Re: GTA4

For those saying it's more of the same I must disagree. The online aspects alone are very new and original. I played cops and robbers with a group of friends and co-workers last night and had a blast doing it.

The character interaction and feel of the city have also been greatly improved. I'm a pretty big video game player. While I have never been a huge fan of the GTA series I must say that I have been blown away by the depth and quality of this game.

ye si dude, you right, i forgot to talk about the online play. pretty solid

Online play in video game? How innovative
GTA 4 is great but to say there are big changes in the core gameplay is a little dumb and fanboyish. Just take it for what it is, an improvement on a proven game, there is nothing wrong with that.

Yeah I guess the other GTA games with online play set the standard. Oh wait there weren't any. So this is a new element brought into the franchise. What you said is about as pointless as saying it's played with a controller just like other games so therefor there is nothing new or innovative about it.

OK, I bought the darn game. I figure if people were waiting in line outside at 4am on its release date, and our little local store had 400 preorders, I want to see what the fuss is about.

And gosh, I'm not a console gamer and this will be my first. My PS3 was made to play Blu-ray - NOT games. Err... right?

Anyway, I'll try it tomorrow and give my impressions. I just hope I can play it with the Blu-ray remote, since I've never used the controller thingy before. If it sucks, everyone on this thread is in deep trouble!

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Yeah I guess the other GTA games with online play set the standard. Oh wait there weren't any. So this is a new element brought into the franchise. What you said is about as pointless as saying it's played with a controller just like other games so therefor there is nothing new or innovative about it.

We are talking innovation here. Are you honestly telling me that GTA 4 is innovative because they added online play and minigames? GTA 3 created the sandbox type video game and it had two spinoffs. GTA 4 feels like a spinoff rather than a totally new game.

Yes I can honestly say playing GTA online with 14 friends is a new experience not previously offered in any other GTA game. I guess had they made all the drug dealers hobbits and the police storm troopers then it would be completely new and exciting. Since they weren't thinking outside the box enough for that we are left with a HD version of GTA that builds upon the tradition set by the previous games, but does so with higher quality story telling. The game is averaging a 99% rating between both platforms at gamerankings.com so it's obviously one of the better games of this generation.

Maybe we need a games section of DVDTOWN devoted just to this subject.

John

Bad idea John...That would break the no personal attack code.

I just picked up God of War 2 for 20 bucks.(stopped paying 50-60-bucks along time ago...you guys can be the suckers.) Yeah. Anyway. Now that is a solid series. Awesome.