My friend just picked up the game for ps3. I should go check it out.

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Originally posted by L.E.N. My friend just picked up the game for ps3. I should go check it out.

The ps triple is superior.

I want to have this game's babies.

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Snagged the last 360 copy Target had. muy bueno

so can anyone be bothered giving me a quick update on whats so much better than the previous titles?

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Online is a fucking blast. Just roaming around in free mode spurs on new games between buddies. We played chicken with the crotch rockets. Then we played tokyo extreme racer on the freeway where we would race head to head to see who could stay ahead for a longer time.

On problem I can already for see being posted on the forums is the difficulty to control vehicles. It feels like there just isn't enough friction between the tires and the road to where you can't take very quick, or even quickly at all. It feels too floaty.

There are just a lot of moments where everyone will be playing and something really funny happen. We were playing a cops and crooks game, while my team were the crooks. Unfortunately for the other team, they only had two men to our six. So I started to run on this freeway and it was uncompleted so I feel off the edge and plummeted to my death. My team, my ENTIRE team followed me and nobody bothered to pay attention as to how I died. So we lemminged that round.

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Originally posted by shapes I got it last night at 12:07am. Waited in line since 7pm. I had higher expectations, but it's still a great game. I haven't been doing many missions though, I'm still on the control missions.

You waited for 5 fucking hours just to get a game?!

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN so can anyone be bothered giving me a quick update on whats so much better than the previous titles?

Graphics, story, voice acting, the level of detail in the city itself, new combat mechanics (for both guns and melee - the new melee combat is really nice) . . . just to name a few.

In reality it isn't about how much is added, but how clear it is that R* really tried to refocus the game into something every organized crime movie has ever tried to be, in interactive form. Until now I'd say that the level of detail and production values of GTA kept it from really being reasonable to compare the GTA games to classic mob epics in film.

With GTA4 that distinction seems to be gone.

I guess the best analogy I can make for you is to liken it to Bioshock - which didn't have revolutionary or innovative gameplay, but managed to bring the details together so well that it put the game into a league of its own.

GTA4 is the first in the series that I think has reached that level of immersion.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN so can anyone be bothered giving me a quick update on whats so much better than the previous titles?

It's not. It's San Andreas with better graphics and a few new features, just like San Andreas was Vice City with better graphics and a few new features. Shit controls, shit story, shit missions, shit side quests. Who in the fuck is going to roam around a lifeless, fake looking city to collect 100 CD's or whatever it was. BEST SIDE QUEST EVERRR.

And I doubt the graphics/engine in 4 have improved enough to make you WANT to explore the city. Here's what it would need to make me want to take advantage of the 'sandboxness' (the games only true advantage over a standard action game). I'd need the ability to enter any building at any time. I'd need to be able to pick up anything and break anything. No NPC would repeat the same phrase twice. Oh yeah you can blow anything up and kill anyone. That's great...for about five minutes. So as a sandbox game it fails. All that's left is the linear and boring storyline.

Even if the storyline was good, I don't buy games for the storyline. Seriously. I buy games for the gameplay. How fun it is to PLAY. I don't want to play a movie...what the fuck...I WATCH movies. Have you ever heard of a game called Indigo Prophecy? What a fun game. Just like playing a movie. You even get to walk through doors and choose what to say to people after you pick the exact order in which to get dressed, shower, shave and so on. It's a blast. GTA should be more like that. Less shooting, more asking some mobster about a drug deal by pushing the up arrow.

And the controls just annoy me. No matter what people say, the controls in 3rd person action games just fucking suck. Tomb Raider controls suck. GTA controls suck. Silent Hill controls suck. Metal Gear Solid's controls suck. The shit's just awkward for some reason. How are you supposed to aim?

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Originally posted by ToxicGreenWaste It's not. It's San Andreas with better graphics and a few new features, just like San Andreas was Vice City with better graphics and a few new features. Shit controls, shit story, shit missions, shit side quests. Who in the fuck is going to roam around a lifeless, fake looking city to collect 100 CD's or whatever it was. BEST SIDE QUEST EVERRR. And I doubt the graphics/engine in 4 have improved enough to make you WANT to explore the city. Here's what it would need to make me want to take advantage of the 'sandboxness' (the games only true advantage over a standard action game). I'd need the ability to enter any building at any time. I'd need to be able to pick up anything and break anything. No NPC would repeat the same phrase twice. Oh yeah you can blow anything up and kill anyone. That's great...for about five minutes. So as a sandbox game it fails. All that's left is the linear and boring storyline. Even if the storyline was good, I don't buy games for the storyline. Seriously. I buy games for the gameplay. How fun it is to PLAY. I don't want to play a movie...what the fuck...I WATCH movies. Have you ever heard of a game called Indigo Prophecy? What a fun game. Just like playing a movie. You even get to walk through doors and choose what to say to people after you pick the exact order in which to get dressed, shower, shave and so on. It's a blast. GTA should be more like that. Less shooting, more asking some mobster about a drug deal by pushing the up arrow. And the controls just annoy me. No matter what people say, the controls in 3rd person action games just fucking suck. Tomb Raider controls suck. GTA controls suck. Silent Hill controls suck. Metal Gear Solid's controls suck. The shit's just awkward for some reason. How are you supposed to aim?

It couldn't be more clear that you haven't even seen the game, much less played it.

Nice try though, Radagast.

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awesome game overall, only thing i dont like is how long it can take to drive from mission to mission. i like the GPS feature though and it's a decent soundtrack for the longer drives

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Originally posted by medinaM5 awesome game overall, only thing i dont like is how long it can take to drive from mission to mission. i like the GPS feature though and it's a decent soundtrack for the longer drives

Any time I don't want to make a long drive I usually just take a cab - it's instant and doesn't cost much.

GPS is epic win though, really a great feature.

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