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Video Games : Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) .
Rating: 
- Really Slow Gameplay!!!
Hi,
i was very excited to try this game out on ps3, but the first thing i noticed while i was playing was the speed of the player and the driving speed...it is really slow compared to all the previous games on ps2 and psp!
This has really upset me as this was what made me love this game as before it was really easy to control but rockstar have even changed the controlles. I am really annoyed about this as i was really looking forward to this game...Unhappy
(Delivery and everything was very good)
Rating:
- GOURANGA!
Endless, endless, endless hours of fun on this game! GTA has come along way since I played it for the first time on PC, GOURANGA! There are a few things that could be improved upon, like being able to import your own music, even though the selection on gta is quite good, I would love to be able to listen to my own music whilst playing. You can't go in to that many buildings which is very taunting, it's like serving plastic chocolate to a chocoholic, so tantalising! There's the game ghost, where you can walk in to walls but it's improved upon. They also left out a lot of gold from San Andreas which does suck, but hey ho. I would recommend getting cheats for the game to enable you more freedom to roam the map.
Rating: - even better than I anticipated
I think this game was probably the most highly anticipated games of all time. The buzz prior to release was unavoidable. From kids on the street to office workers. Everyone was really buzzing about this game.
GTAIV is awesome, there is no denying that but I was somewhat surprised that deep down inside, I still regard San Andreas my personal favourite of all the GTA's. Maybe it was because I was a little younger and little more innocent. Maybe it is because I am now spoilt for choice when it comes to videogames. Whatever it may be, GTAIV is a technical marvel and superior to any game in this genre. There aren't that many anyway but the bench mark set by Rockstar is unbelievably high/
Some of the improvement's within the game are such things like your character can now smash windows on cars when stealing them, which makes the scenario more realistic. You now have a mobile phone which I think is a brilliant feature; you receive and can make calls to in-game characters anytime you wish. You can go on the GTA internet as such, with many parody websites that are often hilarious. You can use the new cover system which is a very good addition to the combat aspects of the game (which is 3rd person for those who do not know). The physics engine is great and the accidents really reflect this, the motion is very realistic and you often feel Niko Bellic's (the protagonist) pain.
There are lots of different vehicles with which to wreak havoc on the residents of Liberty City including; Fire Engines, A police chopper called The Annihilator which is equipped with machine guns, motorcycles, boats, sports cars and the legendary yellow taxi cabs of which I always wonder, in the world of GTA, you would simply not want to be a cab driver, there's toooooo much competition - simply thousands of cabbies! The taxies are a great way of navigating the large map either instantly or scenically, the choice there is yours, you simple ay a small fee for the use. I often used the taxi when I wanted to get to the other end of the map faster than if I decided to steal a car and drive there normally.
Attention to detail in GTAIV is higher than ever, people in the city have jobs to do (like road workers and street sweepers); it really is like a bustling metropolis. The dialogue is out of this world! For instance, I was taking part in a mission and I failed a fair few times, the mission involved driving somewhere and when one of the characters ran out of different things to say, he just said something like "HEY, DO YOU MIND IF WE JUST LISTEN TO THE RADIO?" I mean, it's no revolution but it just shows you how much attention has been paid to this game rather than looping the same dialogue, they do that, it's brilliant. I think out of all my game time on GTAIV I may have heard the same phrase 4 or 5 times which means that you hardly even notice!
The missions are in abundance and are really enjoyable; they are certainly not as repetitive as the missions in some of the previous titles.
The online mode is really good fun too, there's 15 different modes (Team Deathmatch, Cops & Crooks and Team Car Jack City to name a few) and you have up to 16 player in these (I think it's less in certain modes like maybe 12). With the online mode you have plenty to keep you busy.
All in all this game is as near to perfect as it can be. There are a few things that could have been retained from earlier games but in all honesty, I love the direction Rockstar took with GTAIV.
Rockstar - I salute you!
Rating: - GTA 4. Overhyped?
First of all let me say that i dont believe that this is the best game ever. For me its not even the best game in the series. That title still belongs to Vice City for me. This is an awesome game though. The gameplay is as expected from Rockstar by now, absolutely amazing and addictive.
Having just bought a High Def TV i have started to replay some of my games that were starting to pick up dust. GTA was one of the first i picked up. Second time around the game is still as good as ever. The graphics on 50 inches of HD are breathtaking. Being chased across the Algonquin bridge at night in the pouring rain is truly something you have to see to believe.
The storyline is another high point for the game. Engrossing stuff from start till almost the finish. Ill get to that later. One of the best aspects for the game for me was the rare moments in the story when you get a crucial choice to make which depending on your decision does have either good or bad consequences. These flashpoints probably dont even happen 10 times but when they do it is almost always a massive decision which does add to the experience of you being in control of your own story.
Now to my only gripe about the game. As much as the story was great, it felt to me near the end that it could have finished 4 or 5 hours earlier. It started to feel like i was forcing myself to play it just to finish the story off. Rockstar should maybe start looking to go for Quality and not Quantity. Metal Gear Solid 4 is the perfect example of a game which took me only 20 hours to complete compared to GTAs 45 hours. Yet MGS4 remains the greatest game that i have played on any console because of the sheer Quality of the game and the story.
And if your like me and are a fan of Heat, the Bank Heist mission is the greatest single mission i have played in any game.
This is one of the best games you will play on PS3. Especially for this price.
Rating:
- Expected More
Wasn't as good as i expected, but overall decent gameplay, good A.I. and challenging missions
- Really Slow Gameplay!!!Hi,
i was very excited to try this game out on ps3, but the first thing i noticed while i was playing was the speed of the player and the driving speed...it is really slow compared to all the previous games on ps2 and psp!
This has really upset me as this was what made me love this game as before it was really easy to control but rockstar have even changed the controlles. I am really annoyed about this as i was really looking forward to this game...Unhappy
(Delivery and everything was very good)
Rating:
- GOURANGA!Endless, endless, endless hours of fun on this game! GTA has come along way since I played it for the first time on PC, GOURANGA! There are a few things that could be improved upon, like being able to import your own music, even though the selection on gta is quite good, I would love to be able to listen to my own music whilst playing. You can't go in to that many buildings which is very taunting, it's like serving plastic chocolate to a chocoholic, so tantalising! There's the game ghost, where you can walk in to walls but it's improved upon. They also left out a lot of gold from San Andreas which does suck, but hey ho. I would recommend getting cheats for the game to enable you more freedom to roam the map.
Rating:
- even better than I anticipatedI think this game was probably the most highly anticipated games of all time. The buzz prior to release was unavoidable. From kids on the street to office workers. Everyone was really buzzing about this game.
GTAIV is awesome, there is no denying that but I was somewhat surprised that deep down inside, I still regard San Andreas my personal favourite of all the GTA's. Maybe it was because I was a little younger and little more innocent. Maybe it is because I am now spoilt for choice when it comes to videogames. Whatever it may be, GTAIV is a technical marvel and superior to any game in this genre. There aren't that many anyway but the bench mark set by Rockstar is unbelievably high/
Some of the improvement's within the game are such things like your character can now smash windows on cars when stealing them, which makes the scenario more realistic. You now have a mobile phone which I think is a brilliant feature; you receive and can make calls to in-game characters anytime you wish. You can go on the GTA internet as such, with many parody websites that are often hilarious. You can use the new cover system which is a very good addition to the combat aspects of the game (which is 3rd person for those who do not know). The physics engine is great and the accidents really reflect this, the motion is very realistic and you often feel Niko Bellic's (the protagonist) pain.
There are lots of different vehicles with which to wreak havoc on the residents of Liberty City including; Fire Engines, A police chopper called The Annihilator which is equipped with machine guns, motorcycles, boats, sports cars and the legendary yellow taxi cabs of which I always wonder, in the world of GTA, you would simply not want to be a cab driver, there's toooooo much competition - simply thousands of cabbies! The taxies are a great way of navigating the large map either instantly or scenically, the choice there is yours, you simple ay a small fee for the use. I often used the taxi when I wanted to get to the other end of the map faster than if I decided to steal a car and drive there normally.
Attention to detail in GTAIV is higher than ever, people in the city have jobs to do (like road workers and street sweepers); it really is like a bustling metropolis. The dialogue is out of this world! For instance, I was taking part in a mission and I failed a fair few times, the mission involved driving somewhere and when one of the characters ran out of different things to say, he just said something like "HEY, DO YOU MIND IF WE JUST LISTEN TO THE RADIO?" I mean, it's no revolution but it just shows you how much attention has been paid to this game rather than looping the same dialogue, they do that, it's brilliant. I think out of all my game time on GTAIV I may have heard the same phrase 4 or 5 times which means that you hardly even notice!
The missions are in abundance and are really enjoyable; they are certainly not as repetitive as the missions in some of the previous titles.
The online mode is really good fun too, there's 15 different modes (Team Deathmatch, Cops & Crooks and Team Car Jack City to name a few) and you have up to 16 player in these (I think it's less in certain modes like maybe 12). With the online mode you have plenty to keep you busy.
All in all this game is as near to perfect as it can be. There are a few things that could have been retained from earlier games but in all honesty, I love the direction Rockstar took with GTAIV.
Rockstar - I salute you!
Rating:
- GTA 4. Overhyped?First of all let me say that i dont believe that this is the best game ever. For me its not even the best game in the series. That title still belongs to Vice City for me. This is an awesome game though. The gameplay is as expected from Rockstar by now, absolutely amazing and addictive.
Having just bought a High Def TV i have started to replay some of my games that were starting to pick up dust. GTA was one of the first i picked up. Second time around the game is still as good as ever. The graphics on 50 inches of HD are breathtaking. Being chased across the Algonquin bridge at night in the pouring rain is truly something you have to see to believe.
The storyline is another high point for the game. Engrossing stuff from start till almost the finish. Ill get to that later. One of the best aspects for the game for me was the rare moments in the story when you get a crucial choice to make which depending on your decision does have either good or bad consequences. These flashpoints probably dont even happen 10 times but when they do it is almost always a massive decision which does add to the experience of you being in control of your own story.
Now to my only gripe about the game. As much as the story was great, it felt to me near the end that it could have finished 4 or 5 hours earlier. It started to feel like i was forcing myself to play it just to finish the story off. Rockstar should maybe start looking to go for Quality and not Quantity. Metal Gear Solid 4 is the perfect example of a game which took me only 20 hours to complete compared to GTAs 45 hours. Yet MGS4 remains the greatest game that i have played on any console because of the sheer Quality of the game and the story.
And if your like me and are a fan of Heat, the Bank Heist mission is the greatest single mission i have played in any game.
This is one of the best games you will play on PS3. Especially for this price.
Rating:
- Expected MoreWasn't as good as i expected, but overall decent gameplay, good A.I. and challenging missions
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