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GTA4
It's not the 11 star game everyone is saying it is so far, but it's an incredible version of GTA *if you like GTA.* Also, multiplayer is fucking hilarious and has a ton of potential. I was driving around doing free play with a good friend, both of us on a motor scooter, evading the police. Even without direction (there are many mission type modes as well) the multiplayer game is a blast. It's been a long time since I laughed that hard.
The whole game seems a little... slower? Cars are harder to control and your character runs more realistically and slower. It's an adjustment but ultimately it's probably a good thing. It really accentuates the difference between driving a BMW 3 series and a shitty american sedan, which is nice.
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The game appears to be more story driven, though you still have lots of side missions available.
The game is beautiful, you probably wont go wrong with either version (360 or PS3). The 360 version had a free month of XBL Gold, btw.
Online is a riot. I like team deathmatch the best, though familiarity with the map might help in the more objective oriented games.
I bought this on a whim, last GTA i played was 3.
I'm satisifed with my purchase now.
I haven't had any major difficulty with combat, especially since there is a lock on and free aim mode now.
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MADD (Mothers against drunk driving)Just posted this on there site
MADD’s Statement Regarding Grand Theft Auto IV
Each year nearly 13,500 people die in drunk driving crashes and another half a million are injured in alcohol-related traffic crashes. This is why MADD is extremely disappointed by the decision of the manufacturers of the game Grand Theft Auto IV to include a game module where players can drive drunk. Drunk driving is not a game and it is not a joke. Drunk driving is a choice, a violent crime and it is also 100 percent preventable. MADD is calling on the Entertainment Software Ratings Board to reclassify Grand Theft Auto IV as an Adults Only game, a step up from the current rating of Mature and for the manufacturer to consider a stop in distribution – if not out of responsibility to society then out of respect for the millions of victims/survivors of drunk driving.
So shooting ,stabbing and running over people when your not drunk is ok?
Crist it just a fucking game !
Oh and the drunk driving in the game is hard as hell and the game does give you the option of hailing a cab.
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Videogames have always been an all too easy scapegoat.
I'd love to send MADD a letter telling them how driving intoxicated is extremely fun in that game (it's a riot) and how many times i've ran over pedestrians drunk, then crashed my car, and pulled out my gun and went on a murder rampage.
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Also, the TV channels in this game are occasionally hilarious. I was watching "Republican Space Rangers."
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The whole part where GTA is blamed for really psychotic homicidal behavior (screwing and then murdering prostitutes) that is *entirely the players choice* and not encouraged by the game at all, again drunk driving being a great example, is quite annoying. If there's no actual reason to do it and the game doesn't encourage you to do it, doesn't it say a lot more about you that you get your rocks off on murdering prostitutes than it does about the game?
Also, the TV channels in this game are occasionally hilarious. I was watching "Republican Space Rangers."
The TV, the Internet, and all the Talk Radio shows are just completely 100% hilarious.
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I was in a big car chase where I was trying to attack and murder drug dealer. It had been going on for minutes and I was on this guy's tail. Finally he gets on the highway and off the surface streets. We get into a high speed chase, like 100+ MPH and insanely swerving around other cars, I have the sirens blaring on the police car.
Then the car I'm chasing slightly loses control and bangs into the side of a moving style truck like 5-6 car lengths ahead of me. He keeps going, it's just a sideswipe, but what happens next is awesome--the back of the truck is jarred open and like 5-6 barrels that were occupying the truck roll out onto the highway, right in my path. I have to swerve to avoid them but end up plowing at full speed into the median.
It was straight out of a movie. There are a ton of little moments like this that are really the strong point of the game.
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It sort of led to an interesting observation, I think this game is far more of a casual gamer game than anyone would give it credit for. I think it parallels boardgames a bit--to me the Wii is Carcassonne or Lost Cities, the Euro that everyone and their mother agrees is for new players and casual gamers. Some Wii games are good casual games but most of them are crap shovelware that nobody likes--i.e. the sea of crappy Euros.
I think people are really labeling a lot of games like GTA as hardcore games that really aren't hardcore games but go really well with casual gamers. I think you could park a ton of different types of people in front of GTA and it would be interesting and instantly relateable to them. Despite what other people say, the Wii doesn't have this magical monopoly on "fun" games for casual gamers.
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