Rockstar just put up the box art for Grand Theft Auto IV on its website, via a trailer showing you how it was made. A little excessive, no? It’s bad enough we’ve got release days and times for trailers, but now the cover art? Come on.

Just get that game out, okay?

Check out the craziness below.

Regardless of how silly this is, you’d be an idiot not to be excited about this game, and a little pissed that you aren’t playing it right now (if we weren’t knee deep in quality games, of course). There still is a lot up in the air about the final feel of the game, but here’s a few of the things we know that show why this could be the "sandbox game" to end all sandbox games-

  • Stealing cars now requires effort. You’ve got to break in and hot-wire those suckers. Unless you’re car jacking, of course. But if any bystanders see you they can call 911.
  • You can hide from the cops by changing vehicles when they’re not looking.
  • The camera uses the classic over-the-shoulder method when you’re firing at people, like Resident Evil and every other third person shooter to come out recently.
  • There’s a Gears of War cover system. Protect that nice suit of yours.
  • Online Multiplayer. Kill trash talking 10 year olds who shouldn’t even be playing the game.
  • The radio. If you’ve played any other game, you’d know that GTA does it the best… and Lazlow’s back!
  • Extra content via Xbox Live.
  • Liberty City. I’m going to love virtually driving around killing people in my city of York, which will have all 4 boroughs that matter (sorry, Staten Island) and some of Joisey.
  • Vehicles react to dips in the road, control much more realistically.

As for now, we’ve still got quite a few months to go for GTA, which currently has a release date of April 30th listen on Amazon (pre-order it through CHUD here). The next doggie treat of a trailer is going to crash Rockstar’s site on December 6th at 3:00pm EST.

Fetch. Good boy.