Grand Theft Auto IV

[Bahnzo]

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Ok, I picked up my copy (360) this morning and played for about an hour or so. Some quick impressions from someone who's not a HUGE GTA fan.....

I'm not amazed by the graphics...it looks good, but my jaw didn't drop. There's nothing really revolutionary as far as I can tell. I'm sure others with a more discerning eye will say different.

Cars are hard to drive! I've only driven the car you start out with and a few I've stolen, but they definitely have some "weight" to them. One annoying thing is it's hard to see around corners when driving. When taking a turn you are basically blind to traffic. You can move the camera of course with the right stick, but it would've been nice if there was some sort of "head turn" movement from the camera.

Voice acting is really good, that was something that stuck out right from the start.

Load times didn't seem like an issue. The game loads when starting a new mission/story (like 45-60 secs), but there's no loading when driving around or entering buildings, etc. When you first pop the game in tho it does load for what seemed 3 mins or so.

While I didn't notice any issues with the scenery popping up when driving around, I did notice that there seems to be "pockets" of activity. There'll be lots of cars and pedestrians and then for a few blocks it seems empty. This might be just because I was driving really fast from one point to another and the game wasn't keeping up.

Not much else. I played for a bit and figured I'd post something quick. It feels like GTA tho, there's no doubt about that. I'm sure that anyone who can't wait for this game will not be disappointed at all. Is it a 10/10, dunno...haven't gotten into it yet, but as someone's who isn't a huge fan of the genre, I'd have to say it's pretty close.

[CaptainZombie]

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Saying it is pointless is a little too much. Whatever you look at it DVD9 is last gen. Several Xbox games have already come out on more than one DVD disc. Rockstar was also one of many developers to complain about the size of DVD9. Sure they did it, but as they said things will become more complicated here on out. You can only compress so much.

That 360 GPU is some amazing hardware, problem is textures take a lot of disc space. If you can't store the better graphics on the disc, what good does the GPU do?

We'll see though, another problem is selling a console without a HDD which is odd because all last gen Xboxs had one. So if you think about it you can see the heat where Xbox might want to bring a new console to the market.

Either way though its good that the differences between the PS3 and 360 version are minimal. But as I mentioned, Rockstar has mentioned the problems with DVD9 and the HDDless drives out there. Fortunately for us, the programmers at Rockstar are very skilled.

[Blzer]

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Thanks for the impressions, man. I sure hope this game doesn't flop or anything, that everyone (including the reviewers) aren't just praising the game for the greatness on Rockstar's efforts and make sure that they're actually playing the game and loving it by having fun with it.

[warnerwlf98]

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

Ok, I picked up my copy (360) this morning and played for about an hour or so. Some quick impressions from someone who's not a HUGE GTA fan.....

I'm not amazed by the graphics...it looks good, but my jaw didn't drop. There's nothing really revolutionary as far as I can tell. I'm sure others with a more discerning eye will say different.

Cars are hard to drive! I've only driven the car you start out with and a few I've stolen, but they definitely have some "weight" to them. One annoying thing is it's hard to see around corners when driving. When taking a turn you are basically blind to traffic. You can move the camera of course with the right stick, but it would've been nice if there was some sort of "head turn" movement from the camera.

Voice acting is really good, that was something that stuck out right from the start.

Load times didn't seem like an issue. The game loads when starting a new mission/story (like 45-60 secs), but there's no loading when driving around or entering buildings, etc. When you first pop the game in tho it does load for what seemed 3 mins or so.

While I didn't notice any issues with the scenery popping up when driving around, I did notice that there seems to be "pockets" of activity. There'll be lots of cars and pedestrians and then for a few blocks it seems empty. This might be just because I was driving really fast from one point to another and the game wasn't keeping up.

Not much else. I played for a bit and figured I'd post something quick. It feels like GTA tho, there's no doubt about that. I'm sure that anyone who can't wait for this game will not be disappointed at all. Is it a 10/10, dunno...haven't gotten into it yet, but as someone's who isn't a huge fan of the genre, I'd have to say it's pretty close.

Post a pic of the back of the 360 box. Does it support system link? Thanks.

[Bahnzo]

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Thanks for the impressions, man. I sure hope this game doesn't flop or anything, that everyone (including the reviewers) aren't just praising the game for the greatness on Rockstar's efforts and make sure that they're actually playing the game and loving it by having fun with it.

Oh it's not going to flop, I've only read the IGN review, and it seems pretty spot on for the small bit I've played. There's a reason Take Two resisted EA's takeover, this games gonna break all sales records I'm sure.

[Bahnzo]

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Post a pic of the back of the 360 box. Does it support system link? Thanks.

I don't own a camera so no pics. Box says "System Link 2" so I'm guessing it does.

[warnerwlf98]

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I don't own a camera so no pics. Box says "System Link 2" so I'm guessing it does.

Thanks. I really appreciate your taking the time to look.

[TIm]

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I have high hopes for this game. My far out prediction is this time around Rockstar is going to make a decent story, give a good boost in the graphics department, and add a few minor things here and there. But the major thing will be online. And I'm thinking the online will be amazing.


What do you expect from this game? Will it use these next-gen consoles to their fullest? Do you think we'll be able to go online? You can elaborate on your ideas if you choose. There's no concrete information on this game so it won't hurt to get creative

With all that we have learned. I thought this would be fun. This is the very first post and this thread. Kinda ironic, What ice cream truck said in the first post, It seems like this is everything R* has done. He said his major hope will be online. Well Online will be freaking awesome....Way to lead the way Ice Cream TRUCK!!!! LOL

[Tomba]

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with all this "console" talk. i have to say that games are better developed when there's only ONE console involved. the fact that GTA4 is almost across the board identical and STILL mages to WOW a critic these days is saying something about "THE development team involved. granted R$ (and i say that in ALL due respect)has A LOT of resources it's just amazing that they can pull off a game like this on two systems that for better or worse ARE different from each other.

Now i can go into saying what if GTA 4 was done only on 360 then what if it was only done on ps3? I mean how many of us would think that the 360 or ps3 version of the game would have been?

to my knowledge the limitation in space alone makes the ps3 the platform which could have made GTA4 maybe a bit more i don't know "better' But after seeing how highly rated a joint effort was recieved by critics so far it almost doesn't matter. howver and this feeds into the fanboy or console war stuff what system would have made it better. IF in fact the ps3 version was going sloppy at first and the 360 version was striding along handling everything imagine the possiblity of R$ only developing for 360? maybe we would have seen even greater graphical things who knows.

in the end it doesn't matter because R$ made it so that it didn't matter and as gamers we have R$ to thank and come this Tuesday
we show them just how much by putting down our money for it.

[Splitter77]

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can you enter most of the buildings, and is it a living envoirnment when you get inside the buildings- ala the Hitman series??

[CS10029]

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can you enter most of the buildings, and is it a living envoirnment when you get inside the buildings- ala the Hitman series??

I saw in a live video the guy walked into a hospital and it was alive. People sitting in the waiting room and doctors.

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I saw in a live video the guy walked into a hospital and it was alive. People sitting in the waiting room and doctors.

Its things like that, that amazes me at the thought and creativity put into this game.

[CaptainZombie]

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I saw in a live video the guy walked into a hospital and it was alive. People sitting in the waiting room and doctors.

To me that is what is amazing about this game. I wonder whatever happened to the Getaway game that Sony was working on for the PS3. That was supposed to have insane real world details on the streets and buildings.

A few more days to go and I think I could be going with the PS3 version.

[Altimus]

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To me that is what is amazing about this game. I wonder whatever happened to the Getaway game that Sony was working on for the PS3. That was supposed to have insane real world details on the streets and buildings.

A few more days to go and I think I could be going with the PS3 version.

Gataway is still coming out, just not many details about it.

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got a link to that