GTA4, April 29th Options

[Wiryu]

Get excited.





Keep in mind you will have to do missions completely shit faced. When buying, if you happen to have a PS3 and a 360, remember that we can all unite and kill people online with the 360.

[Crushinator]

Yes, this game is FREAKING AMAZING! From the opening sequence my jaw was .

The first thing that jumps out gameplay wise is the physics and controls on driving and moving... Holy shit! It just FEELS fantastic driving around, like AC said, using the e-brake and sliding around corners, smashing into walls, knocking over people. I love little touches like how you can still hear the radio playing faintly outside of a car when the doors are shut, how you can pick up small objects like cups, bricks, bottles and throw them.

The biggest things for me so far are the physics and the improved controls. Its just a joy to tool around the city in a car, weaving through traffic. And all the characters react in such a fantastic way, stumbling, grabbing for a ledge when they fall, hanging off your car door when you drive away after jacking them.

The controls are a huge improvement over the previous games. Holding L to aim now pulls you into a 3rd person aiming cam like Gears of War. If you fully depress the trigger it will lock onto your target, and you can tilt the stick up down left or right to target their head, arms, or legs. If you just half-press the stick then you go into free aim mode which works out pretty well. You can tap the RB to duck into cover and lean out for aimed shots, or fire blindly. The drive-by shooting controls have improved greatly now too. Instead of just holding L or R and firing directly sideways, you now tap LB to break out you car's window, then hold you gun and aim with the right stick while you're driving. Not the easiest thing to do, but hey neither is shooting while driving a car in real life .

I didn't get a chance to try multi last night, but I can't wait to get home to jump right in again!