Grand Theft Auto IV

[SageInfinite]

Re: Let's talk about... Grand Theft Auto 4

At the same time though, if EA makes a good game Im all about it. So its warranted.

Same here, lol. All of EA's games aren't bad. They've made plenty of games I enjoy.

[SPTO]

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Same here, lol. All of EA's games aren't bad. They've made plenty of games I enjoy.

This is true, I liked their FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE James Bond game.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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i could probably write a review right now and factually state how this is the greatest game ever made even though ive yet to play it. id prob get alot of support too. lol

Got my support

[CS10029]

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This is true, I liked their FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE James Bond game.

Freedom Fighters needs to come back. Such a great game.

[SageInfinite]

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Freedom Fighters needs to come back. Such a great game.

Co-Sign!!! Freedom Fighters kicked ***.

[CS10029]

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Co-Sign!!! Freedom Fighters kicked ***.

Still don't understand why they didn't make a sequel.

[CS10029]

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Definately getting this and COD4 for 20 bucks total. For anyone that works anywhere where you sell Microsoft products make sure you use expertzone.microsoft.com

[Kevin26385]

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Play magazine has an article about GTA IV multiplayer and it's shaping up to be incredible. I'll say right now that it specifically describes Free Mode as "the WHOLE of Liberty City is at your mercy. Go anywhere, do anything - like the single player game - but you're playing with your mates. It doesn't get any better than this"

Now the hands on descriptions of 3 of the multiplayer modes:


Gametype: Team Deathmatch
Location: Colony Island
Players: 8 (in two teams)

The game options have been set so that everyone starts with RPGs. This is going to be...explosive.
I spawn in a graveyard and quickly hunt down some armour - might be a good idea. I pick up the armour and... what do we have here? I stumble into an old granny pedestrian - she screams and runs off saying, "I'm gonna get myself a gun!" Too late, grandma, I think, as I unload the RPG at her feet. She flies off high into the air as I get back to thinking about the game. Right next to me is a fire ecape that should give me access to a roof and a vantage point where I can rain down hell onto my opponents.
I quickly run up the steps, reach the roof and look down onto the streets below. Carnage. All I can see is a crisscross of smoke trails from RPG fire. And lots and lots of massive explosions. I take aim and join in the melee.
Eventually someone twigs to my tactics and ends my fun with a rocket to the face. Maybe that's karma for poor old granny. Anyway, I'm back in the game now and on street level trying to take cover from the urban warzone that we've created. Firing blind from behind a car, I take out two but then realise that a car isn't the best place to hide. especially when it has a tank full of petrol. Boom, and so on.
I restart again and decide that I should keep moving to avoid the swarms of incoming ordinance. Seems like everyone else has the same idea and chaos ensues as smoke and explosions make it near impossible to tell friend from foe. I rack up a few more kills and a few more deaths and then the game comes to a close - I don't even recall who won. I'm just kind of relieved that I can blink again...


Gametype: Cops N Crooks
Location: Broker
Players: 8 (in two teams)

As luck would have it, the game randomly selects me as the boss. There's something kind of comforting to know that the guys on your team are there to protect you. But anyway, we head off together to find some wheels and get to the escape point some distance away. This happens to be a speedboat tied up at Broker's docks - just to get to the speedboat and the match will be won.
We're still on foot when we first hear the sound of a police siren wailing some way off in the distance. Actual fear grips me - this isn't any AI-controlled arm of the LCPD; it's the other team... and they're hunting me! With no wheels of any description close by, and the siren getting louder by the second, I make the decision to head up the grassy verge and take cover. Just in time, as my bodyguards open up with their Uzis on the top car. They kill two and we retreat up the verge. Bingo! There's a car park at the top and we finally manage to find some transport. Three of us get in what looks like a family saloon while one guy stays behind to buy us some time. Respect for that.
Now we're tearing through the streets of Liberty City, looking over our shoulders for any sign of flashing lights. In spite of my nervousness, the journey passes without any other incident. Until we get to the escape point. The driver has made a mistake and instead of us taking the road down to the waterfront, we find ourselves halfway across the Broker Bridge, the speedboat some 100 feet below us. And the cops turn up and block the only route to the speedboat, at the end of the bridge! My bodygaurds head for them guns blazing and I only have one option - jump off the bridge and hope the fall doesn't kill me. Luckily I land in the water right next to the boat, jump in and cruise off into the sunset, the sounds of gunfire fading into the distance behind me. Victory!


Gametype: Hangman's NOOSE
Location: Francis International Airport
Players: 4 (on one team)

A short cutscene introduces the mission - mafiya boss Petrovic(he's computer controleed in this game) lands at Francis International Airport on his private jet. Suddenly an army of NOOSE troops turn up in armoured trucks and helicopters and they're here to get Petrovic. The objective is simple: protect Petrovic and get him to a safe point on the map, in this case a baseball field.
Quickly we take cover behind baggage crates and start taking out NOOSE. This is no easy feat as they can do everything that we can do and are just as adept at using GTA IV's cover system as we are. I decide to change my tactics. I quickly make a break through the NOOSE lines, steal an armoured truck and use it to mow them down. This is more like it! More NOOSE show up and I've become something of a bullet magnet, but the armoured vehicle is tough enough that the bullets have litte effect.
Suddenly Petrovic calls for transport and I oblige. I pick him up leaving my team-mates to occupy NOOSE, and start driving towards the safe point, dodging baggage crates, planes, and NOOSE bullets as I try to make my escape. As I race towards my goal a massive jumbo jet tries to take off from the airport, not 20 yards from my truck. Now this is intense.
I reach the end of the airport and spy a fleet of army helicopters. Well, why not, I think. Petrovic follows me as I climb aboard the Black Hawk-like chopper and the rotors spin into life. I want to take off but now I have a dilemma. Not only do I feel bad about leaving my guys behind, it's also a part of the mission objective that you must all make it to the safe point to win. But the longer I remain on the ground, the closer the pursuing NOOSE are getting to me and Petrovi. I decide on a compromise - take off, go back to the fight and pick up my buddies.
The battle is still in full flow and I can see a blaze of gunfire, and piles of dead bodies. And then, as I'm circling the melee below, I see the funniest thing I've ever seen in a videogame. One of our team is tearing round the runway on a baggage trolley, mowing down NOOSE members. Yes! Now, this is what GTA multiplayer should be about!It's too hot to land and so I opt to leave, hoping that my team can make they're own way to the safe point. I head towards the baseball field at maximum speed as NOOSE helicopters pursue me. They're not too wuick and seam to be preoccupied with the battle with my other team members - whether through luck or judgement, it looks like my tactics worked and I make it to the baseball field with no more sightings of NOOSE. Twenty seconds later the rest of the team turns up in helicopters and we've won!

[ChaseB]

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I'm not sure if anyone imports Edge (UK published), but yea I got the new magazine earlier this week and there's a very well done 20-page cover story on the game. I recommend anyone who has an import shop around them to go pay the fee and snag the magazine.

[jmood88]

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I'm not sure if anyone imports Edge (UK published), but yea I got the new magazine earlier this week and there's a very well done 20-page cover story on the game. I recommend anyone who has an import shop around them to go pay the fee and snag the magazine.

Flawless posted the story from Edge.

[ChaseB]

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Flawless posted the story from Edge.

OK good, I'm glad someone did. Nothing to see here then.

PS I forgot Next-Gen is posting the preview in pieces correct? So that's another way to find it. Or did Flawless mention that too?

[bkfount]

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This is true, I liked their FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE James Bond game.

I actually felt that game was **** compared to their original Everything or Nothing Bond game their made. To their credit, Everything or Nothing is the best Bond game ever made in my opinion.

[ChaseB]

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I actually felt that game was **** compared to their original Everything or Nothing Bond game their made. To their credit, Everything or Nothing is the best Bond game ever made in my opinion.

That was the 3rd person one on the PS2 right? Or did more than 1 do 3rd person?

[SageInfinite]

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I actually felt that game was **** compared to their original Everything or Nothing Bond game their made. To their credit, Everything or Nothing is the best Bond game ever made in my opinion.

Gotta go with BK on this 1. Everything Or Nothing was the ****!!!! I still haven't beaten it.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Damn after reading that story describing the multiplayer part of the game...I even more interested in playing the multiplayer instead of the single player mode