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pffft.. because they’d be worn once and spend the rest of there days in the cupboard, where as the 360 will be worthy of the money due to being played on a daily basis 🙂

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New updates here bytheway.. http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/#?page=updates” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;

no mate.. console only .. Ps3 and 360.. thats not to say it wont be released on PC, but theres been no word of it

Multiplayer mode sounds good

Cops N Crooks
Hil’s Take: They say to save the best for last, but I’ve always thought that was a dumb suggestion. Rather than make you wait, let’s chat about the best mode played when we visited Rockstar. Cops N Crooks puts players on two very different teams. One team spawns as crooks, with one of its members randomly selected to be the crime boss (or VIP). The other team spawns as cops in squad cars. The crooks need to help the boss get to a randomly selected escape points so he can flee the city. Most of these are along the water for a boat escape, though some have you extricated from a roof via helicopter. The cops win by either killing the boss or destroying the escape vehicle.

There are a few twists that make this the most interesting version of VIP I’ve ever played. The cops can see the crooks on their radar (with the boss getting a unique icon), but they don’t know where the escape vehicle is located. Remember, all of Liberty City is open, so it’s not going to be easy to immediately guess where the crooks might be headed. While the cops spawn in cars, the crooks start on foot and must find transportation. This gives the cops an early advantage, unless TeamXbox’s Andy Eddy is driving. Even my grandmother can escape a pursuing Officer Eddy.

The crooks only see the cops on radar when they are about to apply a cavity search. So you just never know what the cops are up to. But, you can see your extraction point. The boss has a single life, but the other crooks respawn. This allows for a lot of possibilities for strategy. Do you stick together and go in force? Do you put the boss on a motorcycle and then try and cause roadblocks for the coppers? Or do youk do what we did and constantly crash your car and accidentally shoot one another?

The cops also have some strategy to consider. While you do respawn, it is often well outside the action. Do you take note of the direction the crooks are headed and make a guess where the extraction point is located? That could pay off. Do you go in as few cars as possible or do you split up? Clearly, learning the city by playing the single-player is going to be a big help in dominating multiplayer.

Cops N Crooks is a brilliant recreation of a caper movie… after the caper’s gone horribly wrong. Not only are extraction point locations random, so are the spawn points for both teams. Sometimes the crooks spawn on the street sans car and 30 seconds later police sirens can be heard. Hey, crooks get a lot of bad breaks.

While all of the multiplayer modes I played were good, C&C was far superior to the others. It’s my new favorite type of entertainment.

Dave’s Take: Normally deathmatch is the meat and potatoes of any online shooter but from what we’ve seen Cops N Crooks is the premiere reason to take GTA online. On the surface the setup is deceptively simple. The Cops start with a vehicle, the Crooks do not. The Crooks have to get to an extraction point marked on their map, the Cops only know the location of the people they’re chasing. Kill the crime boss, and it’s game over. Depending on the randomly assigned location of each team and the extraction point, the game can feel weighted in favor of a single team, but the single most important factor about this match type is teamwork. The more you talk, coordinate, and cooperate the better you’ll do and it makes for a thrilling experience.

While playing as the crooks it was integral to have one person in charge of setting a waypoint on the map, one person skilled at driving, and at least one person running distraction. You must communicate, you must work together. Unlike deathmatch, the work of a single player can tip the scales but it can’t carry the team. I was impressed when the finely crafted rules of this game imposed order on the chaos of Liberty City. In one instance the Cops set up a well-placed road block that anticipated our movement through a bottleneck not far from our spawn point. Their preparation and our lack of foresight ended the match quickly. We’d lost, but we’d also learned that trying to bomb through an obstacle without a plan was bad idea. While other modes have an ever-present element of anarchy, Cops N Crooks was serious business. More importantly even when my team was getting completely stomped, I was still having fun. This is the mode that I can tell will eat up hours of my time and I cannot wait to revisit with larger teams.