They're not real.
that is all
that is all
Telan, I would and do support freedoms far beyond...
... for I am not a fascist, and I do not condone censorship.
That is all.
GTA IV
Snap~
Oh, and it's a fairly good game. Seems a little slow, story wise, but that's fine with me - I quite enjoy the slower pace in a game sometimes. They've added a few nice touches, and some decision making that impacts the rest of your game (like letting a hit live, wherein he becomes a potential informant/contact - or, on the other hand, he might decide to get revenge on you for showing mercy). Also a nice touch is the mobile/cell system - wherein you gain contacts, can forcefully progress the story by calling them, or call in favours, etc; you can also contact multiplayer contacts to see if they want to play - which is cool!
A whole bunch of small things have been added to make previous GTA fans chuckle and state "Okay, now they're just getting too detailed." - such as having high and low beams on the vehicles; or the fact your character takes time to put on a helmet when riding on a motorcycle (and generating a different looking helmet each time he gets on, before getting off and simply throwing away the pre-used headgear).
The game, graphically, looks quite amazing for what it is: namely a free-roamer. I haven't been paying much attention to the AI characters walking around, but I've also noticed that most are different from any other in the immediate area (no more twins, triplets or octuplets walking around the same corner!); also, the cars are varied and there's no longer that lame 'you see one hundred of the cars you're currently driving' vehicle models anymore - there's all sorts, from racers, luxury, to Hummers and off-roaders... it all adds up with the detail.
Multiplayer has blown me away. It is, literally, like single-player, except you can run around in a group throughout the ENTIRE city (from the SP). I just blinked and couldn't believe how much was going on, especially when you're riding on a motorcycle at high speed, dodging traffic with cops chasing you, and your online buddy sitting snugly behind you shooting over his shoulder... it's great.
And, in a grand show of pleasing me, every time you come into an online game, you generate a random character model - so you don't look the same as anyone else in your group!
For the moment, I've just started the intrigue, and I've just killed my first 'made-man', before taking his place and starting down the path of underworld criminal organization. I'd say if you liked the previous GTAs, this is a MUST HAVE; but if you loved the previous GTAs, then you've already got this one.
Just playing online with friends is worth having this game, and the single-player is even better!
So? What are you waiting for? Save up those chips an' pop a cap in the store-boy's face and get yourself some of this GTA goodness. Werd.
PS: You play a Czechoslovakian, which is always fun, especially when you start swearing in your native tongue at the ignorant Amerikan gangsters trying to hinder your claim to fortune, before unleashing with a butterfly blade to his face. ;)
Oh, and it's a fairly good game. Seems a little slow, story wise, but that's fine with me - I quite enjoy the slower pace in a game sometimes. They've added a few nice touches, and some decision making that impacts the rest of your game (like letting a hit live, wherein he becomes a potential informant/contact - or, on the other hand, he might decide to get revenge on you for showing mercy). Also a nice touch is the mobile/cell system - wherein you gain contacts, can forcefully progress the story by calling them, or call in favours, etc; you can also contact multiplayer contacts to see if they want to play - which is cool!
A whole bunch of small things have been added to make previous GTA fans chuckle and state "Okay, now they're just getting too detailed." - such as having high and low beams on the vehicles; or the fact your character takes time to put on a helmet when riding on a motorcycle (and generating a different looking helmet each time he gets on, before getting off and simply throwing away the pre-used headgear).
The game, graphically, looks quite amazing for what it is: namely a free-roamer. I haven't been paying much attention to the AI characters walking around, but I've also noticed that most are different from any other in the immediate area (no more twins, triplets or octuplets walking around the same corner!); also, the cars are varied and there's no longer that lame 'you see one hundred of the cars you're currently driving' vehicle models anymore - there's all sorts, from racers, luxury, to Hummers and off-roaders... it all adds up with the detail.
Multiplayer has blown me away. It is, literally, like single-player, except you can run around in a group throughout the ENTIRE city (from the SP). I just blinked and couldn't believe how much was going on, especially when you're riding on a motorcycle at high speed, dodging traffic with cops chasing you, and your online buddy sitting snugly behind you shooting over his shoulder... it's great.
And, in a grand show of pleasing me, every time you come into an online game, you generate a random character model - so you don't look the same as anyone else in your group!
For the moment, I've just started the intrigue, and I've just killed my first 'made-man', before taking his place and starting down the path of underworld criminal organization. I'd say if you liked the previous GTAs, this is a MUST HAVE; but if you loved the previous GTAs, then you've already got this one.
Just playing online with friends is worth having this game, and the single-player is even better!
So? What are you waiting for? Save up those chips an' pop a cap in the store-boy's face and get yourself some of this GTA goodness. Werd.
PS: You play a Czechoslovakian, which is always fun, especially when you start swearing in your native tongue at the ignorant Amerikan gangsters trying to hinder your claim to fortune, before unleashing with a butterfly blade to his face. ;)
Speaking of which, the fighting in the game is much improved, and you now have a range of combos (via two buttons for punch, one for kick), as well as counters being included that look plain awesome.
Example:
A thug ran at my character, in Single-Player, to which he tried to punch Niko (the Czech character you play) in the face. I promptly countered at the correct time, using the 'A' button while being locked onto him, dodged below the punch, brought my knife up into his back (severing his spinal cord by the looks of the placement) before kneeing him in the stomach and punching him in the head to put him on the ground.
Gone is the previous 'hit until you win' GTA fighting, and hello to the new and improved combat system that allows technical players to win bouts without sustaining a hit.
Example:
A thug ran at my character, in Single-Player, to which he tried to punch Niko (the Czech character you play) in the face. I promptly countered at the correct time, using the 'A' button while being locked onto him, dodged below the punch, brought my knife up into his back (severing his spinal cord by the looks of the placement) before kneeing him in the stomach and punching him in the head to put him on the ground.
Gone is the previous 'hit until you win' GTA fighting, and hello to the new and improved combat system that allows technical players to win bouts without sustaining a hit.
You have just forced me to go out and buy this game as soon as the stores open.
I hate you.
I hate you.
I really should be in videogame marketing, shouldn't I? *rubs chin, ponders*
No they're not real, but the young impressionable children being allowed to play it cannot differentiate. and is this not the game where you kick women, beat hookers and take their money, do drugs, and shoot police?????
the game is one hundred times more improved over the past incarnations, fighting, driving, shooting, running, weather, phones, everything.
i played this game 6 hours straight and i never do that. last time i did it was with halo 2 when it first came out like what three years ago? so yeah, it's worth buying.
i played this game 6 hours straight and i never do that. last time i did it was with halo 2 when it first came out like what three years ago? so yeah, it's worth buying.
I have my copy.
Can't break in to it 'til after work.
6 more hours... GAH!
Can't break in to it 'til after work.
6 more hours... GAH!
The one and only. However, censorship has also decided that the rating for the game is acceptable to the age of those mature enough to play the game. Game developers can't custom-make a videogame for a specific individual, and they can not control how that individual decides to interupt the actions they take - they have a warning, they state that gamers shouldn't emulate the GTA game in any way, shape or form, and if censorship decide this is acceptable, then it gets released.
Simple.
Surely there will be some who can't displace themselves from the game world and reality, but then we need to ask: should they be playing videogames to begin with?
Honestly? I'm a law abiding citizen. I have one parking ticket to my name, nothing else - and this doesn't mean I haven't been caught, simply because there's nothing to catch me at. I pay taxes, I play violent games, but I'm hardly going to go and bust a pimp's face and take his hoes as my own, to walk my street corners...
Surely I'm not the only one who enjoys just having fun that would otherwise be illegal in reality. Personally, it makes me realize that I don't want the game character's life, that I enjoy what I have and who I have; and if others can't grasp that realization, then they should return the game to the store and start acting like the character... just let them see how real law enforcement is, when you try to rampage with a rocket launcher from a building rooftop.
That is, of course, assuming they can pick up such a weapon from the dark alley near their safehouse, which is glowing brightly in a circle of red.