Today Take-Two Interactive Software announced its release date for the latest installment in the Grand Theft Auto series, GTA IV. The day of reckoning will be on April 29, 2008. Pre-order is available on various sites, such as Amazon, EB Games, and Best Buy. New screenshots from previews were also released, quelling arguments that GTA IV would not offer any significantly new features. Screenshots revealed that a significant portion of GTA IV’s game-play would be based around the new feature of “police brutality with a twist.”

Take-Two’s Executive Vice President Gary Dale said in a press release, “We decided to reverse the race roles that were present in San Andreas. GTA IV will feature black police officers harassing and beating the main character, Nikko Bellic, who is a low down pasty-assed foreign honky. In deciding this, we had one person in mind: Rodney King, the father of police brutality. This game gives black people across the nation the opportunity to take the reigns of racial supremacy, instead of having to suffer from demeaning stereotypes that have been present in previous Grand Theft Auto games.”