Grand Theft Automobile IV: A Game For Commies

[Suchy]

Looks like there's GTA4 on PC

 

[Freethis]

But removing the tank? Now how am I supposed to go on explosive vehicle rampages? With this game's beautiful explosions, causing destruction with a tank would have been stellar.

My favorite rampages involve donuts in Times Square with a swat van filled with Dwayne's homies. Try it out.

 

[Nicolai]

Free mode with 16 players is quite awesome. Total chaos. I was just playing chicken with this guy using helicopters. Wound up missing him entirely and crashed into a skyscraper, which ruined the chopper's rotor and sent me plummeting to the street

 

[Fat Dragon]

Finally finished this beast's single player. It was much longer than I expected. I had over 30 hours. Now to spend more time on multiplayer. Gotta admit though, the game gets pretty damned interesting and intense during the last few missions.

 

[SuicideBunny]

Looks like there's GTA4 on PC

i keel u now.

 

[fastpunk]

Looks like there's GTA4 on PC

Reminds me of the mouse on mars pic.

 

[Kingston]

Russ Pitts thinks it might be the game of the decade.

 

[dagorkan]

This game looks really good but I don't know about contemporary New York City with East Europeans... seems kind of boring compared to California (SA) with the Bloods and Crips and crazy spics and fucked up Hollywood and beach parties. I think the mid 90s rap music and gangsta lingo is one of the key reasons I could play GTA3 for more than twenty hours or so (when you get away from the missions the gameplay becomes quite repetitive).

 

[dagorkan]

What are the gameplay differences between GTA:SA and Vice City? It's an older game, is there any reason to get Vice City?

 

[Kaiserin]

It's an older game, is there any reason to get Vice City?

It has cool 80's music and you get a mansion?

 

[doctor_kaz]

What are the gameplay differences between GTA:SA and Vice City? It's an older game, is there any reason to get Vice City?

Yes Vice City is excellent. Gameplay has yet to be surpassed since then.

San Andreas is bigger in area but somewhat hollower. All that they added between VC and SA were lame mini-games. Plus, the parodies on the radio stations in VC were better.

 

[Fat Dragon]

What are the gameplay differences between GTA:SA and Vice City? It's an older game, is there any reason to get Vice City?

Yes Vice City is excellent. Gameplay has yet to be surpassed since then.

San Andreas is bigger in area but somewhat hollower. All that they added between VC and SA were lame mini-games. Plus, the parodies on the radio stations in VC were better.

San Andreas' large but very boring country areas like the desert were pretty damn hollow. It would have been better if they'd just taken the three separate cities and turned them into districts of one big city.

 

[dagorkan]

Are the missions better?

 

[Gragt]

I never managed to finish San Andreas, I tried but got bored every time. Vice City on the other hand keeps giving me hours of fun.

 

[Helton]

Being able to swim makes more of a difference than you might think. Otherwise, it really comes down to taste.

The feel is very different between VC and SA, but they both have really cool missions and really frustrating ones. I think I like SA more because of the family. CJ isn't much of a protagonist, quite the bitch at times, but he is ultimately looking out for his own and I respect that. It makes me relate more with his character and what's going on, especially after you first leave Los Santos (but less after you first leave San Fierro).

On the other hand, Vercetti is a fucking monster. Hedonist to the extreme. Doesn't take shit from anyone and you will have a blast playing him.

Play both, VC first. Adjusting to the no-swimming thing is hard, and I haven't played VC since SA because of it.

edit: Also, almost every car in VC has amazing handling. Some people prefer that, others don't, but it's worth noting.

 

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That could be because you start out with shitty driving skills in SA. But after a while your driving skill goes up. Not sure if it's still harder even when you have 100%?

 

[Gragt]

Vice City just feels right when I play it while it took me long to get used to SA and even then I was never really that comfortable.

Swimming isn't that big of a difference, it's nice to not drown anymore though but I can live without it. Cars handle better, you do not need to drive each type of vehicle to get a driving meter filling, same with weapons. No need to take care of your muscles or appearance, you do not have tedious rythm mini-games or gang wars that do not matter much in the end.

The whole 80's setting is very nice and the whole game is a bit of an hommage to Scarface (and it did it better than the game that bears the name). Music is also nicer. Vice City is just the right balance of meaningful content, SA had many more stuff or explore but it wasn't that interesting.

Edit: it's a bit of a detail but being able to steal fast cars right from the start is also very nice.

 

[Fez]

In other news: GTAIV has made 500 million dollars in the first week. Not bad.

 

[Chefe]

I just traded in GTA IV. It was boring the living hell out of me.

 

[Nicolai]

Yes, it got quite dull after 10 hours or so. Haven't really played it in a while, still at 15%.

 

[Castanova]

What did you trade it in for?

 

[Kaiserin]

OMG YA'LL DON'T LIKE SOMETHING THAT EVERYBODY ELSE DOES! YA'LL MUST BE LIKE SO MUCH COOLER THEN!

 

[Crichton]

Three grams of crack, what else?

 

[Erzherzog]

OMG YA'LL DON'T LIKE SOMETHING THAT EVERYBODY ELSE DOES! YA'LL MUST BE LIKE SO MUCH COOLER THEN!

Yes, everyone likes GTA 4.

Hyperboles are fun...

 

[Chefe]

OMG YA'LL DON'T LIKE SOMETHING THAT EVERYBODY ELSE DOES! YA'LL MUST BE LIKE SO MUCH COOLER THEN!

That's exactly why I traded it in for NBA Live 08.