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Depends what you’ll be doing most of I say, for me, It will be majority gaming and watching SD and maybe watching BluRay by means of my PS3 so I needed one that suited, the Kuros is superb for SD I believe, but average(ish) for gaming, Also they dont do a 46 in the Kuro and the 50 is too big not to mention the stands an extra £250.. Depends what your doing with it, how much you have and whether it comes with 5yr Warranty FREE.. as the Panny does.. I’ve done daily research and reading on most the fookers, decided on one, then went to another etc etc.. but the price, lack of stand, 1080P and lack of warranty pushed me towards the Panny. I dont think I’ll get another TV for about 5 years or so and wanted future proof, I know XBOX360 is better (or just as good as 1080p) at 720p on a big TV, but my PS3 supports full 1080p and I’ll be about 11ft away from the TV so I believe I’ll notice the difference 🙂

I’m still adamant it depends on yourself, My mate has a 42″ PX80 and its absolutley stunning (and only costs £699) I was tempted but again I wanted bigger to get the full effect of res, my other mate has a hitachi 42″ LCD and sister just got Sony 42″ V3000, there just as good I think, again, depends what your doing 🙂

Games Aktuell Review
Posted by adamcs at 14:07. Category: General
German magazine Games Aktuell is the latest magazine to review Grand Theft Auto IV. Here is their verdict:

Graphics: 9/10
The gigantic size of the city makes you forget the few graphical imperfections of the game.

Sound: 10/10
Best GTA soundtrack ever, and probably the most compelling feature in the game.

Controls: 8/10
Far from perfect but a big step from the previous GTA games.

Multiplayer: 9/10
Great concept and innovative integration with the single-player mode.

Gameplay: 10/10
We can’t score it 11/10…

Conclusion:
GTA4 is by far the best action game ever created.
(UPDATE) This review is based on earlier preview sessions at R*. It’s not based on the final retail version of the game. It still contains the review screenshots however (the same ones featured in OXM/OPM).

Related Link: GTAForums.com Topic

GTA IV Audio Question and Answer
Posted by Andy at 02:36. Category: General
The movies that we watch, the games that we play… they just wouldn’t be the same if it wasn’t for the audio. The Grand Theft Auto series is no exception; the ambiance of the city is as important to Grand Theft Auto as the Imperial March is to Star Wars. GTA IV aims to maintain this healthy balance of audio and visual, and on that note, I’m happy to say that GamesRadar has just recently posted a multi-page Audio Q&A for Grand Theft Auto IV.

The Q&A includes Matthew Smith, Craig Conner and Will Morton, all of whom are senior employees with the Rockstar North audio team. Some quotes that we found particularly interesting:

“Stand in the street and you’ll hear three different radio stations at any one time coming from passing vehicles, all sounding appropriately tinny or boomy, depending on the type of vehicle and whether its doors are open, its windows broken, etc.”
“It was our aim that you could place the player in a random position on the map, shut your eyes and listen, and be able to tell where you are, and what time of day it is, and I think we’ve achieved that pretty well.”
“For multiplayer, we balance [the sound of gunfire] so that guns only really sound dangerously beefy when they’re at a distance you can be hit from, so it’s intuitive what’s threatening and what’s someone else’s private war.”
“It’s difficult to quantify how many speaking parts there are, but at our last count there were over 740 unique voices in the game. There are over 80,000 individual lines of dialogue, more than 7000 of which are Niko’s lines. If you were to listen to each line back to back, it would take over 29 hours. Also, these figures don’t take the radio, TV, and mo-capped cut-scene dialogue into consideration.”
“We also decided to make the pedestrian dialogue more realistic in GTA4. As an example, peds in previous games would walk around and randomly chat to themselves if they weren’t doing much else. In real life, people (generally!) don’t go around talking to themselves, so we dropped this behavior from GTA4. However, we realized that the random chat of old GTA games was a good way for the player to pick-up on what sort of personality a ped has, so we created the cell-phone conversations in GTA4 as one realistic way of portraying personality.”
The Q&A also includes a handful of new screenshots (which should be enough to satisfy those of you who don’t like to read).

lol .. I did think that when I posted 🙂

p.s. He gave ot 10/10!!!

See thats what I’m talking about! 😀

[spoiler:1fhyyjpb]The ending touched me :)[/spoiler:1fhyyjpb]

[spoiler:2mbez3y7]Thats what did it for me, not the usual happy ending (which are good I have to say) that you find in films these days, I was expecting the usual YAWN shit of “finding a convenient garage when mist clears” or them waking up to discover it was all a dream.. load of shit, I was flabbergasted and shocked by the ending which is why I thought it rocked! oh yeah! Plus the music made me goosebumply which was even better, had the music not come on,it wouldnt have been as good :)[/spoiler:2mbez3y7]