"This is the mansion?"

There's always been a hub of some description in GTA games, and from the third trailer it looks like that trend could continue in GTA IV. When Niko steps off the boat in Liberty City he is brought to a run down, decrepit flat by his cousin, which looks like it could serve as your hub at least during the early part of the game. It's no mansion for sure, but as Niko's cousin says, that's the dream. As it is with other GTA games, we'd expect to be able to upgrade your base of operations as you earn more cash and improve your status in the city's seedy underworld. We certainly hope so anyway, since Niko can clearly be seen looking at a crushed cockroach stuck to the bottom of his boot. Nice.