GTA IV: It's Magically Delicious

[Jason1]

Okay after playing this fairly extensivley, I'll admit its very impressive, but no way its perfect. First off I will say outside of toying around at friends houses before, this is actually the first GTA game I have played. The main thing that suddenly drew me to this version was how accuratley they created NYC. To me thats the most impressive thing about it, how detailed and alive the city is. It actually feels like a real city. I know I heard a few of you complain about the driving controls, I thought they were fine. The handbrake is too touchy, but thats an extremely minor complaint. My main complaints that knock this game down, and keep it from perfection, is mainly the repetativeness. The missions can get boring at times. I cant say im really into the story or the characters, its just not that interesting. The first day or 2 I had it I'll admit I couldnt put it down. But now after I have explored most of the City and done quite a few missions, I find myself wanting to play it less and less. Kinda seems like the same thing over and over again. Its a great game, but its no 10.0

[Bube]

That was the problem I had with the older games as well. Even though I never owned a GTA game (I played at my cousin's or friends'), from what little I played I found it repetitive. And seeing all these reviews, I thought they'd somehow managed to make it different. I guess not.

[Aladuf]

Originally Posted by Jason1

I'll admit its very impressive, but no way its perfect.

Yeah it's not perfect, no game is perfect. Don't be tricked into thinking that a 10 score means perfection, it just means the game is amazing or whatever.

But yeah the game does have its flaws. People say the driving is a mess but I have no huge issues with it except that it's a bit hard to do when you're driving a real shitty car. Driving with motorcycles is a bitch to do also. And the chase scenes are easily my least favorite part of the game due to it being tricky to drive your car so fast and have to constantly keep up with a person, you can tell that in this game you're not meant to drive that fast because of how the controls are for the cars.

[Professor S]

I've heard complaints about the driving, but I LOVE it. It makes you think and learn the layout of the streets and roads. There are all KINDS of hidden shortcuts in this game, where you can bust throughfences and 50 gallon drums to T-bone the person you're chasing.

Its realistic, which kind of fits this iteration of GTA. While GTA4 is still soaked in satire, it tends to keep the peripheral in many cases, rather than disassociating you from the experience.

And if you can't drive cause you're in a shotty car, GET A NEW ONE. My first act before I start every mission is to either 1) Make sure I have a great car and if not 2) Go get one.

This is a much more cerebral type of GTA than we've known before, and I'm loving it.

[Perfect Stu]

I don't have problems with the driving either...it's different at first, but when you get used to it it seems fair and balanced. You shouldn't be able to make sharp 90 degree turns going 70mph. This isn't Mario Kart. Some of the chase missions can be tough, but you shouldn't be able to pass every mission on the first attempt anyway. If anything, I'd say the game is a bit on the easy side. No complaints though, I'm loving it.

[Swan]

I've noticed that my favorite parts about this game are the little things. The way glass shatters. How explosions look. Things like that.


My favorite moment happened yesterday when I was playing. I was chasing some guy in a car shooting at him from my car. He swerved around a moving van and I accidently shot out the vans tires. The van swerves and its back opens and barrels fly out towards me, causing me to swerve to avoid them.


It was amazing

[Dyne]

Originally Posted by Swan

I've noticed that my favorite parts about this game are the little things. The way glass shatters. How explosions look. Things like that.


My favorite moment happened yesterday when I was playing. I was chasing some guy in a car shooting at him from my car. He swerved around a moving van and I accidently shot out the vans tires. The van swerves and its back opens and barrels fly out towards me, causing me to swerve to avoid them.


It was amazing

That's another amazing thing. Every time someone tells me something cool about GTAIV that's happened to them, it's usually something I haven't encountered myself. God I love this game.

[Jonbo298]

I don't think I posted this, but the first night friends were playing, he went and started to steal a black van (not the typical gov't van). He kicked the guy out of the car,and then got in.

All of a sudden, the back window gets shot out and we busted out laughing because well, it was kind of a poor neighborhood, so we thought maybe a family member saw us stealing his brother's van or something

[Fox 6]

Originally Posted by Swan

I've noticed that my favorite parts about this game are the little things. The way glass shatters. How explosions look. Things like that.


My favorite moment happened yesterday when I was playing. I was chasing some guy in a car shooting at him from my car. He swerved around a moving van and I accidently shot out the vans tires. The van swerves and its back opens and barrels fly out towards me, causing me to swerve to avoid them.


It was amazing

That part is scripted :P happens everytime. Its the mission where Brucie wants you to find the guy on the cop computer than kill him :P

[Swan]

Originally Posted by Fox 6

That part is scripted :P happens everytime. Its the mission where Brucie wants you to find the guy on the cop computer than kill him :P

....Don't ruin it for me!


I thought it was random

[Fox 6]

Originally Posted by Swan

....Don't ruin it for me!


I thought it was random

Haha, take that.

[Dylflon]

Cam, tell them about the game we came up with yesterday.

[Fox 6]

Well, basically we were just rampaging and we got to teh point where we used a cheat to spawn a helicopter. I then got he bright idea to see if we could fly up and towards the Chrystler building, but then bail out right before and try to sent NB crashing into the needle that sits atop the building. Its was really hard and we came close, so close that our shadow would appear on the needle and we sailed past. Finally after many trys i managed to hit it dead on, so worth it.

[Bond]

GTA IV took the #1 spot on Xbox Live activity the very week it came out. Ahead of CoD4 and Halo 3.

[Swan]

No surprise there. Everytime I went on Live about 80% of my friends were playing it