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Has to be witnessed if your a GTA fan
http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/#?page=videos&content=trailer4
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.
PC version is Sept/Oct 🙁
nothing for it…. GTAIV XBox 360 pack ftw!!!!!
just gotta dupe the mrs into why Im allowed an XBox and she isn’t allowed a $400 matching bag/shoes for her birthday.
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;
getting 360 version for downloadable content, cant wait 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 ! im so excited im doing a little wee
I just bought this, yes, just to play GTAIV from the off!
http://www.soundandvisiononline.com/moreinfo/index.asp?product_id=15527
I cant fucking wait for this game (as you have probably guessed)
Watched the official advert on TV last night, after seeing it here.. check it oot
http://www.xbox.com/NR/rdonlyres/F5CE240A-9D3B-4025-ADC7-26CAEABAFCF8/0/vidgta4tvcmukhi.asx
Dint forget to pre register at the social club 🙂
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).@=XDC=iNSANE wrote:
I just bought this, yes, just to play GTAIV from the off!
http://www.soundandvisiononline.com/moreinfo/index.asp?product_id=15527
What did you buy? Linky no worky!
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 🙂
http://www.avforums.com/forums/index.php” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;
some say gameing is great
enjoy ur screen Insane …wish my missus would let me get one
dont buy into that HD bullshit…all depends on the source
the above mentioned forums do a price check thingy which is pretty cool
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