Grand Theft Auto IV: Difference between revisions
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The game is set in 2008, the year the game was released. It is specifically between July and October: | The game is set in 2008, the year the game was released. It is specifically between July and October: | ||
In The Ballad of Gay Tony, whose timeline intersects the original GTA IV frequently, Gay Tony mentions in [[I Luv LC]] that "the banks" had been bailed out which was made official | * In The Ballad of Gay Tony, whose timeline intersects the original GTA IV frequently, Gay Tony mentions in [[I Luv LC]] that "the banks" had been bailed out which was made official on October 3, 2008. | ||
* A Weazel News segment on the radio says that [[Paper Trail]] and [[Entourage]] were about one month apart. | |||
* Another Weazel News radio cast says that a month after the [[Platypus]] captain's body was found, shipmate [[Dave Bosey]] was also found dead - Dave was found around the same time as [[Undress To Kill]]. | |||
* [[Ernesto Lopez]] mentions to [[Luis Lopez]] that his children are in school. | |||
* The entire plot also likely happens in less than three months - a celebrity named [[Cloe Parker]] has a three-month-old child, and in tabloid tradition there would have been extensive coverage of her pregnancy. | |||
* The real-life New York City begins to snow around mid November, and it never snows in the game. | |||
* It's never revealed whether [[John Hunter]] or [[Michael Graves]] was elected governor, which would have occurred in early November. | |||
===Pretense=== | ===Pretense=== | ||