Just in time for Halloween, it would appear that a viral outbreak is invading Grand Theft Auto IV and turning players into zombies. Earlier today we spoke about some curious shenanigans over at the Rockstar Social Club Web site, in which an image of a quarantine sign was discovered. We now know what the sign's "contagious disease" refers to, as the living dead have been discovered in Liberty City.
There is a virus sweeping through Grand Theft Auto IV turning many
unsuspecting players into Zombies. If you've seen the special
Zombie-with-yellow-briefs player skin running around during Grand Theft Auto IV multiplayer, then you may already know that the virus can be contracted in any and all multiplayer modes and is spread when an unsuspecting player kills someone who has the infection (BE ADVISED: The infected DON'T necessarily have to be wearing the Zombie skin, some show NO SYMPTOMS!). The signes of infection are:
- Access to the zombie skin
- having the Achievement "Let Sleeping Rockstars Lie".
With the all-new Viral Infection feature at the Rockstar Social Club,
members can now see whether they are currently infected, the number of total global infections and the number of infectinos in the last 24
hours. Digging deeper, Social Club members can also browse a color-coded world map tracking the spread of the infection worldwide, including breakdown for all 50 US States.
That's actually quite awesome, and just a little bit exciting. Is a zombie outbreak enough to coax you back to Liberty City? I must say it's tempting, although the zombies won't have much luck -- it's not like there are too many brains to be found over Xbox Live.
Hit the jump for more ...
!!!!!!!!!!!!NEW VIRAL INFECTION!!!!!!!!!!!!
Attention Citizens,
There is a virus sweeping through Grand Theft Auto IV turning many
unsuspecting players into Zombies. If you've seen the special
Zombie-with-yellow-briefs player skin running around during Grand Theft
Auto IV multiplayer, then you may already know that the virus can be
contracted in any and all multiplayer modes and is spread when an
unsuspecting player kills someone who has the infection (BE ADVISED: The
infected DON'T necessarily have to be wearing the Zombie skin, some show
NO SYMPTOMS!). The signes of infection are:
- Access to the zombie skin
- having the Achievement "Let Sleeping Rockstars Lie".
With the all-new Viral Infection feature at the Rockstar Social Club,
members can now see whether they are currently infected, the number of
total global infections and the number of infectinos in the last 24
hours. Digging deeper, Social Club members can also browse a color-coded
world map tracking the spread of the infection worldwide, including
breakdown for all 50 US States.
Registered members of the Social Club with a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV
linked to their account can click here to check it out.
<http://www.rockstargames.com/socialclub>
The rest of you: register here now.
www.rockstargames.com/socialclub
<http://www.rockstargames.com/socialclub>
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6:12 PM on 10.23.2008
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It's a neat little Halloween event thing, but that's all it is really.
LAME.
make my dreams a reality rockstar.
No sale. I'm too busy with Fable 2 and Dead Space.
This obviously isn't the DLC, this stuff is already in game. They are just updated Rockstar Social to reflect it. Although maybe the DLC COULD be zombie related.
At this point, I feel like the DLC can do nothing but dissappoint overall, unless its like an expansion pack size behemoth of content.
but if i get my samurai sword, it'll be all good.
I'd love to have zombies replaced with the civilians in Liberty City.
Also, who still plays GTA online?
I thought it was going to be a new game mode for Halloween or an event in the city where zombies started roaming around.
L4D ftw!
pretty lame... not changing anything will not get me back into liberty city - ESPECIALLY online
i was hoping it would be the new episodic content - niko wakes up one day to find that liberty city has been overrun by zombies and you have to go around collecting guns, finding survivors, and killing hundreds of thousands of zombies...
Got the skin.
Got called a fag.
Got off.