Amazon for use in the game.
Advertised throughout Liberty City, the cheekily-named “ZiT” technology is built into the game’s mobile phone interface system. As players cruise around the world listening to the in-game radio, they can at any point ‘mark’ a song by opening their phone and dialing the number ZIT-555-0100. Gamers will then receive a text message with the song and artist names, and if they’re registered at the forthcoming Rockstar Games Social Club community site, they’ll find an e-mail waiting in their inbox with a direct link to a custom playlist on Amazon.com. All songs tagged “ZiT” will be stored here, available for preview and purchase at Amazon’s going rate of $.89-$.99 per track. Best of all, those MP3s are free of the Digital Rights Management (DRM) limitations imposed on files downloaded through Apple’s iTunes store and thus can be imported into any computer or digital device with no constraints.
We actually do want to play this now. Even though we live in the UK so wouldn’t be able to download anything, and probably wouldn’t even if we could. That’s not the point.
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March 28th, 2008 at 9:16 am
I liked the GTA: Vice City soundtrack more than I liked the game.
March 28th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Hopefully we’ll get something similar-
March 28th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Bit odd they’re not doing this outside America, especially considering Amazon’s such an international thing.
March 28th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Yeah, and as we cover their sales charts week in, week out, they owe us goddammit!
March 28th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Hang on, people are getting uppity because they might be missing out on microtransactions that our US brethren get?
Kudos to Rockstar for implementing this little earner but I’m puzzled as to the ‘missing out’ sentiment expressed. Buy it when it inevitably comes to PC and make your custom soundtrack that way!
March 28th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
and we’ll have custom soundtracks right?
March 28th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
On the 360? Probably.
On the PS3? If Sony doesn’t experience “technical difficulties”, maybe.
And if everything fails, turn off the in-game music and turn on your CD-player.
March 28th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
It’s almost rude to want to use custom soundtracks for GTA when they always put so much effort into the game’s own music.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
The only GTA soundtrack I’ve enjoyed was that of GTA3. Using real songs rather than the parody sound-a-likes was a real step back IMO