sharksweetheart
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This looks amazing. I wish I had a 360. :<
Grand Theft Auto IV
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sharksweetheart
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I don't wish I had PS3. o3oCalibre":3ubk4sze said:
arcthemonkey
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I've got it on PS3, and so far I think it's frikkin fantastic. But really, there are three things really that make it a leap above the others.
#1 - Cover
The cover system is awesome. Let's just put it that way. The first gunfight you have where you actually hide behind your car door should convince you, but it's just sticky enough to be all around excellent.
#2 - Euphoria
If you aren't familiar with Euphoria, it's an advanced AI driven physics engine. That means that characters never go completely ragdoll. They will try to catch themselves, and grab on to things. It's still frikkin awe inspiring to just barely clip someone with a car, and watch them spin around and land on their hands and knees. The first time I bailed out of a car at high speed, I just about shat myself. This is not ragdoll physics.
#3 - Multiplayer
Oh. My. God.
#1 - Cover
The cover system is awesome. Let's just put it that way. The first gunfight you have where you actually hide behind your car door should convince you, but it's just sticky enough to be all around excellent.
#2 - Euphoria
If you aren't familiar with Euphoria, it's an advanced AI driven physics engine. That means that characters never go completely ragdoll. They will try to catch themselves, and grab on to things. It's still frikkin awe inspiring to just barely clip someone with a car, and watch them spin around and land on their hands and knees. The first time I bailed out of a car at high speed, I just about shat myself. This is not ragdoll physics.
#3 - Multiplayer
Oh. My. God.
I rented it, and so far, I'd say it's probably one of the best games that has come out this year(excluding SSBB(wich sadly got boring after a while)). I played this game for 6 hours straight, just doing the most random crap I could.... Hurray for throwing mustard bottles at people!
I honestly do not like it. I'm playing the 360 version and there's a half second pause when you hit the right bumper which is painful when you're being rushed by enemies. Also, the camera pisses me off to no end as it always tries to stay behind Niko and even when you move the camera if you move Niko then it'll try to reorient itself behind him. Third, you can't blind fire behind certain objects like pillars unless you're EXACTLY pressed up against the edge. Fourth, it takes Niko almost a full second to turn around and it takes two seconds for the camera to readjust to his turning.
I don't know if the PS3 suffers from this problem, but I hate the sensitivity of the triggers. In order to go into free-aim you have lightly hold one of the triggers but I'm heavy handed so I often hold them down. This really hurts when blind firing because you have to hold it down for a second or two before Niko pulls his shots off. Blind firing is really important as the enemies really do run for cover so this problem totally pisses me off.
The combat took me a lot of getting used to because I was so used to playing Saint's Row which has first person style controls. Why Rockstar couldn't just use that method is beyond me because the controls and camera system (for both foot and vehicles) took so much time to get used to and the first 3 hours of the game were really frustrating.
Actually Marcus no bull, the L2 trigger handles the aiming sensitivity pretty well from my experience on PS3. Not one feature in the game is perfect though but when it's so many genres rolled up into one package in such a massive environment it can be forgiven.
I haven't gone onto multiplayer yet, is there any kind of leaderboard o way or "being ranked"?
I haven't gone onto multiplayer yet, is there any kind of leaderboard o way or "being ranked"?
rexxzecutioner
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Too bad they didn't spend more time in the development phase to make this a worthwhile game. Nearly everything is flawed, and they tried to include so much shit without spending the individual time for each feature to really make them good.
rexxzecutioner
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Answer: No.