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Loading ...Grand Theft Auto IV - take the slow lane!
khenry
It’s here! It’s been great fun sitting on the sidelines just watching people on forums and the media in general go mad for the game.
Producers of the film Iron Man have their excuses ready (see paragraph 7), quick to blame the game if their film doesn’t open well. Having read Iron Man 200 in school, which has been adapted as one of the plots in the movie, I would have watched the film twice even if I had bought a console and the game. Marvel also has another shot at the market with the next Hulk film in the same season, so that, coupled with the inevitable UK summer downpours will guarantee them an audience.
Given that this game has been so eagerly anticipated, who in their right mind would go to Computerandvideogames.com and play the game’s entire story mode from a walkthrough?! Are they insane? Surely no-one could be that impatient to race to the end of the story which has taken four years’ work, without taking time to enjoy it?
Someone must be, otherwise Future wouldn’t have tied up that online deal, but I’m not linking to it and getting accused of spoiling anyone’s fun. As the previous games have showed there’s still plenty to do when you complete the story mode, so take your time, disconnect from the net where you might have the game spoiled for you, and enjoy.
Even without a PC version, it’s good to have the latest in a long line of multi-million sellers arrive and more importantly, provide Rockstar with a defensible game to overshadow the pap that will be Manhunt 2. If GTA IV was landing in my place right in time for the first bank holiday weekend since Easter then I’d want the fun and the novelty to last as long as possible, even on 360 where I’d be in a race with the first fault to hit the console.
Conspiracy theorists reckon there will be a PC version, based on the fact that Rockstar’s stuff is now available on Steam (which would also go some way to assuaging their piracy concerns). Am torn between waiting for the (possibly mythical) PC version, which will have hi-res gfx + better draw distance + better controls, or to dust off the 360 and get it now…