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Only way you can get a copy in town is if you get it bundled with a PS3.
Damn still a while to go before i can play - I am looking forward to going into a bar just to order a bottle of Pißwasser Pils, and tearing round the town listening to Iggy Pop DJing
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Just taking a quick break. The opening cut scene of the game is fantastic - it's funny and smart and appropriately enough the first word's are "Oh YES! Daddy's back!" A few people seem to complain about the driving - I found it pretty easy to get to grips with. Hand-to-hand combat is more of a problem as it relies on skill and timing rather than the mongoloid button mashing I was attempting. The city is a marvel - it's absolutely as much of a character as the devs claimed, and I've already laughed out loud at a couple of the radio ads. The characters are really expressive and emotive, which ads loads to the experience - it's a really clever storytelling device, the next step up from the emotional response the HL2 characters generate.
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Aww man as much as I was hoping for news of what it was like, now I have read how good it is, I am in torment waiting until I can go home and play it
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Poor pink got his first thing this morning, then found out he needs to stay up in high wycombe til friday instead of wednesday as originally thought, so he has to wait a whole 4 days to play it, while staring whilstfully at the box. I've already been told he's not going anywhere all bank hol weekend and may join me for meals if I'm lucky, which is fair enough really.
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*Man stabbed queueing for midnight launch of ultra-violent video game Grand Theft Auto IV
quote: Malcolm Critchell, queueing with his nephew Jordan, said: "The victim was covered from shoulder to belly in blood. Everyone thought it was a show to promote the game."
Despite his wounds, the 23-year-old victim is believed to have gone home to arm himself with a kitchen knife to seek revenge, but police intercepted him.
Busted!
quote: It was only a matter of time before the 'latest version' of this so called 'game' prompted yet another senseless attack. 'How long' must we be forced to put up with this 'filth' before the government finally 'see the light' and 'ban' these things?
- Anne, London
Oh come 'on', he hadn't even 'played' the fucking 'game' yet. How can you possibly 'blame' it for the 'stabbing'?
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I did get in the end, as I'm sure keen watchers of xbox live are aware. Put in a solid 10 hours, 25% of the way through. It's good. Everything said about it so far is true. But It's also very GTA. The stoyyline gameplay is still drive from A to B, have a shoot out, drive back. Cut scene. I guess that's what fans want, and it's not that it isn't enjoyable, it's just very familiar. Before I finished I was doing the old "follow from a safe distance" mission and I did start to feel a bit fatigued. But that was probably becuase I'd been on it for ten hours.
Got used to the driving now though. The main thing about the game I like is that rather than constantly tempting you with your potential to cause carnage and chaos, I find great pleasure in actually being a good citizen. Not crashing all the time. Paying my toll on bridges. Behaving like a normal person, apart from when I'm called to kill people. But I can't say much that hasn't already been said.
It's probably the first time in a GTA game that's also pleasurable just to pull up in your car and watch the world around you. Or take a stroll.
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It's kinda nice to drive fast but in a measured, non-carnage-causing fashion.
But it's the little touches that really bring the game to life. The first time I managed to drag a person down the street after jacking their car I was like "heh, that's excellent" but then I realised that if you timed the steering just right, you could swing the hapless victim right into the path of oncoming traffic where they'll be torn from the car with a sickening crunch.
I could actually sit here for hours listing all the little incidental details that have amused me or brought the game to life, but instead I'm just going to get back to playing it.
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y'know 25% in 10 hours is fairly impressive. I've just got to 25% and that's with like 18 hours of play. Though I've been exploring for ages today so very little real progress. Maybe this evening I'll try to work some more through the story.
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quote: It was only a matter of time before the 'latest version' of this so called 'game' prompted yet another senseless attack. 'How long' must we be forced to put up with this 'filth' before the government finally 'see the light' and 'ban' these things?
- Anne, London
Oh come 'on', he hadn't even 'played' the fucking 'game' yet. How can you possibly 'blame' it for the 'stabbing'?
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I looked for this on the way home yesterday but the only places that had it in stock had it for £44.99 which I refuse to pay.
I've just reserved it for collection from Argos on the way home for £39.99 which I'm more happy with.
I'm not sure why a fiver makes such a difference in my mind but I definitely wasn't prepared to pay what was very close to £50 whereas I'm Ok paying £40. Odd.
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I'm not playing this constantly, not that I am getting in any way bored or frustrated with it but I just want to enjoy it as much for a long time, so I am only about 10% of the way through - I'm also spending time not going through all the missions straight off - been messing around with various things - I even watched TV on it for about an hour yesterday which was most entertaining.
This game is much darker than previous ones, and certainly more violent, but it is phenomenal. There are wonderful little touches like Ringo said, and I will not spoil them here, but where as I do stop to do other things I get drawn back to it very easily. It is by far worth the wait, and I am thinking probably the greatest game of modern times. Completely enthralling and without doubt, the greatest game I have played in a very long time.
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The Liberty City version of Time Square is absolutely breathtaking, especially at night. The only slight disappointment is that this beautifully rendered, mind bogglingly intricate rendering of a thriving city isn't slightly more interractive. The rows of locked doors and 2d images of shop interiors do detract slightly from the immersive experience.
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But you're still sitting in front of a TV in a dark room pressing little buttons on a little thingie in your hand, as life passes you by, right?
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quote:Originally posted by mart: But you're still sitting in front of a TV in a dark room pressing little buttons on a little thingie in your hand, as life passes you by, right?
Beats sitting in front of a TV in a dark room not pressing little buttons on a little thingie in your hand, as life passes you by, right?
quote:Originally posted by mart: But you're still sitting in front of a TV in a dark room pressing little buttons on a little thingie in your hand, as life passes you by, right?
Yeah, I wonder how long it will be before those poor Austrian kids from the cellar start asking what's the really coolest possible thing that above-ground, free children love to do these days.
I wouldn't want to be the person that has to break that to them.
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quote:Originally posted by mart: But you're still sitting in front of a TV in a dark room pressing little buttons on a little thingie in your hand, as life passes you by, right?
much like when reading a book, you're actually sitting there staring at a block of wood, as life passes you by.
quote:Originally posted by mart: But you're still sitting in front of a TV in a dark room pressing little buttons on a little thingie in your hand, as life passes you by, right?
Yeah, I wonder how long it will be before those poor Austrian kids from the cellar start asking what's the really coolest possible thing that above-ground, free children love to do these days.
I wouldn't want to be the person that has to break that to them.
LOL, but anything's better than being locked in a cellar whilst getting bumfucked by your grandfather who is alo your dad while your mum who is also your sister cries in the other room..
That is until GTA5 comes out.
-------------------- my own brother a god dam shit sucking vampire!!! you wait till mum finds out buddy!
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Was convinced was going to despise game. Thought hypermasculinity. Thought tedious violence. Thought infantile humour. Then played game. Was right. Dead prostitutes. Exploding helicopers. Straight strip clubs. Totalled cars. Fag jokes. And yet. And yet. So much more to game. Game beautiful. Game huuuuuge. Game thrilling. Game unparalleled. Rendered speechless by game. Overwhelmed by game. Game forgiven. Game adored.
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Unsurprisingly, Gamespot have given GTA4 a 10.0
One little quirk of the game though which I’ve found particularly annoying, and I don’t know if this is the case for the x360 version as well, is that the ‘sprint’ button and the ‘answer your phone’ button are the same. So if you’re tap tap tapping your way along the path, perhaps while trying to escape from police or a would-be assailant, and your phone starts to ring, unless you’re quick you’ll pretty much automatically answer the phone. Which means you can’t sprint for some reason and your ability to do some things is limited. It has cost me my life several times and is kind of frustrating.
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The answer phone button is the same as the run button on the xbox. Fortunately I've not had any problems with that yet as much like in real life no fucker ever bothers to ring me.
Well, that's not entirely true, but I haven't been rung while running from the police yet.
I'm enjoying it a lot. Little Jacob (is that is name) I find irritating as I literally can't understand what he's saying. My TV seems to have issues with this game in that even on max brightness it's still a bit dark and I have to turn the volume up to almost full to actually hear conversations.
I've been spending most of my time recently just pissing around the city trying to get Gamer Points as at the moment I'm beating Benway and I need to try to keep that lead.
Perforiming 10 counters in 4 minutes is proving to be tricky as although it's easy to get 2 counters against one person in about 15 seconds, then having to find 4 other people who are prepared to fight and get through those fights without the cops turning up is proving impossible.
I've also been failing to pull a 500m wheelie on a motorbike. Admittedly I was trying to get this achievement with Ramon on the back of the bike whilst being chased by cops but still I thought that was a good idea. The added weight at the back should make it easier to wheelie. Right? Umm.
The thing that annoys me about this game is that the targetting seems quite poor if you have multiple people close to you. Sometimes I've been in a fight with two people and it either keeps focussing on the one furthest from me or occasionally spinning me around 180 degrees to focus on some guy sitting on a bench or something which doesn't help much.
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