GTA IV Opinions

[Wheelman]

saw somewhere earlier in this topic bout no animals, INCORRECT! instead of having packages or sprays, you kill pigeons!

[Kingjad]

There's a bunch of extra shit I gotta buy now  already ordered an extended cable to play Xbox live, also need a 'plug in and play' thingy for my wireless controller. Then of course there's Xbox live itself to pay for, although I got like first month free or something. Anyways I'm steadily progressing through the game ok, nearly time for one of the best missions in the game so I hear which involves:

Robbing a bank and then going through portions of Liberty City shooting lots of cops, including a subway battle!

Do not forget, when on an in-game computer type 'www.whattheydonotwantyoutoknow.com' and you can find hidden maps which feature things like hidden weapon locations, armour locations etc.

Anyone else found the 'heart of Liberty City' yet? Very cool

[Laketown]

I love going around in the helicopter and bailing, so that you fly into stuff

[jessrocked]

so i guess its up for a new born method or style of stunting

[Madmax]

I bought it

Impressions. Faggio stoppies are not what I want them to be obviously but I haven`t really gotten hold of many faggios and I havent seen any pizzaboys driving around. I am keeping my fingers crossed. I`ve encountered a few PCJ600s which resulted in 360s, backflips and frontflips. They look nice but the feeling is not very rewarding. The bike is hard to control and its almost s if these things were based more on luck than on skill. Then again VC felt the same at first. Again, I have not encountered enough bikes to make a good judgement.

The cars are fun to flip around. Done a few doubleflips with rotations and whatnot and those looked great. I wish there was a button to put on our seatbelts tho. I hate to see my far do a few flips in the air while I am pretending to be superman. It would have been more rewarding had I been in the car while it flipped. I haven`t tried too many car stunts yet but I will be trying packer bumps as they were someone of a thing I loved to do in VC.

As for the game itself. It is orgasmic. I could not believe it when I played. it looks nice but its the gameplay and all the little details that make it what it is. All the little things that happen, the realism. Hitting someone on the sidewalk with a car is rewarding in the sense that you hear the bones crush, the body roll and the person scream in agony. The crashes look much more realistic and the physics of the impacts are just perfect. This may sound very disturbing that someone can like such violence but its so detailed and well made that you enjoy it because its different everytime and it seems to have a particular impact every single time which is surprising everytime and just makes you smile.

The AI is something else. The cops are actually a little challenging in this game. They are harder to get away from and seem to have much better driving tactics. Just look at `the getaway`video and compare it to this. If someone starts hitting me, he gets arrested. The cops actually bring him into their car and drive him off. Its really nice.

Thats all for now i guess, there is so so much more to say but i dono where to really go. I could go forever. Buy it. I will keeps playing and try more stunting. Its too early too tell right now.

[aMpT Mike]

you really gotta use the handbrake to maneuver well on a bike. as for the cops, I find them WAY easier to get away from, you just have to drive away from the little circle and wait 5 seconds.

[Neo Anderson]

3 Leaf Clover..........one of the "P" missions where ya go with some guys to rob a bank. Best damn mission I've done so far. Think I got like 250,000 for completing it. Tons of cops, explosions, killing, it was great.

[Kingjad]

I just failed that damn mission, got out of the subway and up the stairs, bastard cop with shotgun nailed me

[Valikai]

I was kinda disappointed by the police. 6 stars doesn't bring as much heat as previous games, atleast not of what i've seen. No tanks or army trucks anywhere. =\


Also I think the damage on vehicles is more extensive on PS3, I have yet to be able to really dent a roof of a car, though I haven't tried much.

[Wanted]

I love this game, Though the thing that really pisses me off when you do a big jump and it happens to be a unique stunt spot, The camera doesn't follow you and your doing a backflip then suddenly the controls go inverted and then start doing a front flip then it just goes out the window because you don't know which button to press and then it goes totally out of view and you die
Oh, and Kingjad, what console did you end up getting? If you got a 360 whats your gamertag, and Anyone else who has 360 and this game add me too if you haven't already : xCuPPeRx

[Kingjad]

I have 360, not got a gamertag yet, will soon. The damage on 360 is just as extensive, I've actually turned cars into bizarre shapes through a combination of huge crashes, and explosions. Some vehicles get so buggered up they won't even work anymore, but won't blow up either.

Was driving a truck and was getting shot at like mad. Every bullet that hit left a hole in the back, very precise and detailed

[Saveless]

Yeah the detail is amazing, if you smash a telephone pole with the ride side of the front of your car that side will get crushed in but the other side won't.

Just finished the storyline and it was amazing.

[JayFoxRox]

Feron is right, once the xbox live protocol is known we could also fake replays in GTA:

- Play on your fake server
- Fake server records packet
- Stop your fake server
- Load the saved packets and restart server which is sending them now
- Rejoin game
- You see your old player going around through the city

And yes, the detail is amazing! But I think the bike handling is stupid. Also helicopters should break more easily

[Kingjad]

SPOILER ABOUT PIGEONS!

kill all the pigeons and you get a unique prize, for some daft bastarding reason

[DeathCobra]

Can someone tell me the size of the savegame files on 360? Need to know if I can fit a few on a 64mb memory card.