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   Lock your doors and your kids, for the first solid details about Grand Theft Auto IV have broken loose! After unleashing the first game trailer a couple of weeks ago, the folks from Rockstar sat down with the Game Informer editors and gave them a more in-depth look at GTA IV. And as the May issue of said magazine is now out in the open, so are the facts contained in their 10-page exclusive preview of Rockstar's highly anticipated sequel. Along with some scans, naturally.

   To get this over with faster, you can check out the scans on GTA IV News, although there's not much to get excited about at that quality - the trailer still looks better. And while the same website also offers some brief details about the game, we'll turn our attention over to Planet GTA for the larger scoop.

   Their post may still be updated with further details, so for now we'll just pick the most important points from their summary. Here we go!
- Niko Bellic is the main character.
- Multi-player will be included, but no details yet. It will not be MMO.
- The game has been in development since early 2004.
- Variations in the terrain cause the walking animation to change. The physics have also improved and character movements are more realistic.
- Liberty City is the only location in the game.
- There were no planes in the skies of the demo that the magazine editors saw, and it seems that there will not be airplanes in the game. Other forms of air travel should not be ruled out.
- The MetLife building now bears the name Getalife, the Statue of Liberty is now the Statue of Happiness, and DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) is called BOABO (Beneath the Offramp of the Algonquin Bridge Overpass).
- Within Grand Theft Auto IV, Rockstar North has recreated four of the five boroughs that make up New York City, as well as a section of New Jersey. In the GTA universe, Brooklyn has been transformed to Broker, Manhattan has mutated into Algonquin, Queens is now Dukes, The Bronx is Bohan, and New Jersey has become Alderney.
- It's a smaller geographical mass than San Andreas, but not an inch of this world is wasted or dedicated to vast stretches of country or desert. It's a tightly packed metropolis that captures the eye with its decades of world-class architecture, sun-blocking towers, and extraordinary walks of life.
- Niko Bellic's home is in Eastern Europe, and he likely may never have traveled to Liberty City if it wasn't for his cousin Roman. With life not working out in the homeland, "Bellic turns up in Liberty City because he's been receiving e-mails from his cousin Roman, that read like: 'I live this amazing life, it's the American Dream come true. I have two women. I have four hot tubs. I have fifteen sports cars," Houser elaborates. "And [Bellic] believes it."
- Niko is a "tough character" while Roman is a "friendly buffoon."
- The story unfolds in a number of different ways. R* is giving people more freedom, more choice and more sense of control over their destiny - the structure of the storyline is quite different to previous games.    Additional details reported on GTA IV News are that you will use your cell phone to call contacts; the pedestrians will be a lot more realistic (they can sit down on chairs, smoke, read and more); and most importantly, after the first loading screen, the game will not load again - not even when entering / exiting buildings.

   Well, that about sums it up. Too bad you won't be able to fly planes... in a city full of skyscrapers... minus a couple big ones.